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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Citizens opposing a government-sponsored immigration bill to allow more blue-collar foreign workers into the country hold a rally in front the Diet building Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-07T17:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-07T17:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Household spending fell for a second straight month in October, government data showed Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsuko Thurlow speaks during a news conference in Tokyo held after a meeting with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-07T18:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-07T18:06:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The casket of former President George H.W. Bush is carried by a joint services military honor guard for burial at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday in College Station, Texas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/national/visitors-wowed-okinawa-aquarium-becomes-worlds-first-exhibit-giant-oceanic-manta-ray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-07T18:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant oceanic manta ray swims at the aquarium on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-07T18:53:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels are seen off the Henoko coastal area of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-planning-visits-britain-netherlands-early-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-07T18:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-07T19:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler signs an order withdrawing an Obama era emissions standards policy, at the EPA Headquarters in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/business/tech/japan-exclude-huawei-zte-public-procurement-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-07T21:34:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cybersecurity officials of relevant government agencies will likely agree to block ZTE Corp. and Huawei Technologies Co. from taking part in government procurement amid concerns about security breaches.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/national/crime-legal/former-nissan-chief-carlos-ghosn-may-indicted-soon-monday-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-07T21:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn may be charged with financial crimes as early as Monday, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-urges-north-korea-united-states-meet-halfway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-07T21:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-set-enact-controversial-immigration-bill-paving-way-foreign-worker-influx/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T08:52:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita leaves the Upper House Judicial Affairs Committee room on Friday afternoon after a censure motion against him was submitted to the Upper House plenary session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/asia-pacific/u-s-drops-bid-december-u-n-meeting-north-korean-rights-abuses-diplomats-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T11:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il across from Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/world/trump-seen-picking-u-s-army-head-mark-milley-next-joint-chiefs-chairman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T12:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley listens to a question while testifying before a May Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Army's fiscal 2018 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/business/economy-business/japan-ratifies-free-trade-pact-eu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T12:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/business/south-korean-parliament-ratifies-trade-agreement-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T13:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyundai Motor sedans are assembled in Asan, south of Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/world/mountain-lion-crossed-freeways-fell-victim-california-wildfire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T13:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mountain lion known as P-64 crosses Highway 101 in Agoura Hills, California, on May 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-aso-top-fundraiser-abe-cabinet-2017-figures-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T15:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso poses during a ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2017. He was ranked No. 1 in terms of the amount of funds he raised among the 19 Cabinet members.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/japanese-student-drowns-school-trip-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T15:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A high school student from Niigata Prefecture died while snorkeling during a visit to Australia's Green Island during a school trip.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/media-national/second-opinion-trust-doctor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T22:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Second thought: A 2011 health ministry survey found that 30.4 percent of respondents who wanted a second opinion from a doctor actually sought one.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/crime-legal/japanese-woman-gets-six-year-prison-term-china-spying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T16:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-picks-new-attorney-general-u-n-envoy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T16:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Barr]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/world/crime-legal-world/shootout-brazilian-bank-robbery-kills-14/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T16:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Policemen stand in front of the Banco do Brasil branch after a shootout with bank robbers in Milagres on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/steady-goes-merkel-2-0-takes-center-stage-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T17:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer waves next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after being elected as the party leader during the Christian Democratic Union party congress in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/national/science-health/nobel-winner-tasuku-honjo-sees-bigger-role-immunotherapy-battling-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T17:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[2018 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine Tasuku Honjo attends a news conference at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/u-s-military-identifies-dead-crew-member-crash-off-japan-fate-missing-marines-still-unclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T19:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Capt. Jahmar F. Resilard, seen in an undated photo, was killed in a plane crash off the coast of Kochi Prefecture on Thursday, the military said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/japans-military-pursues-record-spending-amid-plan-buy-u-s-arms-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T20:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ground Self-Defense Force Type-10 tank fires its gun at a target during an annual live-firing exercise at Higashi-Fuji training range in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in August 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-will-10-straight-holidays-around-time-imperial-accession-bill-clears-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T21:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet enacted a bill Saturday that will establish 10 straight days off next year —from April 27 to May 6 — including the day of Crown Prince Naruhito's accession to the throne.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/business/decision-permit-foreign-workers-draws-praise-big-business-fear-municipalities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-08T22:43:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), is one of the business leaders praising Japan's move to accept more foreign workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/09/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/netizens-blast-singapore-miss-universes-trump-kim-summit-gown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-09T08:46:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singaporean model Zahra Khanum, Singapore's representative to the upcoming Miss Universe pageant, shows off a dress on Nov. 28 depicting a key moment of the U.S.-North Korea summit that Singapore hosted earlier this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/media-national/korean-wartime-labor-rulings-spark-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-09T13:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[UNESCO World Heritage site: Director Ryoo Seung-wan's 2017 film, "The Battleship Island," is set on Hashima, a former mining complex off the coast of Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-09T23:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign of the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, where Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is being held on an extradition warrant, is seen outside the facility in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, on Saturday,]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nick Ayers (left), chief of staff to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly look on as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House on May 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a ceremony at the Chapel of Our Lady of Santa Cruz in Algeria's northern city of Oran on Saturday, 19 religious figures, including seven French monks and 12 other clergy who were killed between 1994 and 1996, were beatified.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T04:24:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/national/japan-extend-copyright-period-works-including-novels-paintings-70-years-dec-30/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T13:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence and other technologies are part of the sōgō shōsha's nontrading functions they are looking at to stay ahead of trends.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of female personnel in the Self-Defense Forces has been rising in recent years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Canadian flag flies outside the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, where Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is being held, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T14:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T14:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Keihin industrial zone is seen in Kawasaki. Japan's economy shrank more than expected in the July-September quarter, according to government data.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T15:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shows her identity card at a polling station in Ollantaytambo, a town in what is known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in Urubamba province in the Cusco region of Peru as the country voted Sunday on President Martin Vizcarra's constitutional reforms aimed at eradicating corruption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/world/buyers-seek-works-emerging-black-artists-americas-biggest-contemporary-art-fair-miami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T15:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gallery worker adjusts a child-size "bullet proof" vest as a woman looks at an art installation by WhlsBe called "Gun Control" at the Scope Miami Beach gallery during Art Basel on Thursday in Miami Beach, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/asia-pacific/canadas-arrest-meng-wanzhou-daughter-huaweis-founder-stokes-fears-china-reprisals-among-america-inc-executives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T15:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-chinaarrest-a-20181211.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fearing a potential backlash against U.S. firms operating in China over the arrest of a top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei, companies are considering restricting non-essential China travel and looking to move meetings outside the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/business/australian-competition-watchdog-calls-new-regulatory-body-tackle-dominance-google-facebook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T16:56:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission watchdog on Monday recommended tougher scrutiny and a new regulatory body to check the dominance of tech giants Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google The recommendation is being closely watched around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T17:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T17:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T18:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. has set the final price at ¥1,500 apiece for its telecom unit's initial public offering, according to a statement on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T18:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from the Japanese Language Department at the Yangon University of Foreign Languages dance during an opening ceremony Friday for a Japanese-language teacher training program.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-10T18:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/national/wasedas-newly-elected-president-aims-make-university-top-notch-global-draw-scholars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T19:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waseda University President Aiji Tanaka talks about his vision for revitalizing the university during an interview on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/asia-pacific/huawei-ceo-ren-zhengfei-survived-famine-can-weather-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T19:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China reacted furiously on Thursday after a top executive and daughter of the founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei was arrested in Canada following a U.S. extradition request.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/theresa-may-calls-off-key-vote-brexit-deal-avoid-huge-defeat-source-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T21:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May returns to No. 10 Downing St. in London on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/national/politics-diplomacy/debate-constitutional-reform-sidelined-immigration-law-pyrrhic-victory-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T22:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference Monday following the closure of the Diet session earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-aide-greg-kelly-nissan-charged-underreporting-pay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T22:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, aide Greg Kelly and Nissan Motor Co. were indicted by Tokyo prosecutors Monday over alleged financial misconduct.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/business/corporate-business/wall-street-journal-says-arrest-former-nissan-chairman-carlos-ghosn-planning-replace-ceo-hiroto-saikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T22:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-gene-editing-scientists-project-rejected-database/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-10T22:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-11T11:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo combo created Saturday shows Senior Adviser to the President of the United States Jared Kushner (left) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Kushner reportedly kept contact with Mohammed bin Salman after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/national/despite-pushback-online-petition-jr-east-unwilling-rename-new-takanawa-gateway-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T12:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. President Yuji Fukasawa holds a sign bearing the name of a new station, Takanawa Gateway, set to open in 2020, during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/world/crime-legal-world/trump-hush-money-payments-not-campaign-finance-violations-just-simple-private-transaction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T14:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building on New York's Park Avenue on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/national/social-issues/yuzuriha-support-center-tokyo-helps-abuse-victims-get-back-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T14:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ami Takahashi (left) instructs participants Friday at her weekly jam and ponzu sauce-making session held at Yuzuriha in Kokubunji, Tokyo. A portion of product sales are given to the workshop participants as wages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/exasperated-british-lawmaker-just-broke-one-parliaments-oldest-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T15:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A van carrying large caricatures of politicians drives past pro and anti-Brexit demonstrators outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-takes-gamble-running-brexit-clock-will-focus-political-minds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T15:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexitgamble-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Theresa May]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/business/corporate-business/japan-corporate-bankruptcies-6-1-percent-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T15:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bankruptcies-a-20181211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corporate bankruptcies in November rose 6.1 percent from a year earlier, up for the first time in three months, according to the latest data compiled by Tokyo Shoko Research.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/business/corporate-business/japans-olympus-pay-85-million-u-s-failure-report-infections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T16:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-olympus-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olympus Corp. has acknowledged in a settlement that it did not report three separate cases of infections, including E. coli bacteria, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/panel-proposes-mass-evacuation-central-western-coastal-areas-nankai-trough-quake-hits-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T17:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/japans-two-aegis-ashore-anti-missile-candidate-sites-run-local-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T18:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs at the entrance to the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Mutsumi training area in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, warn unauthorized personnel to keep out.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/robert-muellers-russia-meddling-probe-digs-deep-leaving-trump-open-possibility-post-presidential-prosecution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T19:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he prepares to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/quake-hokkaido-tourist-sites-promote-safety-winter-events/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T20:09:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in November]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/science-health/japan-offer-men-aged-39-56-free-rubella-vaccinations-three-years-combat-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T20:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-rubella-a-20181212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rubella-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Male employees are immunized against rubella at the Tokyo branch of Osaka-based Rohto Pharmaceutical Co. in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/five-u-s-marines-missing-aircraft-collision-off-kochi-prefecture-declared-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T20:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two U.S. Marine F/A-18 fighter jets approach a KC-130 tanker during a refueling exercise in October 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/business/u-s-automakers-group-urges-trump-push-harder-open-japanese-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T20:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autos-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mustang moves along the production line at a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Flat Rock, Michigan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/majority-australian-women-sexually-harassed-work-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T21:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-effectively-remodel-msdf-vessel-aircraft-carrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T21:59:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/business/japans-esports-market-valued-%c2%a54-8-billion-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-11T22:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-esports-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With many new competitions planned, Japan's esports fan base is expected to grow further, with the domestic market forecast to swell to ¥10 billion in 2022.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/business/tech/lawson-tests-fried-chicken-dispensing-robot-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T00:23:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lawson-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Lawson employee shows off karaage fried chicken prepared by the convenience store chain's new Dekitate Karaage-kun Robo during a trial run that started Tuesday in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/business/japanese-governments-plan-shopper-rebate-underpin-tax-increase-grows-increasingly-complex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T02:03:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-rebate-a-20181212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rebate-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sources said the government is planning a 2 percent rebate for cashless purchases made at convenience stores and other large chains following next year's consumption tax increase.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/world/science-health-world/climate-policies-put-world-track-3-3-c-warming-still-far-target-paris-accord-study-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T12:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-warming-a-20181212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warming-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The CAT report said there had been some progress on the ground since 2015, and current policies meant the world was heading for warming of 3.3 degrees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-says-intervene-arrest-chinese-executive-helps-secure-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T12:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during for an exclusive interview with Reuters journalists in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/japan-ranks-third-willingness-accept-immigrants-27-nation-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T13:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/nhk-fires-senior-employee-fraudulent-receipt-allowances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T13:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from NHK, also known as Japan Broadcasting Corp., hold a news conference Tuesday at the company headquarters in Tokyo after a senior employee was fired for fraudulent receipt of allowances.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/03/07/reference/special-presentations/survivor-still-haunted-by-nights-fiery-terror/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T14:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20080307w1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Kobayashi speaks about his surviving the March 10, 1945, Great Tokyo Air Raid in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/osaka-officials-kick-off-preparations-2025-world-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T14:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expo-a-20181212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui speaks about plans for the 2025 World Expo at a news conference held in the city of Osaka on Nov. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/business/corporate-business/softbank-may-sell-stake-chip-firm-nvidia-2019-make-3-billion-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T16:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-nvidia-a-20181213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nvidia-a-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., in Las Vegas in January]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/japanese-schools-adopt-therapy-games-help-kids-fight-problems-can-lead-bullying-truancy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T16:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-anxiety-a-20181213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-anxiety-a-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary and junior high schools in five prefectures have adopted cognitive behavioral therapy-based "games" for students to learn ways to deal with anxiety.