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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands Friday in Tokyo, during a policy debate session for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T23:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-14T23:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A runway at Kansai International Airport that reopened Friday is seen with the damaged bridge in the foreground.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/business/decade-lehmans-collapse-history-repeating/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T08:51:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-15T08:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Melfa robotic arm, manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., is displayed at the Robert Bosch GmbH Internet of Things conference in Berlin in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-15T11:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Media crews watch a tuna auction at Tsukiji market on Friday. Saturday will be the last day for the public to visit the market at its current site before the facility is relocated next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/emperor-empress-visit-affected-july-rains-okayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T11:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are seen after their arrival at a park in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Friday. During their visit they met victims of July's deadly downpours in western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/social-issues/naomi-osaka-japans-tennis-darling-eventually-decide-play-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T12:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomi Osaka is congratulated by her mother, Tamaki, on Sept. 8 in New York after winning the singles title at the U.S. Open.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/business/economy-business/urgent-need-reform-wto-g20-trade-ministers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T12:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck transports containers last month at a port in Zhangjiagang in China's eastern Jiangsu province.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/business/japan-halve-solar-power-feed-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T13:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Planned reductions of solar power feed-in tariffs are expected to lower the Japanese levy to levels similar to those of European countries..]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/asia-pacific/supertyphoon-brewing-pacific-forecast-hit-taiwan-philippines-bearing-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T13:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waves break around a ship off Hong Kong during Typhoon Hato in August last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/centenarians-japan-hit-record-69785-nearly-90-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T14:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of male centenarians stood at 8,331, up 139 from a year earlier, while female centenarians numbered 61,454, up 1,875.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/media-national/news-outlets-fret-nations-docile-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T22:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in July 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/history/long-struggle-become-international/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T22:32:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kafu Nagai (Sokichi Nagai)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/media-national/japanese-athletes-fire-asian-games-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T22:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National basketball team players (from left) Yuya Nagayoshi, Takuya Hashimoto, Takuma Sato and Keita Imamura, along with Japan Basketball Association Chairperson Yuko Mitsuya, face reporters in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinese-list-actress-fan-bingbing-last-seen-june-amid-culture-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T16:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Fan Bingbing arrives for a screening of the film "Ash Is Purest White" during the 71st Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-approval-rate-rises-41-new-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T19:17:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a debate with former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo Friday ahead of the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/sdf-conduct-first-joint-military-exercises-japan-british-army/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T19:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force members from the 1st Airborne Brigade take part in an annual military exercise at the Narashino exercise field in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/police-officer-drops-loaded-gun-guarding-prime-ministers-motorcade-wakayama-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T19:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This area in the city of Wakayama, shown Saturday, is where a police officer lost a loaded pistol while guarding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's motorcade.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/japan-climate-initiative-joins-forces-americas-pledge-bid-curb-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T19:57:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takejiro Sueyoshi (right) of the Japan Climate Initiative and America's Pledge Vice Chairman Carl Pope sign a partnership in San Francisco on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/science-health/jaxa-delays-launching-h-2b-rocket-deliver-supplies-iss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T20:06:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/national/digital-water-solutions-creating-abundance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T20:08:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Z3-IWA6-a-20180914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite imagery and remote sensing play a part in surface and groundwater resource evaluation, flood protection and upstream water quality monitoring.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/power-saving-campaign-scaled-quake-hit-hokkaido-two-generators-go-back-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T20:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Generators 1 and 2 at the Kyogoku hydroelectric power plant run by Hokkaido Electric Power Co. are back online after the level 7 earthquake on Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/kansai-need-three-international-airports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T21:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An All Nippon Airways plane departs from Kansai International Airport for Shanghai on Sept. 8, when the airport partially resumed international flights.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/28-mos-burger-customers-sickened-tokyo-seven-prefectures-last-month-health-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-15T22:37:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/asia-pacific/massive-russian-war-games-see-naval-forces-hunt-submarines-pacific-waters-north-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T12:52:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese servicemen in Siberia give the thumbs-up sign during the Vostok 2018 military drills at the Tsugol training ground, not far from the borders with China and Mongolia, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-election-rivals-abe-ishiba-campaign-disaster-resilience-visit-kyoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T13:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba ﷯pose after giving campaign speeches in the city of Saga on Saturday ahead of the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept 20 .]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-20-points-ahead-ishiba-ldp-leadership-race-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T13:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, current president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and former defense chief Shigeru Ishiba shake hands in Tokyo on Friday prior to a debate ahead of the Sept. 20 LDP presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/foggy-fukushima-river-tour-draws-influx-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T13:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rowboat passes through thick fog on the Tadami River in the town of Kaneyama, Fukushima Prefecture. The river tour has become popular with tourists from Japan and abroad.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/world/u-s-test-sending-emergency-alerts-cellphones-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T13:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/world/crime-legal-world/killings-famed-mariachi-plaza-pose-test-mexicos-new-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T13:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "jarocho" band plays in the Salon Tenampa restaurant in Garibaldi Plaza in Mexico City on Wednesday. At the Tenampa, which bills itself as having first brought mariachi troupes to the plaza in the 1920s, a manager said it was business as usual Saturday despite a brazen Friday night shooting that killed four people and wounded nine in Garibaldi Plaza.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/asia-pacific/china-tells-taiwan-halt-mainland-spying-sabotage-activities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T17:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Taiwanese flag is displayed at the National Palace Museum in Taipei last December. China on Sunday accused Taiwan's spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of "infiltration" and "sabotage," and warned the island against further damaging already strained cross-strait ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-bashes-top-japanese-diplomat-saying-timing-early-declaration-end-korean-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T18:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands with U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun as U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty looks on during their meeting in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-ishiba-debate-highlights-candidates-lack-concrete-plans-tackle-fundamental-problems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T20:23:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba attend a debate for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/business/40-japan-health-insurance-societies-seen-making-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T20:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/business/financial-markets/unpopular-2000-bill-battles-survival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T23:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-2000yenz-a-20180917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ¥2,000 bills in circulation account for a mere 0.7 percent of all bank notes used in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/japans-haruki-murakami-withdraws-consideration-alternative-nobel-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-16T23:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, winner of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, is seen outside Andersen's house in Odense, Denmark, in October 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-17T08:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa (left), accompanied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, speaks with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., during a Senate Judiciary Committee markup meeting on Capitol Hill Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/business/pakistans-army-chief-visits-beijing-tensions-silk-road-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T09:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-silkroad-a-20180918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction work is in progress in 2017 at a new international trade route, part of a sprawling Chinese initiative to build a "new Silk Road" of ports, railways and roads to expand trade in a vast arc of countries across Asia, Africa and Europe, near Havalian in Pakistan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/business/iran-says-twitter-shut-legitimate-accounts-not-anti-government-ones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T09:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles during a meeting with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, in Bern, Switzerland, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/business/financial-markets/demand-1-coins-dampened-e-money-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T10:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-oneyenz-a-20180917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As consumers increasingly opt to make cashless payments using electronic money or credit cards, the number of ¥1 coins in circulation has fallen sharply in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/world/crime-legal-world/palestinian-stabs-u-s-israeli-citizen-death-west-bank-mall-captured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T10:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives and friends mourn during the funeral of Ari Fuld, 45, an American-born Jewish settler fatally stabbed by a Palestinian, at a cemetery in Kfar Etzion in the occupied West Bank Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-17T15:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov who lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week arrives on a special medical transport plane at Schoenefeld airport in Berlin on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/social-issues/long-lived-japan-survey-finds-20-year-olds-dont-want-live-80s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T15:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-youngsters-a-20180918.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-youngsters-a-20180918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students listen to a company presentation at a job fair at Makuhari Messe convention center in the city of Chiba in March 2017. A new survey has revealed that young Japanese in their 20s don't want to live into their 80s, with their top concern being economic worries in old age.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/politics-diplomacy/prime-minister-plans-meet-iranian-president-sidelines-u-n-meeting-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T15:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during an interview in Tehran on Aug. 6. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering meeting him in New York later in this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/drawing-experience-nagoya-doctor-offers-transgender-counseling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T16:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hime Muto, a doctor who offers counseling for transgender people, speaks at her clinic in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/business/corporate-business/lifull-president-takashi-inoue-emerging-tech-touch-altruism-key-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T18:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takingthelead-a-20180918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lifull Co. President Takashi Inoue says he wants to create what he ambitiously calls a "life database."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/eye-foreign-tourists-kyoto-bids-expand-nighttime-sightseeing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T18:14:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maiko (apprentice geisha) perform kyōmai (Kyoto-style dance) at Gion Corner in the city of Kyoto in May 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/politics-diplomacy/government-considering-sending-gsdf-personnel-multinational-peacekeeping-force-egypt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T21:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[GSDF personnel arrive at the Haneda airport of Tokyo in July 2006 after finishing postwar reconstruction missions in Samawa, southern Iraq. The government is considering dispatching GSDF  members to a multinational peacekeeping force in Egypt under new security legislation, which went into effect in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/politics-diplomacy/kremlin-official-says-japan-needs-time-consider-russian-leader-vladimir-putins-unexpected-peace-treaty-proposal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T21:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-rustreaty-a-20180918.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rustreaty-a-20180918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend an international judo tournament on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/national/number-women-japan-aged-least-65-years-old-tops-20-million-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T21:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-elderly-a-20180917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of women 65 or older in Japan has topped 20 million for the first time, according to an estimate by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/17/world/u-s-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-accuser-willing-testify-lawyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-17T22:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/national/japan-sees-surge-foreign-nursing-care-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-18T13:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign and Japanese students attend a training session for caregivers in a 2016 photo provided by the Tokyo-based Nihon Fukushi training institution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T13:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks on stairs in downtown Seoul on Monday that have been decorated with an image of two hands shaking to form the shape of the Korean Peninsula to support the upcoming inter-Korean summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/business/corporate-business/japanese-firms-scouting-opportunities-tap-indias-huge-health-care-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-18T13:48:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor examines a girl at a mobile hospital in Noida, near New Delhi, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T15:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air passengers affected by the large earthquake that hit Hokkaido on Sept. 6 wait at New Chitose Airport near Sapporo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T16:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T17:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T17:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T17:36:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T18:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T19:20:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google's maps application is tested on a touch screen inside an Audi AG A8 sedan during a launch event in Barcelona, Spain.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T19:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Halloween decorations are seen outside Niseko Station in Hokkaido on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T19:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusaku Maezawa speaks near a Falcon 9 rocket during an announcement naming him as the first private passenger who will fly around the moon aboard the SpaceX BFR launch vehicle, at the SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/business/japan-firms-largely-shrug-off-trumps-latest-china-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-18T20:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck transporting containers at a port in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/national/railway-services-typhoon-hit-kansai-airport-resume-ahead-schedule/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-18T20:44:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A West Japan Railway Co. train runs on the damaged bridge connecting the mainland and Kansai International Airport on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/business/average-land-price-japan-posts-first-rise-27-years-back-tourism-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-18T20:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-land-a-20180919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Meidi-ya Ginza building in Tokyo's luxurious shopping district posted the highest land price in Japan in 2018 for the 13th consecutive year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/national/quake-hit-hokkaido-thermal-power-plant-set-restarted-later-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-18T22:14:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen before the start of a session at the lower house of parliament in Berlin on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-18T22:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant holds a rainbow umbrella as he attends a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride Parade in Hong Kong on Nov. 8, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-19T09:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro demonstrates his Salt Bae sprinkling technique during a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/national/latest-msdf-submarine-exercise-tokyo-expertly-navigates-beijings-red-lines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T10:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Kuroshio, seen in this undated image, conducted exercises in the disputed South China Sea last week, according to the Defense Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/god-bread-philippe-bigot-french-baker-popularized-baguette-japan-dies-76/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T10:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-bigot-a-20180920.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bigot-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippe Bigot]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/business/japans-oldest-winemaker-readies-onslaught-european-grapes-following-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T12:34:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercian Corp. workers inspect pinot noir grapes at the Chateau Mercian winery in Katsunuma, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/world/science-health-world/air-pollution-linked-higher-risk-dementia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T12:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-airdementia-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 particulates in smog, such as this in Bangkok, has been linked to a 40 percent increased risk of dementia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/japan-weighs-benefits-well-health-security-risks-embedded-microchips/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T14:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-microchips-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Hamamichi, president of information technology company Otafuku Lab Inc., uses a microchip implanted in his hand to open a door in Osaka in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-secretary-state-pompeo-works-replenish-diplomatic-ranks-restore-morale-cuts-tillerson/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T14:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo poses for photos at the State Department in Washington on Sept. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/world/year-deadly-mexican-quakes-still-cant-go-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T14:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carmen Machargo Tellez, 94, stands outside her apartment, in one of the buildings damaged by last September's earthquake, in Mexico City's Tlalpan neighborhood on Sept. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/350-schools-universities-hokkaido-damaged-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T15:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A window frame that fell from the gymnasium at Eniwaminami High School in the city of Eniwa, Hokkaido, during the Sept. 6 earthquake is seen Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/18/national/politics-diplomacy/u-k-foreign-minister-touts-strategic-partnership-japan-promotion-free-open-indo-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T15:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt attend a news conference in Tokyo after their bilateral meeting on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/passenger-check-system-glitch-narita-airport-results-delays-cancellations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T16:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wait to check in at Narita airport's Terminal 2 on Tuesday after its automated system was hit by a glitch.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/princess-ayakos-wedding-date-officially-set-traditional-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T16:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A traditional ceremony was held Wednesday to officially set Oct. 29 as the date for the wedding between Princess Ayako and Kei Moriya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/world/social-issues-world/black-magic-traps-nigerians-sex-slavery-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T17:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juju priest David Ubebe performs a ceremony in his shrine in Benin City, Nigeria, on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/quake-throws-life-abira-town-man-uncertainty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T17:17:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The collapsed Hayakita Shrine in the town of Abira, Hokkaido, which was damaged by a powerful earthquake last week, is seen Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/corporate-business/marubeni-halve-coal-fired-power-capacity-2030/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T17:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Marubeni Corp. is seen at the company headquarters in Tokyo on May 10, 2016. Marubeni said it will halve its net coal power-generating capacity by 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/corporate-business/toyota-vw-truck-units-team-electric-vehicle-tech-parts-procurement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T18:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/75-firms-japan-not-planning-ok-side-jobs-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T18:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-sidejob-a-20180919.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sidejob-a-20180919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a meeting with people who have experiences in changing jobs or doing side jobs at the Prime Minister's Office in October 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/economy-business/boj-stands-pat-stimulus-policy-says-will-monitor-impact-recent-tweaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T18:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/corporate-business/japan-thai-packaging-manufacture-joint-venture-starts-operations-near-bangkok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T18:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/unilateral-trade-actions-wont-solve-problems-says-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-tianjin-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T19:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-chinaspeech-a-20180920.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker walks by a construction site barrier decorated to show Chinese and foreign shoppers at the Central Business District in Beijing on Wednesday. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang appealed Wednesday for support for free trade, and promised to improve conditions for foreign companies in the country following tit-for-tat U.S. and Chinese tariff hikes in an escalating battle over Beijing's technology policy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/earthquake-hit-hokkaido-thermal-power-plant-partially-restarted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T20:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-power-a-20180920.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-power-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomato-Atsuma plant prepares for its restart on Tuesday night. The plant's No.1 unit restarted its operation Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/science-health/number-japan-patients-rubella-quintuples-2017-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T20:30:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/economy-business/japan-exports-rise-growing-u-s-bound-shipments-amid-trade-war-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T20:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-exports-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles are seen in car carrier trailers at Nagoya Port on July 31. Japan's exports rose 6.6 percent in August from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/crime-legal/man-fatally-stabs-officer-sendai-police-box-shot-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T21:56:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-policeattack-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers gather at a police box in Sendai where an officer was stabbed to death by a man Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/asia-pacific/alcohol-poisoning-kills-least-21-people-malaysia-cheap-homemade-liquor-popular-among-migrant-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T23:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-foreign-minister-taro-kono-expresses-hope-cambodias-continued-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-19T23:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-cambodia-a-20180920.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right) speaks to the media at a joint news conference with his Cambodian counterpart Prak Sokhonn on Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/growth-number-visitors-japan-remains-slow-august-due-natural-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T04:19:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take a photo at the Otaru Canal, a tourist spot in the port city of Otaru in western Hokkaido. Government data released Wednesday shows growth in the number of foreign tourists coming to Japan has slowed due to recent disasters in the country as well as scorching summer heat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/world/crime-legal-world/man-accused-killing-iowa-student-pleads-not-guilty-case-drew-trumps-scorn-immigration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T06:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cristhian Bahena Rivera is escorted into the Poweshiek County Courthouse for his initial court appearance in Montezuma, Iowa, Aug. 22. Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared July 18 from Brooklyn, Iowa. Rivera pleaded not guilty during a court appearance Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/world/hezbollah-chief-says-group-will-stay-syria-till-notice-will-pare-ranks-great-calm-sets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T09:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has his picture on his head, during a live broadcast, the night before Muslim Shiites around the world mark the day of Ashura, in Beirut Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/world/crime-legal-world/jeff-sessions-limits-ability-u-s-judges-dismiss-deportation-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T09:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions waits while being introduced to speak at the Valor Survive and Thrive Conference in Waukegan, Illinois, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/world/science-health-world/florence-portends-massive-slow-moving-hurricanes-age-global-warming-scientists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T10:56:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warming-a-20180921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the National Guard work on a long sand bag flood barrier being built by the South Carolina Department of Transportation on U.S. 501 to lesson damage to roads anticipated from floods caused by Hurricane Florence, now downgraded to a tropical depression, in Conway, South Carolina, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/business/tech/sony-release-miniature-version-original-playstation-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T11:55:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-playstation-a-20180920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony's PlayStation Classic, a miniature version of the original PlayStation console that launched in Japan in 1994, will hit the market Dec. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-vows-shutter-nuclear-sites-u-s-meets-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T11:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pose after signing documents in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/business/japanese-items-sold-russian-post-offices-drawing-consumers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T14:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-russia-a-20180921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member poses with Japanese goods at a post office in Vladivostok, Russia, on Aug. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/world/washington-seeking-negotiate-treaty-iran-tehran-leadership-showing-no-interest-u-s-special-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-20T14:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Medical University has chosen senior professor Yukiko Hayashi to be its first female president.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in visit Mount Paektu, in North Korea, Thursday. A beaming South Korean President Moon, freshly returned home Thursday from a whirlwind three-day summit with Kim Jong Un, said the North Korean leader wants the U.S. secretary of state to visit Pyongyang soon for nuclear talks, and also hopes for a quick follow-up to his June summit with President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-21T10:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this NASA photo obtained by Reuters in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-21T13:32:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Companies are accelerating shipments from China to the U.S. before a 10 percent duty applies to $200 billion of Chinese imports on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-21T16:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nationwide core consumer price index in August rose 0.9 percent from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors watch a whale shark at the Whale Shark Aquarium of Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, China, on Sept. 4.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[West Kowloon Station houses the Hong Kong terminal for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/science-health/university-tokyo-student-goes-extra-trillions-miles-study-exoplanets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T18:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking beyond our planet: A spiral galaxy depicted in a Hubble telescope image. (Elements of this image furnished by NASA.)]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Chinese First Vice Premier Han Zheng in the Kremlin on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers board a plane at the decrepit Burevestnik Airport on Etorofu in the Northern Territories in 2005. Civilian flights now fly from the modern Iturup Airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/social-issues/keio-hospital-ends-fertility-treatment-due-shortage-sperm-donors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T18:24:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-21T20:09:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda's Vietnamese unit saw a 98 percent year-on-year increase in sales during the January-August period.