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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the road: An increasing number of teenagers have been gallivanting around the globe, using social media as a way to raise support (and sometimes funds).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-24T16:41:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot modeled after Kannon Bodhisattva is unveiled to the media at Kodaiji Temple in the city of Kyoto on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-24T17:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Great ape gestures: Studying the behavior of bonobos in Congo can offer insight into human evolution.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's latest reforms spell further upheaval following regulations that forced retail giants Amazon and Flipkart to restructure their Indian operations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman speaks about the HoloLens 2 during a presentation at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) on the eve of the world's biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American, North Korean and Vietnamese flags are displayed for sale at a store in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are scheduled to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi for their second summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Howard X, an Australian impersonating North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, kisses an impersonator of U.S. President Donald Trump at the La Paix Hotel in Hanoi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump stands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their Singapore summit in June last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (left) looks toward U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Portraits of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by Vietnamese artist Tran Lam Binh are displayed at a cafe in Hanoi last Wednesday ahead of the second Trump-Kim summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Televisions at an electronics store in Tokyo display a news broadcast about a North Korean missile launch in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Yu, chief executive officer of Huawei Technologies Co., presents the Mate X foldable 5G mobile device during a launch event in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Petit Palais, a museum in Paris, are treated to a Japanese tea ceremony Sunday as part of an event to mark the 160th anniversary last year of friendship between Japan and France.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/25/world/science-health-world/japan-no-4-healthiest-nation-spain-tops-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-25T19:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks as Liu He, China's vice premier and director of the central leading group of the Chinese Communist Party, listens during a trade meeting in the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-25T20:26:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanji Toyama, a Nagoya University graduate student and saxophone player, shows off Sonoligo, a website he devised to offer customized information on musicians, venues and concert schedules.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/25/business/trump-trade-truce-china-removes-cloud-global-economy-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-25T20:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and other ranking U.S. officials meet with Liu He, China's vice premier and director of the central leading group of the Chinese Communist Party (seated, second from right) in the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outside Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, a woman taking part in a sit-in protest against the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma holds up pages from a newspaper Monday morning reporting the outcome of Sunday's referendum.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-25T20:55:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout photo shows craftsmen placing Japanese cypress bark shingles on a roof, an example of traditional Japanese architectural techniques that the government is planning to nominate for addition to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout photo made available by the Iranian Navy office on Saturday shows Iranian Navy submarines sailing during an Iranian navy drill in the Gulf of Oman on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian police carry the coffin containing of their fallen colleague, who according to police was killed in a gun battle between suspected militants and security forces in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, during his wreath laying ceremony in Srinagar, India, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters carry a banner during a demonstration against judicial changes in Bucharest Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daily deal sites tap into buying power in numbers]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[App unlocks augmented reality embedded in images]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/11/17/national/media-national/can-pet-bottles-and-hello-kitty-rescue-beaujolais-nouveau/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T08:50:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Can PET bottles and Hello Kitty rescue Beaujolais Nouveau?]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/12/09/national/media-national/the-fast-track-to-love-in-aomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T08:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/12/31/national/media-national/trends-in-japan-2010-food-and-drink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T08:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jpulse-20101231-suntory-all-free.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20101231-suntory-all-free.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trends in Japan 2010: food and drink]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/05/09/national/media-national/jal-builds-a-social-media-campaign-one-block-at-a-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jpulse-20120509-social-media-block-art.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20120509-social-media-block-art.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[JAL builds a social media campaign, one block at a time]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/07/13/business/the-korean-beauty-secrets-are-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20120713-cosme2.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Korean beauty secrets are out]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20120803-8025975.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Today's J-blip: Ikea pops up all over Cat Street]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/09/07/national/media-national/new-japanese-tourists-have-social-network-will-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jpulse-20120907-trippeace.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Japanese tourists: have social network, will travel]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/09/27/national/media-national/bicqlo-bic-camera-meets-uniqlo-is-here/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bicqlo – Bic Camera meets Uniqlo – is here!]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/12/business/todays-j-blip-safecast-ios-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Today's J-Blip: Safecast iOS app]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/11/13/national/media-national/todays-j-blip-gas-neutralizing-underwear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T09:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T10:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T10:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/13/national/media-national/photo-report-foodex-japan-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T10:20:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20130313-DSC_3017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photo report: FOODEX Japan 2013]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T11:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker wearing goggles, a mask and gloves holds a serving of soft-serve ice cream topped with locally produced habanero pepper powder in the village of Hirata, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T12:05:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-forexec-a-20190226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Numerous management experts say the Carlos Ghosn case is having a chilling effect on Japanese firms' recruiting efforts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/25/national/japanese-fishing-boat-crew-detained-russia-may-released-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T12:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nishino Maru No. 68 (foreground) is seen off Nakhodka, Russia, on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Honda Motor Co. auto plant in Swindon, England, employs about 3,500 people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a news conference at the conclusion of an EU-Arab League summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump meets supporters organizing voter registration and support for his campaign at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa in 2016. Alva Johnson (wearing Trump hat at left, a female ex-campaign staffer, is alleging in a new lawsuit filed Monday that Inside the RV, Trump kissed her without consent.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron (left) greets Iraqi President Barham Salih for talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/world/crime-legal-world/public-deserves-robust-release-robert-mueller-probe-findings-ex-fbi-chief-andrew-mccabe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stands for a photograph following an interview in Washington on Monday. McCabe last week said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller's final report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election should be publicly released, a commitment that President Donald Trump's new attorney general has refused to make.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (right) and Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared acting president Juan Guaido take part in a meeting with foreign ministers of the Lima Group at Colombia's Foreign Affairs Ministry in Bogota Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T14:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People opposed to a plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko area of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, hold a rally outside the Japanese Consulate in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/national/politics-diplomacy/taiwans-defense-minister-says-japan-u-s-might-send-troops-event-attack-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T14:38:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/25/national/crime-legal/life-long-hatred-felines-spurred-serial-japanese-cat-poisoner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T14:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, is alleged to have poisoned several cats last year because he hates felines.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T16:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers adopt a congratulatory message to Emperor Akihito for his 30-year reign during the Lower House plenary session on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/national/history/writers-recall-initiation-japanese-literature-via-donald-keene/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T16:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Keene, the renowned scholar of Japanese literature, consults a book at his home in Kita Ward, Tokyo, in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/national/hanedas-international-terminal-renamed-terminal-3-amid-large-scale-renovations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T17:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haneda airport's international terminal is due to be renamed Terminal 3 in March 2020 amid large-scale renovations ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T17:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new Sony Xperia 1 is demonstrated during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T17:44:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cardinal George Pell (center) walks along a street in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/national/crime-legal/15-year-term-sought-editor-japanese-comic-publisher-death-wife/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T17:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T18:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young people shovel snow in Nishiaizu, Fukushima Prefecture, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/asia-pacific/two-u-s-navy-ships-sail-taiwan-strait-routine-transit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T18:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Navy F18 fighter jet lands on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during a routine exercise in the South China Sea in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-26T20:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kang Kyung-wha, South Korea's foreign minister, walks out for a photo opportunity at the State Department in Washington on Dec. 6, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/business/u-k-minister-head-japan-try-convince-honda-reconsider-swindon-plant-shutdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T20:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20190227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greg Clark]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/month-ahead-election-thailands-billionaire-rising-political-star-energizing-young-voters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-26T22:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, takes a selfie with his supporters during a campaign rally in Bangkok on Feb. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T06:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator takes part in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a meeting of the Lima Group takes place in Bogota Monday. The baseball cap reads "Maduro Son of a Bitch."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T07:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-univision-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jorge Ramos, anchor of Spanish-language U.S. television network Univision, talks on a mobile phone as he arrives at the Simon Bolivar international airport in Caracas Tuesday before leaving Venezuela.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/world/crime-legal-world/contempt-ruling-stands-u-s-court-rejects-roger-stone-aides-challenge-special-counsel-robert-mueller/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T07:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/f-mueller-a-20190228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Flaherty (left), chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), and Paul Kamenar (right), attorney for Roger Stone's associate, Andrew Miller, speak to reporters outside U.S. District Court to explain Miller's refusal to appear before a grand jury in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe in Washington last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-disrupted-russian-trolls-day-november-2018-election-washington-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T07:13:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trolls-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Internet ResearchAgency, known as the "troll factory," one of a web of companies allegedly controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has reported ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is seen last October in St. Petersburg, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/world/social-issues-world/new-u-n-access-hodeida-mills-boost-yemen-aid-operation-famine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T07:19:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees (from left) Swiss Vice President Simonetta Sommaruga, Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallstrom, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock hold a press conference following a pledging conference for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen on Tuesday at the United Nations offices in Geneva.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T07:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves as he arrives at the Dong Dang railway station in Dong Dang, Vietnam, on Tuesday to attend the second U.S.-North Korea summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/business/boeing-board-add-nikki-haley-helped-fight-south-carolina-plants-union-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T08:45:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-haley-a-20190228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-haley-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nikki Haley speaks during the Hudson Institute's 2018 Award Gala in New York in December. Boeing is making room on its board of directors for Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Boeing Co. said Tuesday that it nominated Haley for election at its annual shareholder meeting, which is scheduled for April 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/world/crime-legal-world/gop-lawmaker-tweets-warning-michael-cohen-public-testimony-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T08:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T08:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Civil defense forces carry a wounded person through rubble after an airstrike on a location targeted by government forces, in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T09:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers from a special "search battalion" of the Belarus Defense Ministry collect the remains of about 730 prisoners of a former Jewish ghetto, discovered in a mass grave at a construction site in the center of Brest, Belarus, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T14:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military delegates arrive for the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/asia-pacific/pakistan-says-indian-aircraft-released-payload-crossing-kashmir-frontier-reports-no-casualties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T15:40:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pakistani soldier watches the movement of Indian forces on Saturday along the Line of Control from a post in Chakoti, 50 kilometers from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T16:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-arrest-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukinobu Tomita (seated at rear, wearing a hood) is taken to a police station in Hiroshima Prefecture on Wednesday after being arrested in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, over a murder-robbery.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/national/politics-diplomacy/high-ranking-russian-officials-visit-island-disputed-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T17:22:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-shikotan-a-20190228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shikotan-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sergei Ivanov]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/business/corporate-business/asias-travel-boom-trouble-pilot-shortage-worsens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T17:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flight attendants are seen through a window of a Bamboo Airways plane at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on the first day of the airline's operations on Jan. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/business/corporate-business/subarus-domestic-production-halves-january-due-part-defect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T17:56:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pass by a Subaru Corp. dealership in Tokyo. The automaker's domestic production in January halved from a year earlier due to a factory shutdown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/national/veteran-japanese-journalist-fumio-matsuo-sought-foster-reconciliation-japan-u-s-dies-85/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T17:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-matsuo-a-20190228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-matsuo-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Matsuo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/business/economy-business/japans-beef-imports-tpp-members-soar-50-january-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T18:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-beef-a-20190228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-beef-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian beef is displayed for sale at an Aeon shopping mall in Tokyo. Government data released Wednesday shows Japan's beef imports from members of a trans-Pacific free trade pact that took effect late last year soared more than 50 percent in January from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/asia-pacific/half-north-korean-defectors-suffered-violence-rights-not-top-summit-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-27T18:42:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkrights-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean protesters and North Korean defectors tear portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. The protesters were urging the United States to discuss North Korean human rights issues in the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the Dong Dang railway station in Vietnam on Tuesday to attend the second U.S.-North Korea summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delays continued Wednesday morning at Nishikawaguchi Station in Saitama Prefecture after services were restored following an accident on the Shonan Shinjuku Line.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-27T23:55:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Downed Indian pilot Wing Commander Abhi Nandan, captured by Pakistan, is seen in this handout photo released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo at a store of French sports goods retailer Decathlon is seen Wednesday in Montpellier, southern France.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T04:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T06:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T07:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors walk next to the Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/world/crime-legal-world/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-election-fraud-scheme/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T07:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. poses for a portrait outside of his home in Bladenboro, North Carolina, in December. The Republican in the nation's last undecided congressional election said Monday he recruited Dowless, a political operative now at the center of a ballot fraud investigation, because he produced election results in his rural North Carolina county and other Republicans vouched for him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/business/venezuela-removed-8-tons-central-bank-gold-last-week-legislator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T07:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The head of Venezuela's Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello (left), speas to government supporters and members of Venezuela's Bolivarian militia during a demostration in Caracas Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T10:39:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/national/no-systematic-cover-faulty-jobs-data-labor-ministry-investigative-panel-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T10:43:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labor minister Takumi Nemoto answers questions from reporters on Wednesday after receiving a report on the reinvestigation of the labor survey scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/national/reconstruction-olympics-theme-said-not-gathered-momentum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T10:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Azuma Stadium in the city of Fukushima in March 2017, will host the baseball and softball competitions during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-trump-kick-off-second-summit-handshake-hanoi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T11:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkupdate-b-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un following a meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel in Hanoi on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-ldp-lawmaker-offers-quits-diet-seat-amid-rape-allegations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T12:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-tabata-a-20190301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tabata-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuyoshi Tabata]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/apparent-first-north-koreas-kim-responds-question-foreign-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T12:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks ahead of a one-on-one bilateral meeting at the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/national/disaster-filled-2018-lessons-1995-hanshin-quake-resonate-foreign-nationals-kobe-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T14:04:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jjkobe-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thomas Mayrhofer, general manager of ANA Crowne Plaza Osaka, speaks at the Kansai Resilience Forum, an event organized last week by the government in collaboration with the International Academic Forum (IAFOR).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/japan-plans-event-showcase-cultural-appeal-olympics-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T14:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-event-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting to promote the planned Japan Exposition, at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/months-setbacks-theresa-mays-brexit-deal-starts-fall-place/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T14:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to lawmakers in Parliament on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/business/economy-business/food-beverage-price-hikes-set-hit-japan-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T15:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T15:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkron-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the start of their summit at a Hanoi hotel on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/asia-pacific/focus-north-koreas-nuclear-arsenal-obscures-threat-posed-chemical-biological-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T15:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean government officials attend a civil defense drill against a possible North Korean chemical attack in Seoul in March 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/business/economy-business/government-says-factory-production-pausing-industrial-output-fell-3-7-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T16:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-production-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tools for manufacturing gears are seen on the production line at Kohara Gear Industry Co.'s factory in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Feb. 12. The month-on-month pace of the nation's industrial output's decline in January is the biggest in a year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/crime-legal/japanese-police-took-action-40-human-traffickers-japan-2018-cases-decline-10-previous-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T16:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T17:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disinfected health care workers' gear dry in a hospital in Bwana Suri, Ituri province, Congo, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/foreign-lodgers-japan-hit-record-88-59-million-2018-jta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T18:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-guests-b-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists pack the popular Kuromon food market in Osaka. The estimated number of foreign guests at hotels and other types of accommodations in Japan hit a record 88.59 million in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/despite-convenience-qr-code-donations-worshippers-still-prefer-offer-cash-temples-shrines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T20:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign with a QR code explaining how people can make a cashless offering is displayed on a signboard at Nikko Futarasan Shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. Despite the modern touch, most visitors are still opting to donate cash into the shrine's offertory box.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/business/u-s-trade-chief-robert-lighthizer-china-purchases-alone-not-enough-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T20:24:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-chinadeal-a-20190301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinadeal-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, speaks during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Lighthizer said America is pushing for a trade deal with China that includes "significant structural changes" to the Asian nation's economic model.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/business/tech/airbus-oneweb-aim-new-satellite-era-first-launch-space-based-internet-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T20:24:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Arianespace Soyuz rocket carrying six satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasts off from the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/friends-always-dennis-rodman-touts-trump-nobel-open-letter-ahead-u-s-north-korea-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T20:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkrodman-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dennis Rodman]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-gains-two-week-brexit-reprieve-british-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T20:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves the Houses of Parliament in London Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-02-28T21:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is shown in crowded Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/crime-legal/two-doctors-arrested-suspicion-raping-woman-drugging-drink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-02-28T21:26:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-doctor-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masataka Kaneko, a suspect in an alleged rape case, is seen after he was arrested on Wednesday in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/science-health-world/russia-orders-firms-free-captive-orca-belugas-held-far-east-whale-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T03:08:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this aerial view taken in January, captured marine mammals are seen in enclosures at a holding facility in Srednyaya Bay in the Far Eastern town of Nakhodka, Russia. Dozens of orca and beluga whales captured for sale to oceanariums have brought Russia's murky trade into the spotlight, but efforts to free them are blocked by government infighting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/science-health-world/100-alarms-day-europes-satellites-flying-blind-space-junk-threat-spreads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T03:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system are launched aboard a Russian Soyuz VS01 rocket at the Guiana Space Center in Sinnamary, French Guiana, in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/u-s-wins-wto-ruling-chinese-grain-price-support-ruling-also-seen-affecting-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T04:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-01T06:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Company signage is seen near the Huawei office building at its research and development center in Dongguan, in south China's Guangdong province, in December. The Chinese tech giant Huawei has pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges that it stole trade secrets from T-Mobile. A company representative entered the pleas Thursday in federal court in Seattle, where a 10-count indictment was unsealed in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pyongyang-disputes-trump-claim-kim-sought-end-sanctions-warns-leader-may-lost-will-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T06:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkt-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkt-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho speaks as vice minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui looks on during a press conference in Hanoi early Friday following the U.S.