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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People listen to a candidate's outdoor speech in Osaka on Saturday night, ahead of the election of its gubernatorial and mayoral elections Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-08T13:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) and former Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura hold a news conference after their Sunday elections wins.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-08T14:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Taesong Department Store in Pyongyang just before its opening in this photo released Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-08T14:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hamburger chain Mos Food Services Inc. is partnering with Thailand's KCE Electronics Public Co. to increase its presence in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-08T15:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A China Coast Guard vessel attempts to block a Philippine government vessel in March 2014 as the latter tries to enter the China Second Thomas Disputed Shoals, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, for officials to address Philippine troops and deliver provisions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-08T15:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese protesters flash the victory sign at a passing military vehicle as they gather for a second day outside the military headquarters in Khartoum on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trudeau-licks-wounds-tries-change-channel-snc-lavalin-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T15:58:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a Liberal Party caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa April 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/trump-picks-herman-cain-stephen-moore-fed-seats-said-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T16:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain is seen at the National Press Club in Washington in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/05/national/even-retirement-ichiro-still-not-ready-yet-accept-japans-prestigious-peoples-honor-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T16:16:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners acknowledges the crowd at the Tokyo Dome after the second game of his team’s season-opening series on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/sluggish-dysfunctional-europe-isnt-japan-1990s-theres-still-reason-worry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T16:24:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Europe's economic troubles today are often compared with Japan's lost decade from the mid-1990s.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/pakistan-says-intelligence-new-indian-attack-month-alerted-unsc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T16:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian fishermen show their travel cards as they sit at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday  after they were released from the Malir Jail. Pakistan released 100 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/national/social-issues/cases-highlight-risk-female-students-japan-sexual-harassment-alumni-seeking-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students looking for jobs commonly contact alumni of their university to gain advice about companies where they are interested in working, often meeting them in person and, in some cases, at bars or restaurants in the evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/economy-business/japans-current-account-surplus-jumped-25-february-lower-oil-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/give-us-strong-leader-reform-brexit-fatigued-system-britons-say-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:15:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves a church near High Wycombe, England, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkish-leader-erdogans-election-setback-dents-hopes-major-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to attend a news conference at Huber Mansion in Istanbul on March 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/typhoon-hit-kansai-airport-bridge-fully-reopens-ahead-japans-bumper-golden-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bridge connecting Kansai International Airport and the mainland, which had been damaged by a typhoon, is completely reopened Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/asia-pacific/china-relax-residency-curbs-boost-infrastructure-bring-people-cities-revive-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China’s National Development and Reform Commission said it aims to increase the nation’s urbanization rate by at least 1 percentage point by the end of this year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/economy-business/bank-japan-cuts-assessment-three-regions-kuroda-sees-moderate-growth-ahead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T17:49:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a meeting Monday in Tokyo of the BOJ's regional branch managers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/national/crime-legal/nagoya-judge-clears-father-sexual-assault-saying-court-cant-prove-daughter-incapable-resisting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T20:07:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/flawed-software-possibly-bird-strike-takeoff-thrust-said-doomed-ethiopian-airlines-737-max/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T20:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa March 11. Pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines flight encountered problems with their new Boeing jetliner from nearly the moment they roared down the runway and took off. Ethiopian authorities issued a preliminary report Thursday on the March 10 crash.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/netanyahu-plays-pre-election-trump-card-vows-annex-settlements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T20:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks by election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu (left) alongside the Blue and White party leaders (from left) Moshe Yaalon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi, in Tel Aviv Sunday,. Hebrew on billboards reads, left "Strong Likud strong Israel" on the right "Every vote matters, win Blue and White."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/china-wants-work-eu-trade-not-trying-split-east-west-premier-writes-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T20:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Council President Donald Tusk, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (center) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/national/catholic-church-open-first-probe-japan-child-sexual-abuse-within-ranks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T21:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/britain-plans-social-media-regulation-battle-harmful-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T21:41:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Governments across the world are wrestling over how to better control content on social media platforms, often blamed for encouraging abuse, the spread of online pornography, and for influencing or manipulating voters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-tout-green-bona-fides-gutting-environmental-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T22:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition 2019 Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/japan-u-s-discuss-higher-standards-applying-tariff-cuts-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-08T22:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japanese economy minister Toshimitsu Motegi are leading their countries' teams of negotiators, which will kick off their first round of talks next week in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/corporate-business/nissan-shareholders-meet-sack-ghosn-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T09:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-ishin-now-firmly-control-across-prefecture-piling-pressure-komeito-back-merger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T09:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, who was elected mayor of Osaka on Sunday, visits city hall on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/08/10/national/reformers-ideals-point-way-forward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T11:57:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Modernization crusader Eiichi Shibusawa and the First National Bank are among the images awaiting visitors to the Shibusawa Memorial Museum.