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/politics-diplomacy/51-oppose-abes-plan-submit-constitutional-revision-plan-diet-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T21:16:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/hokkaido-daily-successfully-tests-newspaper-delivery-drone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T21:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone delivers newspapers in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Friday as part of a trial aimed at finding ways to deliver news in times of disaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-election-exposes-huge-gap-diet-members-frustrated-rank-file/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T21:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters in the Diet building on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/kansai-airport-bounces-back-typhoon-kobe-itami-likely-help-anyway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T21:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The owner of a Japanese-style inn in the city of Kyoto hands out treats to visitors at Kansai International Airport, which resumed full operations on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/national/tokyo-subsidize-hotel-discounts-hokkaido-help-tourism-recover-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T21:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take a foot bath in the Jozankei Onsen hot spring district in Sapporo on Tuesday. The government plans to subsidize discounts for hotel room and other accomodations in Hokkaido to help bring tourists back to the disaster-hit prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/asia-pacific/typhoons-get-stronger-asia-must-build-better-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T21:41:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes photographs of an uprooted tree on a beach on Sept. 18 in the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut in the coastal village of Shek O in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/absolute-bombshell-eu-court-hear-case-halting-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T22:38:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the back entrance of No. 10 Downing St. in London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/eu-leaders-reject-mays-brexit-plan-humiliation-pm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-21T22:44:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May watches other heads of government pass after the family photo at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/world/crime-legal-world/taiwan-expels-texan-running-3d-printed-gun-company-accused-paying-teen-sex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T13:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cody Wilson holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/world/offbeat-world/hitler-runs-mayor-despite-threat-lennin-peruvian-andes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T13:27:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitler Alba, the mayor of Yungar, Peru, is interviewed by RPP television.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-n-podium-trump-tout-protection-u-s-sovereignty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T13:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage during a campaign rally in Springfield, Missouri, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/business/tech/white-house-draft-order-signed-will-crack-google-facebooks-business-practices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T15:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-socialdraft-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[American and Russian flags are seen through a 3D-printed logo for Facebook, one of the companies that face possible U.S. antitrust investigations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/world/u-s-may-twice-many-undocumented-immigrants-commonly-estimated-mit-yale-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T15:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-immstudy-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stadium lights stand along a pedestrian barrier beside the border wall between Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, in the Mexican state of Sonora, in November 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/business/economy-business/white-house-optimistic-china-trade-no-date-set-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T15:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinatrade-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SUVs waiting to be exported are seen at a port in Lianyungang, in China's Jiangsu province, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-planning-visit-seoul-december-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T15:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkkim-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raise their hands after watching the mass games performance of "The Glorious Country" at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/asia-pacific/china-shuts-thousands-websites-clean-campaign-state-media-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T15:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/social-issues/japanese-publisher-admits-magazines-articles-contained-expressions-aberrant-prejudice-lgbt-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T17:08:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-publisher-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinchosha Publishing Co. has confirmed that articles in the October issue of its magazine Shincho 45 contain troublesome expressions about the LGBT community.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/blackout-hit-bigger-assumed-power-loss-quake-hit-hokkaido-document/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T18:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hokkaido-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather to charge their mobile phones during a blackout in Sapporo on Sept. 6 after a powerful earthquake hit Hokkaido, triggering landslides as well as causing the loss of power.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/business/tech/years-resistance-toyota-agrees-add-android-auto-system-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T20:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyandroid-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The addition of Android Auto may attract customers who avoided buying Toyotas because of the lack of connectivity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/four-car-crash-leaves-four-dead-four-injured-aomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T22:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-accident-a-20180923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-accident-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A four-car pileup in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, early Saturday left four people dead and an equal number injured.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/russian-group-residents-raises-spirits-quake-survivors-hokkaido-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T22:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-russians-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian woman presents paintings made by Russian children at a nursery school in Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/business/economy-business/trump-push-abe-improve-market-access-japan-meeting-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T22:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the White House in June.  AP]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/media-national/problem-padding-employment-records-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T23:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/p17-brasor-disabilities-a-20180923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-disabilities-a-20180923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Different strokes: A number of government ministries and agencies, many of which are located in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district, have been accused of falsely padding disability rolls.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-retain-key-ministers-replace-member-opponents-faction-cabinet-reshuffle-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-22T23:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reshuffle-a-20180922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a news conference after winning the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership vote at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/media-national/social-media-falls-love-naomi-osaka-tennis-star-sparks-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T12:24:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rising star: U.S. Open tennis champion Naomi Osaka attends a contract signing ceremony at Nissan's global headquarters in Yokohama on Sept. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/world/trump-administration-moves-restrict-immigrants-use-public-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T14:19:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry wait in line in San Diego.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-vows-stand-strong-eu-bloc-brexit-talks-hit-impasse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T15:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Audience members wait for the start of the Save Brexit rally organized by the Leave Means Leave campaign in Bolton, northwest England, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/asia-pacific/despite-detente-u-s-says-wont-hesitate-impose-sanctions-fuel-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T15:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman passes by an image of two hands shaking to form the shape of the Korean Peninsula to mark the inter-Korean summit, in Seoul on Sept. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/asia-pacific/china-cancels-military-talks-u-s-protest-sanctions-russia-military-equipment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T15:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinasanx-a-20180924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Su-35 fighter jets and a H-6K bomber from the People's Liberation Army Air Force fly in formation during patrol near Taiwan in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/asia-pacific/chinese-navy-ship-makes-maiden-visit-venezuela-beijing-visit-nicolas-maduro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T17:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinaven-a-20180924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy stand at its Peace Ark hospital ship during its arrival ceremony at the port in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/national/tokyo-marathon-fees-may-go-50-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T20:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marathon-a-20180924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A costumed runner runs along with other participants during the Tokyo Marathon in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/national/possible-china-japan-maritime-crisis-threatens-belt-road-initiative-internal-pla-document-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T20:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's first domestically made aircraft carrier lifts anchor in Dalian, Liaoning province, on May 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T20:35:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is seen at the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T21:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, wave goodbye at Haneda airport on Sunday before flying to New York where Abe will attend the U.N. General Assembly meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T21:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/business/corporate-business/comcast-thwarts-rupert-murdoch-outbids-fox-40-billion-winning-offer-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-23T22:11:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of television broadcaster Sky lie in Ilseworth, west London.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T22:14:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T22:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attends a news conference after winning the party's presidential election at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T22:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lily, a female African elephant at Selcohome Zoo Paradise Yagiyama, has not shown any breeding behavior for years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-23T23:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this combo photo, Denny Tamaki (left) and Atsushi Sakima campaign for the Sept. 30 Okinawa gubernatorial election in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/world/social-issues-world/panama-revokes-registration-last-migrant-rescue-ship-central-mediterranean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T07:10:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Aquarius rescue ship enters the harbor of Senglea, Malta, Aug. 15. Spain's maritime rescue service said Sunday that it rescued more than 400 people from 15 small boats, most of them off the country's southern coast, while humanitarian groups lamented that the sole private rescue boat operating near the deadly central Mediterranean human trafficking route risked being put out of action by Italy's anti-migrant leaders.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T09:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator shouts slogans to riot police during a protest over Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T09:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a vigil for peace in Yemen during the annual Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Britain, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T09:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis (left) is shown a prison cell during a visit at the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights on Sunday in Vilnius on the second day of his visit to Lithuania.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/business/chinas-guangdong-province-looks-end-home-pre-sale-system-limit-risks-real-estate-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T09:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T09:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T09:56:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian filmmaker James Ricketson waves from his car as he leaves for home from Sydney International airport on Sundeay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/world/tripoli-clashes-leave-115-dead-383-wounded-health-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T11:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fighter loyal to the government of national reconciliation stands by a burned vehicle on a street during renewed clashes in the south of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday. Libya's internationally recognised government has called on the U.N. to take "concrete and effective" action to protect civilians and halt fighting near the capital that has killed more than 100 people since late August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/business/corporate-exodus-china-underway-fresh-u-s-tariffs-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T12:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sources say that some Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba Machine Co. and Komatsu, began plotting production moves in July, when the first U.S. tariffs against China hit, and that the shifts are underway.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-pro-independence-party-formally-outlawed-first-move-since-97-handover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T13:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andy Chan, leader of the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, gives a news conference at the start of a rally near the government's headquarters in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T14:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes the popular "finger hearts" gesture atop Mount Paektu — one of the Koreas' most sacred sites — with top officials from both the North and the South on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T15:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers detain Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny on Monday in Moscow as he leaves a detention center after a month in jail for an unsanctioned protest rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/business/corporate-business/key-investor-japans-takeda-reportedly-skeptical-shire-takeover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T16:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. President Christophe Weber is interviewed in Tokyo on May 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T16:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[JD.com founder Richard Liu, also known as Liu Qiangdong, is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/business/economy-business/u-s-china-impose-fresh-tariffs-no-trade-talks-sight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T17:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shipping containers are loaded onto vessels at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T18:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a vigil for peace in Yemen during the annual party conference held in the northwestern city of Liverpool on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T19:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in antibiotic suits disinfect a pig farm in the city of Gifu on Sept. 9 following an outbreak of swine fever.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T19:55:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiko Kutsuna and his wife, Kazuko, stand in front of a telephone booth they set up on a hill in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, as a place to speak to a prior student who took her own life in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T20:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The badly damaged bow of a boat is seen after it slammed into a quay on Mukaishima Island in Hiroshima Prefecture on Sunday morning. Seven people were injured in the accident.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/asia-pacific/china-reports-new-african-swine-fever-outbreak-inner-mongolia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T20:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-24T20:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Filipino farmer inspects his rice plantation devastated by Typhoon Mangkhut in Alcala, Cagayan province, on Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britains-labour-keeps-second-brexit-referendum-table/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T20:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest against Brexit at St. Georges Plateau in Liverpool during the Labour Party's annual conference]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-dines-trump-u-s-president-urges-reciprocal-relationship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T20:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe poses with U.S. President Donald Trump in this photo posted to the prime minister's official Facebook account Sunday. Abe met Trump for dinner and said they had a constructive talk.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/24/national/foreign-caregiver-trainees-receive-financial-aid-japanese-lessons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-24T23:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign caregiver trainees take a break from studying in May 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/world/400-year-old-spice-laden-shipwreck-discovery-decade-portugal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T06:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Divers are seen during the discovery of a centuries-old shipwreck, in Cascais, Portugal, in this handout photo released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's commander-in-chief, Senior Gen.Min Aung Hlaing, attends a July ceremony marking Myanmar independence hero Gen. Aung San and eight others assassinated in 1947, during the 71st anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon. Myanmar's army chief said on Saturday the United Nations had no right to interf.ere in the sovereignty of the country a week after U.N investigators called on him and other top generals to be prosecuted for "genocide" against the Rohingya minority.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T08:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T08:48:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T10:44:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump (right) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in gesture after signing a trade agreement at a bilateral meeting in New York on Monday, a day before the start of the General Debate of the 73rd session of the General Assembly.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern kisses her baby, Neve, before speaking at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T11:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in the Kansai Sustainable Development Goals Citizens Agenda meeting in Osaka earlier this month discuss what Japan can do to meet the United Nations' sustainable development goal for gender equality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/23/national/need-back-fragile-floating-airport-stymies-kansai-ahead-g20-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T11:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign visitors arrive at Kansai airport's train station on Tuesday, the day the trains resumed operation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/19/national/new-app-identifies-underwater-creatures-japan-aquariums-tap-finger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T12:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Detailed information about fish is displayed on a smartphone screen during a demonstration of the Linne Lens app at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in the city's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/japans-defense-bureaucrats-use-ai-record-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T12:31:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photocopies of daily Self-Defense Forces activity logs for 2004 to 2006 in Iraq are shown in a photo taken in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/dugong-activists-appeal-u-s-court-ruling-okinawa-base-transfer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T15:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dugong is seen in waters off northern Okinawa in May 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T15:05:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Connected Solutions President Yasuyuki Higuchi has been tasked with shaking up Panasonic Corp.'s corporate culture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T15:49:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kevin Systrom, CEO and co-founder of Instagram, attends a news conference in June in San Francisco.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/business/bank-japan-policymakers-feared-july-meeting-policy-tweaks-might-lift-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T15:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T16:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken on April 25, 2016, shows devastation from earthquakes in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture. Electronics maps to show information on disasters were used on a trial basis following the Kumamoto quakes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/business/japan-turkey-seek-early-conclusion-free-trade-accord/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T16:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan get together for talks at the United Nations on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/business/corporate-business/mitsui-sugar-mitsui-co-buy-singapore-firm-southeast-asia-middle-east-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T16:59:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/world/scientists-voice-opposition-weakening-u-s-endangered-species-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T18:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T18:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean protesters gathered near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Sept. 19 hold signs during a rally against the summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/appealing-trumps-ego-key-solving-north-korean-nuclear-crisis-moon-kim-think/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T19:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkanalysis-a-20180926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in is greeted by North Koreans as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on during a welcoming ceremony at Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang on Sept. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/13000-fled-768-evacuation-centers-hokkaido-powerful-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T19:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Kazuhiko Hanzawa examines the leg of evacuee Mariko Miyake at an evacuation center in the quake-hit town of Abira, Hokkaido, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-second-kim-meeting-cards-moon-calls-u-s-president-person-can-rid-north-korea-nukes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T20:23:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nktrump-a-20180926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in as they hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/business/popular-japanese-cosmetic-portal-cosme-gaining-foothold-asian-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T20:48:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cosme-a-20180926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers check items at an @cosme store run by istyle Inc., the operator of Japan's popular beauty and cosmetic products portal site @cosme, at the Star House commercial complex in Hong Kong's bustling Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/japan-developing-supersonic-glider-bombs-defend-remote-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T21:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bombs-a-20180925.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry is developing supersonic glide bombs to strengthen the defense of remote Japanese islands, including the Senkakus, pictured here, which are also claimed by China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-taro-kono-urges-global-support-myanmars-rohingya-repatriation-efforts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T21:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/mother-arrested-keeping-stillborn-babys-body-tokyo-coin-locker-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T21:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-baby-a-20180926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The body of a stillborn baby was found at this group of coin lockers near Uguisudani Station in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/tokyo-medical-university-approves-first-woman-president-wake-sexism-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-25T21:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tkmed-a-20180926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukiko Hayashi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T22:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power plant is seen in Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-25T22:55:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers the opening address at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/25/national/crime-legal/japan-panel-suggests-relaxing-rules-foreign-lawyers-international-arbitration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T05:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T06:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Kelly holds a Lockheed Martin Tristar 500, an Aer Lingus model aircraft that is part of his collection, the world's largest, of diecast model aircraft unveiled at Shannon airport in Shannon, Ireland, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/business/google-facebook-twitter-agree-code-conduct-fight-fake-news-eu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T09:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed stock graph in this illustration photo in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/business/jeff-sessions-hears-states-privacy-threat-tech-firms-amid-alleged-bias/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T09:48:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks to the Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice Opioid Research Summit in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/kim-ready-engage-dialogue-japan-appropriate-time-moon-tells-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T10:10:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) holds a meeting with Moon Jae-in in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-calls-allegations-top-court-nominee-con-game-played-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T10:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump answers a reporters question about Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday at U.N. Headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/world/science-health-world/extremely-concerned-ebola-perfect-storm-war-ravaged-congo-fear-spread-uganda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T10:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker gets ready to perform medical checks inside an Ebola Treatment Center run by The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) in Beni, Congo, in August. The struggle to contain the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a "perfect storm" of challenges, including rebel violence and pre-election manipulation, the U.N. said Tuesday. Attacks by armed opposition groups in North Kivu province hit by the outbreak have risen in recent weeks, including a deadly raid in the town of Beni that forced the World Health Organization to suspend its work, the agency's emergency response chief, Peter Salama, told reporters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/world/social-issues-world/polluted-city-russian-arctic-circle-prisoners-putins-pension-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T10:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T13:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during the opening of a new Chinese Embassy in the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo on Sept. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/business/japan-u-s-hold-second-round-high-level-trade-talks-ahead-abe-trump-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T13:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi answers questions from reporters in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/business/japan-u-s-eu-agree-co-sponsor-proposal-reform-wto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T15:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T17:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/shrinking-applicant-pool-japans-self-defense-forces-struggling-recruit-amid-population-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T17:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ground Self-Defense Force's recruiter stands in front of a promotional booth during a public relations event to attract recruits in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Aug. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/business/financial-markets/nikkei-ends-24000-first-time-eight-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T18:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T19:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T19:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man who lost a family member when Mount Ontake erupted four years ago offers a prayer Wednesday near the mountain's summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T19:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denny Tamaki (left) and Atsushi Sakima campaign for support ahead of Okinawa's gubernatorial election on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-26T19:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean soldier salutes as he rides a tank during a military parade in Pyongyang marking the 70th anniversary of the country's foundation on Sept. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/publisher-suspends-publication-shincho-45-following-furor-lgbt-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T20:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest in front of the headquarters of Shinchosha Publishing Co. in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday night. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/science-health/japanese-researchers-unlocking-secrets-giant-squid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T21:10:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With its tentacles spread out on the floor, a giant squid that was dissected last week at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, measures nearly 4 meters long.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/free-trade-strengthening-ties-abes-speech-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T21:39:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fulltext-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-tells-u-n-japan-will-pursue-free-trade-hopes-meet-north-koreas-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T22:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abespeech-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/business/corporate-business/data-scandal-troubled-suzuki-motor-deepens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-26T23:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-suzuki-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to Suzuki Motor Corp., inspection data on emissions, fuel efficiency or thermometer readings were falsified for a total of 2,737 automobiles from three domestic plants between May 2009 and July this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/japanese-universities-world-rankings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T04:18:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[EMBARGOED-n-univranking-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The University of Tokyo climbed to 42nd place in the World University Rankings this year, up four places from its worst-ever performance marked last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-accuses-china-meddling-midterm-polls-offers-no-proof/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T09:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumprade-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a news conference on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/volunteer-recruitment-begins-2020-tokyo-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T09:52:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olyvolunteers-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaflets soliciting volunteers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are distributed Wednesday near Shinjuku Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/libyan-widows-train-seamstresses-earn-living-war-torn-benghazi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T10:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women work in a sewing workshop supervised by a charity to help widows, divorcees and needy in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/china-plans-donate-ibises-japan-october-amid-warming-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T12:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ibis-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The last time China donated crested ibises to Japan was in November 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-flies-b-52s-south-china-sea-tensions-beijing-worsen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T14:43:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bombers-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber takes off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, for a routine training mission in the vicinity of the South China Sea and Indian Ocean on Sept. 23. This mission was conducted in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's Continuous Bomber Presence operations, which have been ongoing since March 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-backs-off-timetable-north-korean-denuclearization-top-u-s-diplomat-announces-trip-pyongyang-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T16:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shows a letter he said he received the previous day from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/china-builds-biotech-sector-cash-floods-u-s-startups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T16:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiotech-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scientist works at Zai Labo's drug development facility in Shanghai in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-27T16:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference in New York on Wednesday following talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/corporate-business/nintendo-bets-new-cast-characters-first-built-scratch-mobile-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T16:24:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play a Nintendo game at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture in July. Nintendo released on Thursday its first smartphone title featuring original characters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-27T16:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police allege stimulant drugs were produced by a university student in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-27T16:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhu Jun hosts a musical performance in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, on Nov. 15, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/26/national/government-mull-new-work-visa-help-labor-hungry-professions-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T17:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-forlabor-a-20180927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga gives a speech in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/corporate-business/toyota-adapt-car-sales-strategy-amid-trend-toward-vehicle-sharing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T17:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-27T17:44:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/business/tokyo-game-show-kicks-off-stronger-esports-presence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T18:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gameshow-a-20180921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor tries out a virtual reality motorcycle at the Tokyo Game Show, which kicked off Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/japanese-firms-prepare-large-scale-volunteering-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T19:14:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-volunteers-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member from the Tokyo Organising Committee hands out leaflets to solicit volunteers for the 2020 Games, at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/corporate-business/plowing-millions-uber-toyota-prepares-future-without-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T19:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp. worker stands alongside a Crown vehicle on the production line at the company's Motomachi plant in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/national/japanese-helicopter-carrier-kaga-drills-british-warship-heading-contested-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T19:30:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The British frigate HMS Argyll (front), Japanese destroyer Inazuma (center) and Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga take part in a joint naval drill in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/yoshinoyas-first-outlet-located-tsukiji-market-close-59-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T19:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past Yoshinoya's Tsukiji outlet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/world/science-health-world/wetlands-disappearing-three-times-faster-forests-global-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T19:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers on horses patrol the Kushiro Marshland in Hokkaido in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/national/kyoto-lodging-tax-kicks-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T21:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists visit Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine in Kyoto in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/national/cases-work-linked-deaths-illnesses-revealed-mitsubishi-electric/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T21:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mitsubishi-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labor authorities have recognized that four Mitsubishi Electric Corp. employees suffered mental and physical illnesses due to overwork, two of whom committed suicide.