-North Korea summit. North Korea said it had offered to dismantle its Yongbyon nuclear plant in exchange for partial sanctions relief at Kim's summit with Trump, after the meeting ended without agreement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/trump-declares-islamic-state-territory-retaken-contradicting-allied-commander/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T07:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-caliphate-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-caliphate-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks to service members at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Thursday in Anchorage, Alaska., during a refueling stop as he returns from Hanoi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-ordered-chief-staff-give-jared-kushner-security-clearance-nyt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T11:37:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-kushner-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kushner-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House adviser Jared Kushner looks on during the Middle East summit in Warsaw Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/india-bans-kashmiri-islamist-party-five-years-amid-conflict-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T13:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-jamaat-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pakistani supporter of the Jamaat-e-Islami party holds a Pakistan national flag beside a replica of a missile during an anti-Indian protest rally in Karachi on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/summit-collapse-north-koreas-kim-vows-meet-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T13:35:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkagain-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkagain-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (center) speaks as Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui (left) listens during a during a news conference following the Hanoi summit on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/business/corporate-business/starbucks-open-high-end-roastery-cafe-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T13:50:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-starbucks-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo, a new high-end outlet of the coffee giant, is seen in the capital's Meguro Ward ahead of its opening Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/burden-falls-back-diplomats-trump-kim-fail-reach-deal-north-korea-nuclear-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T14:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkdip-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkdip-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at a hotel in Hanoi on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-hes-no-rush-nuclear-deal-second-meeting-north-koreas-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T14:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/f-nkwrap-b-20190301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-b-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second U.S.-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel in Hanoi on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/india-welcomes-pakistans-return-pilot-captured-kashmir-major-powers-urge-de-escalation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T15:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-indpilot-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indpilot-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image taken from video shows an Indian pilot who was captured after his plane was shot down by Pakistan's air force in its part of Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/national/politics-diplomacy/77-japanese-town-village-assembly-members-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T15:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-assemblies-a-20190301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-assemblies-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) delivers a speech at an annual meeting of the heads of city assemblies from across the country, held in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/bodies-militants-india-claims-bombed-pakistani-village-asks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T16:05:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-jaba-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jaba-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nooran Shah, 62, talks during an interview with Reuters outside his home, which is near the site where Indian military aircraft released payloads in Jaba village, Balakot, Pakistan, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/world/al-shabab-takes-credit-mogadishu-blast-fatal-least-four-says-hotel-target-not-judge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T16:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-dishblast-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dishblast-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers run as they carry a stretcher in Mogadishu Thursday after a car bomb exploded close to a major hotel killing at least five people and wounding 25 others. Witnesses described how the blast ripped through one of the busiest streets of the capital in the early evening, filled with people relaxing after a day at work.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/corporate-business/subaru-announces-global-recall-2-3-million-vehicles-biggest-yet-faulty-brake-lights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T16:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-subaru-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subaru-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Subaru said Friday that it was recalling around 2.3 million vehicles, including around 300,000 units of its popular Impreza and Forester models in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/japan-sees-first-fall-corporate-profits-two-years-due-weak-china-demand-high-material-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T16:33:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/japanese-business-spending-rose-5-7-october-december-quarter-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T16:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/january-jobless-rate-edges-japanese-women-quit-jobs-look-better-opportunities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T17:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-01T17:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-skjp-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skjp-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in attends a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/pakistan-set-release-downed-indian-pilot-reopen-airspace-amid-kashmir-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T18:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-pilot-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pilot-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image taken from video shows an Indian pilot who was captured after his plane was shot down by Pakistan's air force in its part of Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/national/seizure-russia-payment-fine-crew-japanese-crab-fishing-boat-released/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T18:56:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fishingboat-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese fishing boat Nishino Maru No. 68 is shown anchored off the coast of Nakhodka, Russia, in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/financial-markets/dollar-hits-10-week-high-around-%c2%a5111-90-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T19:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/24/national/politics-diplomacy/okinawa-residents-head-polls-referendum-relocation-u-s-futenma-base-henoko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T20:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-b-20190225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman votes in the referendum on the relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma at a polling station in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/national/crime-legal/joint-bill-finalized-compensate-forcibly-sterilized-japans-defunct-eugenics-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T20:25:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-sterilization-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sterilization-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers and supporters walk to the Sendai District Court on Feb. 8 to attend proceedings for a damages suit filed by two women who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery under the now-defunct Eugenic Protection Law.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/business/corporate-business/mufg-closing-%c2%a5700-billion-purchase-german-lender-dz-banks-aviation-finance-arm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T20:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-mufg-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mufg-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is close to finalizing a deal to purchase the aviation finance business of Germany's DZ Bank.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/lack-progress-trump-kim-summit-will-mixed-impact-china-south-korea-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T20:32:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkasia-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkasia-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un leaves Pyongyang on Feb. 23 to travel by train to Hanoi to attend a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/national/tokyo-restaurateur-develops-spore-sheet-speed-aging-meat-fish/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T20:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-agingmeat-a-20190301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-agingmeat-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikio Atobe, chief executive of Meat Epoch Co., shows how to wrap a chunk of meat in an aging sheet — elastic netting lathered with spores to facilitate the dry aging of beef, fish and other types of animal flesh, on Jan. 18 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-no-deal-kim-trump-summit-beats-bad-deal-concessions-nuclear-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T22:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-nkjapan-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapan-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to media Thursday evening at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo following his telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. president met with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in Hanoi earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/asia-pacific/trump-returns-empty-handed-summit-kim-washington-breathe-sigh-relief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-01T23:38:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkwhew-a-20190302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwhew-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands as they meet at a Hanoi hotel on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/business/economy-business/trump-asks-china-immediately-remove-agricultural-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T12:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump smiles during a trade meeting with Liu He, China's vice premier, in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T12:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Imperial Tobacco spokesman Eric Gagnon speaks to the media after the Quebec Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a Superior Court ruling in two class-action lawsuits against three tobacco companies on Friday in Montreal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australian-defense-chief-christopher-pyne-latest-quit-election-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T12:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ozdef-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christopher Pyne]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T12:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, accompanied by Philippines Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., speaks at a news conference at the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs Home Office in Manila on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T12:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks to reporters Friday at the Prime Minister's Office after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the result of the prefectural referendum on the relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/world/brazil-launch-corruption-probe-vale-dam-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T13:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vale-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a rescue team search for victims after a tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA collapsed in Brumadinho on Jan. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/world/mountain-lion-strangled-colorado-man-orphaned-cougar-cub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T13:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travis Kauffman heads into a news conference in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/world/science-health-world/easter-islanders-seek-outside-help-iconic-statues-leprosy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T15:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-easter-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moai statues stand on a hill on Easter Island on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/national/media-national/nhks-restructuring-plan-sparks-concern-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T22:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-nhk-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the spotlight: NHK's coverage has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/business/former-takata-employees-accused-insider-trading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T15:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T15:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ipbrink-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indians shout slogans near the India-Pakistan border in Wagah on Saturday as they wait for the return of an Indian Air Force pilot being returned by Pakistan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-labor-minister-survives-no-confidence-motion-data-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T15:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-nemoto-a-20190303.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nemoto-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takumi Nemoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/national/media-national/dealing-gun-issues-nation-guns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T22:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-guns-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed response: The National Police Agency revised a protocol concerning gun use in 2001, effectively eliminating the need for a warning shot.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/national/crime-legal/ex-mitsubishi-hitachi-power-systems-execs-convicted-bribes-walk-result-japans-first-plea-bargain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-02T17:06:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T20:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-budget-a-20190302.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lower House Budget Committee remains adjourned Friday morning after opposition parties submitted a no-confidence motion against labor minister Takumi Nemoto over the ministry's data scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T20:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ainurights-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives of Ainu rights groups hold a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T22:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T22:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russianobel-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhores Alferov]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-02T22:31:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/summit-exposes-frailty-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-03T10:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkus-summit-failure-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks with U.S. President Donald Trump during their second summit in Hanoi on Friday in a photo released by the Korean Central News Agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/national/fishing-boat-crew-returns-home-tottori-prefecture-released-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-03T20:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-fishingboat-a-20190304.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fishingboat-a-20190304.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideji Kagami (right), the captain of the Nishino Maru No. 68 crab-fishing boat, is welcomed home after arriving at a port in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Sunday. The boat was detained by Russian authorities in late January for allegedly illegally fishing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/asia-pacific/u-s-wants-know-pakistan-used-u-s-built-f-16-jets-indian-warplane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-03T22:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/world/saudi-cabinet-gives-green-light-electronic-tourism-visas-foreign-travelers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-03T23:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-04T01:56:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-rusjapan-a-20190303.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rusjapan-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a news conference held before the start of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/national/crime-legal/tokushima-farmer-probed-police-selling-wagyu-cattle-sperm-eggs-smuggler/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T12:24:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/national/media-national/reaction-niigata-bullying-video-reflects-changing-attitudes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T13:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/p16-stmichel-bullying-niigata-a-20190303.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-bullying-niigata-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The video shows a male student who attends private Niigata Seiryo High School being kicked and hit with a stick by other male students from the same school.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/business/financial-markets/rakutens-hiroshi-mikitani-set-big-winner-lyft-inc-s-impending-initial-public-offering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T13:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mikitani-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and chief executive officer of Rakuten Inc., speaks during the company's new year conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/world/science-health-world/spacex-notches-next-step-race-boeing-u-s-resumed-crewed-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T13:32:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-spacecrew-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spacecrew-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/algerias-ailing-bouteflika-82-offers-leave-within-one-year-re-elected-fifth-term-ennahar-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T13:34:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-algeria-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-algeria-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdelghani Zaalane, campaign manager of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, speaks after he submitted Bouteflika's official election papers at the Constitutional Council in Algiers Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/world/u-k-launches-global-fund-tackle-stigma-menstruation-bid-end-period-poverty-2050/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T15:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/business/nations-current-account-surplus-due-investments-overseas-senior-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T16:09:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/world/crime-legal-world/huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-sues-canada-alleged-wrongful-search-vancouver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T16:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-meng-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-meng-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co.'s chief financial officer]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/national/social-issues/foreign-residents-aware-public-nursing-care-plan-expected-tap-japan-grays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T16:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-chubu-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katherine Namisato, a Peruvian-Japanese, discusses nursing care services at Homi Danchi apartment complex in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-tweets-long-wanted-curb-u-s-south-korea-drills-bid-save-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T18:17:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-drills-b-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-drills-b-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Marines are seen during a military drill on the beach in Pohang, South Korea, in March 2015. They were taking part in a U.S.-South Korea joint-landing exercise as part of the Foal Eagle war games between the two allies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-vows-reasonable-rise-defense-spending-ahead-budgets-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T18:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-chinadef-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinadef-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military delegates arrive for a meeting ahead of the opening session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/business/economy-business/apparent-renewed-criticism-fed-chief-pick-jerome-powell-trump-says-dollar-strong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T18:38:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-powell-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-powell-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, Saturday. Trump said the dollar is too strong, and took a swipe at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as someone who "likes raising interest rates."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/business/economy-business/flat-line-japan-inflation-barometer-points-zero-price-growth-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T18:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GettyImages-541843458.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b jflation-a 20190305]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cheaper oil and falling mobile phone fees are predicted to keep inflation in check this year, meaning that on average, prices are predicted to stay flat.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/national/politics-diplomacy/tensions-within-japans-ldp-rise-backing-ex-dpj-heavyweight-goshi-hosono-shizuoka-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T20:19:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-focus-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Independent lawmaker Goshi Hosono (right) talks with Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai during a Lower House plenary session on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/national/social-issues/following-number-tragic-cases-japan-set-ban-physical-punishment-children-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T20:19:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-childabuse-a-20190304.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childabuse-a-20190304.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yu Suzuki (second from right), the mayor of Noda, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday addresses the first meeting of a committee set up to review the death in January of a 10-year-old girl in the city and come up with measures to prevent a recurrence of similar cases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/09/national/media-national/loft-fire-outdated-portrayal-women-advertising-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T23:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/p16-stmichel-loft-a-20190210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-loft-a-20190210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Say it with chocolate: Loft Co. has suspended an advertising campaign for Valentine's Day after facing criticism over the way it portrayed women.   Bloomberg]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/26/national/media-national/clamor-grows-heisei-era-memories-online-abdication-approaches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T23:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-heisei-nostalgia-a-20190127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of an era: An agency targeting young women posted an ad on Instagram riffing on Heisei staples such as Tamagotchi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/02/national/media-national/tiramisu-copyright-furor-highlights-internets-importance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-04T23:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-tiramisu-a-20190203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copy cats: The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped the initial logo for the games in 2015 after critics accused the designer of plagiarism.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/world/science-health-world/marine-heat-waves-threatening-fish-corals-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T07:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-seaheat-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-seaheat-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coral surrounds two small islands on the Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of Queensland, near the town of Rockhampton, in Australia, in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/national/science-health/worlds-smallest-baby-boy-born-tokyo-weighing-268-grams-healthy-sent-home-hospital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T11:10:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-smallboy-a-20190227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smallboy-a-20190227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby weighing 268 grams when born, the smallest boy to survive and be sent home from a hospital, is pictured five days after his birth in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/human-security-focus-u-n-symposium-cosponsored-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T13:35:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-unsympo-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unsympo-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan-hosted symposium at the U.N. headquarters in New York focused on "human security."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/national/media-national/google-maps-point-users-wrong-path/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T13:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/adelstein-20190301-z.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[adelstein-20190301-z.png]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fraudsters are using a function on Google Maps that allows them to edit important business details of institutions listed on the web-mapping service such as their telephone number and email address.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/national/captain-tsubasa-friends-popular-soccer-manga-take-tokyo-train-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T13:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Images from the soccer manga and anime series "Captain Tsubasa" are featured throughout Keisei Electric Railway's Yotsugi Station in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/business/carlos-ghosns-japan-legal-team-optimistic-tokyo-court-will-grant-ex-nissan-chief-bail-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T14:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-b-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junichiro Hironaka, lead lawyer for former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, attends a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/second-canadian-minister-quits-handling-scandal-trudeau-says-hes-taking-seriously/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T15:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-canadascandal-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-canadascandal-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The president of Canada's Treasury Board, Jane Philpott, poses for a photo with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during Trudeau's Cabinet reshuffle, in Ottawa on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/politics-diplomacy/head-japans-ground-forces-discusses-defense-concerns-philippine-counterpart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T16:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/business/corporate-business/head-japanese-furniture-chain-calls-father-daughter-cooperation-amid-feud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T16:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-otsuka-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-otsuka-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otsuka Kagu Ltd. head Kumiko Otsuka speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-taps-new-ambassador-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T16:28:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-skenvoy-a-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skenvoy-a-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nam Gwan-pyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/tech/toyota-subaru-look-launch-jointly-developed-ev-early-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T16:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-jointev-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jointev-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Subaru logo is pictured during the 88th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva last March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/corporate-business/japans-itochu-invests-singapore-operator-doctor-focused-social-networking-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T18:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/tech/minority-report-gets-real-japan-startup-develops-ai-cameras-spot-shoplifters-steal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T18:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-aicamera-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aicamera-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo-based startup Vaak demonstrates a crime prevention system that uses artificial intelligence to catch shoplifters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/nhk-japans-public-broadcaster-start-simultaneous-online-streaming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T18:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/tech/third-arms-talking-walkers-panasonic-ramps-ties-japan-academia-human-help-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T19:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-panasonic-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-panasonic-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wearable arm-shaped robot helps hold a board in place while a man drills into it during a demonstration in Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/moomins-settling-saitama-cuddly-characters-first-theme-park-japan-open-march-16/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T19:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-moomin-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moomin-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Characters that appear in the Finnish stories about the Moomins pose on Tuesday at Moominvalley Park in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/economy-business/china-slash-taxes-boost-lending-beijing-sets-6-0-6-5-growth-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T19:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-chinagrowth-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinagrowth-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese military band conductor rehearses before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/bill-lower-mobile-phone-fees-japan-moves-forward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T20:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-phonebill-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-phonebill-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SoftBank mobile phone store in Tokyo is seen in December.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/hitachi-group-firms-caught-deploying-foreign-trainees-illegally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T20:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-trainees-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trainees-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Ltd. and its 10 group firms have been issued improvement orders for their treatment of foreign trainees.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/japan-plans-drone-ban-u-s-military-sdf-facilities-media-fear-restrictions-reporting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T20:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-drones-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drones-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new bill aims to ban the flying of drones over U.S. military bases and Self-Defense Forces' facilities in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/japans-tax-laws-get-way-women-working-full-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T20:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-yenforliving-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yenforliving-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An outdated tax structure that benefits women who stay at home is an obstacle for those who want to work as regular employees.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/economy-business/evidence-grows-trumps-trade-wars-hitting-u-s-economy-americans-footing-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T21:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-trumpwars-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpwars-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he and Chinese President Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2017. Trump on Friday urged China to abolish tariffs on agricultural products imported from the United States — adding that trade talks between the rival powers were going well.