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/25/national/japan-plays-leading-role-global-public-health-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T12:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andy Crump]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/31/business/long-held-business-beliefs-still-true-modern-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T12:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/01/reference/stap-scandal-riken-plots-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T12:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riken President Ryoji Noyori apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-extends-sanctions-north-korea-two-years-abductions-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T13:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/national/quarter-japans-adults-40-virgins-least-comes-opposite-sex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T13:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About a quarter of people aged 18 to 39 in Japan are estimated to have had no experience of heterosexual intercourse, according to recently published findings.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T13:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[American tourist Kim Endicott is seen Monday following her rescue after being kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Ugandan police said on Sunday they had rescued Endicott and her guide, Jean-Paul Mirenge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T13:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T13:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T13:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T14:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee leave 10 Downing Street following meetings in London Monday. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative government and the main opposition Labour Party were clinging to hope of finding a compromise Brexit deal, two days before EU leaders decide whether to grant an extension to the U.K.'s departure from the bloc. If they refuse, Britain faces a sudden and chaotic departure on Friday, the Brexit deadline previously set by the EU.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T15:22:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino workers, including nurses applying to work in Britain, attend a lecture at a review center for the IELTS test in Manila on April 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T15:41:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Russian military has reportedly deployed a surveillance drone to two Japan-claimed islands off Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/09/world/british-media-turned-prince-harry-meghan-markle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T15:58:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince Harry and his then-girlfriend, actress Meghan Markle, watch wheelchair tennis during the Invictus Games in Toronto in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/09/national/japan-sets-safety-measures-aimed-foreign-drivers-amid-rise-accidents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T16:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/08/business/first-premium-mangoes-japan-growing-season-fetch-record-%c2%a5500000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T16:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Premium mangoes called Taiyo no Tamago are auctioned at a wholesale market in Miyazaki Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T17:06:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IHI Corp.'s Mizuho plant in a Tokyo suburb is among the sites where faulty inspections were carried out for jet engine parts.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T17:13:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T17:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Once a market leader in consumer electronics, Sony is now in the midst of a turnaround effort.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T18:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T18:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taeko Watanabe, whose son, Yuki, committed suicide in 2008, talks in front of his portrait at her home in Akita Prefecture on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T18:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher checks records of a cancer patient at the National Cancer Center Japan, based in Tokyo, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/09/business/corporate-business/honda-end-car-production-turkey-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-09T19:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co.'s Turkish plant on the outskirts of Istanbul on Feb. 19]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T19:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Japan University of Economics in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, read poems from “Manyoshu” as they re-create an ancient plum blossom viewing party on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T19:21:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kameda Seika Co. employee holds a bag of crispy rice crackers with roasted peanuts, known as Kaki No Tane in Japan and Kameda Crisps abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T19:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T19:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lower House passed a bill on Tuesday to offer free preschool education from October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T20:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cell in a building that houses foreign inmates at Fuchu Prison, Tokyo, has a bed instead of a Japanese-style futon.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-09T20:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters gather around South Korean ambassador to Japan Lee Su-hoon at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo in January after he held talks with Japanese officials over the two countries' wartime labor dispute.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T03:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T05:35:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T06:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men deported from El Paso, Texas, walk toward Ciudad Juarez at Paso del Norte international border crossing bridge, in this picture taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T06:55:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the "State of the International Financial System" on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T08:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends an enlarged meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang in this photo released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/10/business/first-hotel-sleeping-capsules-opens-slovenian-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-10T08:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee shows a room before the opening of the first hotel with sleeping capsules in the Balkans, in Ljubljana Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers for ousted Nissan Motors Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn release a pre-recorded video on Tuesday in Tokyo in which Ghosn reiterated his innocence over charges of financial misconduct.