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-north-korean-foreign-ministers-hold-first-talks-since-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-27T21:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left) held talks with North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/12/national/organizers-start-accepting-applications-prospective-tokyo-games-volunteers-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T13:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020 Vice Director-General Yusuke Sakaue (right) speaks to reporters about soliciting volunteers Wednesday at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/world/netanyahu-u-n-speech-claims-existence-secret-iranian-nuclear-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T14:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-netanyran-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-netanyran-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released this image after his speech about Iran's nuclear efforts at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/national/crime-legal/osaka-high-court-tosses-lower-court-ruling-denies-korean-schools-right-government-subsidies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T14:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-kschool-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kschool-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Korean schools who oppose the government's decision to deny the institutions access to tuition subsidies stand in front of the Osaka High Court on Thursday, protesting the court's decision that a Korean school in Osaka is not eligible to receive the subsidies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/metoo-era-ford-lauded-left-right-honest-brave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T14:35:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-kavareax-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kavareax-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christine Blasey Ford testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/corporate-business/u-s-securities-exchange-commission-sues-musk-fraud-seeks-remove-tesla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T15:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-tesla-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tesla-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Chief Executive Office Elon Musk speaks at his company's factory in Fremont, California, in 2012. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused him of fraud and sought to remove him from his position in the company.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-agree-cooperate-north-koreas-ship-ship-transfers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T16:08:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-kono-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono leaves the United Nations Security Council meeting on North Korea, held in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/boj-policymakers-debated-potential-policy-tweaks-september-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T17:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda walks to a news conference at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo in March 2015. The minutes of the central bank policy board's September meeting showed some members called for more flexible monetary policies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/scientists-look-chinese-soup-ingredients-treat-dementia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T18:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-soup-a-20180928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-soup-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ginkgo trees, the source of one of the ingredients in an experimental treatment for dementia, line Icho-Namiki (Ginkgo Avenue) near Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-28T18:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-trumplib-a-20180928.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrians arrive at the Abu Duhur crossing on the eastern edge of Idlib province on Tuesday as they cross from rebel-held areas to regime-held areas. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Sept. 17 to create a demilitarized zone along the line of contact between rebels and regime troops, which has temporarily averted a regime offensive on the jihadist and rebel-held Idlib region on the border with Turkey.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/corporate-business/h-s-scraps-hawaii-wedding-ceremonies-tours-260-couples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T18:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wedding-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major Japanese travel agency H.I.S. Co. has canceled wedding packages and tours for 260 couples who had booked to tie the knot at one of its venues in Hawaii, citing a delay in the construction of its wedding venue there.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/national/japans-government-increase-financial-aid-regions-hit-recent-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T19:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-disasters-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disasters-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Earthquake-hit homes in the rural town of Atsuma, Hokkaido]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/business/trump-says-abe-now-ready-start-talks-free-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T19:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-trabe-a-20180928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trabe-a-20180928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/canada-shrugs-off-trumps-criticism-stays-nafta-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T20:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/corporate-business/sec-probe-raises-unthinkable-prospect-tesla-without-elon-musk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T20:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-teslaanalysis-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong in January 2016. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused him of fraud and sought to remove him from his position at the firm.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/outperformed-topix-pioneer-female-money-manager-takes-womenomics-fund-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T20:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-womenfund-z-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-womenfund-z-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Sept. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/asia-pacific/canada-legislators-symbolic-move-vote-strip-myanmars-suu-kyi-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T20:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-suukyitizen-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-suukyitizen-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/national/u-s-air-force-b-52-bomber-sent-east-china-sea-sea-japan-training-asdf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T21:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-airforce-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airforce-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber and two Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighters execute a routine bilateral training mission over the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/national/record-385-foreign-nationals-japan-stripped-resident-status-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T21:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/business/amid-labor-shortage-record-70-japanese-women-held-jobs-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T21:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-workingwomen-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-workingwomen-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The percentage of working-age women in Japan with jobs reached a record high of 70 percent in August, underscoring an increase in female workers amid changing attitudes and a deepening labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brett-kavanaughs-fiery-denial-testimony-gives-republicans-cover-vote-yes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T22:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-kavana-a-20180929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kavana-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-calls-may-scrap-brexit-proposals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T22:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20180929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson has said the current Brexit plans would leave the United Kingdom half in and half out of the club it joined in 1973 and in effective "enforced vassalage."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/28/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-school-sued-fired-gay-teacher-potential-landmark-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-28T22:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/business/subaru-finds-improper-vehicle-inspections-blames-high-workloads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T13:23:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-29T13:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-kavtv-a-20180930.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kavtv-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley holds up a timer on a smartphone to show Sen. Cory Booker how long he has been speaking for during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Friday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-court-lets-members-congress-sue-trump-foreign-payments-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T14:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-emoluments-a-20180930.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-emoluments-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Law enforcement officers stand guard in front of the Trump Hotel in Washington in June. A federal district judge in Washington says a group of nearly 200 Democratic senators and representatives have legal standing to sue U.S. President Donald Trump to prove he violated the U.S. Constitution's emoluments provision.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-congress-subpeonas-reluctant-fusion-gps-founder-steele-dossier-trump-russia-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T14:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpdoss-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a news conference after meeting in Helsinki in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/asia-pacific/chinese-warplanes-hold-live-fire-drills-south-china-sea-days-u-s-bomber-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T18:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scsdrills-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese fighter planes conduct live-fire exercises at a range in the disputed South China Sea in this image taken by state broadcaster CCTV and posted Saturday to the Twitter account of the official People's Daily newspaper.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-pulls-diplomats-basra-iraq-citing-threats-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T18:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/national/japanese-government-cover-70-cost-tourist-trips-quake-hit-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T18:18:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/n-hokktour-a-20180930.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hokktour-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces members search for survivors in a house damaged by a landslide caused by an earthquake in the town of Atsuma, Hokkaido, on Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/business/corporate-business/tesla-stocks-biggest-dive-since-2013-sends-musk-urgent-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T18:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-tesla-a-20180930.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tesla-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Powerwall home battery in Hawthorne, California, in April 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo delivers a summary of NAFTA negotiations to Sen. Ricardo Monreal during a meeting with other senators in Mexico City on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-29T18:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-29T21:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kyodo News survey showed that only 13 of 113 major firms polled are considering adopting the "high-level professional system," a key pillar of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's labor reforms, which will come into effect in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/national/crime-legal/dismembered-body-found-river-chiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T21:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers investigate in the area where a dismembered body was found Saturday morning in Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/national/media-national/question-death-penalty-heinous-crimes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T23:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Little sympathy: A woman walks past a television screen in Tokyo showing four former Aum Shinrikyo cult members who were executed in July. The executions of 13 Aum cultists in July aroused little domestic outrage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/business/parent-subsidiary-listings-closer-scrutiny-japanese-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-29T23:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subsidiaries-a-20180930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dual listings of parents and subsidiaries sometimes contravene the TSE's principle of fairness of shareholder rights.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-29T23:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-29T23:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuma Hirao, who escaped from a prison in Ehime Prefecture and was at large for about three weeks, was captured by police on April 30 in Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-29T23:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plastic waste can be seen in the split open belly of a Laysan albatross in Hawaii.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-30T10:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumamoto Municipal Assembly member Yuka Ogata is surrounded by fellow assembly members Friday after being criticized for asking questions from the podium while sucking on a cough drop.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-30T11:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junya Hida]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-30T11:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers working at the Asian Games pose for photos near Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta on Aug. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-09-30T16:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U. S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea 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/2018/09/30/national/japanese-visitors-russian-held-islands-grow-resigned-possibility-may-never-see-territory-returned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-30T19:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chizuko Yamaguchi (right), Osamu Okada (second from right) and Kakeru Nemoto visit a Japanese graveyard on Kunashiri Island in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/30/business/japanese-cryptocurrency-industry-group-plans-tighten-rules-asset-management-thefts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-09-30T19:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-crypto-a-20181001.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka building that houses cryptocurrency exchange operator Tech Bureau Corp., which lost about ¥7 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in early September, is seen in this photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/30/business/corporate-business/toyota-official-says-no-deal-brexit-temporarily-shut-english-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T03:48:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker assembles a vehicle at the Toyota Motor Corp. factory in Burnaston, U.K., in February 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T06:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince William (center) listens to Irish Soldiers during his visit to the 1st Battalion the Irish Guards Battle group, training under the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), in his role as Colonel of the Regiment in Laikipia on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T09:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T09:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T10:49:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police escort Alena Zs, a suspect charged with the premeditated murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, after a hearing at Specialised Criminal Court in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, on Sunday. Slovak police detained several people suspected of involvement in the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak months after the reporter's violent death and his exposure of alleged high-level corruption sent shockwaves through the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/30/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawans-vote-gubernatorial-election-u-s-military-base-top-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T13:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters leave a polling station in the city of Okinawa early Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/national/u-s-formally-deploys-five-osprey-tilt-rotor-aircraft-yokota-air-base-near-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T15:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft is displayed for media at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo last month ahead of its official deployment Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T15:05:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maldives President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (center) has his photo taken during celebrations after winning the presidential election held in Male on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/business/corporate-business/nikon-targets-younger-net-savvy-thais-new-high-end-cameras/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T16:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikon Corp. President Kazuo Ushida holds a news conference Aug. 23 in Tokyo to launch the Nikon Z mirrorless digital camera series.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T17:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junya Hida, who absconded from Tondabayashi police station in the suburbs of the city of Osaka in August, was riding the bike in this photograph when he was arrested Saturday evening in Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/business/teslas-sec-deal-seen-providing-ammunition-u-s-probe-investor-lawsuits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T17:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk announces Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon in Hawthorne, California, on Sept. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T17:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/business/corporate-business/softbank-bets-400-million-housing-market-startup-opendoor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T17:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World 2018 event in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/business/corporate-business/japanese-contact-lens-maker-seed-sets-sights-bigger-asian-sales-u-s-fashion-brand-collaboration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T17:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major contact lens maker Seed Co. is stepping up sales in Asia by collaborating with U.S. fashion brand Jill Stuart.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T18:45:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denny Tamaki, center, the winner of the Okinawa gubernatorial race, watches the results on TV on Sunday in Naha.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/national/history/fate-uncertain-world-war-ii-air-raid-shelter-closing-thai-zoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T19:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors view photos from World War II at an exhibition inside Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, where a wartime air raid shelter is preserved, on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/national/record-setting-giant-mona-lisa-replica-created-24000-rice-crackers-saitama-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T20:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant Mona Lisa replica, created with 24,000 senbei rice crackers, is displayed in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, on Sunday. Guinness World Records certified it as the world's largest mosaic made of rice crackers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T20:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-01T22:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki thanks voters Monday morning in the city of Okinawa, a day after winning the gubernatorial election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/business/economy-business/business-sentiment-japans-big-manufacturers-off-third-quarter-tankan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-01T22:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers worsened for the third straight quarter, the Bank of Japan's latest tankan survey found.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar speaks with constituents during a campaign gathering and fundraising event in El Cajon, California, Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T09:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T09:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen holds his fingers up as a "1" and a "2" to symbolize the "12th Man" support of fans after the team beat the Green Bay Packers in the NFL football NFC Championship game in Seattle in 2015. The Billionaire Seahawks owner and Microsoft co-founder says cancer he was treated for in 2009 has returned.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T10:29:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the World Association of Overseas Japanese Entrepreneurs gather during the organization's annual Global Venture Forum held in August in Phnom Penh.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T10:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldp-b-20181002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T12:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nobel-e-20181002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tasuku Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University, speaks during a news conference on Monday in Kyoto, after the Nobel Prize award was announced.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T14:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Kawai, a lawyer and member of a support group for those affected by discriminatory admissions policies at Tokyo Medical University, speaks to reporters in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T15:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ludington-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold signs during a protest and march against the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in New York City Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T16:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan's latest tankan survey shows that companies' expectations of inflation over the next year have receded slightly.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T16:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kim-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a photo session with teachers and researchers of Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T16:56:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-02T18:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur appears in an image on the vessel's official Facebook page.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/business/just-year-go-japans-businesses-worry-complexities-forthcoming-consumption-tax-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-02T19:19:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-salestax-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government will keep the consumption tax rate at 8 percent on food, beverages and newspapers while raising it for other goods.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/national/science-health/nobel-laureate-tasuku-honjo-hopes-japan-invests-science/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-02T19:28:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[t2-honjoprofile-tt-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tasuku Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University who jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine, receives flowers at the university Tuesday morning accompanied by his wife, Shigeko. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/national/politics-diplomacy/amid-chinas-rise-japan-still-looks-u-s-lead-trust-trump-falls-25-nation-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-02T20:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/business/trump-brags-auto-tariff-threat-forced-japan-trade-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-02T20:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a bilateral meeting at the United Nations on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/world/u-s-look-take-banned-russian-warheads-needed-nato-ambassador-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-02T23:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nato-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. ambassador to NATO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/asia-pacific/nobel-chief-calls-aung-san-suu-kyis-actions-regrettable-says-will-keep-peace-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-02T23:08:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nobelprize-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The head of the Nobel Foundation called actions taken by Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi 'regrettable' but said that she would get to keep her Nobel Peace Prize.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-03T03:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-03T03:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force and British Army personnel disembark a helicopter during a joint drill at the GSDF's training school in Shizuoka Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-03T06:15:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flake-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) takes part in a discussion "Can our Democracy Survive?" at The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute's 2018 Atlantic Festival in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/world/ukraine-minister-says-sergei-skripal-poisoning-suspect-helped-yanukovic-flee-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T06:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Viktoria Skripal, the niece of poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, holds a press briefing in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/facebook-says-hackers-not-use-stolen-logins-third-party-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T09:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street vendor walks past a bar called "Facebook" in Yaounde Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/national/politics-diplomacy/factions-loom-large-abe-reshuffle-cabinet-post-waiting-list-coming-play/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T10:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-analysis-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Cabinet ministers, including reconstruction minister Hiromichi Watanabe (center) and regional revitalization minister Satsuki Katayama (right), gather at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/world/russia-completes-delivery-s-300-missile-system-syria-defiance-israeli-u-s-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T10:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rusmiss-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch S-300 air defense missile systems launching missiles during the Keys to the Sky competition at the International Army Games 2017 at the Ashuluk shooting range outside Astrakhan, Russia, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/asia-pacific/chinese-warship-sails-within-40-meters-u-s-navy-destroyer-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T11:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scsdestroy-b-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter approaches the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur during a vertical replenishment in December 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/world/u-s-destroy-banned-russian-warheads-necessary-nato-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T11:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warhead-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison briefs the media ahead of a NATO defense ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/asia-pacific/desperation-grows-death-toll-soars-past-1200-indonesia-earthquake-tsunami-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T12:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-palu-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsunami survivor Ahmad Ibrahim (right) looks for his wife, Fahria, among bodies lined up outside Undata hospital in Palu in Central Sulawesi on Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake and tsunami hit the area. The Indonesian government said the death toll from a devastating quake-tsunami on the island of Sulawesi had risen to 1,234 people, up from the previous count of 844.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/japans-sei-whale-meat-sales-deemed-violation-conservation-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T13:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-whales-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sei whale and its calf are seen in a photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/02/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-keep-key-ministers-japan-cabinet-reshuffle-prioritizing-stability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T16:19:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Monday before announcing new party executives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/osaka-severs-sister-city-ties-san-francisco-comfort-women-statue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:39:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osakasf-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura speaks to reporters Tuesday after the city sent a document to San Francisco to officially end sister-city ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-s-may-call-brexit-opportunity-challenge-critics-speech-party-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares her keynote speech in her hotel room for the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-fall-back-profit-taking-6/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/business-leaders-hope-cabinet-continuity-will-aid-growth-fair-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-bizreaction-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bizreaction-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda (right), president of Toyota Motor Corp. and chairman of Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Inc., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinese-movie-star-fan-bingbing-fined-129-million-high-profile-tax-evasion-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-fanbingbing-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fanbingbing-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, in a letter posted online, wrote that she was ashamed and apologized over the case.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/world/airports-act-rising-seas-stronger-storms-climate-changes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-airports-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-airports-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maldives' Velana International Airport is among the most vulnerable to rising seas and stronger storms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/high-stakes-denuclearization-talks-balance-u-s-announces-top-diplomats-visit-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nkanalysis-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkanalysis-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean soldiers stand guard while removing land mines inside the Demilitarized Zone at the border with the North on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/top-u-s-diplomat-mike-pompeo-meet-north-koreas-kim-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nkvisit-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkvisit-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting at Workers' Party of Korea headquarters in Pyongyang in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/tokyo-trip-tennis-star-roger-federer-says-hes-focusing-future-new-sponsor-uniqlo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T17:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-federer-a-20181003.