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/world/crime-legal-world/national-emergency-two-teens-killed-knife-murders-britain-soar-year-tally-least-24/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-05T21:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-knifings-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-knifings-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Graham McNulty delivers a statement outside of New Scotland Yard relating to knife crime, in London Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/16/national/media-national/understanding-social-media-can-land-hot-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T11:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-part-time-workers-a-20190217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishy behavior: A screenshot of video footage showing a man at Kura Sushi in Osaka throwing raw fish into a trash can and retrieving it. The restaurant reportedly suffered a significant drop in profit following the upload of the video.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/18/business/tech/sharp-takes-wraps-off-new-robohon-apps-aimed-getting-families-firms-used-life-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T11:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-robohon-a-20190219.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robohon-a-20190219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. unveils three new RoBoHon humanoid robots in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/business/kick-tires-rolls-royce-savors-blowout-demand-suv-starting-325000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T12:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-rolls-a-20190307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rolls-a-20190307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Torsten Muller-Otvos, chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd., gestures while speaking near a Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd. Phantom automobile on the opening day of the 89th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva on Tuesday. The show near Lake Leman, which opens to the public from Thursday to March 17, will be the first gilded showcase of the year for the likes of Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini, and Pininfarina, among others.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/business/u-n-myanmar-expert-wants-tighter-checks-facebook-investors-ensure-back-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T13:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-myanmar-a-20190307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-myanmar-a-20190307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees collect drinking water at the Shalbagan refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/national/japan-getting-muslim-prayer-rooms-getting-limited-use/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T13:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-prayer-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prayer-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prayer room for Muslims at the LaLaport Expocity shopping mall in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, is seen in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-defense-spending-grow-7-5-2019-beijing-seeks-world-class-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T13:21:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-chinadef-b-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinadef-b-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier, known only as the "Type 001A," leaves port in the northeast city of Dalian last May.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/asia-pacific/satellite-images-show-madrassa-buildings-still-standing-scene-indian-bombing-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T13:28:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-indiabombing-a-20190307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indiabombing-a-20190307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cropped version of a satellite image taken Monday shows a close-up of a madrassa near Balakot, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T13:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/national/years-extended-golden-week-holiday-japan-headache-many-working-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T14:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Working parents may have difficulty getting time off during this year's extended Golden Week holiday, causing headaches as they look for child care for their kids.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T14:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T14:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T14:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[News crews wait for former Nissan Motor Co. chief Carlos Ghosn's release outside the Tokyo Detention House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T15:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T15:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T16:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T17:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Harada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T17:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T18:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[JR East will increase the number of security cameras at stations in Tokyo and its neighboring areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T18:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Versions of Sony's puppy-sized robot dog Aibo are displayed during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T18:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lovot-a-20181219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Groove X Inc. says its Lovot robot, unveiled Tuesday in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, provides owners with companionship.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T19:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-south-korea-hold-high-level-talks-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T19:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Kanasugi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/business/corporate-business/top-southeast-asian-ride-hailing-provider-grab-raises-1-5-billion-softbank-vision-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-06T19:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank is a major backer of Singapore-based startup Grab through its Vision Fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T20:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ghosn-c-20180307.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ousted Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, wearing a blue cap, is escorted out of the Tokyo Detention House following his release on bail in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T20:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo supplied by Koji Nishida, a professor at Osaka University, shows the sheet-like corneal tissues produced from iPS cells that will be transplanted into patients in a newly approved clinical study.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T20:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A citizens' group pressing for an increase in the number of female lawmakers holds a meeting in the Diet building on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-06T22:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian volunteers from the Haridwar Mitra Mandal Charitable Trust load aid packets to be shipped to flood-hit Kerala, in Ahmedabad, on August 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T08:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T09:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei Financial Chief Meng Wanzhou arrives at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T11:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Architect Oka worked at numerous construction sites before he began building the planned four-story structure.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T12:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T12:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Moritomo Gakuen head Yasunori Kagoike walks to Osaka District Court for the first day of hearings in the trial against him and his wife, who are accused of illegally receiving subsidies for school construction.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T13:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T13:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired four-star Army Gen. John Abizaid testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T14:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean soldier stands in front of an Unha-3 rocket at a launching site in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, in April 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/japan-provides-%c2%a5500-million-water-farm-projects-philippines-conflict-hit-mindanao/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T15:24:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-07T16:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-roadbuilders-a-20190307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fair Trade Commission reportedly plans to slap a massive fine on road builders for forming a price cartel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/business/corporate-business/mizuho-slashes-profit-forecast-6-1-billion-charge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T17:18:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Financial Group Inc. has slashed its profit forecast by 86 percent as it books costs related with business restructuring and securities losses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/namahage-demon-festival-northern-japan-grapples-blessing-curse-unesco-listing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T18:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Namahage masks and costumes are displayed at the Namahage Museum in Oga, Akita Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/asia-pacific/secret-science-lenin-lab-keeps-dead-communist-leaders-looking-fresh-north-korea-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T18:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kimbalmed-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The body of Kim Jong Il lies in state at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency in December 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/crime-legal/hong-kong-protesters-plead-not-guilty-yasukuni-trespassing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T18:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-yasukuni-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yasukuni-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors millions of war dead along with convicted war criminals, is seen by many in Asia as glorifying Japan's militarist past.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/even-mount-fuji-climbers-dont-plan-push-summit-will-asked-pay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T19:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-fuji-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fuji-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climbers make their way toward the summit of Mount Fuji on last June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/01/national/politics-diplomacy/malaysian-pm-candidate-mahathir-says-shinzo-abe-avoid-visiting-yasukuni/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T19:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/08/national/crime-legal/high-court-upholds-four-year-sentence-south-korean-yasukuni-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T19:18:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/no-japan-wide-minimum-wage-planned-tackle-urban-rural-gap-ahead-foreign-influx-says-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T21:36:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-wage-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wage-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese worker harvests tomatoes at a farm in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in December. The idea of a minimum wage regulation is seen as an effort to address the urban-rural wage gap that could result from the concentration of foreign laborers in large cities.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/78-older-teenagers-japan-anxious-natural-disasters-survey-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T21:37:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-disaster-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disaster-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents affected by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami disasters stay at an evacuation center in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13 that year. A recent survey found 77.6 percent of  young people "feel anxious" about natural disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/business/ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-recuperating-release-bail-lawyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-07T21:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ghosnsec-b-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosnsec-b-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves his lawyers' office in a car Wednesday after he was released from the Tokyo Detention House on bail earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/airbus-enters-march-four-orders-bombardier-jet-103-cancellations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T05:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-airbus-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airbus-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Qatar Airways cabin crew stand in front of an Airbus A350-1000 at Hamad International Airport in Doha last year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/trumps-venezuela-envoy-pledges-sanctions-banks-backing-maduro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T05:48:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-vensancs-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vensancs-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams listens during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on "U.S.-Venezuela Relations and the Path to a Democratic Transition" on Capitol Hill Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/world/crime-legal-world/megaphones-hacking-propaganda-robert-mueller-details-russian-u-s-election-meddling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T07:15:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-mueller-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Special counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing members of the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/national/crime-legal/four-niigata-teens-arrested-assault-high-schooler-captured-video-went-viral-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T09:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-bullying-a-20190307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bullying-a-20190307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video showed more than four people kicking the victim or hitting him with a stick, but police have concluded that the four boys arrested played major roles in the assault.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/business/economy-business/key-index-shows-japan-economy-may-already-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T12:21:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-economy-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-economy-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo on March 1.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/eight-years-triple-meltdown-fukushima-no-1s-water-woes-slow-recede/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T12:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-fukushima-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushima-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks containing varying amounts of treated water surround the six reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/asia-pacific/north-korean-activity-may-indicate-preparation-rocket-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T13:42:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkrocket-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkrocket-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, is seen on a news broadcast at Seoul Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/blocs-offer-break-impasse-falls-short-may-warn-eu-fate-brexit-vote-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T15:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-brexit-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-rides-horse-female-cops-ahead-international-womens-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T15:27:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-putop-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-putop-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin rides a horse on a visit to a mounted police unit in Moscow Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/business/singapore-noodle-vendor-90-helps-keep-foodie-culture-alive-unesco-listing-eyed-hawker-stalls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T16:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-singapore-b-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-singapore-b-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hawker Leong Yuet Meng, 90, of Nam Seng Noodle House, cooks noodles at her shop in Singapore Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/japan-pull-u-turn-ride-sharing-ban-bid-fill-transport-gaps-rural-areas-abe-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T16:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-rideshare-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rideshare-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to promote ride-sharing services, currently banned in most areas, to help improve the availability of transportation in rural areas, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/corporate-business/renesas-halt-six-plants-japan-two-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T17:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-renesas-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-renesas-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Renesas Electronics Corp. logo is seen on a central processing unit board in June 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/crime-legal/three-teachers-tochigi-referred-prosecutors-8-students-killed-avalanche-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T17:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-avalanche-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-avalanche-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers are seen on a slope in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2017 following an avalanche that killed eight people.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/facing-numerous-lawsuits-journalist-maria-ressa-vows-keep-telling-truth-dutertes-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T18:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-ressa-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ressa-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maria Ressa, head of the Philippine online news site Rappler, leaves a Manila court on March 1 after it rescheduled her arraignment for "cyber libel" and said prosecutors should first respond to her motion to dismiss the charge.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/economy-business/japans-household-spending-rises-2-0-january-second-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T18:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-spending-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spending-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government data released Friday shows household spending rose 2 percent in January compared to the same month a year earlier, and is up for the second month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/corporate-business/japans-toyota-tsusho-run-myanmars-first-car-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T18:42:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-adviser-steve-bannon-confident-donald-trump-win-2020-despite-probes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T18:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-bannon-b-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bannon-b-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Bannon]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/japan-improve-use-official-development-assistance-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T19:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/economy-business/japans-fourth-quarter-gdp-upgraded-business-conditions-index-continues-downtrend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T20:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-gdprevise-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdprevise-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers build cars at a Mitsubishi Motors Corp. assembly plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in 2016. Japan's gross domestic product in the October-December period has been upgraded from preliminary data after an upswing in capital expenditure, the government said Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/corporate-business/ghosn-led-companies-donated-childrens-school-paris-ball/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T20:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ghosn-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn sits inside a car as he leaves his lawyer's office after being released on bail from Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/japans-cabinet-adopts-bills-ban-harassment-promote-womens-advancement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T21:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-harassment-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-harassment-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyer Kyoko Niimura (right) and others hold a news conference in November at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry after submitting some 20,000 signatures calling for legislation to ban different kinds of harassment at workplaces.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/japan-use-facial-recognition-restrict-admission-gambling-addicts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T21:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-pachinko-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pachinko-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A blurred image of people playing pachinko slot machines is seen in this undated file photo taken in Tokyo. The government plans to ask horse race and pachinko parlor operators to consider using facial recognition systems to restrict the admission of gambling addicts.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/national/tokyo-skytree-celebrates-60th-anniversary-iconic-fashion-doll-barbies-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T22:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-barbie-a-20190307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-barbie-a-20190307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Barbie's 60th anniversary is celebrated at Tokyo Skytree, which is presenting different models of the fashion doll in various fashions, hair styles and body shapes.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/politics-diplomacy/osakas-governor-mayor-quit-run-others-jobs-risky-snap-polls-merger-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T23:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-osaka-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura answer questions from reporters at Osaka City Hall on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/tokyo-hospital-probed-149-cases-halting-dialysis-treatment-death-patient/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-08T23:57:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-dialysis-a-20190309.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dialysis-a-20190309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is investigating Fussa Hospital in western Tokyo, which is suspected of suggesting to kidney disease patients that they forgo dialysis treatment.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/business/corporate-business/ana-makes-superjumbo-size-bet-can-fill-axed-airbus-a380s-japanese-tourists-hawaii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-09T07:18:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ana-a-20190308.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ana-a-20190308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA will challenge rival JAL on flights to Hawaii with the A380 superjumbo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/top-trump-communications-aide-bill-shine-resigns-moves-re-election-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-09T09:59:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-shine-a-20190310.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House communications director Bill Shine directs staff in the East Room of the White House in Washington last August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heather Wilson]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T10:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean People's Army soldiers march during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T13:49:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of Japan's banks are beginning to part ways with hanko, the personal stamps required for even simple transactions in Japan since the 1800s.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T13:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Niinami, president and chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings Ltd., speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SpaceX's Dragon crew capsule undocks from the International Space Station on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T15:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A radioactive particle collected from the Fukushima fallout zone is prepared for analysis by Silvia Cipiccia, a beamline scientist at Diamond Light Source — Britain's national synchrotron, or cyclic particle accelerator — in Didcot, near Oxford, last November.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A building that residents say was a madrassa religious school is seen near the site where Indian military aircraft struck the Pakistani village of Balakot on Feb. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T16:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T16:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IHI Corp. President Tsugio Mitsuoka bows after a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T17:10:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces to mark the 71st anniversary of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang on Feb. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T17:14:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T19:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency may be among those trying to circumvent protections put in place by social media companies to find and remove fake content created by hackers to sow division among the American electorate in the 2016 presidential campaign.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrea Leadsom, the Conservative Party's leader of the House of Commons, arrives at Downing Street in London on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Market expansion: Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and co-founder of Spotify, attends a news conference in Tokyo in 2016. The music-streaming service recently paid nearly $340 million to acquire two influential companies in the podcast industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T23:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives from East Japan Railway Co. give an update on the recovery of the Joban Line in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-09T23:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-10T16:11:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fika Sulistyani, a native of Indonesia who came to Japan under the technical trainee program, removes bones from fish as part of her daily duties at a seafood processing factory run by Zengyoren Shokuhin Co. in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, accompanied by his wife, Carole (center), arrives at his place of residence in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiko Saito, who gives firsthand accounts of the 2011 disaster, explains the impact of the tsunami, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in February 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chairman Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, leaves a closed-door House Intelligence Committee meeting with Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-11T15:22:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-wages-b-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wages-b-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi speaks in Tokyo in February. Results of the annual wage talks to be released later this week are expected to show even smaller gains than in recent years after Nakanishi said the government should mind its own business.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/divorce-rise-japanese-taking-prenups-prepare-wed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T16:08:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-prenups-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prenups-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More Japanese couples are insisting on drawing up prenuptial agreements as a safeguard in case their marriages fail.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/09/business/corporate-business/nissan-mitsubishi-shut-dutch-joint-venture-amid-carlos-ghosn-pay-inquiries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T16:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nismits-a-20190310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn sits in a car as he leaves his lawyer's office after being released on bail from the Tokyo Detention House on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/10/national/ishinomaki-whale-tooth-artisan-lost-shop-3-11-sees-chance-preserve-tradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T16:40:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-whale-a-20190311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-whale-a-20190311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayuki Chijimatsu displays his carving work in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/japan-require-foreign-workers-submit-medical-certificates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T17:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-medcert-a-20190311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medcert-a-20190311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign workers entering Japan under newly created visas will be required to get confirmation by doctors that they are healthy enough to work.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/four-dead-fire-burns-farmers-house-aomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T17:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-fire-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fire-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters gather at a farm in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on Monday after a fire there left four people dead.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/business/corporate-business/japan-tobaccos-canada-unit-gets-court-protection-potentially-crushing-legal-defeat-quebec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T19:04:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-japantobacco-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japantobacco-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A legal defeat in Canada ordering damages be paid over the risks of smoking is the latest blow to global tobacco companies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/business/corporate-business/ousted-nissan-chief-carlos-ghosn-seeking-court-approval-attend-company-board-meeting-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T19:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ghosn-z-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-z-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn arrives at his residence in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ally-trump-now-tells-wacky-nut-job-ann-coulter-hes-stopping-invasion-mexico-border/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T19:47:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-coulter-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-coulter-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and son Barron Trump board Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sunday en route to Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/business/targeting-peace-stocks-day-trader-cashed-trump-kim-summit-collapse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T19:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/business/italy-wants-sign-belt-road-deal-help-exports-deputy-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T20:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-itchi-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-itchi-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi di Maio holds a news conference in Rome Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-adviser-says-time-may-pass-third-pyongyang-summit-stays-mum-north-launch-preparations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T20:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-bolton-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bolton-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump (center), U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (second, left), White House national security adviser John Bolton (left) and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney (right) attend the extended bilateral meeting in the Metropole hotel with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his delegation during the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/eight-years-abe-says-3-11-reconstruction-nearing-final-stages-though-half-public-unconvinced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T20:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-311main-b-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-311main-b-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man mourns for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami during a special memorial event in Tokyo on Monday as the nation marked the eighth anniversary of the disaster that killed more than 15,000 people and left a devastated coastline in the Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/politics-diplomacy/actor-takuro-tatsumi-declines-ldp-request-run-osaka-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T20:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-osaka-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuro Tatsumi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sunday, following reports that the Liberal Democratic Party had asked him to run in next month's Osaka gubernatorial election. Tatsumi turned down the request.