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/business/economy-business/japans-machinery-orders-rose-weaker-expected-7-6-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T16:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/business/corporate-business/idemitsu-showa-shell-merger-gets-approval-antitrust-regulators-home-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T17:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-idemitsu-a-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs at gas stations bear the logos of Japanese oil distributors Idemitsu Kosan Co. (left) and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-seek-10-year-prison-term-former-ceo-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-embezzlement-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T17:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-bitcoin-a-20181213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bitcoin-a-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Karpeles]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-foreign-ministers-hold-phone-talks-amid-frayed-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T18:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-jpsk-a-20181213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpsk-a-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left) and his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha shake hands before talks on July 8 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/crime-legal/hong-kong-man-arrested-setting-fire-newspapers-front-war-linked-yasukuni-shrine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T18:19:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-yasukuni-b-20181213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yasukuni-b-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting a fire in front of this gate located in the middle of Yasukuni Shrine leading to the main shrine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-unlikely-visit-south-korea-end-year-moons-office-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T18:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skkju-a-20181213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in (second from right) and his wife, Kim Jung-sook (right), stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, on Mount Paektu in North Korea on Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/detecting-child-prostitution-increasingly-difficult-task-survey-suggests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T18:45:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/business/tech/east-japan-railway-unveils-new-360-kph-alfa-x-bullet-train/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-12T19:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadatoshi Takayama, head of Nihon University’s school of medicine, apologizes during a news conference in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T11:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Pecker, chairman and CEO of American Media, speaks at the Shape and Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York City in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T15:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An excavator built by Komatsu Ltd. scoops up coal inside a coal storage yard at the Nakoso power station run by Joban Joint Power Co. in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T16:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T17:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T17:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T18:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T18:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T18:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T18:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. filed a recall for nearly 150,000 vehicles in Japan after discovering faulty checks had been carried out on brakes and speedometers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/13/business/china-revise-made-china-2025-tech-plan-wsj-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-13T18:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T19:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mineko Yonezawa, 86, talks about her experience of being showered with glass during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-13T20:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T04:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[McMurdo Station, operated by the United States, is the biggest "settlement" on Antarctica, providing home for more then 1,000 people.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T08:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T12:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-economy-a-20181214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The country's current economic expansion has become its second-longest in the postwar era, surpassing the 57-month boom between 1965 and 1970.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T12:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo helicopter carrier in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/13/national/justice-ministry-reveals-174-foreign-technical-interns-japan-died-2010-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-14T12:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T13:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents watch folk dancers parade during a festival in the Sennari district of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T13:45:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-14T15:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Virgin Galactic's SpaceshipTwo takes off for a suborbital test flight on Thursday in Mojave, California.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings Co., which is in a partnership with Aflac Inc.'s Japanese arm, hopes to expand its tie-up to include the joint development of insurance products.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/13/national/china-tones-japan-criticism-nanjing-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-14T16:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands attend a state memorial ceremony in Nanjing, in the Jiangsu province of China, for victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the city on Thursday, the 81st anniversary of the atrocity.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some political analysts and government officials say Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's authoritarian ways are dangerous in a nation with complex divisions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/13/national/japan-make-regional-labor-markets-accessible-new-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-14T17:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Human Rights Multicultural Promotion Division at the municipal office of the city of Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, in November]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The French government is considering a plan to replace Renault SA's embattled boss Carlos Ghosn.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Medical University in Shinjuku Ward is one of nine medical schools accused of discriminating against women during entrance examinations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's tourism minister says the number of foreign tourists to the country is set to rise for the seventh straight year and hit a record level of more than 30 million in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-15T13:39:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan was only 29th out of 63 countries in terms of ability to attract and develop talent, behind Taiwan and Estonia, in a ranking this year by IMD World Competitiveness Center.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to local police, there were 200 emergency calls made by foreign residents and visitors last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lion Air Group employees work in a tire workshop at the Angkasa Training Center (ATC), jointly operated by Lion Air and Airbus Training Organisation (ATO), in Banten, Indonesia, on Dec. 11. Lion Air's owner, Rusdi Kirana, is sketching out plans to become one of the world's largest budget carriers, while also preparing to scrap $22 billion in Boeing Co. jet orders out of anger at the manufacturer's response to an October air disaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T08:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker stands during a presentation of the colors at the Annual Veterans Appreciation Day Ceremony at the Justice Department in Washington Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, walk next to the border fence as they prepare to cross it illegally, in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T14:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (center) walks near Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T15:02:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks at the construction site of a "red tourism" attraction based on Chinese Communism, in Rucheng county, Hunan province, China, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T15:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firms like Uber, best-known for its ride-hailing service, have been criticized for hiring workers on a self-employed basis, which means they are not entitled to many workplace rights, including the minimum wage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T15:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T16:13:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T16:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Obamacare sign is being displayed on the storefront of an insurance agency in Hialeah, Florida, last year. A conservative federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled the Affordable Care Act "invalid" on the eve of the sign-up deadline for next year. But with appeals certain, even the Trump White House said the law will remain in place for now.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T16:38:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bank of solar panels has been installed in a village on the outskirts of Alwar, Rajasthan, in northwest India.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T16:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan will likely wait until after next year's consumption tax hike before taking action to tighten monetary policy, according to a recent Bloomberg survey on economists.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T17:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After a naming competition a female giant panda cub, which was born at Adventure World zoo in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, in August, has been named Saihin.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T17:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T18:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/asia-pacific/china-struggles-shed-reputation-global-capital-art-copies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T18:10:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chen Jingyang works on his original painting as a portrait of the Chinese president Xi Jinping by him is placed on the ground at his studio in Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/national/experts-question-juntendo-universitys-justification-gender-discrimination-medical-course-entrance-exams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T18:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juntendo University President Hajime Arai speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/national/aichi-temple-priest-leads-double-life-craftsman-restoring-clocks-record-players/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T18:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junno Nakamura, chief priest of Saihoji Temple in Kota, Aichi Prefecture, sits in a room with an antique record player and Edo-style mechanical dolls that he made.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/reference/water-privatization-japan-crossroads-battling-aging-pipes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T18:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers replace an old, rusty water pipe in the city of Fuchu, western Tokyo, on Nov. 26. About 15 percent of water pipes across the nation had outlived their 40-year duration as of fiscal 2016, according to health ministry data.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/business/tech/japanese-electronics-firms-look-re-engineer-design-mojo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T19:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A designer at Panasonic Corp. demonstrates a prototype of Wear Space, wireless headphones designed to reduce surrounding noise and peripheral distractions, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/national/hagoita-paddles-featuring-big-names-heisei-era-display-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T20:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wooden paddles depicting standouts of the Heisei Era are displayed Monday at Sensoji Temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo. The exhibition started the same day and continues until Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/national/explosion-sapporo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T20:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters try to extinguish a fire following an explosion at a restaurant in Toyohira Ward, Sapporo, on Sunday evening. Several people were reportedly injured by the blast, but the cause of the explosion was not immediately known.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/national/number-people-living-flood-prone-areas-japan-risen-4-4-20-years-research-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T20:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-flooding-a-20181218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flooding estimates by local governments corresponded closely with the actual damage caused by torrential rain in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, in Okayama Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/national/crime-legal/tokyo-medical-university-sued-damages-first-legal-action-rigged-admissions-process/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-17T20:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Suzuki (far left), one of three attorneys seeking reimbursements from Tokyo Medical University on behalf of applicants who allege discrimination by the institution, speaks at a news conference Monday at Tokyo District Court.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-17T21:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands following a signing ceremony during their summit at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/business/airbus-boost-pay-macron-urges-french-firms-ease-cost-living-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T04:33:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flag with the Airbus logo is pictured at the Airbus A380 final assembly line at Airbus headquarters in Blagnac near Toulouse, France, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-18T06:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-18T06:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron (left) accompanies Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore as he leaves after a meeting at the Elysee Palace on Monday in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-18T07:07:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmer Wilant Boogaard walks through a pen of pigs at his farm in Carambei, Brazil, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/business/corporate-business/t-mobile-wins-u-s-security-ok-sprint-takeover-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T08:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-18T08:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Morroccan sheperd leads his goats on a path in the village of Taghzirt, in Morocco's el-Haouz province in the High Atlas mountains in March. The bodies of two Scandinavian women with cuts to their necks were found in a village in Morocco's High Atlas mountains on Monday, the interior ministry said. The tourists, a Danish woman and another from Norway, were found with "signs of violence" on their necks caused by a cutting device, the ministry said in a statement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/world/science-health-world/wondrous-extinct-flying-pterosaurs-sported-rudimentary-feathers-china-fossil-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pterosaurs-a-20181219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Daohugou pterosaur, with four different feather types over its head, neck, body and wings, and a generally ginger-brown color, based on Jurassic Period fossils unearthed in China, is seen in this illustration handout, released from University of Bristol, in Bristol, United Kingdom, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/japan-ranks-second-new-human-development-index/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-development-a-20181219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is the second-best place in the world in terms of human development, according to a new index called the Human Life Indicator that is supposed to be simpler and more accurate than the U.N. Human Development Index.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/human-error-led-gsdf-mortar-mishap-western-japan-probe-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A round fired from an 81-millimeter mortar, similar to the one seen here, landed outside a Ground Self-Defense Force training area in Shiga Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/11/01/national/publics-sympathy-for-koda-tempered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:41:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of Jin Sano, one of two 5-year-old children stabbed last week, carry his coffin to a hearse during a joint funeral Monday for him and the other victim, Wakana Taketomo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/16/business/boj-chief-sees-only-bubbles-on-horizon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20110516n1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: Masaaki Shirakawa, governor of the Bank of Japan, holds a news conference at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on April 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/business/corporate-business/nissan-fails-board-meeting-name-new-chairman-succeed-carlos-ghosn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:46:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan President and Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa speaks during a news conference at the company's global headquarters in Yokohama on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/world/crime-legal-world/democrats-jockeying-coming-probes-trumps-finances-russia-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T16:51:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) arrives for a closed intelligence briefing for members of the House of Representatives on the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Capitol Hill in Washington Dec. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/business/jr-easts-atre-open-first-overseas-shopping-mall-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T17:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-18T17:24:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Cabinet Office says GDP is expected to grow 1.3 percent in real terms next year, down from its earlier forecast of 1.5 percent growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/world/science-health-world/extinction-threatens-quarter-of-sharks-rays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T17:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overfishing: A Chinese worker carries a slaughtered shark at a processing factory in Pu Qi, Zhejiang province.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/19/world/crime-legal-world/florida-shooting-survivors-potential-collision-course-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T17:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emma Gonzalez, a senior who survived Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, talks with people at North Community Park in Parkland, Florida on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/world/sex-workers-say-tumblrs-move-ban-explicit-images-leaves-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T18:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/business/economy-business/former-central-bank-official-blames-japans-low-inflation-rising-labor-productivity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T18:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-north-korea-brittle-holding-pattern-ahead-kim-new-years-address-second-leaders-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T19:21:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester wearing a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump kicks a fellow demonstrator wearing a mask of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally to denounce policies of South Korean President Moon Jae-in toward the North in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/anniversary-deng-reforms-defiant-xi-says-no-one-can-tell-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T19:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at an event marking the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/politics-diplomacy/russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-urges-japan-accept-outcome-wwii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T19:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sergey Lavrov]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/jr-east-asks-passengers-stand-sides-escalators-block-runners-safety-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T20:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A JR East official asks commuters to use escalator handrails at Tokyo Station in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/japan-eyes-aircraft-carrier-deployment-cyberdefense-boost-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T20:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government on Tuesday adopted new national defense guidelines and a new five-year defense buildup program that includes upgrading Izumo-class helicopter carriers to enable them to transport and launch fighter jets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/japan-marks-new-record-foreign-visitors-top-30-million-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T20:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n visitors-a 20181219]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists carry shopping bags in Naha, Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/08/business/boj-has-done-too-little-says-contender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T22:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contender?: Takatoshi Ito, dean of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy, is interviewed Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/04/business/china-vows-copyright-protection-online-news-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T22:36:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/asia-pacific/mobile-phones-spreading-decadent-reactionary-ideological-culture-north-korean-media-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-18T23:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are seen on the facade of a government building in Pyongyang. The top newspaper in the country, which heavily restricts the use of communications devices, wrote Tuesday that "Erotic notices, fictions and videos, as well as violent electronic games, are spreading through the mobile phones without limits."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/science-health-world/sue-world-famous-t-rex-gets-new-lair-chicago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T04:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tyrannosaurus rex dubbed Sue, the largest and best-preserved example of this well-known meat-eating dinosaur, is pictured in its new exhibition suite at the Field Museum in Chicago in this photo released on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/crime-legal-world/michael-flynns-ex-business-partner-pleads-not-guilty-turkey-lobbying-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T04:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bijan Rafiekian (right), also known as Bijan Kian, arrives at the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday. Kian and Kamil Ekim Alptekin, associates of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, were accused of helping the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan retaliate against a political opponent, and then concealing the government's involvement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/crime-legal-world/ex-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-admits-knew-lying-fbi-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T04:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn leaves after the delay in his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington Tuesday. President Donald Trump's former national security chief Flynn received a postponement of his sentencing after an angry judge threatened to give him a stiff sentence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/science-health-world/toxic-pesticide-u-n-urged-banned-found-temple-food-killed-15-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T06:53:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-indiapoison-a-20181220.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Dec. 14 photo, an Indian woman is brought for treatment after a case of suspected food poisoning, at a hospital in Mysore Karnataka state, India. Police on Saturday arrested three people after at least 10 died of suspected food poisoning following a ceremony to celebrate the construction of a new Hindu temple in southern India.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/pregnant-u-k-duchess-meghan-markle-makes-christmas-trip-care-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T06:55:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, visits the Royal Variety Charity's residential nursing and care home Brinsworth House, in West London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/russian-freighter-refloated-running-aground-off-southwest-england/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T06:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian ship runs aground in Falmouth, Cornwall, Britain Tuesday in this photo obtained from social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/blasts-heard-yemens-main-port-city-hodeida-first-day-truce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T08:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken Monday shows street vendors at a market in the Houthi-held Red Sea port city of Hodeida, Yemen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/business/steve-mnuchin-hints-fannie-freddie-changes-end-u-s-state-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T08:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, speaks during an interview in Washington on Tuesday. The White House signaled a possible way out of the standoff over border wall funding, days before a partial government shutdown, by suggesting the administration might seek other sources of funding.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/sapporo-blast-occurred-120-spray-cans-emptied/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T09:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/business/tech/seven-eleven-tries-store-tokyo-unmanned-payment-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T12:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper tests the automated system at an experimental Seven-Eleven outlet in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/china-two-koreas-voice-concerns-japans-new-defense-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T12:41:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defensereac-a-20181219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's latest National Defense Program Guidelines, approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday, allows the country to modify helicopter carriers to launch F-35B fighter jets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/tumultuous-year-comes-close-xis-defiant-remarks-indicate-u-s-china-trade-war-far/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T12:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to present a medallion during a conference to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up policy at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/asia-pacific/u-n-security-council-considers-move-push-myanmar-rohingya-crisis-russia-china-boycott-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T12:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/japan-boost-aid-major-cities-except-tokyo-looks-revitalize-regions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T14:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-says-will-target-venezuela-cuba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T15:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-bolsonaro-a-20181220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bolsonaro-a-20181220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro listens to a question during a press interview in Brasilia Dec. 5. A new era begins in Brazil on Jan. 1. Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old ex-captain of the army, is preparing to take the reins of a country undermined by corruption, hit by the worst economic crisis in its history and with a worrying increase in violence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-willing-look-extraditing-turkish-cleric-fethullah-gulen-still-noncommittal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T15:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen is seen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/business/economy-business/japans-trade-deficit-widened-november-oil-imports-phone-related-asia-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T15:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-trade-a-20181220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20181220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan saw a widening goods trade deficit in November, partly because the cost of oil imports surged.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-files-protest-new-russian-military-barracks-disputed-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T15:54:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/16/national/tattoo-ok-hot-spa-map-released-rugby-world-cup-host-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T16:13:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-tatoo-a-20181217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tatoo-a-20181217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city office of Beppu, Oita Prefecture, has prepared a map of local onsen (hot spring) facilities that welcome visitors with tattoos.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/business/bojs-3-5-trillion-cash-changed-little-ordinary-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-19T16:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-bojcash-a-20181220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojcash-a-20181220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Machiko (left) and Hiroyuki Hayashi worry about Hiroyuki's lack of job security, while the Bank of Japan's radical cash injection has failed to accelerate economic growth.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichiro Shinozaki, ex-president of Harenohi, bows during a news conference in Yokohama on Jan. 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping rides in a vehicle as he reviews People's Liberation Army troops at the Shek Kong Barracks in Hong Kong in June 2017. Xi has called for the creation of a top-tier, global military by midcentury, with improvement in the capabilities of the Chinese Air Force seen as an integral part of this initiative.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun speaks to the media upon his arrival at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo District Court on Thursday rejected a request from prosecutors to extend the detention of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn at the Tokyo Detention Center, pictured.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the opening of the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants attempt to illegally cross the border into Croatia on the Pljesevica Mountain near Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook logo is displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F in Paris last year. Facebook is under fire again, accused of sharing private messages and other user information with other companies. The latest report from The New York Times is alarming even in light of previous disclosures about the social network's practices.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Beau Stanton's mural depicts classical Hollywood actress Ava Gardner on the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools campus in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Documents show that some discussions about compensating Carlos Ghosn, pictured, out of the public eye were not confined to Nissan Motor Co., but also included Renault SA executives.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cardboard cut-out of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands at the Kumbh Mela festival area in Allahabad on Thursday. The  event attracts millions of Hindu pilgrims to the sacred confluence of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers, where they will take ritual baths over 49 days from Jan. 15 until March 4.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet on Friday approved a draft budget for fiscal 2019 that topped ¥100 trillion for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-21T19:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A total of 128 people in Asia with enough money to crack the 500-member Bloomberg Billionaires Index lost a combined $137 billion this year, the first time wealth in the region has dropped since the ranking started in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-21T19:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20181222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The estimated number of babies born in Japan this year has dropped to the lowest figure since data started being collected in 1899.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muslim protesters rally outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday,]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-21T22:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in February 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-21T23:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-22T12:52:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-22T15:08:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov may meet on Jan. 14 in Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-22T15:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-22T15:17:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adopted homeland: Kurds dance during new year festivities at a park in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-22T17:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left to right, Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko, Crown Prince Naruhito, and Crown Princess Masako greet guests during an autumn garden party at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-23T00:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are portrayed in this oil painting by Hiroshi Noda, a renowned realist painter who is friends with the Imperial Couple. The work was made public in May by the Imperial Household Agency.   IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD AGENCY / KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/22/national/japans-decision-withdraw-whaling-body-filled-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-22T20:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ships leave the port of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture in November for what the government calls "research whaling" in the Antarctic Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/22/national/shogi-master-habu-goes-titleless-first-time-27-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-22T20:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiharu Habu winces during a shogi game in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-22T20:09:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks during a news conference on Friday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/22/business/white-house-unveils-goals-japan-trade-talks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign declares the National Archive is closed due to a partial federal government shutdown in Washington on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists crowd Kiyomizu Zaka street, a slope leading to Kiyomizu Temple, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Kyoto, on Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-23T19:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Group of 20 leaders gather for a photo in Buenos Aires on Nov. 30 on the opening day of their two-day summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T04:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sunday. The rocket is carrying the U.S. Air Force's most powerful GPS satellite ever built.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Myanmar family displaced from the recent fighting between government troops and the ethnic Arakan Army take shelter at a displacement camp housing over 700 people in Kyauktaw township in Rakhine state on Sunday. The western territory is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious divisions and security forces have clashed with both Rohingya insurgents and much better armed Rakhine fighters from the mostly Buddhist Arakan Army.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T08:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moroccans pay tribute to murdered Dane Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Norwegian Maren Ueland in Rabat, in front the Danish Embassy, on Saturday. Crowds of Moroccans gathered to mourn the two Scandinavian hikers brutally murdered by suspected jihadists in the High Atlas mountains last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T08:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (center) arrives at the national assembly in Caracas in 2015. Maduro on Monday said to the national assembly that he was recalling Venezuela's ambassador in neighboring Guyana for consultations amid an escalating row over oil exploration in disputed offshore territory. Exxon Mobil Corp. had said it had discovered oil off Guyana's coast, spurring complaints from Caracas that Guyana is unfairly exploiting a disputed territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T10:41:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian protesters, some dressed as Santa Claus, carry Palestinian flags and chant anti Israel slogans during a protest in front of an Israeli checkpoint, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Sunday. Christians around the world will celebrate Christmas on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T13:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington Dec. 19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Madhu Bellam, a member of the Overseas Friends of BJP, calls potential voters in Hyderabad, India, from his home in Clarksburg, Maryland, on Dec. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T15:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during an interview in Washington on Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T15:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks to media representatives following a TV interview at the White House on Dec. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T17:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T17:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement on the possible government shutdown before signing criminal justice reform legislation in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/nagoya-community-effort-recycle-food-waste-wins-u-n-related-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-24T18:26:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in a food waste-recycling tour look at broccoli grown from compost sold at the Kakuozan Frante supermarket in Nagoya's Chikusa Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/22/national/media-national/celebrities-use-social-media-counter-criticism-online-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-24T18:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rola]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T18:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take photographs as they watch the Spectra light and water show at the Marina Bay waterfront in Singapore in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-24T18:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo arrive at Insein court in Yangon, Myanmar, on Aug. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/business/japanese-winemakers-look-boost-global-brand-eu-trade-deal-brings-opportunities-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-24T19:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors examine Koshu grapes last month at a winery in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture. Japanese winemakers hope to expand exports after a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union enters into force in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/business/bmw-faces-criminal-probe-south-korea-engine-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-24T22:46:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a BMW AG sport utility vehicle parked outside a dealership in Seoul on Monday. BMW is facing a criminal probe in South Korea after investigators concluded the company concealed fire hazards and delayed recalls.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-plans-deploy-new-homeland-defense-radar-system-japan-2023/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-24T22:54:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-radar-a-20181224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Defense Department is considering deploying new homeland defense radars in Japan in the year from October 2023. They are more powerful than the TPY-2 radars already deployed in Aomori and Kyoto prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/business/real-christmas-trees-find-buyers-desert-among-expats-uae/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T07:17:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-treesales-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Russian expats look to buy a real Christmas tree on Hudaiba road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/yamanashi-wine-country-ancient-shrine-offers-good-luck-charms-punch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T11:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wine-a-20181225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Good luck charms filled with the local vino are being sold at Kaikuni Ichinomiya Asama Shrine in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-mayor-governor-may-quit-force-early-poll-bid-realize-dream-metro-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T12:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20181225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura speak to reporters Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-seoul-clash-south-korean-warships-alleged-direction-fire-control-radar-msdf-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T12:15:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Kanasugi, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, speaks to reporters Monday during his visit to Seoul to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart Kim Yong-kil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/hawaiian-activist-okinawa-roots-behind-petition-henoko-base-garnered-160000-signatures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T12:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Kajiwara holds up a poster supporting Okinawa in Honolulu on Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/national/bullying-suspected-behind-msdf-crewmans-suicide-japans-naval-force-faces-string-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T14:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/20/national/japan-taiwan-sign-search-rescue-memorandum-understanding-fishing-dispute-remains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T15:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwan-a-20171221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan-Japan Relations President Chiou I-jen (left) and Mitsuo Ohashi, chairman of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding over search and rescue at sea at a ceremony Wednesday at the Grand Hotel in Taipei.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/national/politics-diplomacy/taiwan-japan-hold-maritime-cooperation-talks-tokyo-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T15:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwan-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinotorishima island, located some 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-goes-alone-confounding-fellow-republicans-seems-answer-key-right-wing-gurus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T15:30:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-trumpway-a-20181226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpway-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, in October. As the first two years of President Trump's administration close, Republican allies still haven't figured out how best to influence a leader who takes cues from the forces that swept him to office and seems to fear losing them above all else.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/business/sogo-shosha-adapting-stay-ahead-industries-evolve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T16:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-marubeni12-a-20181226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-marubeni12-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What new industries may emerge in the longer term, and what form new business will take remains to be seen.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/03/business/lifelines-economy-feed-fuel-japan-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T18:22:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-marubeni9-a-20181204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The information technology industry is one example of how the sōgō shōsha quickly adapted to increase their competitiveness.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/business/global-challenges-lie-ahead-sogo-shosha-hunt-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T18:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-marubeni11-a-20181218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For many years, the sōgō shōsha's net earnings have been highly dependent on commodity prices, especially those of metal, mineral and energy resources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korean-warship-locked-onto-japan-patrol-plane-multiple-times-defense-ministry-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T18:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-1 patrol plane in October]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/business/reflecting-nations-history-sogo-shosha-unique-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T18:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-marubeni2-a-20181016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sōgō shōsha emerged in the post-WWII era as large entities both in size and scope.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/business/japanese-firms-operating-india-increase-5-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T19:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff from Japanese firms hold a joint job fair for Indian university students in Hyderabad, India, on Oct. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/business/financial-markets/nikkei-dives-5-amid-global-economic-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-25T20:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A signboard in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei average falling sharply on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-25T21:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-israel-a-20181226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-israel-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to win another mandate, according to the first poll since the announcement of a snap election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/business/head-rothschild-russia-pens-fairy-tales-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T06:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giovanni Salvetti, head of Rothschild in Russia and CIS, speaks during an interview in Moscow Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-officially-announce-pullout-iwc-looks-resume-commercial-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T12:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-whaling-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general meeting of the International Whaling Commission is held in September in Florianopolis, Brazil. Japan plans to announce its withdrawal from the commission on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/cats-outnumber-dogs-pets-japan-second-straight-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T13:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cats-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The estimated number of cats being kept as pets outnumbered that of dogs for the second straight year in 2018, according to the Japan Pet Food Association.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/furloughed-federal-workers-say-want-mexico-border-wall-trump-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T14:21:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wallclaim-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/world/crime-legal-world/german-police-find-islamic-state-flag-arabic-text-site-railway-sabotage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T14:34:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-26T14:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jal-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eri Abe, head of Japan Airline Co.'s cabin attendants division, holds a news conference Tuesday at the transport ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/business/financial-markets/trump-hits-fed-rate-hikes-says-u-s-firms-present-buying-opportunity-shares-dive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T14:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-trumpfed-a-20181227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpfed-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump points to the press while walking to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Nov. 29. Trump on Tuesday renewed his attack on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, blaming the central bank's interest rate hikes for a tanking market. With stocks on track for their worst December since the Great Depression, Trump has regularly berated the Fed for its stewardship of the economy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/business/japan-may-hot-pursuit-robotics-farm-still-human-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T14:59:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese worker picks tomatoes on a farm in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/world/twitter-lights-like-christmas-tree-trump-challenges-7-year-olds-belief-santa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T15:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-twitstorm-a-20181227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-twitstorm-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in NORAD Santa tracker phone calls from the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/ldp-heavyweight-yoshitada-konoike-dies-78/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T15:39:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-konoike-a-20181227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-konoike-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitada Konoike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-considers-sending-msdf-vessels-chinese-navys-fleet-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T15:40:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-msdf2-a-20181226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-msdf2-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new Maya-class destroyer is launched by the Maritime Self-Defence Force in Yokohama in July. The government is considering sending MSDF vessels to the Chinese navy's fleet review in April to promote exchanges between the two military forces.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/world/science-health-world/new-delhi-residents-spend-christmas-indoors-smog-crisis-stretches-fourth-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T16:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-delhi-a-20181227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-delhi-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian men pedal their tricycle rickshaws with drinking water containers amid dense fog in New Delhi on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/nigel-farage-brexit-pollster-world-gamblers-gambling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T16:28:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-farage-a-20181227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-farage-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in November]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/business/economy-business/world-economy-said-set-feel-delayed-trade-war-pain-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T17:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-tradewar-b-20181227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradewar-b-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The global economy may feel the pain of protectionism and trade wars in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/asia-pacific/leading-chinese-marxist-student-taken-away-police-maos-birthday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T17:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-marxist-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A portrait of late Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong hangs in a shaped apple pendant in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/business/economy-business/trump-heaps-praise-treasury-chief-steve-mnuchin-hits-fed-rate-rises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T17:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin talks with reporters at the White House in Washington Dec. 3. Trump says he has confidence in Mnuchin, calling him a "very talented guy" and a "very smart person."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/business/abe-urges-wage-increase-japans-workforce-effort-spur-consumption-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T17:55:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abewage-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who attended a meeting of Keidanren, shakes hands with Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-gov-ichiro-matsui-reveals-deal-komeito-hold-referendum-merging-city-wards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T18:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Osaka Prefectural Government office in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/28/asia-pacific/chinese-scientist-reveals-second-gene-altered-pregnancy-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T18:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-secondgenebaby-a-20181129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[He Jiankui, associate professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China, walks on stage to deliver a speech at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/despite-gene-editing-backlash-chinese-scientists-still-aiming-supremacy-experimental-crispr-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T18:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese scientist He Jiankui holds a panel discussion after speaking at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Nov. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/australia-extremely-disappointed-japans-withdrawal-international-whaling-commission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T18:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-australia-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by U.S.