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-federer-a-20181003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swiss tennis player Roger Federer shakes hands with Tadashi Yanai, president of Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing Co., during a photo session at a news conference at the Fast Retailing headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/eyeing-brexit-cliff-edge-japan-waves-goodbye-u-k-gateway-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T18:19:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-brexit-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brexit-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yaskawa Electric Corp.'s robotic arm at ThyssenKrupp's steel plant in Germany.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/financial-markets/dollar-slightly-firmer-around-%c2%a5113-90-late-tokyo-trading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T19:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/world/science-health-world/chemistry-nobel-goes-three-directed-evolution-leading-better-pharmaceuticals-renewable-fuels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T21:48:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nobchem-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nobchem-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[2018 Nobel chemistry laureates Frances H. Arnold of the United States, George P. Smith of the United States and Gregory P. Winter of Britain are displayed on a screen during the announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-lone-female-minister-asked-change-outfit-just-prior-declaration-ceremony-order-meet-dress-code/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T21:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-katayama-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-katayama-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satsuki Katayama on Tuesday shows two formal outfits she had prepared for the declaration ceremony for newly appointed ministers at Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Prior to the ceremony she learned the outfits did not suit the dress code.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/crime-legal/osaka-fugitive-spun-web-lies-pulled-off-series-thefts-masquerade-cycle-tourist-run-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T21:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fugitive-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fugitive-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junya Hida, a captured fugitive who was on the run for seven weeks from mid-August, holds a sign saying 'Wakayama' at a roadside rest area in Suo-Oshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in a provided photo taken on Sept. 18. Another sign next to him reads 'Cycling around Japan.']]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/approval-rating-abes-cabinet-46-5-slightly-reshuffle-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-03T22:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-poll-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poll-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a question during a news conference after his Cabinet reshuffle Tuesday. The latest public opinion poll conducted by Kyodo News shows the approval rate for his new ministerial team is at 46.5 percent, down 0.9 points from the previous poll last month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/asia-pacific/u-s-says-photos-near-collision-chinese-warship-south-china-sea-legitimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T02:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-scsphotos-b-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scsphotos-b-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Navy photo posted to the gCaptain website shows the USS Decatur (left) and a Chinese Navy warship within 45 yards of each other in the South China Sea on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-latest-cabinet-reshuffle-casts-doubt-womenomics-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T02:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-women-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-women-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satsuki Katayama, minister in charge of regional revitalization and female empowerment, arrives at the Cabinet Office on Wednesday to start her new role.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/tech/jeff-bezos-space-company-designing-large-reusable-lunar-lander/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T07:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-bezos-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bezos-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-biggest-warship-visits-sri-lanka-amid-rise-chinese-military-clout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T10:21:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-srilanka-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-srilanka-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crew member of the Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga signals as an SH-60K Sea Hawk helicopter takes off from the vessel in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia on Sept. 24.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/world/u-s-presidential-test-alert-sets-american-phones-buzzing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T11:01:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-fema-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fema-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first test of the national wireless emergency system by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is shown on a cellular phone in Detroit Wednesday. About 225 million electrtonic devices across the United States received alerts from FEMA Wednesday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-policy-experts-call-launch-japan-u-s-combined-task-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T11:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-armitage-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-armitage-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage delivers a speech at Keio University in Tokyo during a visit to Japan in June. A bipartisan group of U.S. policy experts led by him and Joseph Nye, a former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, has recommended that Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military create a combined joint task force to better cope with possible contingencies involving China.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/corporate-business/japanese-government-suspend-suruga-bank-operations-improper-loans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T11:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-suruga-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-suruga-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Financial Services Agency will suspend Suruga Bank's real estate financing operations for several months, possibly as early as this week, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/kyoto-tops-rankings-major-japanese-cities-think-tank-survey-followed-fukuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T12:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-cityranking-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cityranking-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists walk on a street leading to Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto. The city topped the ranking of major Japanese cities, scoring highly for its historical and cultural assets, as well as its universities.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/osaka-ends-six-decade-sister-city-ties-san-francisco-comfort-women-statue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T14:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-sfosaka-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sfosaka-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People move in to take a closer look at the "Comfort Women" monument after it was unveiled in San Francisco last year. The mayor of Osaka says he is withdrawing his city from a six-decade "sister-city" relationship with San Francisco to protest the statue honoring females forced into working in brothels servicing wartime Japanese soldiers. The San Francisco Examiner reports Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura sent a letter to San Francisco announcing his desire to withdraw from the largely ceremonial relationship.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/world/crime-legal-world/utah-man-arrested-suspected-ricin-containing-envelopes-mailed-trump-pentagon-officials-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T14:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-ricin-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ricin-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.. Defense Department personnel, wearing protective suits, screen mail as it arrives at the Pentagon in Washington Tuesday. Two or more packages delivered to the Pentagon this week were suspected to contain the deadly poison ricin, an official said.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/u-s-warns-new-hacking-spree-group-linked-beijing-lull/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T14:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-cloudhopper-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cloudhopper-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in Singapore in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/planet-warms-chinas-drought-losses-predicted-soar-tens-billions-dollars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T14:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/trump-picks-supporter-coal-nuclear-plants-post-u-s-s-top-energy-regulator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T15:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/social-issues/released-reformatory-japanese-idol-launches-support-group-neglected-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T15:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-idol-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-idol-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanano Senritsu, an idol entertainer who revealed that she used to be in a reformatory, is interviewed on Sept. 24 in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/health-care-system-collapse-elderly-peoples-contributions-not-doubled-insurance-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T15:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-healthcare-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-healthcare-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An executive at the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies, or Kenporen, says the elderly self-coverage rate for universal health care should be raised to 20 percent to prevent the entire system from collapsing.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/national/crime-legal/smuggling-brings-added-problems-fishermen-disaster-hit-tohoku-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T16:11:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-smuggling-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smuggling-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The poaching of abalones has become a big headache for fishermen in disaster-hit parts of Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/asia-pacific/foreign-aid-picks-desperate-indonesian-quake-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T16:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-quakeaid-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-quakeaid-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women carry clothes from the ruins of their house in Palu on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/03/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-plans-%c2%a54-billion-boost-indonesia-output-capacity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T17:14:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-mitsubishi-a-20181004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mitsubishi-a-20181004.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will boost production capacity at its Bekasi plant on the eastern border of Jakarta to meet solid demand in Indonesia and other southeast Asian markets for its multipurpose vehicle.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/tech/first-nintendo-mobile-game-feature-new-cast-characters-off-weak-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T18:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-nintendo-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co.'s Dragalia Lost, released last week, is the company's first smartphone title featuring original characters rather than established stars like Super Mario and Donkey Kong.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/corporate-business/isuzu-enter-tie-talks-u-s-engine-maker-cummins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T18:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-isuzu-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-isuzu-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isuzu Motors will enter talks with U.S. engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. on the joint development of more eco-friendly diesel engines.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/crime-legal/number-japan-minors-victimized-crimes-via-social-media-slightly-remains-high-national-police-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T19:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-crimes-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crimes-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A total of 856 minors fell victim to crimes via social media in the first half of 2018, down slightly from 2017, according to the National Police Agency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/politics-diplomacy/new-okinawa-governor-vows-effort-block-relocation-plan-u-s-futenma-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T19:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tamaki-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tamaki-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly elected Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki greets staff on his first day at the prefectural government office in Naha on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/tech/panasonic-helps-workers-create-personal-space-new-crowdfunded-wearable-device/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T19:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-panasonic-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-panasonic-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Panasonic official models a Wear Space device, which is designed to help people concentrate, on Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/moms-continue-face-hurdles-returning-work-abe-wavers-day-care-womens-empowerment-goals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T19:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-mothers-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mothers-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukie Watabe is one of many moms who leave their jobs despite building a successful corporate career. She later switched fields and started an online fashion company in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/false-quake-alarm-gives-tokyoites-midnight-scare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T20:19:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-quake-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quake-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This emergency quake alert sent just after midnight Wednesday warns the public to prepare for strong jolts.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/crime-legal/record-37113-children-suspected-suffered-abuse-japan-first-half-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T21:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-abuse-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abuse-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The police referred a record number of children to welfare authorities over suspected child abuse in the first half of this year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/politics-diplomacy/top-japanese-government-spokesman-denies-reports-abe-wavering-submission-ldp-proposal-constitutional-revision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T21:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-constitution-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-constitution-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga gather for a Cabinet meeting Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/economy-business/imf-urges-japan-ensure-tax-hike-goes-smoothly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T22:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-imf-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-imf-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/crime-legal/former-yokozuna-harumafuji-sued-2017-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-04T22:30:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-harumafuji-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-harumafuji-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumo wrestler Takanoiwa (right) files a lawsuit against former yokozuna Harumafuji on Thursday to seek financial compensation of ¥24 million in damages.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/politics-diplomacy/pence-visit-japan-november-economic-dialogue-aso/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T04:20:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/world/crime-legal-world/peruvian-ex-strongman-fujimori-80-warns-hospital-return-prison-will-kill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T10:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-fujimori-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fujimori-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This grab from a video shared on Thursday on the official Facebook page of Alberto Fujimori (https://www.facebook.com/AlbertoFujimoriF) shows the former Peruvian president (1990-2000) speaking from his hospital bed at the Centenario clinic in Lima a day after being admitted, after a court annulled the humanitarian pardon granted to him and ordered the 80-year-old ex-president's immediate arrest. Fujimori said that a return to prison would be a "death sentence," the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/number-foreign-visitors-recovering-kansai-international-airport-returning-last-years-levels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T12:44:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-kansaiair-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kansaiair-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansai International Airport, hit by Typhoon Jebi last month, is seeing a recovery in its foreign traveler numbers.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brett-kavanaugh-not-belong-supreme-court-retired-justice-john-paul-stevens-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T13:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-kavastevens-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kavastevens-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens departs the funeral of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington in 2016.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/asia-pacific/pentagon-identifies-china-growing-risk-supply-materials-vital-u-s-defense-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T14:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-pentagohno-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pentagohno-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new Pentagon report says "China represents a significant and growing risk to the supply of materials and technologies deemed strategic and critical to U.S. national security."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/asia-pacific/cambodia-jails-70-year-old-first-conviction-royal-insult/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T15:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/corporate-business/toyota-softbank-expected-announce-tie-ride-sharing-driverless-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T16:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-toyotasb-b-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyotasb-b-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son (left) and Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., chat during a photo session at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday. The nation's No. 1 automaker and technology giant SoftBank have announced that they are setting up a joint venture to create innovative mobility services.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/world/science-health-world/scientists-urge-global-doomsday-vault-good-germs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T18:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/history/memorial-victims-japanese-vessel-sunk-world-war-unveiled-wales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T18:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-memorial-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-memorial-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiko Nakamura (center) lays flowers Friday at a memorial in Angle, Wales, dedicated to the victims of Hirano Maru, sunk by the German navy in the Irish Sea in the final days of World War I.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/fair-features-authentic-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p8-fair-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-fair-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/solid-partnership-aims-unparalleled-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p7-miti-a-20181005-e1538729003924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-miti-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/past-present-malaysia-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:39:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p7-jetro-a-20181005-e1538729060240.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-jetro-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/advancing-economic-growth-via-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:39:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p7-meti-a-20181005-e1538729041583.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-meti-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/strong-diverse-economy-much-offer-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:39:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p8-malaysia-eco-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-malaysia-eco-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysia is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/misc-moving-energy-build-better-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p9-misc-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-misc-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yee Yang Chien, MISC president and group CEO]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/stable-industrial-development-domestically-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:40:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p9-mida-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-mida-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuala Lumpur skyline]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/khtp-paves-way-japanese-firms-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T19:40:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p10-khtp-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-khtp-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kulim Hi-Tech Park is home to many multinational companies' factories and research and development centers.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/m5-3-earthquake-rocks-southern-hokkaido-no-tsunami-warning-issued/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T20:19:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-quake-b-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quake-b-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dump trucks are parked in line Friday in the town of Atsuma, Hokkaido, after being moved from the site of a previous landslide where reconstruction work was suspended due to an earthquake in the morning.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/business/tech/quantum-computer-maker-d-wave-make-powerful-machines-software-development-tools-available-free-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T20:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-dwave-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dwave-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vern Brownell, CEO of D-Wave]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/crime-legal/ex-head-kimono-firm-admits-defrauding-banks-company-failed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T20:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-kimono-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kimono-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichiro Shinozaki]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/national/nagoya-international-school-hires-ac-milan-coach-guide-soccer-team/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T20:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-chubu-a-20180731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20180731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matteo Cont, an Italian coach from AC Milan, supervises members of Nagoya International Junior and Senior High School's soccer team in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-new-defense-minister-takeshi-iwaya-distances-earlier-ldp-weapons-proposals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T21:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-defense-a-20181006-e1538729975646.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Iwaya]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/kavanaugh-probe-firing-republican-base-trump-likely-winner-whether-judge-confirmed-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T21:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-kavana-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kavana-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists rally in opposition to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and in support of Christine Blasey Ford, the university professor who has accused him of sexual assault in 1982, near Times Square in New York City on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/business/corporate-business/company-stumbles-upon-new-software-build-healthy-work-environment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T21:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-recog-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-recog-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruki Atarashi, CEO of Cinqsmile Inc., believes better and healthier communication helps employees to have higher morale and an improved work ethic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brett-kavanaugh-attempts-spin-control-senate-outburst-retired-justice-opposes-nomination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-05T21:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Financial Times Asia news editor Victor Mallet (right) speaks with Andy Chan, founder of the Hong Kong National Party, during a luncheon at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong in August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a photo session with teachers and researchers of Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keisei Electric Railway Co. employees ask stranded passengers to transfer to the JR line Friday morning at Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station after Keisei was hit by power outages likely caused by seawater residue carried by Typhoon Trami.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A job applicant looks at job listings for the Riverside Hotel at a job fair hosted by Job News South Florida, in Sunrise, Florida, in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T14:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T14:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands after delivering a joint statement following their talks at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T15:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sorry is the hardest word: People supporting LGBT rights demand an apology from Lower House member Mio Sugita for her remarks in the August issue of Shincho 45.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military control: Former residents of Japan who defected from North Korea typically recall spending a torrid time on the peninsula following their voluntary repatriation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Goichiro Toyoda, co-CEO of Medley Inc., says the nation's health system cannot be sustained without big changes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T18:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women walk past campaign posters near the headquarters of the People's Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T21:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands  Saturday in Tokyo before starting a meeting to discuss North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile program issues. Pompeo will depart for Pyongyang on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T22:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross poses near rocket models during an interview in his office at the U.S. Department of Commerce building in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-06T22:12:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his State of Union speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Sept. 12. In comments published Saturday, Juncker said Britain and the bloc could strike a Brexit deal this month or next.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narendra Modi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the newly created Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade of the Ground Self-Defense Force train in Kagoshima Prefecture on May 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tweet sent out by Haitian President Jovenel Moise late Saturday reads: "A 5.8-magnitude earthquake has just hit Haiti. According to first reports from civil protection, damage has been recorded in the north. I am being informed on the situation and am working with the organizations concerned for an appropriate response."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-07T20:22:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese shoppers check out beauty products at a duty-free store in Tokyo's Akihabara district in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-07T21:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands Sunday with one of the participants at a two-day ministerial meeting of Japan and African countries held in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-07T21:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/07/world/saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-killed-consulate-istanbul-turkish-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-07T23:06:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, calls for the release of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in front of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazilians-begin-voting-tense-presidential-race-led-right-winger-jair-bolsonaro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-07T23:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, smiles after casting his vote at a polling station in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/07/national/politics-diplomacy/mike-pompeo-meets-north-korean-leader-pyongyang-south-korea-says-pair-agreed-arrange-second-u-s-n-korea-summit-soon-possible/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-07T23:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-08T10:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/human-tower-builders-catalonia-kick-off-pro-independence-protest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-08T10:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-towers-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the "Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls" try to complete their human tower during the 27th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, on Sunday. The tradition of building human towers or "castells" dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia, where "colles" or teams compete to build the tallest and most complicated towers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-08T10:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, departs after the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill Saturday in Washington. Kavanaugh was confirmed 50-48.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/07/national/media-national/beware-10-million-business-card/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-08T13:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/adelstein-fraud-a-20181007.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[adelstein-fraud-a-20181007.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts advise investors to exercise due diligence before accepting any offer that appears to have solid corporate backing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/08/business/financial-markets/china-slashes-banks-reserve-requirements-trade-war-u-s-imperils-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-08T15:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinabanks-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice President Mike Pence greets people after speaking Thursday at the Hudson Institute in Washington. Pence said China was using its power in "more proactive and coercive ways to interfere in the domestic policies and politics of the United States."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/08/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-meets-hun-sen-expresses-hope-cambodias-development-democratic-means/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-08T18:08:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Sen, attend a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-u-s-tensions-flare-testy-mike-pompeo-visit-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-08T22:51:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, shows the way to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/world/crime-legal-world/trump-tries-dismiss-stormy-daniels-lawsuit-hush-money-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T06:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stormy-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, is seen in New York City in April, and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/economy-business/venezuelas-annual-inflation-hit-488865-september-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T08:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor sorts parsley at a vegetable and fruit stall at a street market in Caracas Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/08/world/nordhaus-romer-win-2018-nobel-prize-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T12:05:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nobeleconomics-a-20181009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nobeleconomics-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Romer]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/world/shinzo-abe-says-japan-welcome-britain-tpp-open-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T12:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-abetpp-a-20181009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetpp-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During an interview with the Financial Times newspaper published Monday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, one of British Prime Minister Theresa May's closest international allies, said Japan would welcome Britain into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-vietnam-agree-cooperation-secure-peace-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T12:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-vietnam-a-20181009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vietnam-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, shake hands after their joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/north-korea-hackers-tried-get-1-1-billion-global-bank-attacks-fireeye/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T13:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-northack-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-northack-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man types on a computer keyboard in Washington in 2016. An elite group of North Korean hackers has been identified as the source of a wave of cyberattacks on global banks that has netted "hundreds of millions" of dollars, security researchers said. A report by the cybersecurity firm FireEye said the newly identified group dubbed APT38 is distinct from but linked to other North Korean hacking operations, and has the mission of raising funds for the isolated Pyongyang regime.