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/09/national/japan-introduce-new-%c2%a510000-%c2%a55000-%c2%a51000-banknotes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-10T13:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso announces new designs for ¥10,000, ¥5,000 and ¥1,000 bills during a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/10/business/green-machines-study-says-flying-taxis-slash-emissions-long-journeys/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unmanned Air Taxi EHANG 216 takes off during a press preview at Generali Arena in Vienna on April 4. China's EHANG and Austria's FACC plan to produce 300 taxi drones by 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a Tokyo seminar in January about the employment of people with disabilities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn and his wife, Carole, leave the office of his lawyer Junichiro Hironaka in Tokyo on April 3. The ex-Nissan chief was arrested again last week on a new charge, while his wife says she is ready for prosecutors' questioning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Niitsuma, 69, works on his farmland Wednesday in the Ogawara district of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, where a mandatory evacuation order was lifted the same day. Niitsuma, who has evacuated to Ibaraki Prefecture, plans to move back to the district in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in consoles residents at a village in Goseong on Friday after the area was hit by a forest fire. Moon is due to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T18:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T19:20:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave after attending their 60th wedding anniversary held at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T19:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fiscal 2018 wholesale prices rose 2.2 percent, according to the Bank of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T19:58:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Impact Hub Tokyo offers a co-working space and community for entrepreneurs in Tokyo's Meguro Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T20:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at his Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv early Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T21:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sergio Amien leads Conan on a victory lap after winning the best in show award at the Japan International Dog Show at Tokyo Big Sight on March 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T21:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T22:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The F-35A stealth jet fighter that is believed to have crashed Tuesday is seen in a photo taken in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-10T22:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A panel working for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications holds a meeting Wednesday to allocate mobile phone frequency bands for superfast 5G services.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The offices of Rakuten Inc. and two other online booking operators were raided on Wednesday by Japan's antitrust watchdog over their online pricing policies, a source says.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans as they gather at night during a demonstration in front of the military headquarters in Khartoum on Wednesday. Thousands of protesters have been camping outside the military complex housing Bashir's official residence since April 6, braving tear gas and deadly gun shots from security services in defiance of a state of emergency banning all such demonstrations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-11T07:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Jared Kushner smiles as he watches U.S. President Donald Trump (left) talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington March 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-11T13:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-11T14:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Founder of the Baring Vostok private equity group Michael Calvey, who was detained on suspicion of fraud, sits inside a defendants' cage as he attends a court hearing in Moscow in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-11T14:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image of a lunar rover jointly under development by Toyota Motor Corp. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski leaves the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Lima on Wednesday after a judge ordered his arrest.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Morrison]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in pose together at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/business/japans-famed-convenience-stores-look-cut-opening-hours-amid-labor-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-11T19:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A FamilyMart convenience store in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-doubles-sanctions-threat-vows-deal-serious-blow-imposing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-11T19:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/national/politics-diplomacy/blundering-ministers-downfall-reignites-criticism-japans-seniority-based-cabinet-decisions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-11T21:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-analysis-a-20190412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitaka Sakurada, former Olympic minister, is surrounded by reporters after submitting a letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/national/science-health/nobel-laureate-tasuku-honjo-osaka-based-pharmaceutical-company-spar-license-payments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-11T21:23:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-honjo-a-20190412.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobel laureate in medicine Tasuku Honjo speaks at a news conference in Kyoto on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/asia-pacific/u-s-navy-drops-criminal-charges-uss-fitzgerald-officers-case-2017-fatal-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-11T21:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fitz-a-20190412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Fitzgerald guided-missile destroyer returns to the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 17, 2017, following a collision with a merchant vessel while operating southwest of Tokyo Bay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/national/science-health/intestinal-worms-toughen-guts-suppress-weight-gain-say-japanese-researchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T01:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-worms-a-20190412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese researchers say intestinal worms may help prevent obesity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/world/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-british-police-ecuadorian-embassy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T07:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-assange-a-20190412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck carrying a poster relating to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on April 5 is driven away from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange had been living for years until his arrest by British police on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/national/politics-diplomacy/poll-shows-54-oppose-revision-japans-pacifist-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T11:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EMBARGOED-n-poll-a-20190411-1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[EMBARGOED-n-poll-a-20190411-1.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Forty percent of the respondents to a Kyodo News survey said they support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s approach to amending the Constitution, while over half opposed changes to the top law.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/world/crime-legal-world/trumps-silence-russias-election-hack-invites-another-james-comey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T13:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-comey-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump greets then-Director of the FBI James Comey during the Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/spacexs-falcon-heavy-conducts-first-commercial-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T13:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spacex-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors at Playalinda Beach look on as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy ferried the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into orbit for Saudi Arabia in the first commercial mission of the world's most powerful rocket.