-based anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows its boat chasing a Japanese whaling vessel (center foreground) in the Antarctic Ocean in January 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/tokyo-gov-yuriko-koike-working-make-capital-accessible-foreign-disabled-visitors-preparation-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T18:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koike-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/getting-away-overseas-tourists-japan-shun-hot-spots-taste-country-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T19:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jin Qiyang (right) helps harvest carrots in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, on Oct. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/japan-formally-announces-iwc-withdrawal-resume-commercial-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T20:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-whaling-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A minke whale is seen, captured for what Japan describes as research purposes, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kushiro, Hokkaido, in September 2013. The government announced Wednesday that it will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission in 2019 in a bid to resume commercial whaling.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/business/corporate-business/greg-kelly-close-aide-carlos-ghosn-denies-allegations-release-bail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T20:42:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greg Kelly, the former deputy of ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, leaves by car after being released from the Tokyo Detention House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/world/two-held-sparking-panic-dummy-guns-paris-cdg-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-26T23:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-27T04:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Congo's National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) spokesman, Jean-Pierre Kalamba, addresses a news conference in Kinshasa Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/business/fed-chairs-job-not-jeopardy-trump-happy-treasury-chief-white-house-economic-adviser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T04:41:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett addresses reporters during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington last February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-acting-attorney-general-matthew-whitaker-falsely-claimed-scholar-athlete-honor-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T04:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-27T07:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Claudia Maquin, mother of Jakelin Caal, a 7-year-old girl who handed herself in to U.S. border agents earlier this month and died after developing a high fever while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reacts during her daughter's funeral at her home village of San Antonio Secortez, in Guatemala, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/business/economy-business/trumps-self-inflicted-economic-damage-cause-fed-pause-investors-chill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T07:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People climb the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday as the partial government shutdown continues in Washington. In the background is the Washington Monument. A shutdown affecting parts of the federal government appeared no closer to resolution Wednesday, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats locked in a hardening standoff over border wall funding that threatens to carry over into January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-27T07:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers work at the site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/tokyo-2020-olympic-volunteer-drive-exceeds-target-186000-applicants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T11:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaflets soliciting 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics volunteers]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/anti-whaling-group-sea-shepherd-delighted-japans-iwc-withdrawal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T14:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-27T14:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A minke whale that has been captured off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture is loaded onto a truck at Ayukawa Port in the city of Ishinomaki in April 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/farmers-struggle-sustain-cows-forced-abandon-near-crippled-fukushima-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T14:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cattle farmer Fumikazu Watanabe takes care of a cow on his farm in an area designated by the government as an evacuation zone, in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/shop-selling-sharkskin-products-hopes-revive-tsunami-hit-kesennuma-known-shark-fishing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T15:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makiko Kumagai holds a piece of sharkskin, which is used in products she sells at her store in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/chilling-experience-iraq-youth-mentorship-noriaki-imai-dedicates-life-helping-risk-teens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T16:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriaki Imai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/crime-legal/5-year-jail-terms-sought-ex-tepco-execs-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T16:54:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tepco-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five-year jail terms are being sought for former Tepco executives Tsunehisa Katsumata (left), Ichiro Takekuro (middle) and Sakae Muto for their alleged failure to prevent the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/business/government-panel-proposes-raising-deposit-ceiling-japan-post-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T18:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20181228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A governmental panel in charge of postal privatization proposed Wednesday that the deposit ceiling at Japan Post Bank Co. be raised to ¥26 million﷯ ($235,000) from ¥13 million.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-27T18:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to Nissan Motor Co. sources, the person thought to have helped Carlos Ghosn allegedly transfer personal investment losses to the automaker is Khaled Al-Juffali, vice chairman of one of Saudi Arabia's largest conglomerates.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/business/tech/toyota-dream-robotic-housekeepers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T18:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendant operates Toyota Motor Corp.'s T-HR3 humanoid robot (right) from a remote maneuvering system (left) during a demonstration at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/40-japanese-teens-say-sex-education-school-useless-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T19:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sex-a-20181228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many high school students think sex education at school is useless, according to a Nippon Foundation survey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/crime-legal/japan-executes-two-death-row-inmates-thursday-morning-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T21:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita announces the executions of two death row inmates at a news conference Thursday at his ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/justice-ministry-revokes-permit-supervising-body-foreign-trainee-program-falsified-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-27T21:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Chinese women under the foreign trainee program for nursing care arrive at Fukuoka Airport in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/national/claw-machine-saitama-arcade-puts-nostalgic-heisei-era-items-grabs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T11:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoya Igarashi, manager of Game Center Everyday in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture, holds prizes for a claw machine last week. The machine features goods that bring back memories of earlier days in the Heisei Era.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/world/killer-storm-blasts-u-s-midwest-southeast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T12:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian crosses Seventh Street in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/world/science-health-world/tiny-tracker-developed-help-fight-rhino-poaching/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T12:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototyped tracking device, developped for the project Now Rhinos Speak, is seen on an interactive map used by rangers to monitor the rhinoceroses, at French tech company Sigfox offices in Paris on Dec. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/well-known-japanese-photojournalist-ryuichi-hirokawa-admits-sexual-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T12:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryuichi Hirokawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/bangladesh-election-campaigning-closes-weakened-opposition-hopes-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T13:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Unity Front alliance candidate Mahbub Uddin Khokon shows wounds from pellets he was hit with while campaigning in the district of Noakhali on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/cost-decommissioning-jaea-nuclear-facilities-put-1-9-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T13:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The estimated cost to scrap the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is around ¥150 billion, according to facility owner Japan Atomic Energy Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/police-called-filming-tv-comedy-show-draws-massive-crowd-tokyo-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T13:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/asia-pacific/australia-likely-set-december-heat-record-prompting-fire-bans-health-warnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T13:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beachgoers celebrate Christmas Day at Bondi Beach in Sydney.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/crime-legal/yasukuni-protesters-hong-kong-face-trespassing-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T14:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency inspect Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Dec. 12, following a small fire incident due to a protest.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/business/corporate-business/renault-asks-nissan-hold-special-shareholders-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T15:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group logo is pictured at the headquarters building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/01/business/top-business-news-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-01T08:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-business2018-a-20181227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going, going, Ghosn: Carlos Ghosn attends the Paris Motor Show in October. A month later, the Nissan Motor Co. chairman would find himself in a Tokyo jail.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/amid-influx-tourists-japan-grapples-accommodate-foreign-visitors-food-allergies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T15:51:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-allergies-a-20181229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although some restaurants have begun to provide menus in several languages amid a rise in the number of foreign visitors, few offer multilingual allergen information.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/asia-pacific/data-1000-north-korean-defectors-hacked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T16:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/government-seeks-public-feedback-draft-ordinances-foreign-blue-collar-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T17:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign intern trainees attend a rally organized by a support group at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-france-hold-security-talks-next-month-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T17:40:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/01/world/top-world-news-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-01T08:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-world-a-20181226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean detente: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at a meeting in Singapore in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/01/national/top-domestic-news-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-01T08:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-domestic-a-20181225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Help wanted: Lawmakers tussle over a vote on a bill aimed at Japan's acceptance of more foreign workers in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/business/economy-business/japans-november-industrial-output-slips-1-1-october-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-28T17:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motor Corp. employees work on an assembly plant. The nation's industrial output in November fell 1.1 percent from the previous month, government data showed Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-28T17:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cross a road near Tamachi Station in Tokyo. The country’s unemployment rate climbed for the second consecutive month in November, government data showed Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 1 in 8 adults are now obese worldwide, while 1 in 9 go hungry and almost 2 billion lack essential vitamins and minerals.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-28T19:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Following the passage of Typhoon Jebi in early September, ships lie stranded on a breakwater at the port of Amagasakinishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony's bullish outlook for 3D cameras provides much needed optimism to the struggling global smartphone            industry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitoshi Kuninaka, one of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's vice presidents, during an interview at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Fukuoka government official at one of the city's sewage treatment plants on Oct. 19, 2018.  When processed, sewage can produce hydrogen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Myokan who works at Topriver, a company which supports people who are attempting to start their own faming business, harvests lettuce in Nagano Prefecture on Oct. 13, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-28T20:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a ministerial meeting held Friday to approve a program to expand child care and higher education support.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-28T20:59:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former national soccer team manager Akira Nishino rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday after the bourse ended the year's final trading session. Nishino was invited as a guest to the closing ceremony.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People throng the famed 'scramble crossing' in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on the night of Dec. 31, 2016. It was made a pedestrian-only area late at night on Dec. 31 for the first time in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T12:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women walk in front of clothing shops on a street in Manbij, north Syria, in March. On Friday, Syria's military announced it had taken control the flash-point Kurdish-held town.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students hold up signs as they protest against the change in a student-run Marxist group's leadership at Peking University in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/majority-japanese-favorable-feelings-toward-taiwan-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-29T12:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey shows that a majority of Japanese feel affinity toward Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/29/asia-pacific/china-releases-canadian-teacher-sarah-mciver-accused-working-illegally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-29T13:46:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T14:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T14:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako, a granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, arrives at the venue of the 30th International Olympiad in Informatics in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T15:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T22:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mio Sugita]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T22:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Record rainfall: Houses that were damaged in flooding sit in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in July following torrential rain.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T22:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fall from grace: Sumo elder Takanohana poses with fans at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in May 2015. Takanohana divorced former TV announcer Keiko Kono in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T17:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T17:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a Tokyo market, Nao Sakai (center) sells rice and mochi (glutinous rice cakes) made at Komeyakata, her family's shop in Yamagata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T18:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-29T18:44:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaaki Tanaka, president and CEO of the state-backed Japan Investment Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 10. He and eight other executives have decided to resign following a dispute with the industry ministry over their remuneration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/29/national/crime-legal/10-sex-couples-sue-japanese-government-marriage-equality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-29T22:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ten same-sex couples will jointly file a lawsuit against the government for not recognizing marriage equality.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-30T16:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Chang'e-4 lunar probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province on Dec. 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Colombia's President Ivan Duque addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/01/national/former-astronaut-hopeful-commercial-space-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-01T09:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronauts Naoko Yamazaki and Satoshi Furukawa inside the Kibo laboratory at the International Space Station in April 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-30T18:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akashi octopus catches this season have been more than 30 percent below normal, a cause of concern for Akashiyaki dumpling makers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/29/national/japan-beef-monitoring-remote-islands-using-images-collected-domestic-satellites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-30T19:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/30/national/snow-related-accidents-across-japan-claim-least-four-lives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-30T21:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands in the snow in the city of Toyama on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/30/national/social-issues/tokyo-bus-cafe-safe-haven-sexual-exploitation-troubled-young-girls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-12-30T21:28:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono (left) and Wang Yi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data shows that LGBT tourists spend about twice as much as average travelers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caroline Ghosn in September 2013]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Crested ibises in Japan, seen in October in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, are facing less risk of extinction.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-31T19:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-31T19:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-31T21:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-12-31T21:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday he hopes to have a "specific discussion" with Russian President Vladimir Putin on a peace treaty between the two countries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign college students are interviewed by Japanese companies during a job fair in Tokyo on Dec. 19. Japanese firms' appetite for hiring foreign workers has grown stronger in recent years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio attends a debate prior to a final vote to formally approve the 2019 budget law, at the Italian lower chamber of the Italian Parliament in Rome Sunday. The Italian government has already won Saturday night a confidence vote on the 2019 national budget that includes funding to realize campaign promises made by leaders of Italy's populist government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/02/business/italys-uffizi-demands-return-nazi-looted-painting-refuses-pay-intermediaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-02T08:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture realeased by the Florence Museum Press Office on Tuesday shows the Florence Uffizi Galleries director Eike Schmidt posing with a copy of the "Vase of Flowers" by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum, stolen from the Wehrmacht's Pitti Palace during World War II, in Florence, Italy. The Uffizi appealed to Berlin for help in retrieving the stolen 18th century Dutch painting from a German family.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-02T15:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in hold talks in New York in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/02/asia-pacific/death-toll-philippine-landslides-floods-climbs-85/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-02T16:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipinos in the flooded town of Baao in Camarines Sur province on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-02T16:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Hindu devotees at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala on Nov. 16]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/02/national/emperor-akihito-greets-well-wishers-final-new-years-address/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-02T21:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers from the balcony of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/02/business/economy-business/economic-outlook-2019-uncertainty-japans-economy-amid-planned-tax-rise-global-slowdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-02T21:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a shopper at a shoe store in the Yokohama Motomachi Shopping Street area in November. Japan's economy is likely to face headwinds including the planned consumption tax hike in October and the ongoing trade conflict between the U.S. and China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-already-politically-hectic-2019-may-see-double-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-02T21:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reviews members of the Self-Defense Forces at a base just north of Tokyo on Oct. 14. Political observers say Abe may engineer a double election in summer this year by dissolving the Lower House to coincide with the pre-scheduled July Upper House poll.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-02T21:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-02T22:08:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-02T22:17:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-02T22:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses in Pyongyang in this photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houses that were burned down in an early morning fire Wednesday on Sado Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-03T04:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump leads a Cabinet meeting on day 12 of the partial U.S. government shutdown at the White House in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-03T04:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump (left) speaks on the Florida school shooting at the White House last February in Washington, and Mitt Romney speaks to reporters after his meeting with president-elect Trump at Trump International Golf Club in 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Incoming Sen. Romney issued harsh criticism of Trump on Tuesday, saying he "has not risen to the mantle of the office."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/world/free-tv-hundreds-cargo-ships-lost-containers-bring-windfall-dutch-isle-treasure-hunters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T04:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Handout aerial photo made available by the central command for maritime emergencies (Havariekommando) on Wednesday shows the containership MSC ZOE, which lost up to 270 containers in a storm in the North Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-03T04:47:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Syrian regime forces walk near buildings in the southern countryside of the northern Kurdish-controlled city of Manbij on Sunday. The unexpected U.S. pullout announcement left Syria's Kurds scrambling to find a new ally in the Damascus regime, as they feared losing U.S. support would leave them exposed to a long-threatened Turkish assault.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/economy-business/grim-start-treasury-yield-curve-markets-favorite-recession-indicator-flattens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T07:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-expects-meeting-north-koreas-kim-soon-denies-urging-rapid-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T07:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump holds up a letter he says is from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a Cabinet meeting at the White House Wednesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/drug-companies-greet-2019-u-s-price-hikes-despite-trump-call-keep-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T07:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services (HHS), speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/tesla-shares-tank-price-cut-disappointing-model-3-deliveries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T08:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla vehicles sit in a parking lot in Chicago Dec. 18. Shares of electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. tumbled Wednesday morning after the company cut vehicle prices by $2,000 and announced fourth-quarter sales figures that fell short of Wall Street estimates. The company said in a statement before the markets opened that it delivered over 245,000 electric cars and SUVs last year, nearly as many as all previous years combined.