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korean-president-alludes-possibility-japan-north-korea-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T13:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/07/national/electric-carts-forklifts-begin-moving-tsukiji-tokyos-new-fish-market-toyosu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T13:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-haulage-a-20181008.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-haulage-a-20181008.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A convoy of electric carts and forklifts make the 2.3-kilometer-long journey from the closed Tsukiji fish market to the new Toyosu fish market in east Tokyo early on Sunday. Some 2,600 of the vehicles will eventually make the trip. The Toyosu market is scheduled to open Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/mike-pompeo-faced-hard-bargain-start-pyongyang-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T15:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-pompeonk-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pompeonk-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pyongyang in this photo released on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-thailand-confirm-cooperation-promote-free-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T15:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-thai-a-20181009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-thai-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha prior to their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/jtb-panasonic-offer-teleconference-help-malaysian-tourists-seeking-info-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T16:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jtb-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The JTB Corp. travel agency demonstrates a double-screen teleconference machine that provides assistance in English at a JTB outlet in the Aeon Mall complex in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, on Oct. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/will-japan-climate-leader-climate-laggard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T16:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-climatechange-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climatechange-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under the government's long-term energy plan, Japan aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and have renewable energies become its major power sources.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/asia-pacific/students-hoping-see-friends-return-school-quake-hit-indonesian-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T16:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-palustudents-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-palustudents-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A student cleans up Monday at a state-run high school following the earthquake in Palu, Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/indias-aluminum-producers-increase-sales-japan-amid-industry-shake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T16:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aluminum-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aluminum ingot exports from India to Japan doubled in the first eight months of 2018 from a year ago, according to Japanese trade data.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/foreign-japanese-students-nagoya-university-foreign-studies-publish-english-newspaper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T17:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cassandra Evangelista (right) looks at enlarged pages of an English-language newspaper on display at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/economy-business/japan-records-another-month-black-ink-%c2%a51-84-trillion-current-account-surplus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T17:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Japan-Economy.JPEG-0c004.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b caccount-a 20181010]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Liberian LNG tanker arrives at a port in Yokohama in April 2014. Japan logged a current account surplus of ¥1.84 trillion in August, marking the 50th straight month of black ink, government data showed Tuesday, though energy imports such as crude oil and liquid natural gas soared.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-invites-pope-francis-visit-pyongyang-seoul-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T17:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nkpope-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkpope-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis blesses the crowd as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/economy-business/imf-raises-japan-growth-forecast-cuts-global-estimate-due-trade-tension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T20:33:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-imf-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-imf-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund has cut its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, citing escalating trade tensions propelled by the tariff war between the U.S. and China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/kagoshima-zookeeper-feared-dead-mauled-white-tiger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T20:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tiger-b-20181009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tiger-b-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This white tiger at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in Kagoshima killed a zookeeper on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/mekong-japan-summit-tokyo-eyes-economic-aid-pushback-chinese-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T20:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-mekong-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mekong-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomes Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she arrives at the State Guesthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday for the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/annual-survey-finds-physical-strength-athletic-ability-elderly-japanese-improved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T21:11:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-sports-a-20181009.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sports-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The physical strength and athletic ability of elderly people in Japan has largely improved, according to an annual survey released by the Japan Sports Agency on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/business/tokyo-stock-exchange-suffers-trading-system-glitch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T22:53:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-tseglitch-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tseglitch-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A system glitch Tuesday morning on the Tokyo Stock Exchange prevented some brokerages from making trade orders.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/taiwan-vote-whether-maintain-ban-japanese-food-products-referendum-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T23:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwan-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peaches from Fukushima are sold at a market in the prefecture in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/world/crime-legal-world/freshly-minted-justice-brett-kavanaugh-gets-work-u-s-supreme-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-09T23:20:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly confirmed and sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh heads off to his first day of work as a justice on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/aung-san-suu-kyi-appreciates-japans-concerns-rohingya-crisis-says-investigation-panel-extensive-powerful-authority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T04:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi hold a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/war-food-waste-can-save-money-boost-profits-israeli-tech-firm-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T09:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An open air dump is seen in April in the plain of Triel and Carrières at Carrières-sous-Poissy some 30 km northwest of Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/world/canada-welcomes-new-citizens-ceremony-300-meters-toronto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T09:33:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Six new Canadians pose while harnessed to the top of the CN Tower, before taking their oath of citizenship on the "Edgewalk" 365 meters (1,668 feet) above Toronto Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/no-brett-kavanaugh-bump-seen-gop-democrats-hold-edge-cnn-poll-ahead-midterms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T10:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-cnnpoll-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cnnpoll-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh pauses while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Sept. 5. Kavanaugh's confirmation is a flashpoint for the November midterms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/world/drivers-kin-blame-vehicle-finger-pointing-begins-search-cause-deadly-ny-limo-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T11:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-limo-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This shows the Crest Inn Suites &amp; Cottages outside Saratoga Springs, New York, Tuesday. The location is also the business address for Prestige Limousine, the service involved in Saturday's fatal crash in Schoharie, New York, that killed 20 people. The firm is owned by Shahed Hussain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/japanese-hospital-operator-sakurajyuji-enter-thai-health-care-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T15:11:41+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/crime-legal/former-member-japans-self-defense-forces-served-fresh-arrest-warrant-fatal-police-box-attack-toyama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T16:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-policebox-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keita Shimazu is taken to the Toyoma District Public Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday after being served a fresh arrest warrant over the murder and robbery of an officer at a police box in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stock-exchange-snaps-four-session-losing-streak-aided-buying-dips/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T16:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/crime-legal/german-tourist-admits-knife-attack-japanese-man-nagasaki-drunk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T18:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/no-rest-nikki-haley-resignation-fuels-speculation-political-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T18:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-haleyfuture-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-haleyfuture-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks in New Delhi in June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/former-cabinet-security-chief-atsuyuki-sassa-dies-87/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T18:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-sasa-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sasa-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsuyuki Sassa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/corporate-business/jins-ceo-hitoshi-tanaka-eyes-business-growth-glasses-wearable-devices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T19:51:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-takingthelead-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takingthelead-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitoshi Tanaka, CEO and founder of Jins Inc., pioneered the sale of low-cost glasses in Japan, but now he is looking to wearable devices and the services that can be offered with them for the company's future.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/financial-markets/system-glitch-tokyo-stock-exchange-resolved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T20:53:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-offers-host-second-u-s-north-korea-summit-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T21:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-trumpkim-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpkim-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un hold a signing ceremony after their first meeting in Singapore on June 12. A South Korean newspaper reported Japan is ready to host a second U.S.-North Korea summit meeting.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/tokyo-named-worlds-best-city-outside-u-s-third-year-row-conde-nast-magazine-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T21:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tokyo-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokyo-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler's poll chose Tokyo as the world's best big city outside the United States for the third year in a row.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/hokkaidos-quake-hit-tomato-atsuma-thermal-power-plant-goes-fully-operational/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T21:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-hokkaido-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hokkaido-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evidence of soil liquefaction is seen on the grounds of the quake-hit Tomato-Atsuma thermal power plant in the town of Atsuma, Hokkaido, on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/japan-strongest-passport-world-according-new-henley-partners-ranking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T21:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-passport-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-passport-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese passport is now the most powerful in the world, in terms of the number of countries that allow its holders to travel visa-free.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/corporate-business/softbank-mulling-purchase-majority-stake-wework-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T21:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-wework-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wework-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. is likely to invest several billion dollars in WeWork on top of the $4.4 billion that it put in through its Vision Fund last year, a source said.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/eyeing-three-four-locations-trump-says-second-meeting-kim-will-happen-november-midterm-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T22:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-trumpkim-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpkim-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet at the start of their summit on Singapore's resort island of Sentosa on June 12.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/09/national/zozo-chief-yusaku-maezawa-eyes-world-peace-inspiration-spacex-moon-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T22:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-maezawa-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maezawa-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zozo Inc. CEO Yusaku Maezawa, who is scheduled to travel to space in 2023, poses during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-australia-agree-keep-sanctions-pressure-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T22:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-jpaussie-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpaussie-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne lay wreaths at HMAS Kuttabul in Sydney on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/world/evidence-chinas-computer-hardware-tampering-found-u-s-telecom-august-security-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T23:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-supertelecom-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-supertelecom-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An inspection at a major U.S. telecommunications company found an implant built into a Supermicro server, a security expert has said. The revelation echoes earlier reports that critical technology components bound for the U.S. have been tampered with in China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/world/u-s-senators-question-super-micro-reports-chinese-tampering-america-bound-computer-hardware/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-10T23:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/world/crime-legal-world/russian-website-names-third-gru-officer-involved-salisbury-nerve-agent-poisoning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T06:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-skripal-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skripal-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken on Tuesday and provided by "The Insider" shows a street in Loyga, Arkhangelsk region, about 700 km northeast of Moscow. Loyga village has been named by investigative group Bellingcat as the home village of Alexander Petrov, who was identified as Dr. Alexander Mishkin, working for the GRU and decorated with Russia's highest award.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/world/crime-legal-world/three-women-found-apparently-slain-near-greeces-evros-river-border-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T09:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-borderkill-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-borderkill-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Evros River, the natural border between Greece and Turkey (in background) is seen near the village of Pythio, Greece, May 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/financial-markets/fed-gone-crazy-dow-dives-800-points-amid-rate-hike-trade-jitters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T11:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-stocks-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stocks-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number of the Dow Jones industrial average Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 800 points, its worst drop in eight months, led by sharp declines in technology stocks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/japans-representative-taiwan-expresses-disappointment-plan-press-ahead-referendum-food-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T12:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-taiwanfood-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwanfood-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikio Numata]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/new-okinawa-gov-denny-tamaki-may-meet-abe-tokyo-friday-top-government-spokesman-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T12:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-sugadenny-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sugadenny-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/world/scientists-blame-warm-water-gulf-mexico-spawning-hurricane-michaels-intensity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T13:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-michaelimate-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-michaelimate-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haley Nelson inspects damage to her family properties near Panama City, Florida, after Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/japanese-helicopter-carrier-wages-daily-war-dirt-grime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T13:25:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-warship-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-warship-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sailors clean the anchor chain as it is raised on the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Kaga before its departure for naval drills in the Indian Ocean, near Indonesia, on Sept. 22.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/largest-rocket-nasa-history-boeing-two-years-behind-schedule-double-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T13:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/hibakusha-pair-deliver-anti-nuke-petition-8-million-signatures-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T13:34:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-petition-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-petition-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sueichi Kido (center), secretary-general of Nihon Hidankyo, presents the "Appeal of the Hibakusha" to Romanian Ambassador Ion Jinga (second from left) at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/asia-pacific/seoul-will-not-unilaterally-lift-north-korea-sanctions-trump-says-nothing-without-approval/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T14:12:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nkang-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkang-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/world/crime-legal-world/limo-company-operator-new-york-crash-disaster-charged-negligent-homicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T14:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-limo-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-limo-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nauman Hussain is brought into Cobleskill Town, New York, court for arraignment Wednesday. Limousine service operator, Hussain, was charged Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide in a crash that killed 20 people, while police continued investigating what caused the wreck and whether anyone else will face charges.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/princess-ayako-receive-%c2%a5107-million-marries-commoner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T16:17:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/world/category-4-hurricane-michael-pounds-florida-155-mph-winds-fiercest-since-1969/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T17:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hurricane Michael thrashes palm trees in Panama City, Florida, Wednesday in this picture obtained from social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/sears-prepares-file-bankruptcy-coming-days-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T17:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks out the door past signs advertising store closing at a Sears istore n New Hyde Park, New York, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/politics-diplomacy/campaigning-fukushima-gubernatorial-race-kicks-off-reconstruction-focus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T18:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazushi Machida, one of the four candidates in the Fukushima gubernatorial election, speaks to voters in the city of Fukushima on Thursday as campaigning officially kicked off.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/corporate-business/fast-retailing-posts-record-profit-strong-global-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T18:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past Fast Retailing Co.'s flagship Uniqlo store in Osaka in April. Strong sales supported the group's net profit, which rose to a record high in the year through August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/tokyo-based-clothes-recycling-newbie-advance-startup-world-cup-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T18:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fenox Venture Capital CEO Anis Uzzaman (from left), Jeplan Inc CEO Masaki Takao and Senior Manager Hiroki Sugiyama pose for photos during the Japan round of Startup World Cup 2019 last Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/health-ministry-encourages-firms-help-workers-plan-retirement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T19:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-retirement-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More companies are providing programs to help employees prepare for life after retirement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/tokyos-new-toyosu-fish-market-opens-public-tours-will-begin-saturday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T19:51:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An intermediate fish wholesaler checks frozen tuna laid out on the floor before the debut auction starts at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Thursday morning. The Toyosu market was opened earlier in the day to replace the 83-year-old Tsukiji fish market, which was closed on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/britain-expects-5000-financial-services-jobs-leave-brexit-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T19:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier takes part in the EU Commission’s weekly college meeting in Brussels Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/financial-markets/nikkei-plunges-1000-points-afternoon-trading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T21:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nikkei-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nikkei 225 average tumbled more than 1,000 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday afternoon following an overnight plunge on Wall Street.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-top-government-spokesman-denies-trump-asked-abe-strongly-consider-giving-casino-license-one-benefactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T21:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive in Palm Beach, Florida, in February 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/corporate-business/familymart-uny-deepen-ties-discount-operator-don-quijote-purchasing-20-17-percent-stake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-11T21:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-familymart-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[FamilyMart Uny Holdings Co. plans to deepen its ties with Don Quijote Holdings Co. by purchasing up to 20.17 percent stake in the discount store operator.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/u-s-business-group-says-trumps-china-tariffs-costing-americans-1-4-billion-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T06:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-tariffhit-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffhit-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Buzzell talks about the type of levels sold at Johnson Level and Tool, where he is chief financial officer, in Mequon, Wisconsin, in September. About half the levels the company sells are imported from China and tariff increases on those products could cost the business an estimated $3.7 million annually, Buzzell said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/world/science-health-world/aid-workers-spike-ebola-cases-pushes-congo-outbreak-tipping-point-rebel-attacks-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T06:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-ebola-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Esperance Nzavaki and health workers celebrate news of her Ebola cure at The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) treatment center in Beni, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/wilbur-ross-spoke-immigration-foe-steve-bannon-citizenship-question-census-doj-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T09:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wilbur-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump talks with reporters during a signing ceremony for the "Save Our Seas Act of 2018" in the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, in Washington. At left is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/virgins-richard-branson-halts-talks-1-billion-saudi-investment-space-ventures-amid-journalists-disappearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T09:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/media-firms-writers-drop-saudi-davos-desert-event-journalists-disappearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T09:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/world/crime-legal-world/trumps-lawyers-preparing-answers-questions-russia-probe-not-obstruction-allegations-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T09:23:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-mueller-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on his investigation of potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/blackout-quota-increase-forced-shutdowns-eyed-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T09:38:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A third-party panel under the Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators holds a meeting on Tuesday in Tokyo to discuss the massive blackout that occurred throughout Hokkaido due to the massive earthquake that hit the prefecture on Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/asia-pacific/pope-visit-north-korea-feasible-well-prepared-lead-pacification-south-korean-bishop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T11:03:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-popenk-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-popenk-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean bishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik talks during a news conference at the Holy See press office at the Vatican Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/national/social-issues/japans-women-sailors-serve-front-line-gender-equality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T13:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-kagagirls-a-20181011.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kagagirls-a-20181011.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiko Ihara, a female flight deck crew member of the Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga, guides the landing of a SH-60K Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia Sept. 24. "Women all over the world are working in a wider number of areas and I think Japan needs to be a part of that," said Ihara. "We all work in different teams around the ship but we are all friends," Ihara added. "We do sometimes moan a little about our male colleagues."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/asia-pacific/groundwater-levels-plunge-lahore-begins-turning-off-taps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T13:49:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-lahore-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lahore-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gardener washes a walkway in Lahore's Johar Town area on Tuesday. A petition being heard before the Lahore High Court seeks to stop the city from using 30,500 liters of water each day to wash its streets.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/asia-pacific/five-eyes-intelligence-alliance-builds-coalition-counter-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T15:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-considers-permanent-residency-skilled-blue-collar-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T15:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-foreignworkers-a-20181012.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foreignworkers-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese worker operates a metal processing machine at a factory in Ome, western Tokyo, in December 2017. To cope with an acute labor shortage, the government is now considering allowing blue-collar foreign workers with certain skills to stay permanently in the country with their families.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/race-parliament-malaysias-anwar-ibrahim-faces-critics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T15:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-anwar-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anwar Ibrahim waits to speak Tuesday at the New Dawn Investors' Conference in Kuala Lumpur.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/asia-pacific/north-south-korea-set-high-level-talks-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T15:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/hondas-n-box-minicars-prove-hit-japans-elderly-drivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T17:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-minicars-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yorie Miho drives his minicar out of a dealership in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/corporate-business/hondas-india-unit-considers-1-2-billion-investment-fund-expansion-produce-affordable-hybrids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-honda-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gaku Nakanishi, president and CEO of Honda Cars India Ltd., says the firm will continue betting on its hybrid series in India.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/economy-business/japans-exports-seen-slowing-natural-disasters-core-cpi-slightly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/politics-diplomacy/new-education-minister-shibayama-ready-serve-despite-backlash-imperial-rescript-remarks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:19:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-eduminister-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eduminister-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Shibayama]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/tech/u-s-tightens-controls-china-imports-civil-nuclear-tech-prevent-military-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/crime-legal/family-executed-aum-cult-member-seek-retrial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-aum-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aum-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiro Inoue]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/medical-schools-japan-suspected-manipulating-test-scores-female-applicants-minister-reveals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:49:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-medschools-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medschools-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from Tokyo Medical University bow at a news conference on Aug. 7 in Tokyo to apologize for the facility's manipulation of test scores to curb female enrollment. More medical schools are suspected to have disadvantaged female applicants, according to the education ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-operator-fast-retailing-nominates-founder-tadashi-yanais-two-sons-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/corporate-business/subaru-recall-6000-cars-japan-due-improper-inspections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/public-private-sectors-push-revive-okinawas-struggling-awamori-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-okinawa-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gaku Sakumoto (right), who leads the Okinawa Awamori Distillers Association, Takeo Koizumi (center), professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of Agriculture, and Katsunobu Shingaki of the Awamori Meister Association speak about awamori at The Okinawa Times building on Sept. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/nhk-plans-reduce-fees-begins-simultaneous-online-streaming-tv-programs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:58:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/g20-faces-test-amid-u-s-china-trade-war-market-turmoil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T18:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/high-maintenance-costs-seen-challenge-toyosu-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T19:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toyosucost-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prospective buyers bid for frozen tuna during the first auction at the newly opened Toyosu market, relocated from its former site at Tsukiji, in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/japans-quake-hit-hokkaido-eyes-hong-kong-revive-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T19:48:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourists-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spaces remain unoccupied at a parking lot in Otaru, a popular tourist destination in Hokkaido, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/crime-legal/family-seeks-damages-suicide-16-year-old-member-agriculture-promotion-idol-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T21:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-idol-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukie Omoto, mother of idol group member Honoka Omoto who committed suicide, attends a news conference in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Friday with her lawyer after suing her daughter's agency for damages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/world/passengers-evacuated-flames-engulf-german-high-speed-train/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T21:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gertrainfire-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters work at a destroyed German high speed ICE train after it caught fire on the way from Cologne to Frankfurt in Dierdorf, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/politics-diplomacy/new-okinawa-gov-denny-tamaki-asks-abe-scrap-planned-relocation-u-s-marine-corps-air-station-futenma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T22:24:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20181013-1.