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-charges-u-k-arrested-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hacking-conspiracy-chelsea-manning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T13:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-assange-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-assange-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a police van after he was arrested by British police outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/world/science-health-world/3d-laser-imaging-shines-new-light-last-supper-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T14:14:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-lastsupper-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lastsupper-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image taken from handout video footage obtained by Reuters TV on March 14 shows a 3D model, created using advanced technologies, of the Cenacle, a hall revered by Christians as the site of Jesus' Last Supper, in Mount Zion near Jerusalem's Old City.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/corporate-business/chinas-enn-ecological-pulls-plan-buy-toshibas-lng-business-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T14:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-toshiba-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp's headquarters in central Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/corporate-business/daihatsu-recall-1-9-million-cars-japan-brake-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T14:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-daihatsu-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Daihatsu Motor Co. assembly line]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/world/ethiopia-inquiry-shows-boeing-max-hurtling-uncontrolled-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T14:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-max-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-max-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges addresses a press conference on April 4 in Addis Ababa on the preliminary report on the Ethiopian Airlines ET 302 plane crash. The crew of the plane that crashed last month killing 157 people, repeatedly followed procedures recommended by Boeing, but were unable to regain control of the jet, according the investigators' report.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/national/japan-college-adopts-facial-recognition-based-attendance-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T15:09:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-faces-a-20190412.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-faces-a-20190412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyogo College of Medicine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, has recently introduced a facial recognition technology-based system to check student attendance.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/world/white-house-reportedly-considered-releasing-detained-migrants-sanctuary-cities-retaliation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T15:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/tech/chinas-top-image-provider-shuts-website-says-sorry-putting-logo-first-photo-black-hole/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T16:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-no-eased-sanctions-south-koreas-moon-keeps-nuclear-talks-kim-alive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T16:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-trumoon-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumoon-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/corporate-business/fast-retailing-cuts-profit-estimate-sluggish-uniqlo-sales-japan-offset-brisk-sales-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T17:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-uniqlo-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Uniqlo store in New York City on March 15, its opening day]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/japan-pitches-safety-food-fukushima-vicinity-wake-wto-ruling-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T17:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-reactions-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reactions-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Trade Organization in Geneva on Thursday upheld South Korea's ban on some imports of Japanese seafood.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/eu-imagine-another-brexit-delay-halloween-deadline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T17:38:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-brexit1031-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters against Brexit hold EU flags outside the Houses of Parliament on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pushing-envelope-money-politics-undermines-democracy-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T17:51:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-indomoney-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indomoney-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shanti Ramchand gives a campaign speech in a shanty town near Jakarta on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/corporate-business/tokyo-court-extends-ghosns-detention-april-22-lawyers-ousted-nissan-boss-appeal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T18:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ghosn-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn poses in March for a photograph believed to have been posted to his Twitter account.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/japan-wont-consider-revising-f-35a-procurement-plans-cause-crash-still-not-known/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T19:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-f35-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-f35-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Self-Defense Force vessel is seen Wednesday off Aomori Prefecture during the search for a missing F-35A stealth fighter that disappeared from radar the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/corporate-business/suzuki-log-%c2%a580-billion-loss-recall-2-million-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T19:17:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-suzuki-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-suzuki-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuki Motor Corp. President Toshihiro Suzuki (center) and other executives apologize on Friday in Tokyo after the company submitted to the government an investigation report compiled by its lawyers on inappropriate checks on brakes and fuel economy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/corporate-business/600-rally-pioneering-tech-firm-minebea-mitsumi-prepares-shape-post-smartphone-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T19:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-minebea-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-minebea-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihisa Kainuma, chairman and chief executive officer of Minebea Mitsumi Inc., speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 1. Minebea, dubbed the "King of Deals" in local media, has grown the firm from a small ball bearing manufacturer on the outskirts of Tokyo to a key player in the tech industry's global supply chain.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/economy-business/u-s-agriculture-secretary-sonny-perdue-seeking-quick-deal-tariff-reductions-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T19:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-farm-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-farm-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sonny Perdue]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/appeal-wto-upholds-seouls-import-curbs-japan-seafood-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T20:44:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-wtoruling-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wtoruling-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a South Korean citizens' group applaud Friday in Seoul following the World Trade Organization's decision in favor of continuing an import ban on Japanese seafood.