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/dont-die-australians-fight-spider-sparks-police-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T15:08:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/cathay-pacific-sells-16000-first-class-seats-675-make-good-blunder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T15:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-03T15:09:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Border Force patrol vessel leaves the Port of Dover in England on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/keidanren-role-hiroaki-nakanishi-looks-ditch-dated-aspects-japans-corporate-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T20:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi speaks during an interview on Dec. 27 in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/economy-business/anticipating-dip-demand-october-sales-tax-hike-fewer-japanese-firms-expect-economic-growth-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T20:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survey-a-20190104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. workers build cars at an assembly plant in Fukuoka Prefecture. A recent survey shows fewer Japanese firms expect economic growth in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/u-s-china-trade-war-demand-slump-taking-toll-global-manufacturing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T22:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A factory worker uses a gas torch on an air conditioning condenser unit in a factory in Jiaozhou, eastern China's Shandong Province, in 2017. An official survey shows China's manufacturing activity contracted in December, boosting pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic downturn amid trade tension with Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/filthy-parks-closed-museums-u-s-government-shutdown-grinds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-03T23:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T04:19:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T06:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U..S Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke arrives at the U.S. Capitol prior to the service for former President George H. W. Bush in Washington Dec. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/business/google-shifted-23-billion-tax-haven-bermuda-via-shell-firm-2017-filing-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T06:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T06:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeanne Calment, French pensioner and the world's oldest person, looks at her birthday cake upon turning 121 years old during a ceremony held in her honour at Arles City Hall in the southern France in 1996. What if Calment's longevity record was a fraud? Russian researchers have concluded an incredible sleight of hand between the Frenchwoman and her daughter, provoking interest and controversy in the scientific community. Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997 — a world record of longevity of all genders.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T08:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy holding a placard with pictures of (from left) President Hassan Rouhani, the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei poses in front of a model of a Simorgh satellite-carrier rocket during a ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T08:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey outside the Saudi Embassy in London Oct. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/24/national/science-health/2018-climate-change-space-exploration-water-bears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T10:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-naturalselections-a-20181222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Space rock: The mission of exploration spacecraft Hayabusa2, seen here in an artist's rendering, was one of the big science stories of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/world/science-health-world/germany-wants-looser-rules-shooting-wolves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T13:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mongolian wolves devour a deer cadaver at Wolfspark Werner Freund in Merzig, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T16:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Birth rates have long been a policy priority in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken by amateur astronomer Masayoshi Ueda shows a fireball in the sky over Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T17:18:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T18:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T18:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T18:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/national/government-plan-poor-elderly-use-vacant-homes-falls-short-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T19:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/business/financial-markets/yens-recent-surge-red-flag-world-markets-global-economy-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T20:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The yen's recent rise is seen as a warning sign for world markets and the global economy in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Kusakabe leaves Harajuku Police Station on Wednesday to be sent to prosecutors.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T20:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-04T20:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists aim to fix a genetic "glitch" in soybeans so that they photosynthesize more efficiently.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/business/carlos-ghosns-lawyers-ask-tokyo-court-explain-still-held/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T21:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo District Court has confirmed it received a request from Carlos Ghosn's lawyers to explain why he is still being detained after spending 45 days behind bars.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/national/two-people-killed-13-injured-fire-lodging-house-yokohama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T22:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two people were killed and 13 were injured in a fire early Friday at this lodging house in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/04/national/politics-diplomacy/ties-sour-wartime-issues-foreign-minister-taro-kono-urges-south-korea-fair-japanese-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-04T23:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters Friday at his ministry in Tokyo after a telephone talk with South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung Wha.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the scene Tuesday where a car driven by a 21-year-old man had rammed into pedestrians on a shopping street in Tokyo's Harajuku area the previous night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T10:37:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T12:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by congressional Republican leaders, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday as the government shutdown continued.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T12:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook visits an Apple store in Shanghai last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T13:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T13:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds his first news conference as president on Dec. 3 in Mexico City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/japan-traffic-deaths-hit-record-low-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T13:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T13:39:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is escorted by a Shinto priest as he visits the Grand Shrines of Ise in Mie Prefecture on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/japan-protests-chinas-unapproved-maritime-survey-near-okinotori-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T13:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T14:19:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian Democratic Forces and U.S. troops are seen during a patrol near Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria, in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T16:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy Jo Song Gil holds a model of the Bell of Peace of Rovereto during a cultural event in San Pietro di Feletto on March 20 as a North Korean delegation visited the Veneto region of northern Italy. Flanking him are don Brunone de Toffol, parish priest of Farra di Soligo, and Sen. Valentino Perin.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/media-national/examining-strange-synergy-heisei-era-crimes-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T22:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patients receive treatment in front of Tsukiji Station in Tokyo on March 20, 1995, after a sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo cult group on the Tokyo subway system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/media-national/internet-rightists-strategy-provocation-gaining-traction-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T22:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flash point: Fashion model Rola has criticized the construction of new US. bases in Okinawa Prefecture on Twitter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/business/brazils-chicago-oldies-team-aims-revive-pinochet-era-economic-playbook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T16:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro shakes hands with incoming Economy Minister Paulo Guedes during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T19:16:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A swimmer wipes his legs dry on Saturday after he took part in a competition in a pool carved out of the frozen Songhua River. The event was part of the annual ice festival in the city of Harbin, in the northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinas-population-set-peak-1-44-billion-2029-unstoppable-decline-starts-2030-report-predicts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T19:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/japan-counters-south-korean-rebuttal-radar-lock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T19:58:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Defense Ministry spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo speaks during a news conference in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-seeking-extend-u-s-security-treaty-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T19:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-05T21:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/crime-legal/gold-smuggling-japan-falls-concerns-remain-ahead-planned-october-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-05T22:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The amount of gold smuggled into Japan and seized by customs authorities in 2018 is estimated to have fallen by half from the previous year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/06/world/crime-legal-world/phoenix-woman-coma-decade-gives-birth-police-investigate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-06T13:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/07/national/first-nursing-care-trainees-myanmar-arrive-begin-work-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T11:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three Myanmar women who will participate in the foreign trainee program as nursing care workers are seen at Hokkaido's New Chitose Airport, near Sapporo, following their arrival Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/07/national/japan-begins-collecting-%c2%a51000-departure-tax-fund-inbound-tourism-promotion-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T11:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman checks in for a flight leaving from the international terminal at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Monday, the same day a departure tax was introduced in which ¥1,000 will be collected from each traveler leaving the country irrespective of of nationality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/05/national/media-national/survey-commuting-gripes-japan-spurs-wider-societal-complaints/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T11:55:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-train-manners-a-20190106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Back to basics: Bag placement etiquette was voted the No. 1 complaint by commuters in Japan in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T12:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer shows a smartphone banking app in front of a Seven Bank ATM in October in Tokyo. The bank plans to add a facial recognition feature to the ATMs so people can instantly open bank accounts.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T12:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T12:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold placards to protest claims made by speakers, discrediting theories of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, at the 106th Indian Science Congress in Kolkata, India, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/07/national/government-plans-test-systems-detect-dangerous-objects-train-passengers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T13:15:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stations-z-20190108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has asked equipment makers to propose devices that can detect hazardous objects, such as knives and explosives, in passengers' belongings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/08/national/life-panda-breeder-japan-no-walk-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T13:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giant panda breeder Kimiyo Shintani holds female cub Saihin at the Adventure World amusement park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, on Dec. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T14:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn on Sept. 29, 2016, in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jason Dalton talks with Eusebio Solis, his defense attorney, moments before pleading guilty to six counts of murder and several other charges at the Kalamazoo County Court on Monday in Kalamazoo, Michigan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T15:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T15:42:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T16:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's new Boeing 777-300 ER for VIPs (right) is shown to the media along with the old Boeing 747 at the Air Self-Defense Force base in Chitose, Hokkaido, on Dec. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T17:20:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works in an unit dedicated to the production of insulin pens at the factory of the U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in Fegersheim, eastern France, in 2015. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly will acquire cancer treatment specialist Loxo Oncology in a cash deal valued at around $8 billion, the companies said on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, inspect an honor guard before leaving Pyongyang for a visit to China on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T18:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota COMS supercompact electric vehicle is parked in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. The auto industry is struggling to deliver an electric vehicle that's cheaper, safer and capable of traveling 800 km on a single charge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T19:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A limousine believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un leaves a train station with a convoy in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T19:54:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T19:56:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds a news conference Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T20:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-saudi-a-20190109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police bus believed to be carrying ousted Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-just-reveal-kim-jong-uns-birth-date-one-north-koreas-closely-guarded-state-secrets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T20:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an innocuous-looking tweet, China’s state-run Global Times newspaper on Tuesday appeared to reveal one of Pyongyang's most closely guarded secrets — the birth date of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — after the young dictator arrived in Beijing earlier in the day for his fourth meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-plan-discuss-space-cyberspace-ministerial-level-two-plus-two-security-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-08T20:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands with his Indian counterpart, Sushma Swaraj, before the start of their meeting in New Delhi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-08T23:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi speaks at a news conference at the Niigata Prefectural Office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T01:50:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takeda-a-20190109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. completed the acquisition of Irish drugmaker Shire PLC and made it a wholly owned subsidiary.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T04:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Boeing logo is seen on a building in Crystal City, Virginia, in 2006. Boeing reported record commercial plane deliveries for the second straight year on Tuesday, although the figures missed the company's forecast.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T04:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flooded tents of Syrian refugees are seen Monday in Bar Elias town, in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T06:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court justices pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington Nov. 30, including (seated from left) Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito., and (standing from left) Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent at the]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T07:08:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees walk past logos of the Samsung Electronics Co. at its office in Seoul last July, Samsung is giving a weak fourth-quarter operating profit forecast, as the smartphone and memory chip maker contends with increased competition and softer chip demand.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sanjuro, the 3-year-old male cat recently given the title of "lord" of Bitchu Matsuyama Castle in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, naps on the castle premises in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Aviation Administration employee Michael Jessie, who is currently working without pay as an aviation safety inspector for the New York international field office overseeing foreign air carriers, holds a sign while attending a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport Tuesday in Newark, New Jersey. U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez called a news conference at the airport to address the partial government shutdown, which is keeping some airport employees working without pay.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by special counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington June 15.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A camp for displaced people is seen Tuesday in the village of Atme, in Syria's mostly rebel-held northern Idlib province.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Brexit protesters demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T13:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s chief financial officer (CFO), is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters Dec. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T14:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brian May]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Etsuko Nishikiori prepares to skin a 120-kilogram wild boar at the Yama no Megumi meat processing facility in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T16:20:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman living on the 31st floor of this condominium in Kobe was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of dumping trash off her balcony.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T17:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T17:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand outside a WeWork coworking space in New York City on Tuesday. WeWork Cos. will let investors and employees sell shares to SoftBank Group Corp. as part of the conglomerate's $2 billion investment in the startup.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:13:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's train departs from Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi and members of the party's Osaka headquarters hold a New Year's party Wednesday in the city of Osaka. In a break with tradition, Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui and other Osaka Ishin no Kai leaders were absent, due to a rift over a plan to merge Osaka city into four semiautonomous wards.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors watch from a bus as Siberian tigers try to catch a chicken at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China, on Dec. 27, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Kanetaka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/national/japanese-labor-ministry-knowingly-published-erroneous-monthly-labor-survey-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:46:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-hold-second-parliamentary-election-kim-jong-un-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-09T18:54:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-09T19:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British police officers wait in their van as anti-Brexit activists demonstrate opposite the Houses of Parliament in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/national/four-men-claiming-north-korea-rescued-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-09T19:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkboat-a-20190110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Four men claiming to be from North Korea landed on Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Tuesday after their boat lost power and drifted for nearly a month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/national/social-issues/abes-plan-battle-japans-regional-brain-drain-draws-mixed-reviews/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-09T20:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-depopulation-a-20190110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Dec. 18, when he announced the 82 municipalities that will be designated core regional cities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/national/science-health/japanese-team-discovers-dizziness-drug-can-improve-poor-long-term-memory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-09T21:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosns-bid-release-rejected-tokyo-court-accusations-emerge-saudi-loan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-09T21:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass by a television screen showing a news program featuring former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/crime-legal-world/el-chapo-jurors-see-intimate-texts-caught-drug-lords-spyware/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T07:27:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (left) poses with an unidentified man. Text messages sent by the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo about narrowly avoiding capture in 2012 have become the latest damaging evidence at his U.S. trial. Prosecutors presented the texts Wednesda in federal court in Brooklyn, where Guzman has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/drivers-running-empty-say-mexico-must-fix-fuel-shortage-blamed-massive-theft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T08:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mexfuel-a-20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles stand in line to fill up their fuel tanks at a gas station in Mexico, City Wednesday. A fuel scarcity arose after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decided to close government pipelines riddled with illegal fuel taps drilled by thieves, and instead deliver gas and diesel by tanker trucks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/crime-legal-world/lawyer-rudy-giuliani-trump-wont-answer-questions-robert-mueller/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T10:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani waits to speak at the 2018 Iran Freedom Convention in Washington last May 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/venezuela-defense-minister-asked-maduro-resign-alleged-sham-re-election-washington-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T10:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maduro-a-20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a press conference with foreign media at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas Wednesday. Maduro will be sworn-in for a second, six-year term on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/business/vw-ford-reveal-deeper-alliance-next-week-tech-quest-amid-trade-frictions-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T10:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cockpit and steering wheel of a Streetscooter WORK XL electric van based on a Ford Transit is pictured at Ford's new production line in Cologne, Germany, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-taps-acting-epa-head-ex-coal-lobbyist-run-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T11:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-epa-a-20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler addresses staff at EPA headquarters in Washington last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/business/new-yorks-art-deco-icon-chrysler-building-put-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T11:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chrysler Building is seen reflected on a nearby building in New York on Wednesday. Abu Dhabi, majority owner of New York's Chrysler Building, is considering a sale of the landmark skyscraper, according to people with knowledge of the matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-attorney-general-nominee-will-let-robert-mueller-finish-russia-probe-gop-sen-lindsey-graham/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T11:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-barr-a-20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Barr (left), attorney general nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks with Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, during a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave after President Trump's pick for attorney general, Barr, is confirmed, according to a person familiar with the matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/business/japan-fear-real-mays-brexit-deal-will-get-shot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T12:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a joint news conference with Britain's leader at the time, David Cameron, at No. 10 Downing St. in London in May 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/business/china-says-trade-talks-u-s-set-foundation-resolve-concerns-without-giving-details/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T13:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish leaves a hotel in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/world/science-health-world/gem-traces-teeth-hailed-proof-women-involved-creating-medieval-texts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T14:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lapis-a-20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A leaf from a Beatus manuscript "Christ in Majesty with Angels and the Angel of God Directs Saint John to Write the Book of Revelation," circa 1180, used lapis lazuli for the blue background behind Christ.