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Friday ahead of their talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/world/crime-legal-world/turkish-court-rules-release-u-s-pastor-andrew-brunson/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-12T23:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-brunson-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brunson-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson is escorted by Turkish plain clothes police officers in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/world/hurricane-michael-death-toll-rises-least-17-search-goes-florida/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T10:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-michaelcane-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-michaelcane-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devastation from Hurricane Michael is seen in this aerial photo taken over Mexico Beach, Florida, on Friday. Blocks and blocks of homes were demolished, reduced to piles of splintered lumber or mere concrete slabs, by the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in nearly 50 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/new-visa-statuses-proposed-blue-collar-workers-not-offer-permanent-residency-new-justice-minister-takashi-yamashita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T11:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-foreignworkers-z-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foreignworkers-z-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's new statuses aim to allow people with knowledge and abilities Japan needs, in areas where local human resources are scarce, to work in the nation, where the population is aging and the workforce shrinking.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/politics-diplomacy/poll-shows-shinjiro-koizumi-publics-favorite-next-prime-minister-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T11:20:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-koizjr-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-koizjr-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi is the public's top pick to be the next prime minister according to a recent poll.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/world/turkey-recordings-prove-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-killed-inside-saudi-consulate-washington-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T11:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-khashoggikogiko-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-khashoggikogiko-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protest is held Wednesday outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/science-health/traces-previously-unknown-mount-fuji-eruptions-uncovered-bottom-nearby-lake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T12:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fuji-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fuji-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New research shows that traces of two past unknown volcanic eruptions of Mount Fuji have been found in a layer at the bottom of nearby Lake Motosu.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-pursues-thaw-china-amid-frigid-u-s-chinese-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T12:28:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-japanchina-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanchina-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/nixons-grandson-may-become-trump-aide-china-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T12:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nixongrand-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nixongrand-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christopher Nixon Cox (left), grandson of late former U.S. President Richard Nixon, poses before the opening of "Nixon in China" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in February 2011. The opera tells the story of the 1972 visit to China by President Nixon and his wife, Pat Nixon.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/tokyo-protests-south-korean-navys-hoisting-yi-sun-sin-flag-fleet-review-skipped/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T12:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-skflag-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skflag-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in walks in front of a flag symbolizing 16th century naval commander Yi Sun-sin in Thursday's international fleet review off Jeju Island.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/social-issues/crying-drawing-attention-japanese-schools-companies-mental-detox/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T13:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-crying-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crying-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A growing number of schools and companies in Japan are encouraging their students and employees to cry as a way of relieving stress and improving mental health.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/business/tech/facebook-says-view-data-breach-affected-29-million-users-japan-launches-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T13:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-facebook-z-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-facebook-z-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The attackers took profile details such as birth dates, employers, education history, religious preference, types of devices used, pages followed and recent searches and location check-ins from 14 million users.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-lithuania-agree-boost-bilateral-economic-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T13:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-lithuania-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lithuania-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis before their talks in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/asia-pacific/north-koreas-economy-grew-3-7-2017-pyongyang-professor-estimates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T13:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-nkecon-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkecon-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers' Party  at a mass event on Thursday in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/asia-pacific/trump-hold-second-summit-kim-next-couple-months-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T13:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-trukim2-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trukim2-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/im-going-stomp-face-pennsylvania-republican-threatens-election-rival-video/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T14:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-wagner-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wagner-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Wagner]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/sdf-scrambles-chinese-planes-second-highest-ever-april-september-period/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T14:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-authorities-ban-pro-democracy-candidate-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T15:14:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-lausiulai-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lausiulai-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elected pro-democracy lawmaker Lau Siu-lai stands outside the High Court on March 1, 2017, before facing a judicial review into whether she and three other lawmakers should be disqualified from their Legislative Council seats in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/media-national/natural-disasters-shake-nation-attention-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T22:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p16-hoffman-disaster-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-disaster-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quake-affected people collect relief materials from a shelter in Mukawa, Hokkaido, in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/media-national/kizuna-ais-nhk-appearance-sparks-debate-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T22:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/p16-stmichel-kizunaai-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-kizunaai-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a video posted by virtual YouTuber Mirai Akari in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/japanese-organizations-officials-gather-tokyo-support-paris-climate-accord/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T18:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-climate-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climate-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guest speakers and organizers pose at the Japan Climate Action Summit, held in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/business/fearing-blackouts-kyushu-electric-ask-solar-power-generators-suspend-generation-saturday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T19:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-visit-china-late-october-bilateral-ties-warm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T19:43:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-abechina-a-20181013.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abechina-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China for three days from Oct. 25, with a bilateral summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping being planned for Oct. 26 in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/business/help-underpin-economy-sales-tax-hike-freeze-new-duty-vehicles-may-become-reality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T22:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-autotax-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autotax-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles are seen on a car transporter at Nagoya port on July 31. The government and the ruling parties are considering freezing a new duty on vehicles after the planned new sales tax comes into force next October.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/business/u-s-wants-deal-japan-avoid-competitive-currency-devaluations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-13T23:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-mnuchin-a-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mnuchin-a-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin addresses a news conference on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/13/national/tokyos-toyosu-market-opens-doors-eager-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-14T11:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-toyosu-b-20181014.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toyosu-b-20181014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists pose on an electric cart on Saturday, the day visitor tours began at the newly opened Toyosu fish market in Tokyo's Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/anwar-paves-way-malaysia-leadership-parliament-seat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-14T13:28:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-anwar-a-20181015.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-anwar-a-20181015.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anwar Ibrahim celebrates his by-election victory with his wife, Wan Azizah, on Saturday in Port Dickson, Malaysia.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/14/business/japan-firm-succeeds-artificial-cultivation-mushroom-close-matsutake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-14T14:09:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-bakamatsutake-a-20181015.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bakamatsutake-a-20181015.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bakamatsutake Heavenly Blue (ヘブンリーブルー), via ja.wikipedia.org]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/14/business/business-lobby-keidanrens-plan-nix-hiring-rules-makes-waves-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-14T15:16:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-hiring-a-20181015.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiring-a-20181015.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students fill out registration forms at a job fair in Tokyo in March 2016. Keidanren has decided to revamp a recruiting system that currently hires university graduates en masse in a specific time frame.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/14/national/16-years-fukushimas-aizu-koshihikari-still-brand-choice-popular-tokyo-rice-ball-shop/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/15/business/economy-business/abe-says-hes-going-ahead-japans-consumption-tax-hike-october-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-15T21:22:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-tax-a-20181016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend an extraordinary Cabinet meeting Monday. Abe formally announced that the government will raise the consumption tax to 10 percent in October 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/15/world/saudi-king-orders-probe-jamal-khashoggi-case-turkey-plans-consulate-search/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-15T22:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-consulate-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors leave Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/many-u-s-mall-owners-say-good-riddance-sears-now-filed-chapter-11-bankruptcy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T06:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-sears-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sears-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sears gift cards are displayed at a store in Hackensack, New Jersey, Monday. Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/15/national/11-year-old-japanese-boy-becomes-worlds-youngest-othello-champion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T07:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-othello-a-20181016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-othello-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keisuke Fukuchi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/15/business/economy-business/finance-chiefs-handle-currency-issues-taro-aso-says-u-s-push-prevent-devaluations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T07:43:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-aso-a-20181016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aso-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-cancer-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T09:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-allen-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-allen-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (left) chats with Portland Trail Blazers owner and former business partner Paul Allen during a game between the Trail Blazers and Seattle SuperSonics in Seattle in 2003. Allen, billionaire owner of the Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks and Microsoft co-founder, died Monday at age 65. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, had returned.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-judge-dismisses-stormy-daniels-defamation-suit-trump-orders-pay-legal-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T09:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-stormy-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stormy-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives for the opening of the adult entertainment fair "Venus," in Berlin Oct. 11. On Monday, a federal judge dismissed Daniels' defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/alberta-expects-80-100-cannabis-stores-licensed-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T10:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-canpot-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-canpot-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke lingers over Parliament Hill as people smoke marijuana during the annual 4/20 rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in April. Canada's top medical journal warned on Monday that the imminent legalization of cannabis for recreation use poses a major health concern despite broad support for ending the prohibition. Diane Kelsall, editor in chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, called the Wednesday launch "a national, uncontrolled experiment in which the profits of cannabis producers and tax revenues are squarely pitched against the health of Canadians."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/world/crime-legal-world/trump-says-rogue-killers-may-behind-jamal-khashoggi-disappearance-saudi-consulate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T10:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-rogue-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rogue-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump give out water at a distribution center in Lynn Haven, Florida, as they tour areas ravaged by Hurricane Michael in Florida and Georgia Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/world/islamic-state-executes-aid-worker-deadline-expires-nigeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T11:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-iskill-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iskill-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical worker Hauwa Mohammed Liman, who was taken hostage by Islamic State in Nigeria in March, is pictured in this handout photograph obtained by Reuters on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-tours-florida-hurricane-destruction-says-situation-town-tough/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T11:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-trumpfla-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpfla-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump (third, left) and first lady Melania Trump tour areas ravaged by Hurricane Michael in Lynn Haven, Florida, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/history/first-joint-survey-planned-daisen-kofun-japans-largest-ancient-tomb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T13:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tomb-a-20181016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tomb-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daisen Kofun, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, was first built in the fifth century and is officially designated as the tomb of Emperor Nintoku.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/japans-consumers-businesses-mixed-views-consumption-tax-hike-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T14:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-taxreaction-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-taxreaction-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumers and retailers are concerned about the government's decision to raise the consumption tax to 10 percent in October next year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/japan-can-export-raw-eggs-u-s-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T16:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/15/national/shiseido-experiment-finds-bodies-produce-stress-smell-similar-onions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T17:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-stress-a-20181015.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stress-a-20181015.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Shiseido Co. researcher conducts an experiment to identify the smell of stress.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/asia-pacific/trumps-china-battles-give-taiwan-supporters-renewed-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T18:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-taiwan-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwan-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese flags are waved during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-embarks-five-day-european-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T18:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-abeeurope-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeeurope-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday before leaving on a five-day trip to Europe.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/revised-tpp-take-effect-early-next-year-japans-point-man-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T18:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-tpp-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tpp-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) speaks at a meeting with envoys from the 10 other countries in the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/science-health/pregnant-women-warned-rubella-patients-top-1100-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T20:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-rubella-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rubella-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kayo Kani, who became infected with the disease during pregnancy and is now co-head of a group working to stop rubella infections, shows photos of her daughter — who was born with heart problems and later died — in Tokyo on Thursday, where she stressed the importance of vaccinations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/surveillance-cameras-removed-shower-area-ibaraki-immigration-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T20:21:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-immigration-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-immigration-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveillance cameras that had been installed in the shower area of this immigration detention center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, were removed this week after detainees and citizens' groups raised concerns that the cameras violated the privacy of those being held there.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/disaster-hit-japan-sees-year-year-visitor-numbers-drop-september-first-time-five-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T20:21:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-visitors-z-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visitors-z-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists stand on a bridge to Hirakawa-mon Gate at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/10/business/japans-supertraders-brand-unto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T20:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-marubeni1-a-20181010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-marubeni1-a-20181010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copper mine in Chile's Centinela Mining District is one of many overseas projects Marubeni Corp. has invested in recently.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/corporate-business/japan-maker-quake-shock-absorbers-reports-data-fabrication-products-installed-hundreds-buildings-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T23:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-fakedata-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fakedata-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshito-sengoku-cabinet-member-democratic-party-japan-administration-dies-72/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T23:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-sengoku-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sengoku-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku (left) speaks to Prime Minister Naoto Kan during an Upper House session in November 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/crime-legal/suspects-arrested-fraudulent-sale-land-sekisui-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T23:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fraud-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fraud-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sekisui House suffered a huge loss after paying for this plot of land near JR Gotanda Station in central Tokyo, in a deal that turned out to be bogus.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-made-many-concessions-japan-abduction-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T23:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-kimjapan-a-20181016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kimjapan-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is said to have blamed Japan for the deadlock in talks on past abductions of Japanese citizens.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/rally-held-call-u-n-world-orphans-day-honor-japanese-woman-raised-3000-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T23:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-orphans-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-orphans-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoon Kee (right) and others participate in a rally in New York on Monday, calling on the United Nations to enact a world orphans day.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/taiwan-sets-referendum-japanese-food-import-ban-nov-24/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-16T23:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/diplomat-spouses-top-shot-captures-japan-full-bloom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T00:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-diplomats-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diplomats-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Sakura on the Pond," a close-up of a fallen cherry blossom, won Timothy James R. Mortel, the spouse of an official in the Philippines Embassy, the Prince Takamado Memorial Prize at the 21st Japan Through Diplomats' Eyes photo competition.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/06/national/sayonara-tsukiji-tokyo-market-holds-last-tuna-auction-closes-doors-good/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T00:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tsukijilastday-b-20181007.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsukijilastday-b-20181007.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fish wholesalers examine fresh tuna before the last auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/tech/firms-offer-glimpse-future-business-models-ceatec-japans-biggest-electronics-trade-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T01:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-ceatec-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ceatec-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lion Corp. showcases an AI-based app that checks for bad breath at this year's CEATEC, which opened Tuesday in the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/government-seek-invalidation-okinawas-move-block-u-s-base-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T06:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/u-s-pilot-killed-ukrainian-su-27-air-force-jet-crashes-training/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T06:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-ukrash-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukrash-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ukrainian air force Su-27 fighter jet is in the sky outside Slovyansk, 160 km (100 miles) from the Russian border, in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Ukraine's military says that a Ukrainian fighter jet taking part in a joint U.S.-Ukrainian air force exercise has crashed, killing both pilots. The General Staff of Ukraine's armed forces said the two-seat Su-27UB went down Tuesday in the Kmelnitskyi region.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/crime-legal-world/trump-says-saudi-prince-denies-knowing-happened-consulate-vows-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T06:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-trumpdeny-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpdeny-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh Tuesday. Pompeo also met on Tuesday with Saudi King Salman over the disappearance and alleged slaying of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished two weeks ago during a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/science-health-world/holy-grail-lizard-species-born-prague-zoo-europe-breeding-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T09:58:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lizards-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A zookeeper holds an earless monitor lizard in Prague Zoo, Czech Republic Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/business/china-pares-u-s-treasury-holdings-third-month-bid-keep-yuan-falling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T10:03:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-treasuries-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-treasuries-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) meeting at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/death-toll-rises-least-29-searches-continue-florida-hurricane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T10:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-michael-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-michael-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wes Allen, Jr. sits with his father ,Wes Allen, Sr., sister Alison, and mother, Vicki, outside their room at a damaged motel Tuesday in Panama City, Florida, where many residents continue to live in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. Many residents rode out the storm and have no place to go even though many of the motel's rooms are uninhabitable.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/china-intends-ease-ban-japanese-food-imports-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T11:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/EMBARGOED-n-fukufood-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[EMBARGOED-n-fukufood-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks  at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct.  16. Beijing is now expected to lift its import ban on food imports from Fukushima Prefecture and other prefectures, which was introduced in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/asia-pacific/nine-u-n-security-council-members-ask-discuss-myanmar-inquiry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T12:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rohingyaun-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rohingya refugee girl stands by a fence at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, in August. More than half a million Rohingya children live in the congested camps.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/honduras-guatemala-move-stop-migrant-caravan-trump-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T13:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-trumpmigrants-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpmigrants-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honduran migrants heading to the United States take a rest at a gas station in Zacapa, Guatemala, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-sends-ritual-offering-yasukuni-shrines-autumn-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T14:16:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-yasukuni-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yasukuni-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ritual offering sent by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday, the first day of the shrine's four-day autumn festival.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/crime-legal-world/sex-drugs-slavery-human-trafficking-hidden-u-k-hotels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T15:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-trafficking-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trafficking-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theodore Melbourne in one of the rooms he cleans in a hotel near Heathrow Airport]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/asia-pacific/tourists-may-soon-get-walk-across-demilitarized-zone-south-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T15:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-instakorea-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-instakorea-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crosses the military demarcation line to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-must-look-beyond-u-s-stable-economic-military-future-says-risk-analyst-ian-bremmer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T17:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-gzero-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gzero-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ian Bremmer, head of Eurasia Group, says Japan should look beyond its closest ally to ensure its economic and military security in an uncertain world.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/youngest-othello-world-champion-flown-home-man-bested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T17:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-othello-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-othello-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The world's youngest Othello game champion, Keisuke Fukuchi (front left), and All Nippon Airways Capt. Kunihiko Tanida (front right) pose for photos at Narita airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/crime-legal-world/robert-mueller-said-ready-deliver-key-findings-trump-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T18:23:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-mueller-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on his investigation of potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/overnight-stays-shimane-dinosaur-hotel-museum-gaining-popularity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T20:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-museum-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-museum-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children take part in a night tour at the Okuizumo Tane Museum of Natural History in Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-government-takes-steps-okinawa-blocking-u-s-base-landfill-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T21:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-henoko-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks to reporters Wednesday in Tokyo about the government's steps to go ahead with a plan to relocate the U.S. Futenma air base to the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/tokyo-skytree-among-buildings-linked-data-scandal-earthquake-shock-absorber-maker-kyb-corp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-17T22:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-skytree-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skytree-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Skytree is among nearly 1,000 structures across Japan using earthquake shock absorbers produced by KYB Corp., which has admitted to fabricating data on some of its products.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/world/jordan-says-nearly-300-syrian-white-helmet-rescuers-left-west/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T06:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-helmets-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-helmets-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Civil Defense, also known as the "White Helmets," are seen inspecting the damage at a Roman ruin site in Daraa, Syria, last December.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/deficit-soars-huge-tax-cuts-trump-now-tells-cabinet-cut-budget-5/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T06:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-budget-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-budget-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elaine Chao, U.S. secretary of transportation (from left), U.S. President Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, listen to a prayer by Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (not pictured) during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/stores-online-sales-brisk-legal-recreational-marijuana-gets-sober-start-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T09:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-canpot-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-canpot-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee holds up a joint during a celebration of the legalization of cannabis at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto on Wednesday. Canada became the first Group of Seven country to legalize recreational marijuana, giving it a massive head start in global pot market some peg at $150 billion.