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/science-health/japan-draft-law-tighten-control-gene-editing-fertilized-human-eggs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T20:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-898998746.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n genome-a 20190413]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The planned law would apparently further limit gene editing of fertilized human eggs and ban the transfer of such eggs to the uterus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/business/g20-broadly-agrees-world-economy-will-pick-second-half-2019-china-brexit-pose-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T21:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-g20-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-g20-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso answers questions Thursday after the first day of a two-day meeting of the Group of 20 finance chiefs in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/japans-working-population-takes-another-dip-despite-accelerating-growth-foreign-residents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-12T23:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-population-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians and shoppers are reflected in mirrors in the Harajuku area of Tokyo in August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/want-beat-trump-balancing-act-says-hillary-clinton/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T12:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-clinton-a-20190414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-clinton-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks on stage at the Women In The World Summit in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/social-issues-world/u-k-s-daily-star-last-drop-topless-women-photos-hallmark-british-tabloids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T12:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/crime-legal-world/man-hospitalized-lighting-jacket-fire-outside-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T12:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police and rescue personnel tend to a man in Lafayette Park in Washington after the man lit his jacket on fire in front of the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/crime-legal/firearm-foul-ups-man-takes-gun-yokohama-police-officer-fires-no-one-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T13:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands near a residential area in Yokohama where a man snatched a gun from another officer and fired it. No one was injured.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/business/corporate-business/japan-display-gives-nod-%c2%a580-billion-bailout-chinese-taiwanese-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T13:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. President Yoshiyuki Tsukizaki (center) leaves his seat after a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/cairo-wants-boost-cooperation-tokyo-aid-africa-egyptian-ambassador-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T14:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/syrias-air-defenses-intercept-israeli-missiles-near-city-hama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T14:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-13T14:39:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A taxi driver works in Tokyo. A man has been arrested in the city for allegedly robbing over 100 taxis throughout Japan by asking for change before paying and then fleeing with the money.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/offbeat-world/vulture-flies-home-syria-turkey-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T15:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dobrila, a female griffon vulture is seen inside a cage after arriving at the Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/jair-bolsonaro-says-brazil-rainforest-reserve-may-opened-mining/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T15:23:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-13T15:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses for a photo with newly elected members of the leadership bodies of the state in Pyongyang in this image released Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/media-national/japan-searches-remedies-dawn-reiwa-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T22:57:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-tourism-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crowd pleaser: Tourists walk along Kiyomizu Zaka, a street leading to Kyoto's famed Kiyomizu Temple, in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/media-national/japans-news-outlets-toe-line-aegis-ashore-anti-missile-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T22:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-aegis-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Home front: Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera visits a test complex of the land-based Aegis Ashore missile defense system on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 2018, ahead of the planned introduction of the U.S.-developed system to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-13T16:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Toshihiro Nikai (second from right), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others are seen last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-13T16:39:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philip Hammond, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/media-national/social-media-weighs-design-purpose-japans-new-bank-notes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T22:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-banknotes-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Face of the new currency: A portrait of educator Umeko Tsuda will appear on the ¥5,000 bank note from 2024.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/u-s-two-months-finalize-extradition-case-wikileaks-julian-assange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T17:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-assange-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being held in London's high-security Belmarsh prison, which has housed some of Britain's most notorious inmates, a legal source said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/hoping-help-young-people-centenarian-runs-office-german-town/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T19:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-germancenten-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lisel Heise, a 100-year-old former sports instructor, answers a reporter's question in front of the town hall in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany, on Thursday. The centenarian decided to engage in local politics and will run in the town's upcoming local elections at the end of May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/wartime-laborer-statue-removed-near-japanese-consulate-busan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T19:35:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-statue-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-statue-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A controversial statue symbolizing wartime laborers is seen near the Japanese consulate in Busan, South Korea, in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-mulls-forgoing-talks-south-korean-leader-moon-jae-osaka-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T22:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-abemoon-a-20190414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemoon-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reportedly considering forgoing bilateral talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/business/corporate-business/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-carlos-ghosns-lawyers-latest-detention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-13T23:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ghosnappeal-a-20190414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosnappeal-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn and his wife, Carole, are seen outside their Tokyo apartment on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/14/national/crime-legal/hyogo-police-arrest-man-opened-door-shinkansen-train-stepped-onto-tracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-14T18:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/12/national/japan-lobby-groups-nuclear-energy-village-website-plumbs-new-level-insensitive-say-critics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T11:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuclear-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main page of a website called "Come gather! Nuclear Energy Village" created by the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, which was taken down on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/crime-legal-world/robert-muellers-hunt-russia-trump-conspiracy-fell-short/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T12:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mueller-a-20190416.