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/national/police-investigate-human-skulls-ended-teaching-aids-three-fukui-high-schools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T15:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n skulls-a 20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials say three public high schools in Fukui Prefecture are believed to have kept human skulls for use as teaching aids.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-protests-remarks-japan-disputed-islands-saying-distort-deals-struck-abe-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T16:38:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/business/japanese-firms-pick-vietnam-asias-top-investment-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T17:04:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vietnam-a-20190111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles pass residential and commercial properties in Hanoi, Vietnam, in September. Japanese firms operating in Asia see Vietnam as the most attractive investment destination, according to a survey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-official-rosenstein-overseeing-russia-probe-leave-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T17:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T17:37:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's DF-26 ballistic missile is seen after a military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T18:46:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T18:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T19:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast Retailing's Uniqlo business in Japan performed particularly badly in September to November, with operating profit down 30 percent from the same period a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T19:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan says that tensions between the U.S. and China over trade issues are starting to affect Japanese corporate activities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T19:36:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This video footage of monkeys walking across electric wire, posted online by a Twitter user, has been played some 900,000 times.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T19:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Runners, including eventual winner Yuki Yamamoto (left), on Thursday sprint toward the main hall of Nishinomiya Shrine in Hyogo Prefecture in hopes of earning this year’s title of “Lucky Man.”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T20:09:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Friday. After the trade talks between the U.S. and China, some equity investors face a reality check and are taking a pause.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/national/tens-billions-yen-jobless-benefits-unpaid-due-faulty-labor-ministry-data-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-10T21:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-10T21:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in holds his first news conference of the year, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T10:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ginowan Mayor Masanori Matsugawa (far right) announces his decision that a prefectural referendum will not be held in the city, at the Ginowan municipal office on Dec. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T10:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T10:32:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rose Labo Co. founder and CEO Ayaka Tanaka shows an edible organic rose grown at her company's farm in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/10/business/auto-labor-union-group-not-seek-unified-base-pay-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-11T14:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions holds a gathering in Yokohama ahead of spring wage negotiations, known as shuntō.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/corporate-business/next-nippon-steel-chief-eiji-hashimoto-aspires-secure-top-global-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-11T15:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. President Kosei Shindo, left, and Vice President Eiji Hashimoto attend a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday. Hashimoto will become president on April 1, when the company's name will change to Nippon Steel Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T15:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May in London on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T15:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists in kimono walk through the gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto on Dec. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T15:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in holds his New Year's news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T16:08:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T17:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T17:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun in Bangkok on Monday. source: @rahaf84427714 / via twitter / via REUTERS]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T18:16:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High waves sweep past a cafe on a pier at Ocean Beach in San Diego, California, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T18:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sketch of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in the courtroom is displayed on a large screen in Tokyo on Tuesday as pedestrians walk past.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T18:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T18:55:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T19:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renault executive vice president Mouna Sepehri attends a news conference in Paris in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/future-whale-meat-consumption-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-11T19:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper looks at whale products at a shop specializing in the meat in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/hit-tougher-standards-falling-prices-japans-cryptocurrency-players-face-pivotal-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-11T19:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Otsuka, former chief operating officer at cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc., speaks to the media in the lobby of the building housing the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 13 last year. The previous month Coincheck lost clients' investments, worth at the time about ¥58 billion, due to a hacking incident.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/economy-business/japan-household-spending-falls-third-straight-month-november/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shop employee arranges merchandise at a Tokyo supermarket. Government data released Friday show that households cut spending for the third straight month in November as unseasonably warm weather reduced the need for heating and winter clothing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T20:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang speaks during a news conference at the presidential office in Taipei on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/corporate-business/nissan-widens-boardroom-powers-wake-ghosn-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-11T20:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co.'s board has taken on expanded powers after the arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn and widened the scope of decisions that require its approval.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/world/crime-legal-world/poland-arrests-two-spying-allegations-including-huawei-employee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-11T21:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-huawei-a-20180112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Poland has arrested a Chinese employee of Huawei and a Polish national involved in cyberbusiness on allegations of spying.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T21:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, then CEO of the Renault-Nissan alliance, reacts during a news conference in Paris in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T21:25:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Misato Kawasaki (left) and Mayu Otaki plan to stage wedding photos in every country around the world where same-sex marriage is legal. The screenshot of the two is from the website where they are soliciting funds for the project.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-11T21:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe review a military guard of honor in London on Thursday ahead of bilateral talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T12:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as President Donald Trump talks to the media after a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T12:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maho Yamaguchi of NGT48, a Niigata-based idol group, was assaulted by two men in early December. On Thursday she apologized for "causing trouble."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. John Richardson, the U.S. Navy's chief of naval operations, speaks during a news conference in suburban Quezon City, in the Philippines, last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T13:59:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Black smoke billows from a high-rise building under construction near JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T14:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he visits the banks of the Rio Grande River during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, Texas, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T14:38:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T14:50:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T15:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The shifting position of the north magnetic pole is creating navigation problems in the far north, but isn't a problem for most people.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T22:57:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dressing the part: Parents of students entering elementary school in Japan are often required to follow strict regulations regarding their children's uniform.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T16:08:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T16:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women work at a Japanese plant in Cambodia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T18:17:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T20:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan North America Chairman Jose Munoz speaks during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2017. Munoz resigned from his post Friday amid a deepening probe over the Carlos Ghosn case.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-12T21:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This aerial photo taken in September 2017 shows the plot of land in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward that was subject to a bogus sale in which Sekisui House Ltd. suffered a loss of about ¥5.5 billion.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) meets with U.S. Attorney General nominee William Barr (left) in Washington Jan. 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T16:18:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after attending a church service near her Maidenhead constituency, west of London, on Sunday. May on Sunday warned MPs preparing to vote down her EU divorce deal that failing to deliver Brexit would be a "catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T17:58:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) deliverling a speech in Ankara last year; and U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference in Washington last July. Trump warned Turkey on Sunday of economic devastation if it attacks Kurdish forces in the wake of the U.S. troop pullout from Syria, while also urging the Kurds not to "provoke" Ankara.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T18:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers are loaded onto a cargo ship at a port in Qingdao, in east China's Shandong province, on Friday. China's trade growth slowed in 2018 as a tariff battle with Washington heated up and global consumer demand weakened.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T19:52:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker, carrying tools to harvest oil palm fruit, walks along a road at a plantation in Subulussalam district in Aceh province, Indonesia, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T19:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T19:58:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/14/national/japan-test-disaster-warning-system-asia-pacific-region-later-year-using-satellite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-14T20:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a ceremony in Tokyo to mark the launch of Japan's global positioning system satellite Michibiki in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T20:13:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in a park on the island of Etorofu last May. Russia invested ¥48 billion from 2007 through 2015 to build social infrastructure such as roads, ports and housing on the four disputed islands.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T20:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/14/national/experts-say-china-hackers-known-apt10-group-likely-attacked-major-japanese-business-lobby-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-14T21:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T21:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk from their lunch at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore last June. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-14T21:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Individuals who claim to have been affected by the wartime labor issue arrive at the Supreme Court in Seoul together with family members on Nov. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/business/economy-business/maduro-offers-fresh-ideas-venezuelas-economy-circles-drain-amid-seven-digit-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T09:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Constituent Assembly, speaks while Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, listens during a state of the union address in Caracas on Monday. Maduro, speaking on state television, said the monthly minimum wage will rise to 18,000 bolivars.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/14/national/politics-diplomacy/russias-putin-expected-visit-japan-june-foreign-minister-taro-kono-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T11:54:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN-Russia Summit in Singapore last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/14/national/japan-plans-take-steps-fake-news-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T11:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T12:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T16:46:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, then-chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, attends at the Tomorrow In Motion event on the eve of press day at the Paris Auto Show in Paris last Oct.1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T17:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump looks over tables of fast food for the the college football playoff champion Clemson Tigers in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T17:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T18:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A squid auction is held last November at a wholesale market in Hakodate, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/business/corporate-business/google-japan-allegedly-underreported-%c2%a53-5-billion-income/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T19:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo tax authorities believe Google's unit in Japan reduced its income by shifting locally derived ad revenue to the company's branch in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/national/ngt48-management-firm-removes-official-post-handling-assault-idol-group-member-maho-yamaguchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T19:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takumi Matsumura (left), a senior manager at AKS, and Maiko Hayakawa, a newly appointed manager at the firm, speak to reporters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T19:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays Tuesday at the site of a bus crash that killed 15 in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, three years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T19:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a meeting with senior ruling lawmakers and top government officials on Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/national/people-flood-hit-western-japan-area-frustrated-sluggish-recovery-population-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T19:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A house in the Koyaura district of Saka, Hiroshima Prefecture, severely damaged by torrential rains last summer, awaits repairs six months later.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-seek-18-months-ex-mitsubishi-hitachi-power-executives-landmark-plea-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T20:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/national/crime-legal/japanese-olympic-committee-head-tsunekazu-takeda-denies-accusation-corruption-linked-2020-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T20:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takeda-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsunekazu Takeda]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-15T20:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-radar-a-20190116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-radar-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo and Seoul failed to come to an understanding Monday over the alleged radar lock-on by this South Korean destroyer on an MSDF plane.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/business/japanese-workforce-projected-20-smaller-2040/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T20:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-workforce-a-20190116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-workforce-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials are expecting the workforce to shrink by a fifth by the time 2040 rolls around.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/business/corporate-business/tokyo-court-denies-carlos-ghosn-bail-leaving-renault-chief-languish-prosecutors-build-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T20:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn's latest bail application was rejected by the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/business/corporate-business/ana-considers-debuting-first-direct-flights-russia-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T22:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-ana-a-20190116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ana-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All Nippon Airways is now considering launching its first direct flights to Russia as early as 2020 as it expects economic cooperation between the two countries will expand further.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-pick-attorney-general-face-questions-criticism-russia-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-15T22:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpag-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, William Barr, meets with Sen. Lindsey Graham in Washington on Jan. 9]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazils-bolsonaro-decrees-eased-gun-laws-woos-weapons-makers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T07:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is seen during the change of guard ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/iran-enrich-uranium-20-within-four-days-nations-atomic-energy-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T07:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-iran-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iran-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi,gestures as he speaks to Reuters during an interview in Brussels in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/crime-legal-world/paul-manafort-misled-grand-jury-trump-administration-contacts-robert-mueller-filing-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T08:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-manafort-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court on in Washington last June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/defying-trump-u-s-senate-advances-measure-critical-easing-russia-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T08:46:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-russiasanc-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russiasanc-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, speaks to members of the media after meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. Mnuchin defended his decision to relax sanctions on three Russian companies linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska and said he doesn't have any immediate plans to agree to an extension for Congress to act.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-jong-uns-right-hand-man-expected-visit-washington-meeting-pompeo-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T08:53:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-usnk-a-20190116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usnk-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on after a meeting at the White House in Washington on June 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/crime-legal-world/el-chapo-trial-witness-tells-100-million-bribe-drug-lord-allegedly-paid-pena-nieto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T09:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-chapo-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chapo-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alex Cifuentes, a close associate of the accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (right), is seen testifying in this courtroom sketch in Brooklyn federal court in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/social-issues-world/62-million-latin-americans-living-extreme-poverty-highest-level-since-2008-u-n-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T12:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-poverty-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-poverty-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Venezuelan girls eat bread before being moved to a migrant camp in Bogota on Tuesday. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — who swore in for a second term last week — is blamed by his detractors for the country's economic woes, which have left millions in poverty while another 2.3 million, according to the United Nations, have fled the country since 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/14/national/veteran-japanese-actress-etsuko-ichihara-dies-heart-failure-82/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T12:30:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-ichihara-a-20190114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ichihara-a-20190114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Etsuko Ichihara]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/economy-business/shutdown-bites-economy-u-s-coast-guard-washington-talks-stall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T12:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-shutdown-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shutdown-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to speak to reporters following a weekly policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/netflix-hikes-prices-u-s-subscribers-13-18-expands-presence-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T12:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-netflix-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-netflix-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of the Netflix entertainment company is displayed on a tablet screen with a remote control in front of it last year in Paris. Netflix unveiled plans Tuesday to boost prices for U.S. subscribers, a move that helped lift shares of the streaming television giant, which now faces an array of new competitors.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/no-social-skills-required-autistic-staff-help-firm-thrive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T13:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/business/germany-sees-weakest-growth-five-years-amid-global-protectionism-uncertainty-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T13:09:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-germaneco-a-20190116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-germaneco-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers in the port of Hamburg, Germany]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/eu-expresses-horror-brexit-vote-refuses-reopen-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T13:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-eubrexitreax-a-20180117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-eubrexitreax-a-20180117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker waves prior to a debate during a plenary session at the European Parliament on Jan. 15 in Strasbourg, eastern France.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/crime-legal-world/german-spy-agency-launch-anti-extremism-probe-far-right-opposition-party-afd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T14:15:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-afd-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afd-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland, faction leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, brief the media in Berlin Tuesday. The German domestic intelligence agency is putting the far-right Alternative for Germany party under heightened scrutiny.