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/world/u-s-prepares-biggest-ever-agent-orange-cleanup-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T09:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-usorange-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usorange-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese soldier stands guard at a dioxin contaminated area while U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (not pictured) visits Bien Hoa airbase, where the U.S. Army stored the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, in Bien Hoa city, outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/crime-legal/german-national-convicted-attempted-murder-japanese-man-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T12:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/mitch-mcconnell-says-senate-republicans-might-revisit-obamacare-repeal-entitlements-win-midterms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T12:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-mitch-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mitch-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 10. With the GOP tax plan contributing to rising federal deficits, Democrats are warning that Republicans will go after cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security if they control Congress after the midterms. McConnell opened the door to the campaign year attack when he suggested rising deficits are due to government spending on those programs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/japanese-judge-first-reprimanded-social-media-post-deemed-prejudicial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T12:19:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-judge-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-judge-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiichi Okaguchi, a 52-year-old judge, speaks at a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo after the Supreme Court decided to reprimand him for his controversial Twitter post in May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-diet-convene-extraordinary-session-oct-24-first-parliamentary-debates-since-cabinet-reshuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T12:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-diet-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Lower House Steering Committee meet Wednesday to discuss the schedule for an extraordinary Diet session.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-macron-agree-boost-cooperation-indo-pacific-stability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T12:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-abemacron-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemacron-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for a photo in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/social-issues/japan-first-led-protesters-slam-abe-plan-allow-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T13:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-japanfirst-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanfirst-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators wave flags as they march during a rally against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proposed legislation regarding foreign workers in Tokyo on Sunday. The Japanese government submitted an outline to a panel of ministers on Friday in a step toward admitting more foreign workers amid a worsening labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/u-s-begin-process-pulling-u-n-postal-pact-cut-rates-foreign-package-deliveries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T13:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-postal-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-postal-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Universal Postal Union allows for a 40-70 percent discount on small packages coming in from China to the United States compared to what it would cost to send them domestically, a U.S. official said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/social-issues/women-taking-front-line-roles-japans-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T13:57:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-sdf-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sdf-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[First Lt. Misa Matsushima of the Air Self-Defense Force, who is Japan's first-ever female fighter jet pilot, sits in a cockpit in August in Miyazaki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-looks-tap-ex-air-force-general-conversant-korean-chinese-japanese-top-asia-diplomat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T13:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-stilwell-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stilwell-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Stilwell]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/japans-exports-unexpectedly-fell-september-natural-disasters-clouding-u-s-china-trade-war-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T15:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-exports-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-exports-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Port staff work at a container terminal in Tokyo. Japan's exports fell 1.2 percent in September from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/tech/boeing-creates-unit-focus-super-computing-mimics-brain-hack-proof-communications/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T15:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/u-k-labour-figure-commits-brexit-gaffe-longing-united-ireland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T15:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/six-bodies-possibly-family-found-fire-breaks-sendai-residence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T15:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fire-a-20181019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fire-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Six people, possibly all from the same family, died after a fire broke out at this residence in Sendai early Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/national/chinas-gift-ibises-arrive-japan-first-transfer-since-2007/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T15:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and Chinese officials pose for a photo Wednesday at Narita airport, holding a photograph of a pair of crested ibises that were given by China as a gift.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/japans-new-reconstruction-minister-trumpets-safety-tohoku-region-pushes-plans-2020-tokyo-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T17:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromichi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/international-order-languishes-experts-g1-global-conference-discuss-japans-new-role-global-stabilizer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T17:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panelists at this year's G1 Global Conference, organized at Globis University in Tokyo, discuss Japan's changing role in an era affected by the "America First" policy of U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/crime-legal/21-year-prison-term-upheld-ex-nhk-reporter-found-guilty-raping-three-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T17:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-18T17:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hyperion protocluster dates back to just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/energy-transfer-regions-offers-hope-japans-utilities-struggle-balance-renewable-supplies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T17:55:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solar panels are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Komekurayama Solar Power Station in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/economy-business/boj-downgrades-views-two-regional-economies-natural-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T18:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floods due to torrential rain in July caused river water to flow over a road in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/around-70-japanese-lawmakers-visit-war-linked-yasukuni-shrine-autumn-festival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T18:18:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday during its annual autumn festival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/japan-adds-miyagi-tokyo-sites-list-internationally-important-wetlands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T18:20:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 500 species of marine creatures depend on the habitat found in Shizugawa Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. Along with Kasai Marine Park in Tokyo, the bay is one of the two areas newly recognized for their conservation value under the Ramsar treaty.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/eight-japan-firms-listed-best-global-brand-report-apple-holds-top-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T18:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brand-a-20181019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese firms have been listed in a 2018 global brand ranking.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/business/growth-chinas-robot-market-slump-year-amid-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-18T18:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-18T23:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satsuki Katayama]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-19T06:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to board his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Thursday as he travels to Panama and Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/putin-claims-islamic-state-seized-700-hostages-syria-executed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T06:50:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrians ride their motorcycles past a damaged building in the Syrian city of Raqqa on Thursday. A year after a U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian fighters drove the Islamic State group from the northern city of Raqa, traumatized civilians still live in fear of near-daily bombings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/asia-pacific/pope-conveyed-invite-north-korea-signals-will-consider/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T06:52:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a private audience at the Vatican Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/thousands-u-s-south-may-not-able-cast-ballots-early-voting-registrations-surge-suppression-alleged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T06:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pastor Earle Fisher, a voter engagement and registration advocate, poses for a portrait at the Memphis Theological Seminary in Mephis, Tennessee, Oct. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/top-trump-aides-john-kelly-john-bolton-heated-exchange-immigration-outside-oval-office-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T09:29:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kelbolt-a-20181020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Bolton (left), national security advisor, nd Mike Pompeo, U.S. secretary of state, attend an Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons annual meeting in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Oct. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/business/economy-business/energy-price-surge-seen-fueling-1-september-jump-japans-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T10:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a seminar at the International Monetary Fund — World Bank Group Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Oct. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-toyama-chapter-led-minister-gets-donation-bid-rigging-firm-will-return-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T10:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/crime-legal-world/turkish-police-search-forest-coastal-city-journalist-jamal-khashoggis-remains-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T10:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-remains-a-20181020.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a frame from surveillance camera footage taken Oct. 2 and published Thursday by the pro-government Turkish newspaper Sabah, a man identified by Turkish officials as Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, walks toward the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul before writer Jamal Khashoggi disappeared. Saudi Arabia, which initially called the allegations "baseless," has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press over recent days, including on Thursday over Mutreb's identification.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/social-issues-world/trump-threatens-send-military-shut-border-swelling-u-s-bound-migrant-caravan-heads-mexico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T11:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honduran migrants attempt to cross the border Goascoran River to enter illegally to El Salvador, in Goascoran, Honduras, Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to send the military to close its southern border if Mexico fails to stem the "onslaught" of migrants from Central America, in a series of tweets that blamed Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/business/economy-business/chinas-third-quarter-gdp-growth-slowest-since-global-financial-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T12:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container ship lies at a port in Qingdao, in east China's Shandong province, on Oct. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/asia-pacific/firecrackers-reluctant-authorities-new-delhis-smog-set-worsen-diwali/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T13:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian Bengali Hindu devotee performs a Dhunuchi Nach dance in front of an idol of the goddess Durga during an Arti ritual in New Delhi on Thursday, a day before the festival of Dussehra ends the Navratri Festival, symbolizing the triumph of good over evil. At its culmination, firecracker-stuffed effigies of the demon king are set alight.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/upcoming-referendum-food-imports-strains-taiwans-ties-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T14:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang members call for a referendum to retain the ban imposed on food products from five Japanese prefectures in Taipei in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/business/economy-business/china-urges-investor-calm-stopping-short-market-rescue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T14:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers pull a line from a cargo ship on Friday as it prepares to berth at a port in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/60-young-japanese-back-plan-lower-age-adulthood-18/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T14:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees at a Coming of Age Day ceremony gather in the city of Yokohama in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-sanctions-undermining-confidence-putin-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T15:24:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a session of the annual Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/slew-complaints-sexually-harassed-women-india-looks-tighten-abuse-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T16:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A policeman takes away a Congress party worker during a protest against Junior External Affairs Minister M.J. Akbar in New Delhi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/current-u-s-china-frictions-not-amount-new-cold-war-ex-australian-pm-kevin-rudd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T17:11:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaks during an interview at a Tokyo hotel on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/business/japan-growing-number-dementia-sufferers-hold-vast-pool-idle-wealth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T17:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20181020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Idle assets held by those with dementia in Japan swelled to ¥143 trillion ($1.3 trillion) in the year ending March 2018, equivalent to more than a quarter of the size of the overall economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/business/japan-eu-eye-early-start-free-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T17:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Brussels on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/crime-legal/boy-15-arrested-stabbing-elderly-grandparents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T17:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/sidelines-asean-meet-japan-looks-involve-south-korea-strict-enforcement-north-korea-sanctions-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T18:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (from left to right), U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo in Singapore on Friday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-summit-diplomats-say-japan-can-tap-domestic-stability-take-global-leadership-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-19T18:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man enters Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-xi-expected-discuss-food-import-ban-chances-progress-uncertain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T13:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to visit Beijing this week, with China's food import ban on Japan likely to be discussed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/world/trump-european-leaders-call-saudi-account-khashoggi-death-incomplete/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T14:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud Salman of Saudi Arabia are pictured during a family photo session at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Istanbul on April 14, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/world/u-s-mega-millions-lottery-hits-world-record-1-6-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T14:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Yorkers line up to buy Mega Millions tickets at a newsstand in midtown Manhattan on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/asia-pacific/malaysia-says-china-u-s-not-flex-military-muscle-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T14:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamad Sabu listens to Singapore's Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen at the ASEAN security summit in Singapore on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/yumeshima-safe-casino-site-question-osakas-pitch-flooding-kansai-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T15:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some are questioning whether Yumeshima, a man-made island in Osaka Bay, is the best place to build a casino resort after Typhoon Jebi flooded nearby Kansai airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/osaka-casting-nervous-eye-toward-rival-baku-bid-2025-world-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T15:45:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scene from a TV commercial publicizing Osaka's bid to host the 2025 World Expo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/asia-pacific/north-koreas-box-bones-mythical-king-dream-korean-unification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T17:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendant prepares offerings at a shrine to Dangun, the mythical founder of the first unified Korean kingdom in 2333 B.C., during a foundation day ceremony in Seoul on Oct. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-claims-china-election-meddling-cyberfirms-dont-see/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T18:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a United Nations Security Council briefing in New York on Sept. 26, 2018, when he said China was attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm congressional elections and alleged Beijing seeks to help his opponents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/politics-diplomacy/ahead-abes-visit-beijing-look-japan-china-ties-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T20:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka (left) exchanges documents with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 29, 1972, after the two governments issued the Japan-China Joint Communique, restoring diplomatic relations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korean-spat-use-wartime-flag-discussed-singapore-ministerial-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T20:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The flag of the Maritime Self-Defense Force is displayed during a military review at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Asaka base in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/video-horse-whipped-japanese-festival-draws-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-21T20:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-21T21:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Egyptian opposition politician Ayman Nour (left), flanked by Turkish journalist Turan Kislakci, head of the Turkish-Arab Media Association, address media representatives in front of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/science-health/gamma-ray-constellation-named-japanese-movie-monster-godzilla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T00:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Godzilla is superimposed over a constellation that an international research team has named after the Japanese monster.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/world/crime-legal-world/saudis-call-khashoggi-slaying-grave-mistake-claim-prince-wasnt-aware-deny-knowing-location-remains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T06:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Ahmed Al-Jubeir arrives to addresses the 73rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York Sept. 28. Adel al-Jubeir said Sunday the kingdom did not know where the body of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was, despite admitting to the killing and calling it a "tremendous mistake." Speaking in an interview on Fox News, Jubeir said the Saudi leadership initially believed Khashoggi had left its diplomatic mission in Istanbul, where he was last seen on Oct. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/world/social-issues-world/trump-camp-trying-define-transgender-existence-uphold-sex-status-birth-certificates-new-york-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T06:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds up a sign supporting North Carolina's anti-transgender bathroom law following Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump' campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/business/economy-business/u-s-treasury-chief-steve-mnuchin-dismisses-risk-contagion-chinas-economic-slowdow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T06:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during his interview with Reuters in Jerusalem Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/jordan-says-wont-renew-peace-treaty-land-deal-israel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T09:05:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jordan's King Abdullah II arrives to attend an India Jordan business meeting in New Delhi in February. Abdullah said Sunday that he has decided not to renew parts of his country's landmark peace treaty with Israel. In a statement Jordan's King said that he would be pulling out of two annexes from the 1994 peace agreement that allowed Israel to lease two small areas, Baqura and Ghamr, from the Jordanians for 25 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/world/lioness-suffocates-father-cubs-indianapolis-zoo-stunning-keepers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T09:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Indianapolis Zoo's lioness named Zuri is seen in this undated photo released by the zoo in Indianapolis Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/world/social-issues-world/chilean-court-orders-catholic-church-pay-damages-priests-decades-abuse-trio-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T10:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Hamilton and Juan Andres Murillo, victims of clerical sexual abuse in Chile, attend a court sessioin seeking compensation in civil case in Santiago Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/national/social-issues/rights-advocates-urge-japan-step-lgbt-inclusive-efforts-legalize-sex-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T13:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rin Okabe, a transgender woman working at an ad agency, speaks on LGBT issues at a symposium held on Oct. 11 at the Tokyo Midtown Hibiya complex.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/business/economy-business/investors-gloomy-take-japan-may-upended-inflation-analysts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T15:37:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/business/mitsubishi-bank-ceo-kanetsugu-mike-pulls-saudi-arabia-business-forum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T16:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanetsugu Mike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/mountain-biking-project-creates-job-opportunities-depopulated-aichi-prefecture-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T16:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hayate Endo (second from right) works as a mountain biking course guide for elementary school children in the Inabu district of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/21/business/corporate-business/nec-samsung-team-developing-marketing-5g-mobile-network-systems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T16:24:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics Co. touts fifth-generation mobile communications at the Mobile World Congress Americas event in Los Angeles in September. Sources say NEC Corp. will tie up with the South Korean firm on developing 5G solutions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/corporate-business/amid-japans-changing-work-style-landscape-office-space-provider-wework-grows-dizzying-pace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T16:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masami Takahashi, general manager of WeWork in Japan, poses at the Iceberg, the firm's sixth co-working space in the country, in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/business/china-looks-historic-foe-japan-lessons-handling-trump-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T17:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-22T18:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/reference/can-tokyos-new-toyosu-market-live-tsukiji-brand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T18:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buyers inspect frozen tuna prior to an auction at the Toyosu market in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Oct. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/crime-legal/japans-banks-police-step-efforts-counter-refund-scams-involving-atms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T18:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fraud-a-20181023.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly woman makes a withdrawal at an ATM in Tokyo. Banks and the police are stepping up efforts to prevent refund scams, in which victims are often led to believe they will receive refunds by following instructions from perpetrators over the phone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/politics-diplomacy/mikiko-shiromas-re-election-naha-mayor-seen-boost-newly-elected-gov-denny-tamaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T18:16:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikiko Shiroma celebrates her victory in the Naha mayoral election, together with Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/science-health/osamu-shimomura-co-winner-2008-nobel-prize-chemistry-dies-nagasaki-aged-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T20:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a lecture at Nagasaki University in 2009, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Osamu Shimomura, professor emeritus at Boston University, demonstrates an experiment using lucent green fluorescent protein he discovered in a variety of jellyfish.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/women-live-fear-spycam-epidemic-takes-hold-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T20:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster warns against illegal filming in Seoul on Oct. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/world/crime-legal-world/allies-doubt-shifting-saudi-story-journalists-slaying-even-trump-cites-lies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-22T20:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-riyadh-a-20181023.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh Oct. 16. Adel al-Jubeir said Sunday the kingdom did not know where the body of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was, despite admitting to the killing and calling it a "tremendous mistake."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juntendo University School of Medicine in Tokyo is suspected of setting its pass mark higher for female students taking entrance exams.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-22T20:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During their meeting later this week in Beijing, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are set to agree on mutual visits by vessels from the Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Chinese Navy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T04:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/business/defense-minister-halts-israel-aerospace-ipo-citing-security-fears-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T06:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T09:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney Kevin Downing departs the federal court following a hearing in the criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in Alexandria, Virginia, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T09:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton (left) and Russian Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev talk prior their official talks in Moscow Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T12:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/business/nomura-holdings-planning-%c2%a5100-billion-fund-chinese-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T14:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T15:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Brewery Co., Japan's second-largest brewer, has been narrowing its business scope to improve profitability amid a slump in beer consumption in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/business/tokyo-meeting-ministers-around-world-vow-promote-hydrogen-alternative-energy-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T17:03:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers and other officials from around 20 nations hold the Hydrogen Energy Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T17:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam transits the Philippine Sea during a bilateral training exercise between the U.S. and Japanese forces in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/business/first-shipment-inpex-lng-ichthys-project-departs-australia-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T17:45:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T17:47:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T17:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman smokes marijuana during a legalization party at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T18:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Personal Information Protection Commission has warned Facebook Inc. for the first time to improve protection of personal information. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T18:13:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnam's Nguyen Phu Trong (center) sits with with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (top) and president of Vietnam Fatherland Front, Tran Thanh Man, during the National Assembly's autumn session opening in Hanoi on Monday. Trong, the architect of an ongoing crackdown on corruption, was elected as the country's new president Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T18:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shows a letter he said he received from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/japanese-medical-universities-seen-rigging-entrance-exams-education-ministry-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T18:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/29/national/media-national/media-appear-ignoring-maglev-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T18:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Off the rails: Construction has begun at Nagaya Station on the maglev train route. Four major Japanese contractors have been prosecuted for rigging bids for work on the project.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/business/corporate-business/philip-morris-ceo-sees-countries-overturning-e-cigarette-bans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T19:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-iqos-b-20181024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Promotional staff pose with Philip Morris International Inc. iQOS 3 (right) and iQOS 3 MULTI devices at an event in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/crime-legal/court-fines-two-contractors-maglev-project-bid-rigging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-23T19:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-23T23:36:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech in Tokyo on Tuesday during a ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Meiji Era.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/politics-diplomacy/minister-satsuki-katayama-sues-magazine-publisher-graft-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T00:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-24T00:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with executives of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday at the party's head office in Tokyo. An extraordinary Diet session, which continues until Dec. 10, opens Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/japan-mulls-accepting-asian-refugees-starting-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T00:44:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar refugees who came to Japan under the third-country resettlement program learn the Japanese language in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in February 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/asia-pacific/excessive-speed-named-cause-deadly-taiwan-train-derailment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T00:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A journalist films the damaged Puyuma Express train in Yilan, eastern Taiwan, on Monday after the island's worst rail accident for a quarter century left 18 people dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/jun-ashida-former-personal-designer-empress-michiko-dies-age-88/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T00:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ashida-a-20181023.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Ashida]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/science-health/nobel-laureate-tasuku-honjo-calls-better-environment-japan-life-science-research/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-honjo-a-20181024.