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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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/tech/vw-take-tesla-x-china-2021-electric-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:07:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vw-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Herbert Diess, Volkswagen's new CEO, speaks at a Volkswagen Group's media event ahead of the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing last April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/three-killed-small-nepal-airliner-hits-parked-copter-takeoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parked helicopter lies on its side after an airplane crashed into it while taking off in Lukla, Nepal, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/social-issues-world/hungary-holocaust-march-honors-scottish-missionary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-haining-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, including Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary who refused to abandon her Jewish charges at a boarding school during World War II, in Budapest Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/may-fire-tories-hunt-brexit-compromise-goes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-brexit-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bags of rubbish sit near satellite trucks near the Houses of Parliament in London on Friday. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May dropped a big hint in Parliament on Thursday that she's less opposed to staying in a post-Brexit customs union with the European Union than might appear.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/social-issues-world/salisbury-scene-novichok-poison-drama-named-britains-best-place-live/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May (right) visits the English city of Salisbury one year after the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal March 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/many-travelers-planes-u-s-airlines-737-max-summer-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-maxmess-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft are parked at Victorville Airport in Victorville, California, March 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/economy-business/trump-despite-solid-u-s-growth-says-fed-fire-crisis-era-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fed-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, arrives for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) governors group photo at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington on Saturday. The International Monetary Fund warned governments not to rock the boat with trade wars and other disruptions at a time when the global economy is already sailing through choppy waters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/iraqi-forces-kill-islamic-state-commander-four-fighters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/journalists-get-tour-japans-izumo-amid-debate-equipping-ship-aircraft-carrier-capabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-izumo-a-20190314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-izumo-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo helicopter carrier is docked at the port of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture on Wednesday. The MSDF the same day conducted a guided media tour of the 195,000-ton vessel, which will be remodeled to accommodate fixed-wing fighter jets.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/drive-shooting-outside-melbourne-nightclub-leaves-one-dead-three-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T13:57:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aussieshoot-a-20190415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firemen wash away bloodstains on the sidewalk after a security guard was shot dead during a drive-by shooting outside a popular Melbourne nightclub early Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/science-health/joint-study-finds-curry-spices-can-suppress-respiratory-problems-caused-pm2-5-particles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T14:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-spices-a-20190415.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-spices-a-20190415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A joint study carried out by curry roux maker House Foods Corp. and a Kyoto University professor found that spices used in curries can curb inflammation in airway cells triggered by pollution-causing PM2.5 particles.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/asia-pacific/ideological-battle-u-s-china-wins-allies-censored-vision-internet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T14:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinternet-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In spite of draconian online curbs, a growing number of Asia's increasingly autocratic governments have enviously watched the emergence of Chinese corporate titans, from Tencent Holdings Ltd. to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. And now they want the same.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/politics-diplomacy/candidates-nationwide-kick-off-campaigns-unified-local-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T14:39:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-elections-a-20190415.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideto Onishi (center), celebrates with supporters on Sunday in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, after winning uncontested his fourth term as the mayor of the city. He was one of 27 mayors who won uncontested on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-tech-giant-jack-ma-encourages-workers-rack-overtime-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T14:56:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group, attends the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/stratolaunch-worlds-largest-plane-makes-first-flight-california/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T15:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-strato-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Stratolaunch plane flies above the California desert Saturday in the first test flight of the U.S. company's gigantic aircraft whose wingspan is almost half that of an Airbus A380. The strange aircraft, built by the legendary aeronautical engineering company Scaled Composites in the Mojave Desert, has two fuselages and is powered by six Boeing 747 engines.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-15T15:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/14/business/japanese-chinese-ministers-discuss-key-issues-beijing-economic-dialogue-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T16:28:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (left) and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, walk together in Beijing on Sunday prior to the start of a ministerial meeting between the two countries focusing on key economic issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/first-exam-held-japan-foreigners-seeking-working-visas-new-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T16:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A qualifying exam for applicants hoping to acquire permission to work in the hotel industry using newly available visas is held in the Kasumigaseki district of Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/corporate-business/vw-unveils-apple-skinned-suv-challenger-teslas-model-x/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of Volkswagen AG's website shows the ID Roomzz, an electric sport utility concept vehicle.