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/corporate-business/france-seeks-renault-board-meeting-replace-japan-jailed-ceo-carlos-ghosn-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T16:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-ghosn-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn visit the Renault factory in Maubeuge, France, Nov. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/corporate-business/vw-ford-team-trucks-joint-deals-evs-self-driving-cars-likely-follow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T17:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-vwford-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vwford-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The president and CEO of Ford, Jim Hackett, poses with Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/crime-legal/tokyo-high-court-upholds-life-term-filipino-man-gang-rape-murder-student-2004/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T17:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/five-hurt-car-runs-onto-sidewalk-near-tokyos-shinjuku-station-driver-says-choked-tea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T17:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-carcrash-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-carcrash-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car is seen on a sidewalk near JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Wednesday after its diver hit and injured five people.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/economy-business/japans-machinery-orders-nearly-flat-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T17:45:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/science-health/trash-talk-tokyo-city-opens-bar-waste-management-facility-spark-environment-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T18:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-wastebar-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wastebar-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyoites Miki Takara (right) and Maho Miki drink beside a concrete waste pit at a bar set up in Musashino Clean Center, a waste management facility in western Tokyo, on Dec. 14. The event was part of the city of Musashino's project aimed at raising public awareness of environmental issues.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/social-issues-world/first-human-rights-tv-channel-vows-give-voice-voiceless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T18:23:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-rightstv-a-20180117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rightstv-a-20180117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard in front of a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China last February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/economy-business/bank-japan-cut-inflation-forecast-due-sharp-fall-oil-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T18:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-inflation-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan's current forecast is for inflation to average 1.4 percent next fiscal year, a figure that private economists judge to be overly optimistic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/world/saudi-aide-fired-jamal-khashoggi-murder-still-wields-influence-say-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T18:37:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-saudiaide-a-20180117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-saudiaide-a-20180117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks on his cellphone at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2011. Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2 after visiting his country's consulate in Istanbul.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/kochi-city-creates-lucky-charms-fragments-bridge-survived-near-collapse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T19:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-charm-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-charm-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, has created lucky charms for entrance exam takers, featuring fragments of a bridge that survived a near collapse.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/tokyos-foreign-residents-prepare-worst-multilingual-disaster-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T19:37:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-drill-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drill-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Wu Yi Feng, 4, helps his mother "resuscitate" a practice dummy during a drill for foreign residents held Wednesday in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/crime-legal/tokyo-halloween-revelers-referred-prosecutors-overturning-truck-shibuya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T19:41:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-halloween-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-halloween-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Halloween revelers stand on a small truck that was overturned in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, a mecca for the celebrations, in the early hours of Oct. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-government-start-new-round-henoko-reclamation-work-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T19:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-henoko-a-20190116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20190116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 20 percent of the planned reclamation work in this area of the Henoko coastal district in Okinawa Prefecture, seen Jan. 13, has been completed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/sunflowers-serve-symbol-japans-post-disaster-resilience-emperors-final-poem-reading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T19:48:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-poems-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poems-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito (left) attends the New Year’s Poetry Reading Ceremony, the final such event before his abdication, held at the Imperial Palace on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/business/corporate-business/nissan-plans-file-damages-suit-carlos-ghosn-misuse-funds-source-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T21:19:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-nissanfile-a-20190117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissanfile-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. plans to file a civil suit against ousted Chairman Carlos Ghosn, according to a source.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/15/national/observation-deck-new-toyosu-market-site-tokyos-renowned-tuna-auctions-opens-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T22:06:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors watch tuna auctions at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo from an observation deck that opened to the public on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/foreign-tourists-spent-record-%c2%a54-5-trillion-japan-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-16T23:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists carry shopping bag from Daikoku Co. Daikoku Drug Store in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, last March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-gropes-brexit-consensus-deals-crushing-defeat-parliament/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T04:34:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anti-Brexit protester performs outside the Houses of Parliament after Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected, in London Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/world/pregnant-meghan-laughs-off-fat-lady-comment-charity-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T04:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, meets a dog named Foxy during her visit to the animal welfare charity Mayhew in London on Wednesday. Established in 1886, Mayhew looks for innovative ways to reduce the number of animals in need through pro-active community and educational initiatives and preventative veterinary care.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/asia-pacific/u-s-british-navies-conduct-first-joint-military-exercises-disputed-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T08:49:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The HMS Argyll (bottom) takes part in a replenishment at sea with the USS McCampbell (top) and USNS Henry J Kaiser while operating in the South China Sea on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/tokyo-considers-plans-convention-center-complex-site-former-tsukiji-fish-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T10:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demolition work continues at the closed Tsukiji fish market in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, in November 2018. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is considering building a convention center at the site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-calls-japan-recognize-outcome-world-war-two/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T12:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during his annual roundup news conference in Moscow on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-17T12:41:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference "One Team, One Mission, One Future" at Department of State on Wednesday in Washington. Pence is claiming that the Islamic State "caliphate has crumbled" and the militant network "has been defeated." But his comments came shortly after the U.S. military said American service members were among those killed during an explosion during a routine patrol in Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/world/czechs-mark-50-years-since-jan-palachs-self-immolation-crushing-prague-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T13:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march Wednesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Jan Palach's death at Wenceslas Square in Prague. The Czech Republic paid tribute to the student activist who burned himself to death 50 years earlier to defend freedom, a struggle that some say continues today in the country led by ex-communists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/business/citi-says-female-employees-earn-29-less-men-vows-diversity-top-roles-wsj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T13:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Citigroup Inc. Citibank branch in the central business district of Sydney Jan. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/crime-legal/rare-ruling-court-fines-man-anonymously-posted-hateful-anti-korean-remarks-teenager/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T13:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hateruling-z-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Jan. 5 this year, the summary court in Kawasaki concluded that Yuji Takeshita, 66, from the city of Oita, was behind the attacks and defamed a teenager.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/business/corporate-business/airbus-spends-300-million-new-alabama-plant-a220-jetliner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T13:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airbus members celebrate the landing of an Airbus A220-300 aircraft during its presentation in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-south-korea-mulling-incentives-kim-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T16:16:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans during a rally demanding peace on the Korean Peninsula, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/business/economy-business/yen-likely-hit-80-dollar-next-recession-former-boj-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T16:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yen-a-20190118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideo Hayakawa, senior executive fellow at Fujitsu Research Institute, poses for a photograph in Tokyo on Tuesday. The yen is likely to reach its strongest level in more than six years if Japan enters a recession, which could come as early as the fall of this year, according to the former central bank official.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/thailand-deports-sex-seminar-belarusian-model-claimed-evidence-trump-secrets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T16:42:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anastasia Vashukevich speaks to journalists while being escorted by Thai immigration officers from the Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/osaka-officials-meet-residents-near-g20-site-discuss-traffic-restrictions-measures-ahead-june-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T16:49:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/01/world/washington-state-atomic-plant-restarts-shutdown-valve-mishap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T17:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/three-novelists-named-japans-akutagawa-naoki-literary-awards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T17:27:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-award-c-20190118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junjo Shindo (left), this year's winner of the Naoki Prize, poses with Ryohei Machiya (center) and Takahiro Ueda, the two up-and-coming authors who won this year's Akutagawa Prize, at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday evening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/crime-legal/osaka-subway-drivers-win-court-case-right-grow-beards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T18:54:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20190117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A court in Osaka ruled Wednesday in favor of two subway drivers who had sought compensation from the city government, claiming they received poor performance reviews for refusing to shave their beards.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/okinawa-activist-launches-hunger-strike-protest-cities-staying-vote-henoko-u-s-base-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T19:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20190118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jinshiro Motoyama, who represents a civil group in Okinawa Prefecture that has pushed efforts to realize a referendum on a contentious U.S. base relocation plan, launches a hunger strike on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/world/science-health-world/warming-deforestation-threatening-coffee-species-including-ethiopias-arabica-scientists-warn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T19:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(A farmer harvests arabica coffee beans in Gayo highland, Takengon district, Aceh province, Indonesia, last March. Sixty percent of the wild coffee species are threatened with extinction, according to a study Wednesday that also identified a rare type of highland coffee from Sierra Leone that has not been seen in the wild since 1954.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/kobe-marks-24th-anniversary-great-hanshin-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T19:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trumpet player Akira Matsudaira performs at dawn during a ceremony in Suwayama Park in Kobe on Thursday to mark the 24th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/bangladeshi-asylum-seekers-cuffed-visit-japanese-hospital-sparks-online-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-17T21:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image, posted online by Asahi Oda, shows Bangladeshi asylum-seeker Mahruf Abdullah walking inside a Tokyo hospital with an immigration official holding a rope tied to his waist in October last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-17T22:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan holds his hand over his heart during the American National Anthem as he hosts an arrival ceremony for Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya at the Pentagon on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/business/corporate-business/lawyers-carlos-ghosn-appeal-tokyo-courts-denial-request-bail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T01:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, currently detained in the Tokyo Detention Center, have appealed a Tokyo court decision earlier this week that denied his request for bail.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/rigging-polls-direction-trump-admits-ex-lawyer-michael-cohen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T04:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives for his sentencing at United States Court house in the Manhattan borough of New York City Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/business/chinese-ambassador-canada-warns-future-huawei-5g-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T06:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ambassador to Canada Lu Shaye (center) meets with media at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-gets-heros-welcome-belgrade-serbia-seeks-leverage-kosovo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T09:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej talk as they visit the St Sava temple in Belgrade Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/world/science-health-world/unexpected-gender-role-twist-congo-ebola-outbreak-hits-women-head-households/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T09:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health care worker sprays around a baby suspected of dying of Ebola in Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/singaporean-linked-tokyos-2020-olympics-bid-gets-week-jail-lying-anticorruption-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T10:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-widens-callback-u-s-workers-pay-blunt-shutdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T11:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service employees Brian Lanouette (center right) and Mary Maldonado (right) join with others as they display placards during a rally by federal employees and supporters Thursday in front of the Statehouse in Boston, held to call for an end of the partial shutdown of the federal government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/national/dozens-north-korean-boats-carrying-human-remains-continue-wash-ashore-northern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T13:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wooden boat believed to be from North Korea is beached in Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/18/asia-pacific/cramped-hong-kong-eyes-64-billion-island-building-plan-critics-say-developers-hoarding-unused-land/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-18T15:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A television screen displays U.S. President Donald Trump delivering a speech on the closing day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ibaraki Gov. Kazuhiro Oikawa (left) and Yoshiki Yasui, president of Tokyo-based QR-code payment service provider Origami Inc., display their agreement to the media at a signing ceremony Wednesday at the Ibaraki Prefectural Government office in Mito.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-18T16:47:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass by a television screen displaying a sketch of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in a Tokyo courtroom, on Jan. 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha may meet next week, for the first time since frictions recently arose regarding South Korean court rulings related to wartime forced labor.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Missile Defense Review announcement at the Pentagon in Washington Thursday. Trump unveiled a review of U.S. missile defense capabilities Thursday that aims to counter threats from North Korea and Iran while adapting to ever more sophisticated weapon systems being developed by Russia and China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters stand in front of the former municipal government building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday, as the site is readied for demolition. Morioka District Court dismissed a request from residents to keep the building as a memorial to the 2011 tsunami, which killed the mayor and 27 city employees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-18T17:59:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Ihara, an independent director at Nissan Motor Co.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tozai Line, which runs from western Tokyo to Chiba Prefecture, is one of the country's most crowded routes during the rush hour. Tokyo Metro Co. has introduced various initiatives to encourage passengers, especially those using Tozai line trains, to stagger commuting hours]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-18T19:38:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scene near to the Sandringham Estate where Britain's Prince Philip was involved in a road accident in Sandringham, England, is seen Thursday. Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, had been in a traffic accident and is not injured.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-18T19:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruka Hirokawa (center) and Sayaka Kishi (right) take part in a women-only financial seminar in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-18T21:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lawyer representing plaintiffs speaks to reporters Wednesday in Seoul after a South Korean high court upheld a compensation order against Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. over wartime forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-18T21:59:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As the new Democratic House of Representatives majority launches a range of investigations into Donald Trump and his businesses, the Intelligence Committee and Financial Services Committee are poised to dig into his ties with Deutsche Bank, one of the world's largest financial institutions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction for the maglev train route at Nagoya Station in December 2017]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T14:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T14:35:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Richardson]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T15:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T15:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T15:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Epsilon-4 rocket lifts off from Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T18:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 168,000-ton cruise ship Quantum of the Seas arrives at Kochi New Port in the city of Kochi in June 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T19:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T20:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A beach is shown in Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture. Discussions over the name of the Sea of Japan may cause another spat between Japan and South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T21:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work to demolish the former town hall, where dozens of people died when it was hit by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, begins in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Saturday. Some residents wanted the building to be preserved as a memorial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/19/world/syrian-opposition-sees-window-political-solution-eight-years-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-19T23:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces attend the funeral of a fellow fighter who was killed while fighting against the Islamic State in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-19T23:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean warship that the Japanese government claims locked its fire-control radar on a Japanese patrol plane is seen in this image from December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/19/national/media-national/tolerant-attitudes-make-japan-drinkers-paradise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-20T00:12:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-alcohol-a-20190120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going flat: Beer accounted for 71 percent of nationwide alcohol consumption in 1989, but just 31.3 percent in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-20T12:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march in Marseille on Saturday during a demonstration against the high cost of living, government tax reforms and for more "social and economic justice."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/20/business/indias-electric-vehicle-goals-realized-two-wheels-not-four/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-20T14:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People ride an electric scooter in Ahmedabad, India, on Dec. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-20T14:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear woes: The Tokyo Shimbun reported on Jan. 5 that Hitachi Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi believes Japan does not have the right environment for renewable energy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya expresses hope that the second summit between North Korea and the United States will produce concrete results, at a news conference in Hawaii on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/19/national/media-national/organizing-guru-marie-kondo-sparks-plenty-joy-social-media/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marie Kondo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T11:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and special representative Stephen Biegun (right) greet North Korean lead nuclear negotiator Kim Yong Chol at The Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen arrives at his home in New York with his left arm in a sling supported by a pillow Friday. Democrats are vowing to investigate whether President Donald Trump directed Cohen, his personal attorney, to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project, calling that possibility a "concern of the greatest magnitude."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T13:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 6. They agreed Monday to meet again in mid-February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T13:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Miura shakes hands with his son, Gota, on Thursday at the base camp at Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. His office said Monday he has given up trying to reach the summit of the 6,959-meter-high peak due to health concerns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Biegun (left) and Kenji Kanasugi (right) are to meet in Sweden this week to discuss North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T14:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photos from Syria are contrasted in a #10YearChallenge tweet by @muniba_mazari.