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/business/corporate-business/nissan-renault-weigh-closure-netherlands-joint-venture-reportedly-funded-ghosns-parties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T20:17:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-alliance-b-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-alliance-b-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves a condominium in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/japan-marks-eight-years-since-tsunami-triggered-fukushima-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-11T21:05:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-311wrap-b-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-311wrap-b-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray Monday at the now-closed Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where more than 80 pupils and teachers were killed in a massive tsunami on March 11, 2011.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/speaker-nancy-pelosi-tells-washington-post-im-not-impeachment-trumps-just-not-worth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T07:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-pelosi-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pelosi-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address, with Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-komeito-political-party-seeks-international-regulations-robotic-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T12:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-robotweapons-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-robotweapons-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft is one of the weapons whose development has prompted global concerns over humanitarian and ethical issues.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/10/national/recovery-olympics-moniker-2020-games-rubs-3-11-evacuees-wrong-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T12:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-ishinomaki-a-20190311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ishinomaki-a-20190311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cauldron used in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics is displayed in tsunami-hit Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 19 as a symbol of what the government is dubbing the "Recovery Olympics."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/crime-legal/two-men-coma-shooting-osaka-gambling-den-suspect-large/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T12:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-shooting-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shooting-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image from security camera footage shows the suspect fleeing a shooting early Monday in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/crime-legal-world/coast-guard-lieutenant-pleads-not-guilty-arms-drug-charges-alleged-plot-kill-democrats-tv-journalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T12:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-hasson-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hasson-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney Robert Hur of the District of Maryland speaks as Art Walker (left), special agent from the Coast Guard investigative service, and Gordon Johnson, special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore office, listen during a news conference about Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/crime-legal-world/robert-muellers-russia-probe-said-already-financed-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T13:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/event-held-taiwan-mark-eighth-anniversary-2011-earthquake-tsunami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T15:29:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-taiwan-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwan-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial ceremony was held at the Taipei office of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association on Monday to mark the eighth anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which devastated northeastern Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britain-make-unilateral-declaration-backstop-wont-apply-talks-break-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T15:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-backstop-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-backstop-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May gives a press conference with the European Commission president following their meeting in Strasbourg, France, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/faa-declare-boeing-737-max-8-airworthy-will-act-safety-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T15:32:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-faa-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-faa-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 MAX 8 being built for Oman Air sits parked at Boeing Co.'s Renton Assembly Plant, Monday in Renton, Washington. Airlines in several countries grounded the same model jetliner Monday following Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, the second devastating crash of one of the planes in five months.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/asia-pacific/u-s-says-religious-freedom-china-boost-trust-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T15:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-brownback-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brownback-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, Sam Brownback, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/entrepreneurs-message-japans-forgotten-non-college-educated-youth-can-choose-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T16:22:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-generational-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-generational-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hassyadai Inc. President Daisuke Kuse hopes his startup, which matches company internship opportunities with people who don't have college degrees, can help them spend time in Tokyo and develop into skilled businesspeople.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/lose-wallet-cash-okinawa-likely-youll-get-back-police-data-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T16:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/okinawa.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[okinawa.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Of ¥203.7 million in lost cash reported to police in Okinawa in 2018, ¥138.28 million, or 67.9 percent, made its way back to owners.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/corporate-business/tokyo-gas-gets-green-light-philippine-lng-terminal-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T17:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/corporate-business/olympus-whistleblower-michael-woodford-wins-pension-suit-brought-japan-firms-u-k-subsidiary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T17:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-olympus-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-olympus-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford has won a London court battle over alleged wrongdoing linked to his £64 million (¥9.4 billion) pension.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/corporate-business/calling-renewed-sense-urgency-toshiba-activist-investor-king-street-nominate-new-directors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T17:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/corporate-business/obscure-firm-making-iphones-better-japans-lasertec-masters-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T17:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-lasertec-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lasertec-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lasertec's extreme ultraviolet lithography mask blank inspection and review system]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/forbearance-pays-off-india-international-school-japan-student-wins-10th-japan-times-bee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T18:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-bee-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bee-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ariya Narayanasamy,12, from the India International School in Japan, poses with his trophy after winning The 10th Japan Times Bee on Sunday at Tokyo Global Gateway in Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/japanese-classics-toyota-honda-mazda-subaru-now-hottest-bet-car-collecting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T18:24:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-cars-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cars-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota 2000GT coupe (right) is displayed in a Yamaha Motor Co. showroom in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, in February 2015.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/japan-decorates-former-pentagon-chief-william-cohen-strengthening-alliance-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T18:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen speaks during a ceremony at the residence of Japanese Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama (right) in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/asia-pacific/china-lawmakers-urge-easing-family-planning-curbs-liberate-fertility-birth-rates-plunge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T18:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young girl sits in a stroller in front off the Great Hall of the People at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/asia-pacific/im-aussie-refugee-soccer-player-hakeem-al-araibi-granted-australian-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T19:02:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakeem al-Araibi reads his Australian citizenship certificate after a ceremony in Melbourne on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/japans-olympic-ojiisan-hopes-complete-56-year-odyssey-2020-tokyo-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T19:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-olyfan-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olyfan-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naotoshi Yamada poses for a photo at his office in Tokyo in October. Yamada is an Olympic superfan, having attended 14 games including the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/olympics-japan-marks-500-days-go-2020-tokyo-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T19:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olympics-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shota Iizuka (center, back row), an Olympic medalist in the men's 4x100-meter relay, and Kiyo Shimizu of women's karate kata (center-right, back row) attend an event in Tokyo on Tuesday to announce the pictograms for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-budget-boosts-military-mexico-border-wall-targets-vital-social-services-help-poor-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A construction worker replaces fencing lining the north side of the border wall separating San Diego, California, from Tijuana, Mexico, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/japan-eyes-flexible-fines-antitrust-violators-cooperate-investigators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/u-n-says-2018-deadliest-year-yet-syrian-children-1106-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-syriachildren-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-syriachildren-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children believed to be from the Yazidi community, who had been captured by Islamic State group fighters, are pictured after being evacuated from the group's embattled holdout of Baghouz, Syria, on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/sniper-fire-landmines-slow-u-s-backed-forces-advance-ruins-islamic-states-syrian-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-baghouz-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-baghouz-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters walk through a tent encampment that had been occupied by Islamic State group militants in Baghouz, Syria, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/financial-markets/boeing-shares-vanguard-dow-crushed-second-737-max-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-stocks-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stocks-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The company logo for Boeing is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/venezuelan-blackout-hits-oil-exports-residents-scramble-food-electricity-rationing-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An oil tanker is seen at the Jose refinery cargo terminal in Venezuela.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/warring-sides-blame-least-20-civilians-killed-including-children-north-yemen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-yemen-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yemen-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Yemeni boy lies in a hospital as he receives treatment in the Houthi-rebel-held capital Sanaa on Monday for wounds sustained during a reported airstrike in the Kisar district of the northern Hajjah province.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/ethiopian-jetliner-smoked-strewed-debris-shuddered-death-plunge-witnesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-witnesses-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-witnesses-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wreckage is seen at the site of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/tech/u-s-warns-germany-using-5g-tech-chinas-huawei-threatens-not-share-intel-wsj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-huawei-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A logo of Huawei retail shop is seen through a handrail inside a commercial office building in Beijing Friday. Chinese tech giant Huawei's tensions with Washington, which accuses the telecom equipment maker of being a security risk, stretch across four continents from courtrooms to corporate boardrooms to Canadian canola farms.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/corporate-business/nissan-renault-mitsubishi-motors-seek-fresh-start-new-joint-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-alliance-b-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-alliance-b-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left, Renault CEO Thierry Bollore, Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard, Nissan Motor CEO Hiroto Saikawa and Mitsubishi Motors Chairman Osamu Masuko appear at a news conference Tuesday in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/business/ana-no-plans-yet-halt-purchase-30-boeing-737-max-8-jets-despite-two-deadly-crashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-12T20:48:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-boeing373-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing373-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner stands outside the company's manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington state, in December 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/crime-legal/ex-tepco-execs-lawyers-make-final-plea-acquittal-negligence-fukushima-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T01:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-tepco-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tepco-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two people wearing protective suits and masks talk in front of the No. 3 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/u-k-suspends-boeing-737-max-airspace-ethiopian-airlines-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T01:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/go-big-go-home-top-u-s-envoy-north-korea-talks-rules-incremental-approach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T08:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkbiegun-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkbiegun-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump look on during their second summit meeting in Hanoi on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/03/08/national/railway-to-pay-for-1995-fatality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T10:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/world/crime-legal-world/husband-iranian-human-rights-lawyer-says-newly-sentenced-38-years-148-lashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T12:24:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-iranlawyer-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranlawyer-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, seen in her office in Tehran in this 2008 photo, was, according to her husband, handed a 38 year prison term and 148 lashes on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/politics-diplomacy/finance-minister-taro-aso-ponders-tariffs-spat-south-korea-wartime-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T12:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-aso-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aso-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/popularity-sky-high-mexicos-president-runs-one-man-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T13:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-obrador-a-20190312.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obrador-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks to the media during a news conference to announce a plan to strengthen finances of state oil firm Pemex, at the National Palace in Mexico City Feb. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/national/crime-legal/actor-musician-pierre-taki-arrested-drug-bust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T14:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-taki-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taki-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pierre Taki]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/japanese-teens-post-name-change-goes-viral-twitter-sparks-conversation-unusual-names/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T14:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-name-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-name-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hajime Akaike, formerly known as Oji-sama Akaike]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/toyota-jaxa-plan-send-space-rover-moon-2029/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T14:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-toyotamoon-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toyotamoon-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows a rover Toyota plans to jointly develop with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. They are aiming to send it to the moon in 2029.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/world/nations-carriers-ground-boeing-737-max-jetliners-ethiopia-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T14:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-max-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-max-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are parked at a Boeing production facility in Renton, Washington, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/south-korea-steps-fight-pollution-calls-problem-social-disaster-move-unlock-emergency-reserve-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T15:07:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-sksmog-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sksmog-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing masks to guard against air pollution attend a rally in Seoul on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-might-not-want-risks-come-riches-trump-promising-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T16:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-kimriches-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kimriches-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un casts his ballot for elections to the Supreme People's Assembly on Sunday in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/national/flashing-peace-sign-front-hiroshima-bomb-memorial-appropriate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T16:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-hiroshima-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists pose for a photograph in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/national/14-medical-students-japan-asked-personal-questions-including-marriage-childbirth-entrance-interviews/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T16:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-medschools-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medschools-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most personal questions asked in med school entrance interviews focused on whether applicants would be able to juggle family and work if they got married or had children, according to a survey of students.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/world/trump-wants-cut-u-s-missile-defense-budget-just-north-korea-ramps-rocket-activity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T17:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-usmissiles-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usmissiles-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk during their summit in Hanoi on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/business/t-mobiles-proposed-25-5-billion-sprint-deal-draws-criticism-democrats-concerned-price-hikes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T17:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-tmob-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tmob-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US Inc., speaks during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington on Tuesday. The hearing marks the third time executives for T-Mobile and Sprint Corp. have to defend their $26 billion merger before Congress as opponents of the deal continue to urge regulators to block it.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/world/nations-ground-boeing-737-max-8-despite-assurances-u-s-faa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T17:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-maxfaa-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maxfaa-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft operated by South Korean airline Eastar Jet]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/world/ties-boeing-trump-run-deep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-13T17:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Feb. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T18:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of an industry union writes down the result of the latest wage hike talks on a board. Big firms offered a smaller pay-scale hike than last year amid uncertainty over the global economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T18:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Flaxman (in hood) departs an initial hearing for defendants in a racketeering case involving the allegedly fraudulent admission of children to elite universities on Tuesday in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T18:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers leave the Nissan car plant after finishing their shift in Sunderland, northeast England, in 2016 Nissan will stop production of Infiniti cars at its factory in Sunderland, the Japanese carmaker said Tuesday, one month after canceling the plant's plans for the X-Trail SUV.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T18:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees watch a presentation during a Google Inc. 20th anniversary event in San Francisco on Sept. 24, 2018. Google's Gmail and Google Drive services experienced disruptions in Japan and globally on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T19:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mika Yakushi (right), head of ReBit, speaks at a seminar to support job hunting by sexual minorities, held in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T20:41:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei Rotating Chairman Guo Ping attends a press conference in Shenzhen city, China's Guangdong province, March 7. Chinese tech giant Huawei's tensions with Washington, which accuses the telecom equipment maker of being a security risk, stretch across four continents from courtrooms to corporate boardrooms to Canadian canola farms.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T20:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna speaks about the Bangladeshi suspect in an attempted suicide bombing in New York, during a press briefing at the White House in Washington in 2017. USCIS reportedly plans to close its offices abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T20:45:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remains discovered during a recent recovery mission in Myanmar and believed to belong to U.S. service members missing from World War II are prepared to be transported back to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Laboratory in Hawaii, in Mandalay, Myanmar, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T20:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his residence in Tokyo on Feb. 28 after phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump about the second North Korea-U.S. summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T20:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-copyrights-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Takemiya, head of the Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics, speaks at a meeting held last month to discuss revisions to the copyright law.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-13T23:14:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official with the board of education of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, speaks about the apparent joint suicide of two girls during a news conference on Wednesday at city hall.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T06:35:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpardon-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr. speaks to reporters after a hearing in Manhattan criminal court in New York last September. After being sentenced in federal court in Washington earlier Wednesday, Paul Manafort was also charged Wednesday with mortgage fraud, conspiracy and other counts in a new indictment in New York City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/climate-protesters-ejected-houston-energy-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T08:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-confab-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luis Miguel Morelli, president of the National Hydrocarbon Agency, smiles during the 2019 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston on Tuesday. The program provides comprehensive insight into the global and regional energy future by addressing key issues from markets and geopolitics to technology, project costs, energy and the environment, finance, operational excellence and cyber risks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T11:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force B-52 crew works in the cockpit before launching an early morning sortie from Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin in Australia in April last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T12:21:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in Parliament ahead of a Brexit vote, in London Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/national/crime-legal/disabled-man-wins-damages-dna-collection-without-consent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T12:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/business/corporate-business/kobe-steel-hit-%c2%a5100-million-fine-data-fabrication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T12:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-kobesteel-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kobesteel-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk into Kobe Steel Ltd.'s Tokyo headquarters. The steelmaker was ordered by a court Wednesday to pay a ¥100 million fine for fabricating product quality data at its domestic plants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/national/crime-legal/owners-tv-capable-cellphones-must-pay-public-channel-fees-top-court-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T13:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches an NHK program on his cellphone. The top court says owners of cellphones with television functions must pay subscription fees to the public broadcaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/world/science-health-world/delays-boeing-rocket-lead-nasa-consider-commercial-options/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T15:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration of the next generation of NASA's Space Launch System]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/corporate-business/japans-daiwa-house-suspects-massive-211-million-embezzlement-chinese-joint-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T15:45:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T16:20:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker arrives for a meeting with the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/ford-fears-double-whammy-mays-no-deal-brexit-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T16:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cranes are pictured at Seaforth Docks, at the Port of Liverpool in Liverpool, northwest England, Wednesday in front of rows of residential properties and housing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/volkswagen-pulls-truck-unit-ipo-setback-ceos-revamp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T16:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logos of German carmaker Volkswagen is seen in  in 2013 and Swedish truck maker Scania in Ludwigsfelde in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T16:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke billows into the sky after reported airstrikes on a prison on the western outskirts of the Syrian city of Idlib, inside the jihadi-held bastion of the same name, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T17:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Land reclamation work is underway in the Henoko coastal area of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, where U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is due to be relocated.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T17:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T17:25:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/world/offbeat-world/lion-lam-locked-south-african-jail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T17:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T18:18:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at an Upper House committee session on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/national/science-health/japan-seek-help-running-subaru-telescope-hawaii-u-s-canada-china-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T18:26:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-subaru-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan plans to ask other countries for support with operating of the Subaru Telescope, located near the top of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/corporate-business/softbank-toyota-talks-invest-1-billion-ubers-self-driving-unit-say-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T18:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uber-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group led by SoftBank and Toyota is in talks to invest $1 billion or more into Uber's self-driving vehicle unit, sources told Reuters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/corporate-business/japan-trading-house-itochu-partners-singapores-halcyon-join-sustainable-rubber-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T19:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-itochu-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itochu Corp.'s Osaka headquarters]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/business/economy-business/brokerages-brace-japans-longest-market-shutdown-since-wwii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T19:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shutdown-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Daiwa Securities Co. branch in Yokohama. Daiwa and other brokerages are taking steps to alleviate worries over a market shutdown during an unusually long 10-day holiday related to the Emperor's succession.