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tasuku Honjo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-turn-off-oda-spigot-china-projects-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-meiji-z-20181024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora shows the parade of Emperor Meiji and his followers heading from Kyoto to Tokyo, renamed from Edo, in 1869 following the Meiji Restoration in the previous year. With the relocation of the Imperial Palace, Tokyo officially became Japan’s capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/world/explosive-device-found-near-home-george-soros-new-york-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[George Soros]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/asia-pacific/harry-meghan-arrive-fiji-british-royals-first-visit-since-2006-coup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-megharry-a-20181024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, attend an official welcome ceremony at Albert Park as they arrive in Suva, Fiji, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:31:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Jared Kushner attends a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington in September. Kushner said Monday he had counseled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to be "fully transparent" with a probe into the murder of a journalist that has rattled the kingdom's ties with the West.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/setouchi-sets-%c2%a5500-million-goal-bring-renowned-japanese-sword-back-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T01:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sword-a-20181024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, Setouchi Mayor Akinari Takehisa shows a replica of the Yamatorige sword that could be given to a person donating about ¥28.8 million to a fundraising campaign aimed at purchasing the real Yamatorige.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/business/corporate-business/softbank-ceo-masayoshi-son-wont-speak-saudi-conference-may-still-attend-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T02:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20181024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son speaks to the press after meeting with then-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in New York in December 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/24/world/social-issues-world/second-u-s-bound-migrant-caravan-moves-guatemala-toward-mexico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T06:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moremigrants-a-20181025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Central American refugees and asylum seekers bathe in Huixtla River in the town of Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/24/world/crime-legal-world/turkish-investigators-search-saudi-consulate-vehicle-istanbul-jamal-khashoggi-probe-cnn-turk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-24T06:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-carsearch-a-20181025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish forensics officers arrive at an underground car park cordoned off by Turkish police after they found an abandoned car belonging to the Saudi Consulate Tuesday in Istanbul.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-25T20:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-masariyadh-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/25/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-tumble-3-fears-global-economic-downturn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-25T21:11:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passerby walks past a stock board in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district showing the Nikkei average index falling on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday morning. The day's closing price was at a seven-month low of 21,268.73.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-hopes-build-better-relations-china-first-official-visit-japanese-leader-seven-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-25T21:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie arrive at the Beijing International Airport on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/25/national/japanese-journalist-junpei-yasuda-happy-headed-home-three-year-syria-hostage-ordeal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-25T22:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda is seen on a Istanbul-bound flight due for departure at Hatay airport, Turkey, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/ueno-zoos-panda-cub-xiang-xiang-makes-her-media-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-25T23:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-panda-a-20171219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xiang Xiang, a six-month-old giant panda cub, is seen at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Monday ahead of her first public appearance on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/world/crime-legal-world/manhunt-intensifies-bombs-mailed-trump-critics-time-joe-biden-robert-de-niro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T06:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-morebombs-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Targets (top, from left) actor Robert De Niro, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party donor George Soros and former U.S. President Barack Obama and (bottom from left) former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA director John Brennan are pictured in a combination photograph from Reuters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/no-one-wanted-trump-portrait-charity-buy-lawyer-argues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T06:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/saudis-trumpet-56-billion-mainly-u-s-deals-confab-ends-amid-partial-boycott-journalists-slaying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T06:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-fii-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fii-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks during the Future Investment Initiative Forum in Riyadh Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/world/crime-legal-world/design-bombs-mailed-trump-critics-said-came-internet-florida-leads-pursued/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T09:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-bombprobe-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bombprobe-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Robino arranges packages on a conveyor belt at the main post office in Omaha, Nebraska, last December. The shipment of several pipe bombs to CNN and several prominent Democrats raises fresh questions about mail safety and what measures the U.S. Postal Service and private delivery services take to prevent explosives and other illegal substances from entering into the mail.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/world/least-18-mostly-children-killed-jordan-flash-flood-near-dead-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T09:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-jordan-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jordan-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows where several people, mainly schoolchildren and teachers, were killed on Thursday in a flash flood near the Dead Sea in Jordan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/world/crime-legal-world/khashoggis-friends-hold-vigil-outside-saudi-consulate-istanbul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T09:08:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-vigil-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vigil-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold a candlelight vigil outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul Thursday. The poster reads in Arabic:' Khashoggi's Friends Around the World'. A group of Arab and international public, political and media figures are establishing a global association called "Khashoggi's Friends Around the World," "to achieve justice for the freedom martyr."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/science-health/u-n-rights-expert-urges-japan-halt-women-child-evacuee-returns-radioactive-parts-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T10:43:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fukushima-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushima-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A barricade restricting entry into the difficult-to-return zone is seen in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/world/crime-legal-world/fbi-searches-florida-mail-center-hunt-sender-package-bombs-trump-critics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T11:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-flabomb-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flabomb-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Postal service police screen employees entering the Royal Palm processing and Distribution Center, Thursday in Opa-locka, Florida. A law enforcement source tells The Associated Press that Miami-Dade police have gone to the mail-sorting facility in Opa-Locka at the request of the FBI in connection with the suspicious package investigation. The source says it was a precautionary measure.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/police-conduct-major-search-french-woman-missing-nikko-since-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T13:17:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-missing-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-missing-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tiphaine Veron]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/25/national/fewer-people-visit-japanese-temples-aim-attract-younger-visitors-disco-balls-planetarium-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T13:52:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-temples-a-20181026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-temples-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants taking part in a dance class at Kosenji temple in Fukuoka pose on Oct. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/quake-hit-kumamoto-looks-reopen-access-tourist-attractions-time-rugby-world-cup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T13:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-kumamoto-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kumamoto-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main and secondary towers of Kumamoto Castle are under repair after they sustained damage in a pair of powerful earthquakes in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/yayoi-kusama-takashi-murakami-consider-legal-action-fake-exhibitions-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T13:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fakexhibit-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fakexhibit-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screenshot shows a Chinese website promoting a joint exhibition of works said to have been created by Japanese artists Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/25/national/activist-rohingya-muslims-calls-tokyo-speak-refugee-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T14:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-rohingya-a-20181026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rohingya-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maung Zarni, leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/nara-canberra-celebrate-25-years-sister-city-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T14:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-nara-a-20181026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nara-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumio Kusaka (left), Japan's ambassador to Australia; Andrew Barr, chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory; and Nara Mayor Gen Nakagawa celebrate the 25th anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Canberra and Nara on Thursday in Canberra.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-midterm-elections-draw-near-majority-japanese-americans-support-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T14:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-nisei-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nisei-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Inoue]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/panasonic-teams-chinese-hot-pot-chain-haidilao-open-robot-restaurants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T15:18:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-robots-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robots-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haidilao, China's biggest hot pot restaurant chain, is partnering with Panasonic Corp. to open a restaurant in Beijing where robots will prepare and serve food.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/asia-pacific/south-korea-conduct-military-drills-amid-stalled-exercises-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T15:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/corporate-business/sell-off-negotiations-stall-toshiba-eyes-dissolving-british-nuclear-unit-nugeneration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T16:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/former-executive-advertising-agency-asatsu-dk-probed-alleged-insider-trading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T16:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/crime-legal/high-court-nixes-claim-abes-yasukuni-shrine-visit-unconstitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T16:47:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-abeyasukuni-a-20181026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeyasukuni-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after he visited the Yasukuni Shrine in December 2013 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/economy-business/tokyo-inflation-holds-steady-offering-little-cheer-bank-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T17:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-cpi-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cpi-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The core consumer price index for Tokyo rose 1.0 percent in October from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/affordable-iphone-xr-model-hits-store-shelves-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T17:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/corporate-business/meet-japanese-tech-guru-betting-big-future-drones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T18:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-drone-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drone-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kotaro Chiba started his first Drone Fund in 2017, putting in ¥150 million of his own money. He's currently raising as much as ¥5 billion for the second one, which he aims to close by the end of the year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/miyagi-prefecture-processed-fish-cake-factory-building-withstood-2011-tsunami-torn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T18:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tsunami-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsunami-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A marine product processing factory that withstood the March 2011 tsunami is seen in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/corporate-business/hitachi-eyes-sales-clarion-stake-french-car-parts-maker-faurecia-%c2%a590-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T19:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/japans-princess-ayako-retain-honorary-positions-two-organizations-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T19:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-ayako-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ayako-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Ayako (center) performs a ritual at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Friday. She will retain honorary positions at two organizations even after leaving the Imperial family following her marriage to a commoner next week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawa-assembly-approves-u-s-base-transfer-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T21:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-okinawa-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly passes a bill Friday that will spur a referendum on the central government's plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko, also in the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/crime-legal/hiroshima-district-court-rejects-local-call-maintain-block-restart-ikata-nuclear-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T21:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-ikata-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ikata-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs saying "Ikata nuclear power plant will not be suspended" and "Judicial power that is shy of handing down judgements" are displayed in front of the Hiroshima District Court on Friday after the court rejected a call from residents to maintain the suspension of the plant.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-will-prosecute-graft-terror-suspects-even-flee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T21:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-chinagraft-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinagraft-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/singapore-hangings-spur-fresh-calls-rights-groups-scrap-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T22:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/asia-pacific/amnesty-india-says-raid-frozen-accounts-aimed-silencing-government-critics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-26T22:38:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Interpol President Meng Hongwei poses during a visit to the headquarters of the International Police Organization in Lyon, France, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T12:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington on Thursday. Trump's administration proposed cutting what Medicare pays for many costly drugs for cancer and other conditions to match lower prices paid by European countries, whose governments more strictly control pharmaceutical costs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reviews a military honor guard during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/business/economy-business/japan-skip-planned-tax-hike-capital-gains-dividends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T13:06:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T13:46:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies before a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/crime-legal/several-hurt-suspected-tear-gas-incident-near-tokyos-busy-jr-shinjuku-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T13:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T13:58:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T22:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Role model: A statue of Ninomiya Kinjiro sits in the grounds of a temple in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T22:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the road again: Some people just need a trip to the countryside.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T16:13:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hondurans heading to the U.S. border walk along train tracks in Trancas Viejas, Mexico, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/fire-kills-two-home-iwate-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T17:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T17:47:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aeon Mall Okinawa Rycom opens on April 25, 2015, at a former U.S. base site in the village of Kitanakagusuku.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/sacking-prime-minister-sri-lankan-president-suspends-parliament-political-rift-deepens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T19:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ranil Wickremesinghe, until recently Sri Lanka's prime minister, attends a press conference in Colombo on Saturday. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Wickremesinghe and his Cabinet on Friday and in his place named Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president, to the post.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/jointly-developed-u-s-japan-interceptor-knocks-medium-range-missile-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T19:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medium-range target missile is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, during a test of the Standard Missile 3 Block IIA (SM-3 IIA) guided missile, which intercepted the target.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/business/jair-bolsonaros-anti-china-rants-beijing-nervous-brazil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T20:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This niobium mining facility in Catalao, Brazil, was bought by China Molybdenum in 2016. Brazil controls about 85 percent of the world's supply of niobium, and presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil should develop the resource itself.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T21:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant carries a rainbow flag during the annual gay and lesbian parade, organized by Taiwan LGBT Pride, in Taipei on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/hitachi-suspected-conducting-improper-inspections-chip-sealing-materials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T21:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Chemical Co. executives apologize for data falsification related to inspections of batteries in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-shift-away-u-s-toward-china-no-chance-government-sources-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T21:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/people-japan-get-news-commercial-tv-broadcasts-poll-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T21:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T21:16:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 3 unit at the Ikata nuclear power plant had been idle since October 2017 before restarting Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/national/fukushima-wind-turbine-symbol-tohoku-earthquake-recovery-removed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T21:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This floating wind turbine, erected in the Pacific Ocean some 20 km off the town of Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, is scheduled to be removed due to high maintenance costs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/27/world/social-issues-world/wild-boars-potholes-romans-protest-eternal-decline-italian-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-27T22:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds a banner, which reads "Less Raggi, more bikes," while standing outside Rome City Hall on Saturday. Thousands of protesters marched against the decline of the Italian capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T22:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko listen to an explanation from a student during their visit to Kochi Prefectural Forestry College on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-27T22:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Open market: Foreign trainees shell scallops at a factory in Monbetsu in Hokkaido in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-28T12:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-28T13:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a conference as part of a summit called in an attempt to find a lasting political solution to the civil war in Syria, at Vahdettin Mansion in Istanbul, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-still-poring-little-noticed-pence-speech-weeks-later/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-28T13:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participates in a campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana, on Oct. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-10-28T13:29:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during parliament's opening session in Tehran on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/asia-pacific/north-korean-hospital-director-says-otto-warmbier-torture-allegations-total-distortion-truth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-28T14:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The parents of American student Otto Warmbier, Fred and Cindy, cry as U.S. President Donald Trump talks about the death of their son after his detention in North Korea, during the State of the Union address on Jan. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/angela-merkels-government-braces-high-stakes-election-hesse-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-28T18:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves as she and Volker Bouffier, Hesse state premier and deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union, arrive at an election rally in Fulda, western Germany, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/national/politics-diplomacy/balancing-act-abe-meets-modi-talks-just-day-visit-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-28T21:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, shake hands in a photo session at a luncheon Sunday at a resort hotel near Mount Fuji.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/world/crime-legal-world/jim-mattis-calls-transparent-investigation-jamal-khashoggis-killing-talks-saudi-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-28T22:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis (right) walks past a TV screen on which Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir can be seen addressing the 14th International Institute for Strategic Studies Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/national/politics-diplomacy/progress-kim-abe-summit-elusive-july-meeting-north-korean-japanese-officials-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T00:05:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapan-a-20181029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/business/tech/battery-boom-future-cars-rests-firms-predate-model-t/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T00:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-batteries-a-20181029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-batteries-a-20181029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surging demand for electric cars is transforming the lithium-ion battery business, with more power packs expected to be installed in EVs this year than in consumer electronics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/national/bad-habits-tsukiji-market-carried-toyosu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T00:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-tsukiyosu-a-20181029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsukiyosu-a-20181029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wholesalers take part in an auction on the opening day of the new Toyosu market in Tokyo on Oct. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/world/science-health-world/ebola-seen-killing-kids-unprecedented-rate-unsanitary-clinics-congo-traditional-healers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T06:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-ebola-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor cares for a patient inside an isolate cube at The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) treatment center in Beni, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/business/gab-com-fights-stay-online-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T09:14:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gab-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People react during a vigil to remember the victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue the day before, at the Allegheny County Soldiers Memorial on Sunday in Pittsburgh.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/world/social-issues-world/new-u-s-bound-group-migrants-sets-off-el-salvador/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T09:16:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-migsequel-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-migsequel-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salvadoran migrants gather in a caravan to start their journey toward the U.S., at "Salvador del Mundo" square in San Salvador on Sunday. At least 300 migrants left San Salvador on Sunday, to the border with Guatemala, heading to the United States in persuit of the "American dream" of a decent job, AFP journalists reported.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/business/border-reopened-jordanians-flock-syria-first-time-years-trade-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T09:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-jorsyr-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jorsyr-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Jordanian money changer exchanges currency for customers during their travel to Syria, at Jordan's Jaber border crossing, near Syria's Nassib checkpoint, near Mafraq, Jordan, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/world/czechs-fete-centenary-largest-military-parade-since-communist-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T09:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-czechs-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-czechs-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Czech soldiers salute during an army parade on Sunday in Prague to mark the 100th anniversary of the Czechoslovak state's creation in 1918.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/world/three-gaza-boys-killed-israeli-airstrike-tinderbox-border-medics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T09:28:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-gaza-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gaza-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken Saturday shows smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Tensions have been high along the Gaza-Israel frontier since Palestinians began a wave of border protests in March. At least 217 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the months of demonstrations and clashes along the border.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/national/unhcr-credits-japan-small-steps-calls-nation-accept-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T10:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-grandi-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-grandi-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks during a news conference at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-allies-reject-link-rhetoric-increased-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T10:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-rhetoric-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rhetoric-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro, Illinois, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-defense-chief-looks-calm-european-allies-nervous-inf-pact-withdrawal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T11:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-infmattis-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-infmattis-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Mattis]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/national/politics-diplomacy/incumbent-gov-masao-uchibori-beats-three-rivals-fukushima-gubernatorial-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T13:30:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-fukgov-a-20181029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukgov-a-20181029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incumbent Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori receives flowers at his election office in the city of Fukushima on Sunday evening as vote counts suggest he has secured a second-term victory in the gubernatorial election held earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/national/u-s-launching-new-missile-defense-command-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T14:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/asia-pacific/villagers-lose-homes-farmland-feed-indias-booming-power-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T15:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-indiaenergy-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indiaenergy-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are seen silhouetted against the morning light on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi on Thursday. As energy-hungry India seeks to fuel continued economic growth, millions of people are being robbed of their homes by companies building power plants on their land or mining the coal below it, activists and villagers say.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/business/corporate-business/japanese-housing-firms-target-asian-markets-due-shrinking-business-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T16:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-housing-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-housing-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In September, Panasonic Corp. unveiled a prefabricated house in Xi'an, China, for sale to local general contractors.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/asia-pacific/military-service-hard-sell-taiwans-youth-despite-tensions-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T16:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-taiwanarmy-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwanarmy-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a public fair displaying military equipment held in Taipei on Sept. 29, a child is seen posing with a soldier.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/business/corporate-business/takeda-may-sell-european-counter-assets-seeks-slash-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T17:38:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-takeda-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takeda-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is considering selling assets from its over-the-counter business in Europe.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/29/national/japan-visit-paralympic-gold-medalist-heinrich-popow-shares-life-changing-medicine-sports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T17:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-paralympian-a-20181030.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-paralympian-a-20181030.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two-time Paralympic track and field gold medalist Heinrich Popow (left) watches winter Paralympian Shawn Matheson during a running clinic event in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/government-aims-300000-international-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T18:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/z1-lead-a-20181022.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[z1-lead-a-20181022.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese universities are increasing the number of English-only degree programs in order to attract foreign students. The Japanese government has set the goal of achieving 300,000 foreign students by 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/diverse-options-reflect-sophia-universitys-global-origins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T18:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/z6-sophia-a-20181022.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[z6-sophia-a-20181022.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sophia University enjoys an increasingly diverse student body.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/toyos-education-policy-upholds-universal-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T18:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/z7-toyo1-a-20181022.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[z7-toyo1-a-20181022.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyo University President Makio Takemura]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/executive-mba-grads-discuss-hitotsubashis-strengths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T18:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/z8-hitotsubashi-a-20181022.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[z8-hitotsubashi-a-20181022.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Tomonori Ito, executive MBA program director of Hitotsubashi University; Naheel Wafa Dajany from Germany, director of corporate communications at All Nippon Airways Co.; Jayathura Samarakoon from Sri Lanka, manager of digital services, solution areas at Ericsson Japan K.K.; and Cameron Brett from Canada, managing director of the professional division at Randstad Japan K.K.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/wasedas-focus-diversity-nurtures-compassion-mutual-respect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-10-29T18:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/z2-waseda-a-20181022.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[z2-waseda-a-20181022.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At Waseda University, students with unique skills hailing from all over Japan and the world can learn from each other.]]></image:caption>
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