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/21/business/japanese-firms-circumventing-traditional-hiring-timetable-find-quality-recruits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-21T14:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some companies sign up new employees with technical skills earlier than usual with higher salaries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T14:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, offers a reminder of the public humbling of some of its most visible champions, with dozens of the assembled business leaders and exemplars present and past having been brought low by a wide range of misconduct allegations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping greet attendees waving American and Chinese flags during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T17:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outside JR Hakata Station, near the scene of the gold bar theft]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T17:51:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T18:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians stand in front of a Prada SpA store in the Wangfujing shopping area of Beijing on Jan. 12. Some China watchers believe actual economic growth is already weaker than official data suggest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T18:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is planning to alter part of the construction plan for moving U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to the Henoko coastal district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, shown here on Jan. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T19:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yu Maeda and her husband, Michinori, make miso in Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-21T20:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Iraq Bikers, the first Iraqi biker group, poses for a photograph before riding his motorbike on the streets of Baghdad on Dec. 28.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stella, a kitten born just a few months ago, waits in a cage during a December adoption fair in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, organized by Nekoken, a nonprofit that finds homes for abandoned or stray animals.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long lines are seen at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport amid the partial federal government shutdown, in Atlanta Jan. 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square last March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/world/social-issues-world/ecuador-demand-venezuelan-migrants-criminal-records-pregnant-womans-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T06:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The president of the Venezuelans Abroad foundation, Eduardo Febres Cordero, speaks to the press outside the Foreign Ministry in Quito, where he arrived to present an official letter rejecting Ecuador's measure to request the judicial record of every Venezuelan entering the country, on Monday. A feminicide in Ecuador involving a Venezuelan who stabbed his Ecuadoran pregnant partner to death when policemen were surrounding and pointing their guns at him, resulted in the government to make a call to try to put out the signs of xenophobia, but also to toughen immigration measures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/world/crime-legal-world/u-k-academic-says-forced-uae-confess-spying-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T13:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hedges-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matthew Hedges gives a TV interview in the Manhattan borough of New York City Jan. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/public-trust-putin-falls-13-year-low-33-4-state-pollster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T13:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic presents a Yugoslavian shepherd dog puppy to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Belgrade on Jan. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/world/toddler-rescue-effort-reaches-dangerous-stage-spain-borehole-engineer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T14:22:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spainboy-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drill and excavating machinery work on top of the mountain next to a deep borehole to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped there for six days near the town of Totalan in Malaga, Spain, Sunday. Spanish officials say rescuers are making slow progress in exceptionally difficult conditions to reach the 2-year-old boy who fell into a narrow, deep borehole in the countryside eight days ago.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/21/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-reveals-audio-evidence-terminates-talks-south-korea-radar-lock-dispute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T16:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-radar-a-20190122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-radar-a-20190122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean warship that locked its fire-control radar onto a Japanese patrol plane, according to the Japanese government, is seen in this image from December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-denied-bail-tokyo-despite-written-offer-wear-electronic-ankle-tag/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T16:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As expected, the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday said ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn must remain behind bars.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/canada-ban-huawei-5g-networks-ottawas-former-spy-chief-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T16:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-huawei-b-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-b-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters hold signs and Chinese flags outside the Supreme Court of British Columbia during the third day of a bail hearing for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, in Vancouver, on Dec. 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/crime-legal/four-men-arrested-online-romance-scam-woman-cheated-millions-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T16:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-scam-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-scam-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A suspect arrested in a case involving an online romance scam is taken to Fukuoka Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/japan-recommend-southwestern-islands-kagoshima-okinawa-unesco-listing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T16:49:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-unesco-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Amami rabbit is seen on Amami Oshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture in April 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/corporate-business/showa-shell-resumes-oil-imports-iran-u-s-sanctions-waiver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T17:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-shell-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shell-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. has resumed imports of Iranian oil.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/corporate-business/japan-drugmaker-takeda-mulls-sale-3-billion-emerging-market-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T17:14:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-takeda-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takeda-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is expanding a push to cut debt after its takeover of Shire PLC.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/kumamoto-host-asia-pacific-water-security-meeting-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T17:33:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/world/crime-legal-world/giuliani-backtracks-remark-trump-sought-moscow-deal-throughout-2016-calls-comment-hypothetical/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T17:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rudy-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at the 2018 Iran Freedom Convention in Washington last May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/corporate-business/texting-app-line-hopes-links-japans-mizuho-nomura-can-open-78-million-wallets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T19:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-line-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-line-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Line Corp. bear character Brown stands on display at the company's research and development facility in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-vows-crackdown-underperformers-ongoing-war-air-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T19:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-chinasmog-a-20190122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinasmog-a-20190122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman hangs laundry near Huaneng Power International Inc.'s Gaobeidian thermal power station in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/asia-pacific/decade-later-chinas-lethal-infant-milk-scandal-leaves-legacy-distrust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T20:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-chinamilk-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinamilk-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese parents still don't trust local companies to feed their babies more than a decade after a tainted infant milk powder scandal killed six children.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/japans-convenience-store-giants-remove-pornographic-magazines-shelves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T21:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-magazines-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-magazines-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Seven Eleven convenience store in Tokyo, operated by Seven &amp; I Holdings Co., in October 2017. Japan's three largest convenience store operators now plan to stop selling pornographic magazines by the end of August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/japan-looking-allowing-e-money-salary-payments-ahead-foreign-worker-influx/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T21:06:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-1097193336.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b cashless-a 20190123]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering allowing firms to pay salaries in electronic money, as Japan plans to open up in April to more foreign blue-collar workers, who are expected to face hurdles in opening bank accounts as they lack domestic assets and transaction histories.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/business/corporate-business/toyota-honda-panasonic-consider-joint-venture-procure-cobalt-electric-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-22T21:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-cobalt-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cobalt-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota's logo is seen during the first press day at the Paris Motor Show on Oct. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/hay-fever-season-predicted-arrive-mid-february-across-much-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T01:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-pollen-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pollen-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This spring's pollen season is projected to arrive in mid-February in much of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/ship-deadly-black-sea-blaze-turned-away-russia-port-u-s-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T04:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-shipblaze-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-shipblaze-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This video grab provided by the Kerch.fm web portal shows the vessels Maestro and Candiy on fire near the Kerch Strait linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, in Kerch, Crimea, Monday. The two Tanzanian-flagged commercial vessels caught fire in the Black Sea, leaving at least 10 sailors dead, Russian officials said, and seven sailors are reported still missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-seeks-move-ahead-state-union-speech-despite-nancy-pelosis-shutdown-misgivings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T06:32:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-trumpspeech-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpspeech-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (center) and Chef Jose Andres (second from right) arrive to give out food at World Central Kitchen, the not-for-profit organization started by Chef Jose Andres, Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/business/striking-teachers-reach-deal-los-angeles-school-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T06:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-strikedeal-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-strikedeal-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Striking teachers cheer Tuesday in Los Angeles as the teacher union reached a tentative deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District. Union members have to vote on the agreement to end the strike, which started on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/crime-legal-world/rudy-giuliani-compounds-trumps-russia-woes-conflicting-interviews/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T06:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-rudy-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rudy-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in August. On Monday, Giuliani walked back comments he made about discussions Trump had with his former personal attorney about a real estate project in Moscow during the presidential election campaign.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-supreme-court-mum-trumps-dreamers-appeals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T08:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-dreamers-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dreamers-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) hold signs during the Women's March rally in Las Vegas last January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/nursing-homes-see-spate-deaths-amid-flu-outbreak-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T12:13:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-flu-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-flu-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven residents at the Hokudanso nursing care facility in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture, died this month after 74 residents and staff members contracted influenza.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/government-cuts-off-subsidies-tokyo-medical-university-entrance-exam-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T12:27:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-medschools-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medschools-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Medical University in Shinjuku Ward will not receive any state subsidy in the current or next fiscal years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/crime-legal/shooting-tokyos-kabukicho-district-leaves-man-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T12:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-kabukicho-a-20190122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kabukicho-a-20190122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police search a karaoke bar in the Kabukicho entertainment district in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, following a shooting there Monday evening.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/opposition-leader-jeremy-corbyn-pushes-parliament-vote-new-brexit-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T12:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-brexitagain-a-20190123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexitagain-a-20190123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video grab from TV footage shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May listening as opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn responds to her statement on changes to her Brexit withdrawal agreement on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/business/corporate-business/british-billionaire-james-dyson-moves-vacuum-giant-hq-singapore-closer-growing-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T12:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-dyson-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dyson-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The founder of the Dyson company, designer James Dyson, poses next to the model of an engine during a photo session at a hotel in Paris in October. British electric appliance pioneer Dyson will switch headquarters to Singapore this year due to booming Asian demand but not because of Brexit, the company said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/new-u-s-intelligence-strategy-warns-russia-china-seizing-global-turmoil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T13:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-chinarussia-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinarussia-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks after reviewing the Chinese People's Liberation Army naval fleet in the South China Sea in April 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/business/century-basras-british-era-shipyard-going-strong-via-vintage-machinery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T13:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/b-basra-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-basra-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker inspects a pulley that pulls ships at a shipyard built by the British Army on Basra's docks in 1916, in Basra, Iraq, in December.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/business/trump-wont-soften-hard-line-need-china-reforms-make-trade-deal-advisers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-23T13:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, via satellite link from Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-23T17:43:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-23T18:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women from Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia pose for a photo in Osaka in May 2017 while taking a break between classes to prepare for a national exam to become certified care workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-23T19:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan logged a goods trade deficit of ¥1.2 trillion in 2018, the first red ink in three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T07:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, arrives at the U.S. Courthouse for a status conference in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[KenKen puzzle creator and mathematics teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto displays one of his puzzle books in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference after their talks in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T10:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T11:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T12:39:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T13:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Defense Ministry spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo speaks to the media Wednesday in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T13:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T14:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[General Oyster Inc., Japan's largest oyster restaurant operator, has been approached by several Chinese companies interested in buying a stake or acquiring the business.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeo Mori, senior deputy foreign minister (left), and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou are expected to meet in Beijing on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with conservative leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday. House Democrats are preparing to send Trump a proposal to boost border security — but not build a wall — by spending more than the $5.7 billion he wants for the wall, according to a Democratic aide.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T16:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Law enforcement officials take cover outside a SunTrust Bank branch Wednesday in Sebring, Florida. Authorities say they've arrested a man who fired shots inside the Florida bank.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T16:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone operator helps to retrieve a drone after photographing over Hart Island in New York last April. Drone sightings reported by airline pilots over New Jersey renew questions about how to accommodate the popular devices into the nation's airspace. The ability of drones to interfere with aviation is likely to get worse as the number of machines multiplies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T16:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, exits the United States Courthouse after sentencing at the Manhattan borough of New York City Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T16:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damaso Lopez, a leader in Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, is escorted by police after his capture at an upscale apartment building in Mexico City in 2017. Lopez testified Wednesday at the U.S. trial of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, implicating the kingpin's wife in his 2015 prison escape.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T17:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of Hitachi Ltd., poses for a photograph on the second day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policymakers attend the 49th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Tuesday to Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T17:58:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (right) greets SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son at a joint news conference in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-smoking activist Bungaku Watanabe has fought for nonsmokers' rights for more than 40 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/24/business/ceos-davos-sour-trump-policies-warn-hurt-business-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-24T19:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gestures during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T19:47:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T20:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Operations of this monorail in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo will be suspended.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-24T22:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T08:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Congressman-elect Jean Wyllys waves during the inauguration ceremony for deputies at Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in 2011. Wyllys, an openly gay congressman, clashed with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and said he was leaving his job and the country because of mounting death threats, according to local media.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T08:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Embassy building in Caracas is seen Thursday, a day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro broke off diplomatic ties with the U.S.  Maduro announced on Wednesday he was breaking off diplomatic ties with the United States after counterpart Donald Trump acknowledged opposition leader Juan Guaido as the South American country's "interim president."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T12:43:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego, California, Dec. 11. The Trump administration expects to launch a policy as early as Friday that forces people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, marking one of the most significant changes to the immigration system of Donald Trump's presidency.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T13:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/world/science-health-world/odd-duckbilled-sea-reptile-thrived-ancient-global-calamity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T13:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eretmorhipis carrolldongi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T13:41:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rally supporting the United States' policy of steady pressure on North Korea is held in Seoul on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/world/u-n-expert-lead-inquiry-murder-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-agents-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T13:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jamal Khashoggi in December 2014]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T14:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 33-year-old Filipino man, whose name was on an international wanted list, arrives at Narita airport Thursday. He was arrested upon arrival over allegations relating to a 2004 rape and murder case.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/business/tech/u-s-universities-unplug-chinas-huawei-pressure-trumps-national-security-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T14:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People arrive for a product presentation at Huawei in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/name-gods-indian-girls-forced-sex-work-despite-ban-ancient-ritual/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T15:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devadasi perform at a cultural program in Nagaon, in India's Assam state, in February 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-01-25T15:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Ertel]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/national/science-health/japans-commercial-whaling-may-two-silver-linings-freeing-iwc-sparing-southern-ocean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T16:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-naturalselections-a-20180126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nature’s wonders: A Bryde’s whale, one of the species hunted by Japan, surfaces as it feeds on small fish, while seagulls try to poach its catch from its jaws. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/national/crime-legal/man-knife-assaults-policeman-toyoma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T16:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 22-year-old man was arrested Thursday for attempted murder after he attacked an officer at this police substation in the city of Toyama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/former-scottish-leader-salmond-top-figure-independence-movement-charged-attempted-rape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-01-25T17:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alex Salmond leaves the Edinburgh Sheriff Court after his arrest in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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