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/national/crime-legal/three-arrested-murder-tokyo-woman-80-police-link-men-shibuya-robberies-targeting-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T19:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsumi Komatsuzono]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T20:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-grandma-a-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screenshot shows Setsuko Takamizawa, who will be 92 when Tokyo hosts the Olympics next year, learning English from her granddaughter via the messaging app Line.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T20:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[DJI Japan General Manager Allen Wu is interviewed Wednesday in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/national/crime-legal/record-1380-child-abuse-cases-investigated-japanese-police-2018-21-year-earlier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-14T21:21:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People lay flowers in front of an apartment building in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on March 2 to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of 5-year-old Yua Funato after alleged abuse by her parents. A record 1,394 children were the victims of child abuse in 2018, according to the National Police Agency's report released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-14T21:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economists are unanimous in forecasting that Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda and his policy board will maintain the current monetary settings at their two-day meeting from Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Ibuski]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T12:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Kanasugi (center), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, enters Seoul's Foreign Ministry to hold talks on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T13:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A delegate in traditional Uighur dress stands with military delegates as they sing the Chinese national anthem during the closing session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/world/california-totally-free-drought-first-time-seven-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T13:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The dry bed of the Almaden Reservoir in San Jose, California, in February 2014]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T16:56:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T17:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Yanagimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:32:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BugMo Co. CEO Yusuke Matsui (left) and co-founder and COO Fu Nishimoto show off the startup's cricket powder protein bars in February in Kyoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:32:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emma Haruka Iwao]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/national/yamaguchi-court-rejects-residents-call-halt-last-ikata-nuclear-reactor-ehime-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ikata-a-20190316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters for the plaintiffs hold banners that read "Unjust ruling" and "Have you forgotten Fukushima?" after the Iwakuni branch of the Yamaguchi District Court rejected a plea to halt a nuclear reactor in Ehime Prefecture, on Friday in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/national/japans-prince-hisahito-soon-second-line-throne-graduates-tokyo-elementary-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito poses for a photo with his parents, Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, on Friday after graduating from an elementary school affiliated with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T18:55:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cemetery employees on Thursday carry the coffin containing the remains of 15-year-old Kaio Lucas da Costa Limeira, a victim of the mass shooting at the Raul Brasil State School, in Suzano, Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyle Freeny (center) and Andrew Weissmann (right), members of special counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors investigating potential ties between Russia and U.S. Presidential Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, leave court in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/business/chinas-military-benefiting-googles-work-country-u-s-general/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man views solar panels on a roof at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, in 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:05:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Israeli soldier keeps watch by an Iron Dome rocket interceptor battery deployed near central Gaza Strip, southern Israel, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies at U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's proposed budget in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-descente-a-20190316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itochu Corp. increased its stake in Descente Ltd. to 40 percent in a rare hostile takeover bid.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/business/b20-tokyo-world-business-leaders-urge-stronger-cooperation-looming-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nakanishi, the head of Keidanren, speaks at the B20 meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-15T19:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed police attempt to prevent a photographer from taking pictures on March 9 at the entrance to the Qinghai provincial village of Taktser, known in Chinese as Hongya, where the Dalai Lama was born in 1935.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/national/joc-head-takeda-likely-retire-amid-corruption-probe-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T20:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsunekazu Takeda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/wont-cost-plus-50-pentagon-chief-says-denying-trump-plan-fivefold-hike-japan-base-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-15T20:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan speaks to the media at the Pentagon on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/national/politics-diplomacy/approval-rate-abes-cabinet-sags-39-march-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T13:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the Upper House budget committee Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/national/tokyos-biggest-train-subway-lines-extend-operating-hours-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T13:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-railways-a-20190316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Train and subway lines in and around Tokyo will run on extended operating hours during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, organizers said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/business/corporate-business/instagrams-first-overseas-development-team-headed-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T13:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-instagram-a-20190316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Instagram's head Adam Mosseri said Friday the firm will set up its first development team outside the United States in Tokyo this summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/asia-pacific/suspect-christchurch-shootings-charged-murder-first-court-appearance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T14:07:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-christcharge-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brenton Tarrant, facing murder charges over Friday's Christchurch mosque attacks, is seen in the dock during his appearance in the Christchurch District Court on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/business/tech/apple-infringed-three-qualcomm-patents-jury-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T14:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/group-seeking-overthrow-kim-behind-raid-north-korean-embassy-spain-washington-post-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T14:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/media-national/alarming-results-literacy-survey-stir-debate-social-media-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T22:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-tanaka-OECD-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lost for words: A 2017 study by Noriko Arai found that 1 in 5 third-year middle school students and 1 in 13 third-year high school students were unable to identify either the subject or object of a sentence.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/media-national/nhk-drama-credit-instant-noodles-right-inventor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T22:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-noodles-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Using your noodle: Tens of billions of servings of instant noodles are consumed annually throughout the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/business/trumps-trade-war-cost-u-s-economy-7-8-billion-2018-study-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T16:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trude-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Imported automobiles at the port of Newark in New Jersey]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-issues-first-veto-measure-end-emergency-declaration-border-wall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T16:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-veto-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shows the first veto of his presidency in the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/business/corporate-business/co-pilot-nippon-airways-unit-found-alcohol-limit-delaying-another-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T18:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ana-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All Nippon Airways jets at Haneda airport in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-leaders-bid-swap-seats-spell-trouble-region-faces-global-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T18:18:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-osakaview-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osakaview-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura have tendered their resignations in an attempt to swap roles through new elections with the aim of reorganizing the major city into a metropolitan government system similar to Tokyo's.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/meteorological-agency-starts-development-ai-based-system-predict-windy-events-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T19:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-weather-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-weather-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Meteorological Agency's research arm is reportedly developing a system based on artificial intelligence to predict high-wind events, with a goal of improving safety transportation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/business/corporate-business/trumps-auto-tariff-threat-makes-sad-toyota-chief-akio-toyoda-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-16T19:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-toyoda-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyoda-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akio Toyoda]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/media-national/news-outlets-gloss-south-korea-frictions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T11:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/p17-brasor-sk-anniversary-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-sk-anniversary-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Memorial day: South Korean President Moon Jae-in attends an anniversary ceremony in Seoul on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/world/boeing-737-crashes-raise-tough-questions-automation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T11:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-boeingfocus-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boeingfocus-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 Max jets are grounded at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/business/forget-consumption-tax-hike-give-structural-reform-another-try-former-economy-chief-heizo-takenaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T14:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-heizo-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heizo-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former economy minister Heizo Takenaka says a sales tax hike would risk pushing Japan's economy into recession.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/japan-encourage-cities-populations-200000-establish-child-counseling-centers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T14:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-consultations-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-consultations-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cities with a population of 200,000 or more will be asked to set up child counseling centers to help deal with the rising number of consultations related to child abuse.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/asia-pacific/families-christchurch-mosque-shooting-victims-wait-bury-dead-toll-rises-50/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T15:52:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-ccwrap-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ccwrap-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of a member of the Bangladeshi community wait for news on Sunday at a community center in Christchurch, New Zealand.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/nagasaki-student-deliver-flame-peace-linked-atomic-bombing-pope-francis-vatican-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T17:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-pope-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis waves to the faithful during the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican. Yusa Okada, a Nagasaki Prefecture junior high school student who is the granddaughter of an atomic bomb survivor, is among those who will attend a general audience with the Pope on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/16/national/politics-diplomacy/thousands-rally-okinawa-urge-tokyo-washington-scrap-base-relocation-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T19:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-okinawa-a-20190317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20190317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of Okinawa residents rally to urge the Japanese and U.S. governments to scrap a plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the nature-rich Henoko coast in Nago from its current location in the populated residential area of Ginowan, both in Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/national/crime-legal/ghosn-eager-speak-publicly-dangers-entrapping-great/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T20:23:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-analysis-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-analysis-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves his lawyers' offices on March 6 after he was released earlier in the day from Tokyo Detention House.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/national/history/student-curated-exhibit-keeps-filipino-comfort-women-struggle-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T20:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-filipina-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-filipina-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isabelita Vinuya, 81, a former 'comfort woman' talks during the opening on Saturday of a month-long art exhibit on Filipino comfort women at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/asia-pacific/india-pakistan-threatened-unleash-missiles-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T22:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-pakind-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pakind-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, speaks to reporters at the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/business/corporate-business/nissan-governance-improvement-panel-release-proposals-march-27/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T23:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-nissan-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is planning to release a set of proposals later this month on corporate governance, including increasing the number of outside directors on Nissan's board.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/yellow-vest-protest-violence-flares-demonstrations-enter-fourth-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-17T23:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-yellow-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yellow-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot policemen stand in front a burned store after a demonstration Saturday in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/livestreaming-delays-proposed-way-discourage-viral-massacre-videos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T10:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-streaming-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-streaming-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A frame grab taken from a CCTV video made available by the state-run Turkish broadcaster TRT World on Saturday shows the arrival of a man who is believed to be Australia-born Brenton Tarrant on March 13, 2016, at Istanbul's Ataturk International airport in Turkey. The 28-year-old Australia-born Tarrant — who has been arrested and charged with murder in New Zealand — apparently "visited Turkey several times and stayed for a long period in the country," a Turkish official said without giving dates.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/asia-pacific/hong-kong-faces-commuter-chaos-rare-train-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T13:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-hktrain-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hktrain-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A damaged Mass Transit Railway train is seen following a collision near Hong Kong's Central station during a signal system trial on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/south-korea-says-considering-holding-talks-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T13:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-sknk-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sknk-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in visits the Angkor Wat temple, in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/asia-pacific/activists-hong-kong-taiwan-feel-heat-china-fears-separatist-collusion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T13:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-chiact-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiact-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester is arrested by police after storming Hong Kong government headquarters over a proposal to extradite fugitives to mainland China on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pressure-mounts-tory-lawmakers-back-brexit-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T14:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-brexitdeal-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexitdeal-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs are seen during a "Brexit Betrayal" march from Sunderland to London, in Sunderland, U.K., on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/asia-pacific/new-zealand-leader-jacinda-ardern-targets-gun-reform-laws-weekend-mourning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T15:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nzcabinet-b-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nzcabinet-b-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students in Christchurch, New Zealand, raise candles as they gather for a vigil to commemorate victims of Friday's mass shooting, outside the Al Noor mosque in the city on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/world/faa-workers-sounded-alarm-boeing-performing-safety-checks-early-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T15:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boeingfaa-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft is seen on the ground at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/business/economy-business/japans-exports-slump-weak-external-demand-putting-central-bank-notice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T16:17:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-trade-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trucks roll past gantry cranes at a terminal in Tokyo. Trade figures released Monday show that Japan's exports fell for a third month in February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/national/crime-legal/two-japanese-men-arrested-cambodia-allegedly-killing-taxi-driver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T16:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/business/corporate-business/japan-post-insurance-eyes-firms-tech-edge-new-esg-investment-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T16:36:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-japanpost-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanpost-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Insurance is shifting its investment approach to companies with a technological edge for solving global problems.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/world/france-uses-group-seven-presidency-issue-sobering-message-urging-revamp-capitalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T16:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-capitalism-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-capitalism-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire speaks during a question session at the French National Assembly in Paris on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-develop-new-radar-system-aegis-warships/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T17:11:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-aegis-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aegis-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aegis cruiser USS Shiloh pulls into port at Naval Station San Diego on April 25, 2003.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/business/corporate-business/twitters-former-cfo-joins-softbank-backed-farming-startup-plenty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T17:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-plenty-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-plenty-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Gupta,﷯Twitter Inc.'s former chief financial officer, has joined SoftBank Group Corp.-backed Plenty Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/business/small-manufacturer-niigata-awaits-fallout-chinas-economic-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T17:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-china-b-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-china-b-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker is seen at Nagumo Seisakusho's factory in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/national/science-health/rare-ibis-given-china-japan-last-year-lays-first-egg/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T17:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-ibis-a-20190318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ibis-a-20190318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first egg laid by a rare ibis, gifted to Japan by China last year, is seen Saturday at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Sado, Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/business/shared-work-spaces-catch-urban-japanese-seeking-better-work-life-balance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-18T18:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lionel Desclee was appointed last week as Seiyu's chief executive officer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign students study Japanese at a special class held for students with limited Japanese proficiency in Minami Yoshida Elementary School in Yokohama on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T13:41:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Virginia Delegate Chris Jones, alongside Speaker Kirk Cox, speaks with members of the press outside the U.S. Supreme Court after arguments in an electoral redistricting case in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T14:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T14:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Offutt Air Force Base and the surrounding areas affected by flood waters are seen in this aerial photo taken in Nebraska Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong-hoon, a senior researcher at Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, demonstrates an alert app that was sent to a smartphone user while crossing a road, in Ilsan, South Korea, on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T17:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mariko Saya (standing, right), a multicultural education coordinator and Japanese-language teacher, talks with foreign students during a class at Sagami Koyokan High School in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:10:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Airlines planes, including a Boeing 737 MAX 9 model, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bombers are seen at Dyagilevo air base in Ryazan, Russia, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:19:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nissan logo is displayed at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva on March 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/business/economy-business/bank-japan-reportedly-see-price-goal-reach-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference Friday at the Bank of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/national/aboard-sakai-muscle-line-osaka-metro-axes-foreign-language-website-botched-translation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Metro Co. has taken down its foreign language website after a botched automated translation went viral on social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/national/okinawa-gov-denny-tamaki-requests-month-talks-abe-bid-halt-u-s-base-transfer/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks to reporters after his meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T18:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester carrying flags walks past the Union Jack and European Union flags of anti-Brexit activists near the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/asia-pacific/interview-dalai-lama-contemplates-chinese-gambit-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-19T19:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during a news conference in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-cabinet-oks-stronger-laws-prevent-child-abuse-spate-tragic-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-19T21:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting of Cabinet ministers on the revision of the child abuse prevention law and associated measures at his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/25/national/japan-approves-steps-help-make-life-easier-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-19T22:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese workers stack plastic containers inside a greenhouse at a tomato farm in Asahi, Chiba Pref. on Dec. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T22:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during a rally for the upcoming local elections, in Tekirday on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/world/full-horror-cyclone-southeast-africa-yet-emerge-red-cross/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-19T22:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk down a flooded road next to buildings damaged by Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-19T22:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier delivers a speech during a debate on Brexit after the vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/world/regulators-said-asleep-wheel-raising-health-alarm-houston-chemical-conflagration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T04:46:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-houston-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plume of smoke rises from a petrochemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company Monday in Deer Park, Texas. The large fire at the Houston-area petrochemicals terminal will likely burn for another two days, authorities said, noting air quality around the facility was testing within normal guidelines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/trump-renews-attack-alleging-social-medias-political-bias-favoring-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T04:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpmedia-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump meets with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/tech/trump-blockade-huawei-fizzles-european-5g-rollout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T06:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German chancellor Angela Merkel attends the 'Global Solutions Summit' in Berlin Tuesday. Germany has launched an auction for frequencies in the future super-fast 5G network following a dispute over conditions imposed by authorities and questions over whether China's Huawei can supply equipment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/testing-eus-patience-may-seeks-brexit-delay-least-three-months-third-parliament-vote-deal-fails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T08:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-brexit-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators wearing yellow vests protest inside the offices of Britain's Attorney General in London on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Theresa May will write to EU President Donald Tusk with a plan for delaying Brexit beyond March 29, her spokesman said Tuesday, admitting the parliamentary deadlock had reached crisis levels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazils-bolsonaro-backs-trump-wall-derides-u-s-bound-immigrants-bent-harm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T08:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-bolsonaro-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, holds up a jersey given to him by U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Trump said he's "very inclined" to make Brazil an official U.S. ally, a status that would provide the country preferential access to U.S. military equipment and technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/national/social-issues/aichi-5-year-old-waist-length-hair-shorn-help-make-wigs-sick-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T11:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momoko Kanda holds hair from her first hair cut at Mimpi hair salon in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, in January, as her mother looks on. She donated the hair to a wig-making group to help kids who have lost their hair.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/world/one-day-deadly-crash-off-duty-pilot-saved-lion-air-737-max-malfunctioning-flight-control-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T13:13:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-lionair-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lionair-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A grounded Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft sits on the tarmac at Terminal 1 of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Cenkareng, Indonesia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/stakes-rise-boeing-eu-canada-scrutiny-737-max-crashes-eye-certification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T13:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-boeing-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man works next to a Boeing 737 MAX 9 on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington, March 12. U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday formally directed an internal watchdog  to audit the certification process for Boeing's 737 MAX 8 aircraft following recent deadly crashes. Chao's request comes amid reports U.S. authorities have also launched a criminal probe into the certification of the top-selling jet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/wake-christchurch-massacre-australia-asks-japan-arrange-talks-social-media-controls-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T14:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, hold a news conference last November in Darwin, Australia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/number-foreign-visitors-japan-rose-3-8-february-2018-figure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T14:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-tourism-a-20190320.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tourism-a-20190320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kuromon Ichiba shopping arcade, known as "Osaka's kitchen" for its various food shops, is packed with foreign tourists on Jan. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/asia-pacific/dont-take-north-korea-guidebook-warns-publisher/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T14:55:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkguide-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkguide-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The North Korea Petit Fute guidebook is displayed during an interview in Paris on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/asia-pacific/south-koreas-ruling-party-retracts-critique-bloomberg-reporter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T15:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-bloomberg-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bloomberg-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman displays a banner in Seoul on Tuesday showing a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in to wish for peace on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea's ruling party withdrew personal criticism of a Bloomberg reporter over an article about Moon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/business/economy-business/tourist-boom-sees-japans-urban-land-prices-rise-first-time-27-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T16:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-land-a-20190320.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-land-a-20190320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main shop of Yamano Music Co. (right) in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district logged the highest land price among surveyed locations across the country at ¥57.20 million per square meter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/national/social-issues/vietnamese-blue-collar-workers-japan-seen-facing-risks-labor-system-opens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T17:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Technical trainees from Vietnam work at a knitwear factory in Mitsuke, Niigata Prefecture, on Feb. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/corporate-business/rakutens-hiroshi-mikitani-new-goal-17000-workers-learn-code/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T17:12:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rakuten-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and chief executive officer of Rakuten Inc., walks through the company's office in San Mateo, California, on Feb. 13. Mikitani has a new goal, saying he wants his employees to know to how to code.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-20T17:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-sarin-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sarin-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shizue Takahashi lays flowers at Kasumigaseki Station on Wednesday, the 24th anniversary of a sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo cult.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-20T17:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cyclone-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are escorted to safety by aid workers at the airport of the coastal city of Beira in central Mozambique on Tuesday after the area was hit by Cyclone Idai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/asia-pacific/mother-now-christchurchs-tight-knit-bangladesh-community-starts-trying-heal-mosque-shootings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T17:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nzbangladesh-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of a member of the Bangladeshi community wait for news at a community center in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/national/yamanote-line-train-driver-fulfills-lifes-dream-exact-second/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T17:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-train-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuko Hatakeyama, a train driver at JR East, checks his Yamanote Line train at the Osaki depot in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/economy-business/asian-business-sentiment-lingers-near-three-year-low-u-s-china-trade-war-drags-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T18:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-asiapoll-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior U.S. and Chinese officials resume trade negotiations during a meeting in Washington last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/asia-pacific/cockpit-voice-recorder-doomed-lion-air-jet-depicts-pilots-frantic-search-fix-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T19:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-recorderlionair-a-20190321.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-recorderlionair-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A grounded Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft sits on the tarmac at terminal 1 of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Cenkareng, Indonesia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/economy-business/government-downgrades-view-japanese-economy-first-time-three-years-amid-china-slowdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T19:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers from abroad fill their suitcase with Japanese cosmetics at a shopping district in Osaka last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/trial-ex-nissan-boss-carlos-ghosn-may-start-fall-lawyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-20T19:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., leaves the office of his lawyer in Tokyo on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/business/u-s-push-free-trade-agreement-looks-open-japans-agriculture-market/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fta-a-20190321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muslim residents in Japan gather at a park near the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Tuesday to offer prayers to victims of the mass shooting in Christchurch last week and to protest against terrorist attacks.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney George Conway, husband of White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, speaks at Georgetown Law School in this frame grab from video shot in Washington March 8.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises from the last besieged neighborhood in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sundar Pichai speaks on-stage during the annual Game Developers Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday. Google was fined €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, the third large European Union antitrust penalty for the Alphabet business in two only years]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura (left) and former Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui wave to voters Thursday in the city. The two recently resigned to call an election, running for the positions of governor and mayor respectively, to promote their plan to merge local governments.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-21T21:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-21T21:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed police guard the Al Door mosque ahead of Friday prayers at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday. In a day without precedent in New Zealand, people across the country were planning to observe the Muslim call to prayer as the nation reflected on the moment one week ago when 50 people were slaughtered at two mosques.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo talks about the air quality in east Harris County during a press conference at TranStar Thursday in Houston. National Guard troops have been called in and residents were told to stay inside after elevated levels of benzene were detected early Thursday near a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility that caught fire this week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May holds a news conference in Brussels early Friday at the end of the first day of an EU summit focused on Brexit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit attend a televised live debate for candidates in Bangkok on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako, 24, is seen before attending the graduation ceremony at International Christian University in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-22T18:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks with reporters in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[LDP lawmaker Tsuyoshi Hoshino practices his address to the speaker of the House of Representatives, at his office in Tokyo's Nagatacho district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mari Miura, a professor at Sophia University, at her office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/social-norms-hinder-womens-career-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T19:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michiko Achilles at her office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/supplementary-events-address-health-career-trends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T19:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gynecologist gives a presentation on women's health to high school students as part of Kagayaki School program. This is one of 11 presentations being held across the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/gender-diversity-inclusivity-vital-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T19:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philip Morris Japan Ltd.'s Manager of Transformation and Organization Effectiveness Mathilda Lumbantobing speaks during a recent interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/suicide-now-leading-cause-death-among-children-aged-10-14-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T20:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teens-z-20190323.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suicide has become the leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in Japan for the first time in the postwar period, an analysis of government demographic data has shown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/number-foreign-residents-japan-rose-6-6-2018-number-overstayers-grew-almost-twice-much-government-data-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T20:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Vietnamese study Japanese in Hanoi, aiming to enter Japan under the technical trainee program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/justice-ministry-overturns-deportation-order-gay-taiwanese-man-without-visa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T20:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/japan-doubles-quota-working-holiday-visas-taiwanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-22T22:50:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting next month, the quota for working holiday visas for Taiwan will be increased from 5,000 annually to 10,000 due to the growing number of Taiwanese applicants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/meetings-aim-close-gender-gaps-promote-diversity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T08:21:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, enjoy green tea with participants at the second World Assembly for Women in Tokyo in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/malala-urges-abe-take-education-young-women-g20-summit-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T12:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malala Yousafzai and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/assaulted-member-akb48-spinoff-criticizes-results-aks-probe-lies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T12:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maho Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/asia-pacific/utterly-shocking-trump-sparks-new-confusion-north-korea-sanctions-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T13:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Friday night, Trump threw U.S. policy on sanctions against North Korea into confusion, saying on Twitter that he had ordered the withdrawal of "additional large scale" penalties his government imposed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/crime-legal/33-women-sue-tokyo-medical-university-rigged-entrance-exams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T13:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A defense team for some of the women whose entrance exam scores were manipulated by Tokyo Medical University heads to the Tokyo District Court on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/national/japan-make-carbon-dating-ivory-mandatory-trade-tightening-controls-oft-criticized-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T13:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ivory products are seen on sale at a market in Tokyo in this photo provided by WWF Japan in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/national/media-national/democratic-principles-risk-undermined/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T22:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Authoritarian rule: A soldier stands in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 2016. According to a 2018 report by U.S. consulting firm Edelman, 84 percent of the Chinese population trust its government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/world/robert-mueller-submits-trump-russia-inquiry-report-u-s-attorney-general/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T15:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in June 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/business/corporate-business/tepco-unit-tie-jxtg-hydrogen-production-fuel-cell-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T16:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-23T16:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner arrives for his appearance before a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee in July 2017 as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-23T16:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot released Saturday shows the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raising their flag atop a building in the Islamic State group's last bastion in the eastern Syrian village of Baghuz after defeating the jihadi group.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/world/change-737-max-controls-may-imperiled-planes-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T16:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 Max aircraft sit on the tarmac at Boeing Co.'s factory in Renton, Washington, on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-open-talks-foreign-infrastructure-projects-amid-warming-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T16:59:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-23T20:17:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai participates in a panel discussion at the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/national/otsu-turns-ai-bid-help-teachers-detect-signs-school-bullying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-23T22:01:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otsu Mayor Naomi Koshi (left) and Hitachi Systems Ltd. executive Koji Higashi show off a signed agreement to the media Friday over using Hitachi's artificial intelligence expertise to help teachers detect signs of serious bullying in schools.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-24T14:46:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-focus-a-20190325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers line up to purchase Apple Inc.'s iPhone 6 at a SoftBank store in Tokyo in 2014. Japan Display Inc., a major screen supplier for iPhones, is now struggling as iPhone sales slow down and its new models diversify.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/small-japanese-firms-fear-foreign-laborers-will-abandon-new-visas-kick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T14:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A foreign trainee (left) works at an auto parts maker in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/several-theresa-mays-ministers-plotting-oust-top-job-newspaper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T15:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An effigy of Prime Minister Theresa May is carried past the entrance of Downing Street, where the British prime minister's official residence and office is located, during a "Peoples Vote" anti-Brexit march in London on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-24T17:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrive for the signing of the memorandum of understanding on China's "Belt and Road" initiative at Villa Madama in Rome on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-24T17:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-24T17:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A badge belonging to a member of the Malian Army is seen in Anderamboukane, Menaka region, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/fugu-grow-faster-without-deadly-toxin-hoteliers-hot-spring-farms-tohoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T17:46:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tiger puffer fish is handled at a fish farm in Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/tsunami-hit-railway-northeast-japan-resumes-regular-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T18:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local students welcome a Sanriku Railway Co. train decorated with a design they helped make at Unosumai Station in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Sunday, when regular train services resumed on the Rias Line.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/base-laden-okinawa-vies-become-tourism-magnet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T19:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naha Airport hopes to become an Asian hub by building a second runway that is slated to open in March 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/waw-w20-talks-close-call-men-involved-womens-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T21:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, delivers the closing speech at the World Assembly for Women meeting in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/politics-diplomacy/official-campaigning-osaka-mayoral-election-starts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-24T21:54:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Matsui on Sunday makes a stump speech in Osaka on the first day of official campaigning for the April 7 mayoral election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-24T22:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-24T22:56:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/crime-legal-world/mexican-president-says-state-main-violator-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T08:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kin and supporters of 43 missing teachers college students carry pictures of the students as they march to demand the case not be closed and that experts' recommendations about new leads be followed, in Mexico City in 2016. On Sunday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to ramp up efforts to identify thousands of bodies in government custody at forensic institutions across Mexico, while thousands more Mexicans are missing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-probe-findings-offer-re-election-weapon-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T10:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpanalysis-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to media before boarding Air Force One on Sunday at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Florida, en route to Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/national/media-national/denki-groove-campaign-reveals-japan-truly-thinks-celebrities-embroiled-drug-scandals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T11:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle carrying suspect Pierre Taki leaves a narcotics control office operated by the health ministry in Tokyo on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/trickiest-u-s-missile-defense-test-finally-ready-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T11:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean ballistic missile is test-fired in this undated photo released on May 30, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democrat-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-calls-trump-coward-launches-2020-bid-outside-ny-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T15:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) holds her campaign kick-off event in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/russian-air-force-planes-land-venezuela-carrying-troops-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T15:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rusven-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airplane with the Russian flag is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-25T15:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-max-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 MAX 8 being built for Oman Air taxis past a Boeing hanger after landing at Boeing Field, Friday in Seattle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/corporate-business/uber-seen-poised-declare-3-billion-deal-careem-early-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T16:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Careem Networks FZ ride-hailing app is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone 8 in this arranged photograph inside a taxi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Oct. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/corporate-business/japanese-consumer-appliance-maker-iris-ohyama-opens-south-korean-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T17:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-25T18:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/companies-still-reluctant-relocate-tokyo-despite-tax-breaks-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T18:17:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-relocation-a-20190325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Few companies based in Tokyo are willing to move their headquarters out of the capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/national/social-issues/survey-finds-50-home-care-providers-experienced-harassment-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T18:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A care worker visits the home of an elderly woman in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/military-backed-party-thaksin-allies-claim-victory-thai-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T18:50:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Live results are reflected in glasses of a supporter of the Pheu Thai party during the general election in Bangkok on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/corporate-business/japan-sportswear-firm-descente-appoint-new-chief-itochu-rare-hostile-takeover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T19:02:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-descente-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatoshi Ishimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/times-theresa-pm-theresa-may-urged-set-exit-date-clinch-brexit-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T19:32:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-maytime-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maytime-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a debate on her Brexit plan in Parliament on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/asia-pacific/making-militants-indias-paradise-earth-kashmir/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T19:34:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kashmir-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sister of suspected militant Owais Malik shows a picture of him on her phone at her home in Kashmir's Kulgam district on Feb. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-25T19:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-fyi-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The systemic problems at child welfare centers have ultimately contributed to an increase in fatal child abuse cases throughout Japan, an expert says.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/trump-sees-swift-pushback-stephen-moore-latest-pick-fed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T19:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-moore-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moore-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Moore, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, poses for a photograph in Washington on Friday. President Donald Trump has said he is nominating Moore, a long-time supporter of the president, for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/national/tsunami-hit-ishinomaki-return-1964-tokyo-olympics-cauldron-lent-symbol-3-11-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T19:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cauldron-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Murofushi, a two-time Olympic medalist hammer thrower, holds up a torch Sunday after lighting the 1964 Tokyo Olympics cauldron in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/national/japan-starts-work-vaccinating-wild-boars-swine-fever-outbreaks-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T20:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-boars-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-boars-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers plant feed containing a vaccine in the ground in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Sunday to vaccinate wild boars against swine fever.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/land-reclamation-work-okinawa-enters-next-stage-henoko-relocation-site-u-s-futenma-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T20:14:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-henoko-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People rally against the relocation plan for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Monday outside Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/80-young-eels-farmed-japan-may-smuggled-taiwan-via-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T20:23:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-eel-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-eel-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eel is a prized summer delicacy in Japan, and the nation's imports of young eels could spark international criticism.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/skeptical-u-s-supreme-court-hear-redistricting-challenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T21:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/national/crime-legal/cybozu-chief-yoshihisa-aono-loses-lawsuit-tokyo-court-right-use-premarital-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T22:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-premarital-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-premarital-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihisa Aono (front left), president of software developer Cybozu Inc. and one of four plaintiffs in a lawsuit over the use of premarital surnames, heads to the Tokyo District Court on Monday before it rejected a case he had brought against the state. In the case the plaintiffs argued that a legal requirement for married Japanese couples to use the same surname was unconstitutional.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/asia-pacific/indian-cities-rush-ban-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-game-fear-creating-psychopaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T22:48:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-pubg-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pubg-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A number of cities in India have banned "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," seen here, and police in western India have arrested 10 university students for playing it.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/asia-pacific/pyongyang-officials-return-inter-korean-liaison-office-just-days-unilateral-pullout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-25T22:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-koreaoffice-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-koreaoffice-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon (center left) and Ri Son Gwon (center right), chairman of the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification, attend an opening ceremony for two Koreas' first liaison office in Kaesong, North Korea, last September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/corporate-business/japan-drone-maker-wants-start-selling-mass-produced-flying-motorbikes-2022/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T00:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-hoverbike-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hoverbike-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo-based A.L.I. Technologies Inc. is betting that flying motorcycles will be a big hit in countries with poor infrastructure.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-hold-news-conference-mid-april-later-lawyer-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T02:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ghosnpress-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosnpress-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, facing financial misconduct charges and released on bail, leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/crime-legal-world/republican-sen-lindsey-graham-wants-special-counsel-probe-trump-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T07:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-graham-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-graham-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., arrives at the Capitol to meet with reporters about the report by special counsel Robert Mueller, in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/crime-legal-world/felix-sater-eyed-trump-moscow-tower-launder-stolen-cash-bta-bank-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T07:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-sater-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sater-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-businessman Donald Trump talks on his phone with Felix Sater (right) outside the Bixpo 2005 business convention at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colorado. Sater, a Soviet emigre who befriended Trump over a series of development deals in the 2000s and pushed the Trump Tower Moscow project before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, has emerged as a key figure in House Democrats' investigations into Trump's Russia links.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/asia-pacific/pentagon-sends-ships-taiwan-strait-third-time-three-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T08:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-taiwan-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwan-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur participates in a close-quarters maneuvering exercise in the Philippine Sea in February last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/pentagon-calls-missile-defense-systems-intercept-icbm-class-target-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T14:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-missiledef-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-missiledef-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mock ICBM target is launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Monday. It was successfully intercepted by two long-range ground-based interceptors launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in the first salvo test of GBIs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/national/tokyo-paralympic-games-get-cherry-blossom-torch-new-color-braille-text/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T14:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-paratorch-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-paratorch-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Games unveils the Paralympic version of next year's official torch, which uses the braille alphabet and differs from the Olympic torch in color, at an event in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/france-seal-billions-worth-deals-china-challenge-belt-road-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T15:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-chifra-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chifra-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks flanked by French President Emmanuel Macron during a state dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris Monday as part of a Chinese state visit to France.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/emperor-visits-tomb-predecessor-jimmu-japans-legendary-first-leader-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T16:24:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-emperor-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito (center left) leaves what is said to be the tomb of Emperor Jimmu, Japan's first emperor in ancient times, on Tuesday at Kashihara, Nara Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-battles-keep-control-brexit-admits-lacks-backing-parliament-eu-withdrawal-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T16:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-mayxit-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mayxit-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's oposition Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn (front), makes a statement after Prime Minister Theresa May made a statement on Brexit to the House of Commons in London Monday. May conceded Monday that Parliament would defeat her twice-rejected Brexit divorce deal again if she put it to a new vote, but said she still hopes to change lawmakers' minds and get the agreement approved.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/researchers-discover-japans-oldest-known-rock-shimane-dating-back-2-5-billion-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T16:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-rock-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rock-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This rock, discovered by a team of researchers from Hiroshima University, is believed to be the oldest known specimen in the country, dating back 2.5 billion years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/senior-north-korean-diplomat-arrives-beijing-top-u-s-denuclearization-official-visits-chinese-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T17:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-nkchina-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkchina-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters wearing masks of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stand during a rally demanding the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and a peace treaty, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-congress-faces-long-road-ahead-fight-special-counsels-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T17:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-congressdocs-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-congressdocs-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler returns to Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/japans-new-car-sales-projected-fall-2-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T17:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-car-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-car-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The planned consumption tax hike in October is expected to have a limited impact on new vehicle sales.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/japan-nepal-sign-government-government-labor-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T18:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/lawyers-seize-nachi-fujikoshi-assets-south-korea-wartime-labor-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T18:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/corporate-business/nintendo-shares-climb-report-two-new-switch-models-works-avid-casual-gamers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T18:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-nintendo-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A foreign student buys a Nintendo Switch console in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/financial-markets/japanese-stocks-bounce-back-short-covering-buying-stocks-go-ex-dividend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T18:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-stock-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stock-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk by the Tokyo Stock Exchange earlier this month. Shares bounced back Tuesday after a sharp plunge the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/boeing-readies-737-max-software-fix-kin-wait-ethiopia-crash-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T19:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-boeing-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boeing-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing airplanes, many of which are grounded 737 MAX aircraft, sit at Boeing Field in Seattle Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/canadians-question-ratification-new-north-american-trade-deal-trump-tariffs-still-intact-ottawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T19:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-cantrade-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cantrade-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies at a House Ways and Means Committee on U.S.-China trade in Washington Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/world/heavy-weapons-fire-rocks-yemens-hodeida-u-n-pushes-get-warring-sides-pull/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-hodeida-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hodeida-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hanaa Ahmad Ali Bahr, a malnourished girl, sits on her father's lap in a shanty town in Hodeidah, Yemen Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/netflix-roku-shares-surge-ahead-apples-video-streaming-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:08:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-apple-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, last June. Apple is expected to announce Monday that it's launching a video service that could compete with Netflix, Amazon and cable TV itself.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/business/meti-tells-convenience-store-operators-come-plans-cope-japans-labor-crunch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-convenience-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-convenience-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In February, a Seven-Eleven owner in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, began closing his store overnight because he couldn't find enough workers to keep it staffed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/hundreds-thousands-march-london-demand-new-brexit-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-londonmarch-a-20190324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-londonmarch-a-20190324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dog with a sign tied to it is seen as thousands of EU supporters attending a "People's Vote" march in central London on Saturday called on the government to give Britons a vote on the final Brexit deal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/tokyo-immigration-officials-allow-proper-treatment-ailing-kurdish-immigration-detainee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-detainee-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-detainee-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasemin Colak, the wife of Kurdish detainee Mehmet Colak, tries to see what's happening inside the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward after an ambulance crew entered the building to check on her husband's condition on the evening of March 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/japan-accept-online-visa-renewal-applications-july-employers-agents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:23:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-visa-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visa-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The online application system will be available for use by agents or officials from organizations where foreign residents work, not the visa-holders themselves.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-whittle-japan-era-name-candidates-april-1-cabinets-final-decision-later-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-eraname-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eraname-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will reportedly pick around three new era name candidates from the 20 to 30 proposed by scholars commissioned by the government]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-poll-mess-allies-tycoon-thaksin-shinawatra-race-coup-prone-generals-secure-majority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T20:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-thaivote-a-20190327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-thaivote-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha holds a traditional flute as he arrives to attend a weekly Cabinet meeting, days after the general election, at Government House in Bangkok, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/national/japan-pension-branch-head-replaced-hate-speech-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-26T21:56:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/tech/eu-demands-scrutiny-5g-risks-no-bloc-wide-huawei-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T04:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-euhuawei-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-euhuawei-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Yu, CEO of the Huawei Consumer Business Group, unveils the new Huawei P30 and P30 Pro smartphones during a launch event in Paris Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/tech/google-launches-global-council-advise-ai-tech-ethics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T05:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-google-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists follow a news conference during the opening of the new Alphabet's Google Berlin office in Berlin in January.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/corporate-business/nissan-overhauling-board-two-decades-renault-carlos-ghosn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T07:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-nissan-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A billboard displays a portrait of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn on the Dbayeh highway, north of Beirut, March 21.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/media-national/japanese-media-face-hostility-disaster-coverage-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T12:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/p16-stmichel-disaster-a-20180916.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-disaster-a-20180916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pacific heights: High waves triggered by Typhoon Jebi batter a fishing port in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, on Sept. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/national/crime-legal/woman-stabbed-death-tokyo-apartment-police-seek-male-suspect-seen-near-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T13:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-stabbing-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stabbing-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators are seen Tuesday near an apartment in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, where a woman was found stabbed in the back earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/national/carlos-ghosns-unusual-nissan-perk-601000-stanford-tuition-fees-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T14:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn sits in a car as he leaves his lawyer's office after being released on bail from the Tokyo Detention House March 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/world/u-s-overhaul-air-safety-oversight-response-two-boeing-737-max-crashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T15:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-faafix-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft (top) are parked at Victorville Airport in Victorville, California, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/world/russian-military-deployment-venezuela-includes-cybersecurity-personnel-u-s-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T15:41:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-rusven-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rusven-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A jet with the Russian flag is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/tea-label-giants-unilever-tetley-vow-probe-revelations-labor-abuse-sri-lanka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T17:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/chinas-former-top-internet-regulator-sentenced-14-years-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T18:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/national/70-say-heisei-era-least-relatively-good-younger-japanese-positive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T18:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-poll-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poll-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko view cherry blossoms at Kyoto Gyoen National Garden on Wednesday, during their trip to the prefectures of Kyoto and Nara ahead of the Emperor's abdication on April 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/corporate-business/shocked-fukushima-evacuees-say-tepco-ruling-fails-fairly-compensate-suffering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T19:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n fukushima-a 20190328]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rice planting for commercial sales begins at a paddy in Iitate in May 2017, for the first time since the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/asia-pacific/india-shoots-satellite-missile-test-becoming-fourth-member-super-league-says-modi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T19:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-indiasat-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indiasat-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, India, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/miyakoshi-first-japanese-firm-postwar-china-hopes-real-estate-driven-comeback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T19:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-chinafirm-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinafirm-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese businessman Kunimasa Miyakoshi, who led the first Japanese company to get a permit to do business in the country after World War II, hopes to cement a $1.1 billion deal that will grant his company the rights to build office towers in the tech hub of Shenzhen.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/seven-thai-parties-say-enough-seats-eject-military-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-27T20:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The education ministry approved Tuesday six social studies textbooks to be used by fifth- and sixth-grade students that outline Japan's stance on disputed islands with neighboring countries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto University topped the list of Japanese universities in the Times Higher Education rankings again this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workplace harassment has become a growing problem in Japan, prompting the government to respond with legislation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After years of inactivity, mobile payments competition is heating up in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president, Juan Guaido, is greeted by supporters as he arrives for a meeting with electricity experts in Caracas Thursday. The Venezuelan government on Thursday said it has barred Guaido from holding public office for 15 years, though the National Assembly leader responded soon afterward that he would continue his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. Chairman Kazuo Hirai will retire from the company in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhang Yiming, founder of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., poses at the company's headquarters in Beijing on Aug. 17, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/emperor-lacking-grandson-1997-japan-secretly-discussed-allowing-empresses-reign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T17:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(From left) Crown Prince Naruhito, Emperor Akihito, Prince Akishino, Empress Michiko, Prince Akishino's wife, Princess Kiko, and their two daughters, Princess Kako and Princess Mako, listen to gagaku, Japan's ancient court music, at a concert at the Imperial Palace earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/corporate-business/toshibas-indian-arm-breaks-ground-major-manila-sewage-treatment-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T17:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Engineers from a consortium, including Toshiba Infrastructure Systems &amp; Solutions Corp.'s Indian arm, break ground on a mega-sewage treatment plant in Las Pinas City in the Manila area on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/tech/censorship-pays-chinese-communist-party-newspaper-expands-lucrative-online-scrubbing-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/japans-pork-wine-cheese-imports-europe-surging-free-trade-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's imports of pork, wine and cheese from the European Union marked double-digit growth in February thanks to their free trade agreement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-spotlight-prefectural-metropolitan-assembly-elections-kick-off-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:12:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters listen to a candidate's speech in the city of Osaka on Friday as campaigning kicks off for the nationwide local elections scheduled for next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/japans-jobless-rate-february-fell-2-3-lowest-nine-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:14:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job seekers attend a job fair in Akita Prefecture in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/cash-obsessed-japan-slowly-buying-digital-payment-systems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer settles the bill using the Origami Pay cashless system at a Yoshinoya restaurant in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/social-issues/vietnamese-nun-tokyo-prays-compatriots-lost-lives-work-japan-fearing-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thich Tam Tri offers incense sticks earlier this month in front of an altar at Nisshinkutsu Temple in Minato Ward, Tokyo. Along the wall are wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with the names of Vietnamese students or workers who died after coming to work or study in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/world/science-health-world/china-pushes-traditional-medicine-globally-illegal-wildlife-trade-flourishes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pangolin rescued from poachers recovers from anesthetic at the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital after undergoing a sonogram to check it for pregnancy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/japans-factory-output-rose-1-4-february-recovery-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T18:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-output-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Increased production of cars and auto parts contributed to a rise in industrial output in February, the first gain in four months.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/puerto-rico-governor-slams-bully-trump-hurricane-relief-fight-rages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T20:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mitch-mcconnell-sets-senate-nuclear-option-rules-change-speed-trump-nominees-thwart-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T20:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mitch-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he arrives on Capitol Hill before joining Senate Republicans for lunch in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/world/crime-legal-world/trump-adviser-jared-kushner-meets-senate-intelligence-panel-second-time-closed-session-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T20:19:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-kushner-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kushner-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Jared Kushner smiles while listening to U.S. President Donald Trump talk as the president meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/google-barred-lgbt-equality-index-life-threatening-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T20:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/probe-reveals-759-cases-suspected-abuse-foreign-trainees-japan-171-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T20:41:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-trainees-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trainees-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of foreign technical interns speak about abusive working conditions forced on them by employers during a news conference at the Diet in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/corporate-business/astrazeneca-bets-6-9-billion-daiichi-sankyo-therapy-will-transform-cancer-treatment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T20:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-daiichisankyo-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-daiichisankyo-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daiichi Sankyo shares surged 15.9 percent — the stock's daily limit — to an all-time high in Tokyo trading Friday following news of its tie-up with AstraZeneca.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/corporate-business/toyota-dealers-tokyo-hacked-data-roughly-3-million-customers-stolen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-29T22:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-toyotaleak-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyotaleak-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data on roughly 3 million customers held by Toyota's sales companies in Tokyo may have been leaked through unauthorized access to their computer systems earlier this month, according to the carmaker.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/hundreds-thousands-march-algerian-leader-bouteflika/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T13:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-algeria-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Algerian protester atop a light pole waves a national flag  during a mass demonstration against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mueller-report-trump-russia-made-public-mid-april-u-s-attorney-general-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T13:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-rusreport-a-20190331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rusreport-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his house after special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia in the 2016 election in McClean, Virginia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/crime-legal/thai-police-arrest-15-japanese-pattaya-call-center-scam-targeting-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T14:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/business/japan-u-s-said-planning-trade-talks-mid-april-farm-sector-elections-spotlight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T14:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-tradetalks-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradetalks-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV monitor showing U.S. President Donald Trump is seen behind U.S. and Japanese flags at a currency trading company in Tokyo. The two countries reportedly plan to launch bilateral trade talks on April 15 and 16 in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/two-japanese-teens-drown-lake-australias-fraser-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T15:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/no-deal-brexit-fears-rise-parliament-sinks-mays-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T15:12:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/f-brexitwrap-a-20190331.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Brexit supporter holds an England flag at Parliament Square in Westminster, London,on  Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/28/business/tokyo-hotel-serve-giant-100000-wagyu-burgers-honor-new-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T15:19:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wagyu-a-20190329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant wagyu burger, costing ¥100,000, is unveiled at a Tokyo hotel in honor of the upcoming ascension of Crown Prince Naruhito.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/world/science-health-world/great-pompeii-project-offers-new-glimpses-citys-life-calamity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T15:21:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A view of the excavation work in Region V of the archaeological dig underway in Pompeii on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/business/corporate-business/nomura-receives-chinese-approval-establish-majority-controlled-brokerage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T15:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/business/economy-business/u-s-china-report-progress-beijing-trade-talks-trump-pushes-great-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T15:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-uschina-a-20190331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uschina-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a visit to Lake Okeechobee and Herbert Hoover Dike at Canal Point, Florida, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/media-national/resellers-fans-must-take-matters-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T22:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-japanpulse-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A not so happy place?: To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Tokyo Disneyland this year, Disney released a line of limited-edition goods that were snapped up by resellers before fans could get their hands on them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/piece-paper-trump-called-kim-hand-nuclear-chemical-biological-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T16:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after shaking hands before their one-on-one chat during the second U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi on Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-panel-urges-prosecutors-reopen-probe-governments-murky-moritomo-gakuen-land-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T19:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-landdeal-a-20190331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-landdeal-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/social-issues/foreign-minister-taro-kono-suggests-need-end-reversal-japanese-names-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T19:31:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-taronames-a-20190331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taronames-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/business/improper-aircraft-engine-checks-ihi-surge-211-6340-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T19:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-30T21:22:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-migrants-a-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armed troops are seen aboard the Turkish oil tanker El Hiblu 1, which was hijacked by migrants earlier in the week, in the port at Valletta on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/crime-legal/filipino-woman-killed-another-injured-hit-car-yamagata-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-30T22:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/07/national/japan-fails-shine-annual-report-womens-participation-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-31T11:04:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[College students cheer during a job-hunting pep rally in Tokyo on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/media-national/apo-den-telephone-scams-take-deadly-turns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-31T11:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-biginjapan-c-20190331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apo-den arrests: Hiroki Sue (left) and Yuta Sakai, along with Tatsumi Komatsuzono (not pictured), were arrested in connection with the robbery and death of Kuniko Kato.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/30/national/japanese-municipalities-companies-urged-craft-evacuation-plans-event-mega-quake-rocks-pacific-coastal-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-03-31T13:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 70 percent of adults convicted of abusing their own children or children they live with were abused or neglected when they themselves were children, a recent survey showed Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The North Korean Embassy in Madrid is seen Thursday, more than a month after a shadowy group committed to overthrowing the regime in Pyongyang raided the compound.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband, Philip, are seen after they attended a church service near her Maidenhead constituency, west of London, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-31T22:34:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon delivers a speech at a conference in Boao, China, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-03-31T23:20:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T03:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel Corp.'s next president, Eiji Hashimoto, speaks during a media round-table in Tokyo March 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T13:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese traditional dolls depicting Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (left) and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are positioned to hold one of the speculated names for the new era at Kyugetsu, a Japanese traditional doll company, in Tokyo on Thursday. The kanji reads "ankyū," meaning "peaceful and permanent."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T13:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The news conference room where Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga unveils Japan's new era name is seen a few hours before the announcement at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T14:06:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the main opposition Republican People's Party wave flags and hold lit flares to celebrate the local election in Istanbul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T15:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bankers-a-20190402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Takashima, chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, says Japan should not pursue even lower interest rates.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine Armed Forces Southern Luzon Command Chief Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay (from left), Undersecretary of National Defense Cardozo Luna, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief Gen. Benjamin Madrigal Jr. and Brig. Gen. Christopher McPhillips link arms during the opening ceremony of the joint U.S.-Philippine military exercise Balikatan 2019 on Monday at Camp Aguinaldo, northeast of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:17:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping departs from the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26 during a state visit to the French capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis, flanked by interim director of Holy See Press Office Alessandro Gisotti, speaks to reporters on board the flight back to Rome from a two-day trip to Morocco Sunday. Francis sought Sunday to encourage greater fraternity between Christians and Muslims in Morocco, telling his flock that showing the country's Muslim majority they are part of the same human family will help stamp out extremism.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:34:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Vice Premier Liu He gestures next to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as they pose for a group photo at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra responds to questions during a 2016 interview in New York. Thailand's king has stripped fugitive former Prime Minister of his royal decorations, citing his 2008 flight to escape serving a two-year prison term on a conflict of interest conviction and other legal cases against him.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salvadorean migrants traveling to the U.S. are detained for entering the country illegally during an operation by Mexican police in Metapa, Chiapas State, in November. The White House on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's decision to cut off aid to three small Central American countries, insisting they weren't doing enough to stop the flow of migrants to the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated photo provided by the Columbia Police Department shows Nathaniel David Rowland. Police in South Carolina say they arrested him in connection with the death of a college student.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:51:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson Inc. will install self-checkout systems in all of its stores nationwide by October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T16:57:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru is seen after it returned to port in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Sunday after several months of research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T17:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-display-a-20190402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc., a key supplier for Apple's iPhones, is aiming to agree on a bailout of more than ¥110 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T17:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[=A person looks through the border wall toward the United States at Border Field State Park in San Diego, California, in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/business/japan-debuts-legal-cap-long-work-hours-labor-reform-law-now-big-firms-affected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T17:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peopel gather to view cherry blossoms in full bloom at Ueno Park in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/31/national/crime-legal/tokyo-nursery-worker-arrested-murder-female-colleague/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T17:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-murder-a-20190401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Matsuoka]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/national/twitter-say-reiwa-japans-new-era-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T17:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/KYODO_2031_190401_0244_0317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n tweets-a 20190402]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People snap photos with their smartphones of a placard displaying Japan's new era name, Reiwa, in front of the Wako department store in Tokyo's Ginza district on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/national/era-system-unnecessary-modern-day-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T17:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n opponents-a 20190402]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A printed 2019, or Heisei 31, calendar is seen at a factory of major calendar maker Todan in Ami, Ibaraki Prefecture, last June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/national/look-reiwa-picked-kept-wraps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T18:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-process-a-20190402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-process-a-20190402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Prime Minister's Official Residence is where the candidate names for Japan's next era were deliberated and announced. The Reiwa Era will begin on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/national/imperial-era-names-coined-emperors-now-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T18:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gengo-a-20190402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Imperial era name Heisei is announced by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi on Jan. 7, 1989.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/national/japans-imperial-era-names-bookmarks-politics-history-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-01T19:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-impact-a-20190402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-impact-a-20190402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The midyear change in the name of the Imperial era is a challenge for calendar makers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/moon-hopes-north-korea-responds-positively-u-s-south-korea-efforts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in (center) speaks during a weekly meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T19:53:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does a traditional "banzai" (long life) cheer to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during a ceremony to mark the 30th year of his reign at the National Theater in Tokyo on Feb. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T19:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cupcakes bearing the name "Reiwa" selected Monday for the forthcoming Imperial era are seen on sale at a shop inside Tokyo Station the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-01T20:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Weak demand in Asian markets, including China, is dampening sentiment among Japanese manufacturers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major convenience store chain Lawson Inc. plans to experiment with leaving stores unmanned late at night and letting customers use a self-service payment system instead as a way to deal with the severe national labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T08:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is greeted by supporters upon arriving in Hawaii on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T12:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T13:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., leaves the office of his lawyer in Tokyo on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T13:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T14:13:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Finance Ministry has created the character Kokusai-sensei, "the Government Bond Teacher," to promote bond sales.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Simon Milner, Facebook's Asia-Pacific vice president for public policy, speaks at a public hearing at the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta in April 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New employees attend a welcome ceremony at Toyota Motor Corp. in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T15:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds up a placard showing the kanji for Reiwa, the name of the next Imperial era, during a news conference Monday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T16:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iran does not receive deported citizens if they are unwilling to return, as its constitution guarantees freedom of residence and movement.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T16:27:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T16:29:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T16:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T16:41:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T17:07:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woodblock print edition from the late Edo Period of "Manyoshu," the earliest existing collection of Japanese poetry, which was compiled nearly 1,200 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T18:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono talks with U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Monday following the announcement of the new era name, Reiwa.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T18:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People try to get their hands on newspaper extra editions reporting the next era name, Reiwa, in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T18:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and teenage "reconstruction ambassadors" from the Tohoku region pose for photos on Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-02T20:12:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children practice writing the characters for the name of the next era, Reiwa, on Monday at a calligraphy lesson in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During the Group of 20 summit set to be held in Osaka in June, nearly all pachinko parlors in Osaka and Ehime prefectures will refrain from introducing new machines in order to avoid creating extra work for police.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-03T10:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn sits in a car after leaving his lawyer's office in Tokyo on March 6, the day he was released on bail.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-03T14:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno speaks with local radio journalists about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Guayaquil on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-03T15:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles are seen during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aircraft belonging to Jetstar Japan Co. Ltd., in which Japan Airlines Co. holds a stake, flies last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/business/asian-development-bank-sees-growth-continents-developing-countries-slowing-5-7-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T16:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-adb-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asian Development Bank President Takehiko Nakao delivers a speech in Fukuoka in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ailing-algerian-president-bouteflika-resigns-pressure-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T17:16:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-algeria-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This March 26 photo combo shows Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (left) and Chief of Staff Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah. Bouteflika submitted his resignation according to the state TV after Algeria's military on Tuesday demanded the immediate launch of impeachment proceedings against him as it dismissed an announcement he will resign before his mandate expires.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/politics-diplomacy/30-japanese-late-teens-say-diet-not-improving-peoples-lives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T17:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent poll shows 30 percent of young people aged 17-19 believe the Diet is not helping to improve people's lives.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/australia-plan-mine-moon-water-within-five-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T18:34:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausspace-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A May 2018 amateur poster created to celebrate and promote the Australian Space Agency. "Cobber," like "mate," is slang for "friend."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/business/economy-business/global-trade-growth-slow-2-6-amid-china-u-s-standoff-says-wto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T19:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wto-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Trade Organization has said that growth in global merchandise trade volume is expected to slow to 2.6 percent this year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/kyushu-woman-longest-hair-teenager-lops-off-record-setting-locks-ready-reiwa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T19:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hair-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keito Kawahara poses for a photo after her first-ever haircut in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/business/corporate-business/toyota-allow-free-access-24000-hybrid-electric-vehicle-tech-patents-boost-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:25:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota says it will offer around 23,740 patents related to electrification tech, with the grant period running to the end of 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/beijing-tells-tokyo-plans-replace-envoy-japan-cheng-yonghua-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-chinaenvoy-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinaenvoy-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (left) and Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/02/national/70-approve-reiwa-name-japans-next-imperial-era-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-poll-a-20190403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poll-a-20190403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch TVs at an electronics store in Tokyo's Yurakucho district Monday as the new Imperial era name, Reiwa, is unveiled by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at a televised news conference.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/business/announcement-japans-impending-reiwa-era-sets-off-scramble-internet-domain-names/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-domain-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-domain-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The announcement of Japan's new Imperial era name has set off a scramble to acquire an internet domain featuring the word "reiwa."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/japan-assures-world-reiwa-beautiful-harmony-nothing-command/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-reiwa-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reiwa-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner showing Reiwa, the name of Japan's forthcoming new Imperial era, is seen hanging in a shopping arcade in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/asia-pacific/facebook-twitter-find-ensnared-india-pakistan-rivalry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women watch the funeral procession of suspected rebel Aqib Ahmed Kumar in the village of Hillow, south of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Monday. Police said four suspected rebels had been killed in a gunbattle with Indian forces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democrats-mock-trump-health-care-walk-back-prepare-2020-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:41:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during an event to call for the protection of affordable health care for those with preexisting conditions in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/u-s-senators-seek-details-secret-reactor-cooperation-saudis-wary-nuclear-arms-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:43:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/crime-legal-world/democrat-led-house-panel-subpoenas-ex-white-house-personnel-chief-security-clearance-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:43:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-cummings-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cummings-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Elijah Cummings wields the gavel in front of Rep. Jim Jordanas Cummings presides over a vote to issue subpoenas to the White House over Trump administration security clearance policies on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/faa-lax-boeing-737-max-inspector-training-whistle-blowers-allege/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:44:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-max-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker walks next to a Boeing 737 MAX 8 parked at Boeing Field in Seattle March 14. U.S. aviation regulators said Monday Boeing needs more time to finish changes in a flight-control system suspected of playing a role in two deadly crashes.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/crime-legal-world/u-k-police-investigate-devices-found-placed-rail-line-linked-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T20:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-twitter-account-says-ousted-nissan-chief-will-tell-truth-news-conference-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T22:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ghosntwitter-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosntwitter-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passersby are silhouetted as a huge street monitor broadcasts news reporting ousted Nissan Motor chief's Carlos Ghosn's indictment and re-arrest in Tokyo in December.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/emperor-cancels-attendance-rituals-events-due-cough/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T22:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-emperor-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend a concert celebrating their 60 years of marriage and 30 years of the Emperor's reign at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkish-opposition-demands-mandate-istanbul-recount-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-03T23:07:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-turkeyvote-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turkeyvote-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkey's main opposition party CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu, who claimed victory as Istanbul mayor,  speaks at a news conference in Istanbul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/28/national/crime-legal/39-years-13-year-jail-term-85-year-old-finally-exonerated-kumamoto-murder-retrial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T01:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-retrial-b-20190329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-retrial-b-20190329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a ruling handed down by the Kumamoto District Court on Thursday, Koki Miyata was acquitted of a murder he was found guilty of carrying out in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1985. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/takashi-takano-mastermind-behind-ghosns-dramatic-bail-release-disguise-didnt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T11:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/335185307_0-8.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[335185307_0-8.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/japanese-authorities-say-suicide-jaxa-contractor-work-related/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T12:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-jaxasuicide-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jaxasuicide-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Epsilon-3 rocket lifts off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture in January 2018. Authorities have reportedly recognized the October 2016 suicide of a man involved in satellite control operations at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center as a work-related death.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-k-postpone-two-plus-two-security-talks-amid-brexit-deadlock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T13:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/forgotten-center-japan-calls-website-operators-fix-odd-translations-amid-tourism-influx/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-oddtrans-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists are seen at Kyoto Station. The government is urging operators of websites that provide public transportation information to fix English mistranslations as the country gears up for an influx of visitors ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/business/corporate-business/yodobashi-buy-outdoor-goods-shop-operator-ici-ishii-sports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yodobashi Camera's flagship outlet in Tokyo's Akihabara district]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/business/truckers-stores-u-s-mexico-border-struggle-trump-closure-threat-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-borderbiz-a-20190405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drivers and commuters wait in line to cross to El Paso, Texas, on the international border crossing bridge Paso del Norte, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/world/crime-legal-world/white-power-graffiti-defaces-historic-tennessee-civil-rights-site-victim-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-racism-a-20190405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-racism-a-20190405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke and fire billows from the Highlander Education and Research Center in New Market, Tennessee, March 29 in this still image taken from social media on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/business/economy-business/u-s-plans-pump-dollars-venezuela-maduro-falls-talking-guaido-rescue-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-venprop-a-20190405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-venprop-a-20190405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man sells basic products in Caracas Wednesday. President Nicolas Maduro has ordered electricity rationing for the next month in a bid to buy his engineers time to fix the problem, which he blames on opposition sabotage designed "to drive the country crazy." Living conditions are plummeting in the oil-producing Latin American nation, which is spiralling ever deeper into economic chaos during a protracted political crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/u-n-slams-bruneis-sharia-laws-condemning-gays-adulterers-violation-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:39:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-brunei-a-20190405.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah leaves after speaking at an event in Bandar Seri Begawan Wednesday. The sultan called for Islamic teachings in the country to be strengthened as strict new sharia punishments, including death by stoning for gay sex and adultery, were due to come into force the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/business/tech/delays-boeings-new-starliner-space-capsule-astronauts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-starliner-a-20190405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-starliner-a-20190405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mockups of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules with crew members (from left) Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover are seen last year at the Johnson Space Center in Texas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-threatens-mexico-border-closure-throws-ball-back-congress-draws-business-outcry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T14:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-trumpthreat-a-20190405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpthreat-a-20190405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee Annual Spring Dinner in Washington Tuesday. Trump said he is "100 percent" prepared to close down the U.S.-Mexico border, warning Congress and Central American governments to take action to stem the flow of migrants into the country.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/business/corporate-business/lcd-maker-japan-display-reaches-bailout-deal-china-taiwan-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-04T15:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-display-a-20190404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-display-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. has reportedly reached a broad agreement to receive financial help from a Chinese-Taiwanese consortium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lego Group has unveiled a new robotics kit that comes with an app, aimed at encouraging students to gain programming skills. In Japan, computer programming will become required material in all elementary schools starting in April 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks with Senator Chuck Grassley (right) as he departs with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (center) after addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juan Guaido (center), president of the National Assembly and self-proclaimed interim Venezuelan president, speaks in a video call after a meeting with young opposition leaders at the National Assembly in Caracas Thursday. Guaido leaped onto the stage of Venezuela's fraught political scene early this year, vowing to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro and immediately drawing the socialist leader's ire.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Logos of Huawei are seen on a device at its showroom in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, March 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-05T20:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko speaks during a meeting with heads of convenience store operators on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chris Beardshall (left), Louis Carlet and Adam Cleeve, members of the Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union, hold a news conference Thursday at the labor ministry after Beardshall and Cleeve filed a lawsuit against Shane Corporation Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/national/media-national/undocumented-workers-constant-state-uncertainty/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cry for help: Three detainees attempted to commit suicide at the East Japan Immigration Center in Ibaraki Prefecture in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/social-issues/vietnamese-trainee-japan-sent-home-asking-paid-leave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-05T21:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-05T21:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyer Shoichi Ibuski (right), describes the poor working conditions participants are forced to endure in the government's foreign trainee program, in June 2009. Experts say trainees are exploited to the extent that some die from overwork or commit suicide.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-05T21:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers give a news conference in Tokyo on Friday after a trainee from China won a compensation lawsuit at the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Showa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Tsukada]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in Tehran last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T12:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Land minister Keiichi Ishii speaks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. B-52 bomber performs its second and final pass over the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition 2019 in Padang Mat Sirat, Malaysia, on March 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he exits Air Force One with Rep. Kevin McCarthy upon their arrival in Los Angeles on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the construction site for a hot springs tourist area in Yangdok County in this undated photo released Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion on immigration and border security in Calexico, California, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T13:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matthew Eledge; Elliott Dougherty; Matthew's mother, Cecile Eledge; and Elliot's sister and egg donor Lea Yribe pose in Omaha, Nebraska, on March 10, when Cecile was pregnant with her son's child.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign residents stand in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T14:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-workersfocus-a-20181209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House lawmakers attend a debate over a controversial bill to overhaul the immigration control law on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/22/national/supporters-foreign-workers-call-pay-permanent-residence-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T14:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign trainees attend a gathering held by Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan at the Diet building Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/02/national/japan-moves-to-expand-controversial-foreign-worker-scheme/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T14:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/p2-forworkers-a-20140403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan Exploiting Foreign Workers]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Zhigan, a 31-year-old Chinese laborer, prepares a lunch at his dormitory in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, last May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T14:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left, Yumiko Kan of Nature and Humans Japan and Sonam Dhendup and Nagwang Tobgay, of the Parent's Committee of the Learn and Earn Program, attend a news conference Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/31/national/record-5803-foreign-trainees-went-awol-japan-last-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T15:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T15:32:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T15:42:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist enters the newly discovered tomb of Tutu near Sohag, Egypt, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/06/national/media-national/getting-bottom-chicano-subculture-coverage-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T22:42:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-chicano-a-20190407.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lowrider culture in Japan has been covered by several media organizations since at least as far back as 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/24/national/overwork-blamed-for-record-high-34-foreign-trainee-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-labor-a-20160224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese trainee Tang Xili wipes her chopsticks in a building housing a local labor union office and a shelter for Chinese trainees managed in Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:42:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-laborfocus-a-20180726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Filipino care worker assists an elderly resident at Eisei Hospital in Tokyo. Japan's move toward opening its doors to more foreign workers is widely seen as a must to better cope with an expected shrinkage in the working population.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T22:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-emperor-a-20190407.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Common ground: Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have met with members of the general public and talked to them on their level.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bolton-a-20190407.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Security Adviser John Bolton listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/08/09/national/foreigners-karoshi-case-a-first/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-06T16:54:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey revealed that more than half of subcontracted ALTs weren't covered by the nation's social insurance scheme, including health and pension benefits. Some received a monthly wage under ¥100,000.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (left) and Nikesh Arora, then Japan’s highest-paid executive, are seen May 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Medical University in Shinjuku Ward is one of the universities that was found to have routinely altered the entrance exam scores of female applicants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/06/business/david-malpass-confirmed-next-president-world-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-06T21:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Malpass speaks at the White House on Feb. 6 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his candidacy to lead the World Bank.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T12:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T15:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Inagaki, the chairman of the Life Insurance Association of Japan, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 15. The country's insurance industry reportedly plans to set business guidelines banning the use of personal genetic information for decisions regarding eligibility for life and medical insurance policies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T15:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T18:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Conservative Party lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg walks outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T18:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This supplied photo shows the cover of the portrait book "Hāfu2Hāfu," which documents the thoughts on identity of mixed-race Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-not-moved-inch-brexit-says-labours-legal-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-07T18:44:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband, Philip, leave church near High Wycombe, England, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pictures of Rwandan genocide victims are displayed at an exhibition at the Genocide Memorial in Gisozi in Kigali on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T20:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko view cherry blossoms during their walk through the outer Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo early Sunday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-07T22:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A former trainee from Vietnam who sought payment of unpaid wages for the time she worked at a Japanese manufacturer is seen in this photo taken in Osaka in March 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-top-government-spokesman-yoshihide-suga-among-post-abe-candidates-ldp-heavyweight-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-07T22:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga unveils the name of the next era, Reiwa, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/09/national/media-national/tv-takes-lazy-approach-hikikomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T03:21:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Different approach: A hikikomori (shut-in) who works at the Akarenga cafe in Suita, Osaka, says he has felt more calm and stable since getting a job there thanks to the help of NPO Full House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/19/national/social-issues/support-groups-emerge-help-female-recluses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T03:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoko Hayashi, who is leading efforts to help women identified as "hikikomori" (social recluses) speaks during a gathering in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/25/national/social-issues/japans-middle-aged-recluses-dire-need-help-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T03:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hikikomori-a-20170126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More middle-aged people are severely withdrawn in Japan, highlighting the need for better measures to help this demographic, a survey found.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/national/social-issues/mom-daughter-sue-business-claimed-help-socially-withdrawn-child/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T03:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-recluse-a-20170501.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mother of a girl who filed a lawsuit against a business claiming to help social recluses speaks in an interview in April. She asked not to be identified or that her place of residence be revealed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/national/social-issues/japanese-mixed-perceptions-hikikomori-social-recluses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T03:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People crowd a street near Shinjuku Station. A variety of opinions were heard from people interviewed in Shinjuku about hikikomori, or those who shut themselves in from society.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/07/national/japan-home-541000-young-recluses-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T03:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man who used to shut himself in works in a cafe launched in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, by a nonprofit organization to support people having difficulty interacting with others.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/g7-pushes-north-korea-continue-denuclearization-talks-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T13:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrives for the second day of a Group of Seven ministerial-level meeting in Dinard, France, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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