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/osaka-begins-trial-smartphone-disaster-information-app-tourists-overseas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-app-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A multilingual disaster information service test message is displayed during a trial held in Osaka on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/u-s-backing-off-demand-china-ax-state-subsidies-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-uschina-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uschina-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cranes load cargo on freighters at a port in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province. The U.S. has reportedly watered down its demand for China to end trade subsidies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/british-lawmakers-handed-ll-day-break-ruminate-ways-break-brexit-deadlock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:32:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lone activist against Brexit walks outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/abe-asks-u-k-foreign-secretary-jeremy-hunt-minimize-brexit-impact-japan-firms-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ukabe-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ukabe-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeremy Hunt, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a courtesy call at Abe's office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/resolution-u-s-china-trade-war-not-far-away-ge-boss-larry-culp-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ge-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ge-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor displays General Electric Co. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/corporate-business/japan-opposed-renault-nissan-merger-via-meti-spring-2018-french-newspaper-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan's logo is seen on a car during the Prague auto show on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/corporate-business/elon-musk-tweets-another-tesla-forecast-midst-talks-sec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T18:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-tesla-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tesla-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at federal court in New York on April 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/ceremony-held-remember-victims-powerful-2016-kumamoto-prefecture-earthquakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T19:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People offer flowers and prayers Sunday at the Kumamoto Prefectural Government office in the city of Kumamoto, where a ceremony was held to commemorate the victims of a series of powerful earthquakes that shook the area three years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/gangnam-style-sex-crime-k-pop-scandals-uncover-dark-side-seouls-flashiest-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T19:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gangnam-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean singer Jung Joon-young arrives for questioning on accusations of illicitly taping and sharing sex videos on social media, at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in the South Korean capital on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/14/national/visit-crippled-fukushima-no-1-plant-abe-gets-updated-ongoing-reconstruction-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T20:32:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a visit Sunday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe listens as technicians explain the current situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/asia-pacific/south-korean-leader-pushes-another-meeting-kim-jong-un-despite-nuclear-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T21:18:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/economy-business/oecd-secretary-general-urges-japan-pull-trigger-tax-hike-pursue-structural-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T21:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-oecd-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-oecd-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria speaks at a news conference Monday in Tokyo about the organization's biennial Economic Surveys report on Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/tepco-begins-removing-fuel-rods-unit-3-reactor-pool-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T21:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tepco-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. official explains about activities to remove nuclear fuel from a storage pool at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/lgbt-couples-speak-suffering-lawsuit-seeking-marriage-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T21:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lgbt-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs who claim it is unconstitutional not to recognize same-sex marriage hold up a banner before the first oral argument at Tokyo court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/asia-pacific/months-delay-philippine-leader-rodrigo-duterte-signs-71-billion-national-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T22:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/consumers-switch-led-bulbs-consumer-affairs-agency-issues-fire-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-15T23:29:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-led-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-led-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Consumer Affairs Agency is asking the public to pay extra attention when installing light-emitting diode bulbs in conventional sockets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/world/red-cross-breaks-silence-seeks-info-three-staffers-snatched-syria-2013-last-seen-islamic-states-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T09:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-icrc-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-icrc-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of undated photos released by International Committee of the Red Cross and created in Geneva Sunday shows (from left): Syrian Alaa Rajab, New Zealander Louisa Akavi and Syrian Nabil Bakdoune at undisclosed locations. The ICRC appealed Sunday for news of the three staff members, who were abducted in Syria in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/16/national/osaka-spotlight-ahead-g20-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T09:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20190217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials involved in organizing the 2025 Osaka Expo inspect Yumeshima, a man-made island in Osaka Bay where the expo venue will be built, on Jan. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/tateyama-kurobe-alpine-route-featuring-massive-snow-walls-opens-season-toyama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T12:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-alpine-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-alpine-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electric bus departs from Ogisawa Station in Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, on Monday as the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, which features massive snow walls, opened for this year's tourist season.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/south-korean-man-arrested-uploading-sci-fi-animation-videos-illegally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T12:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-upload-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-upload-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean man was arrested Monday on suspicion of illegally making popular anime available online for free.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/japans-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fell-1-2-fiscal-2017-use-renewables-increased/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T13:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-greenhouse-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-greenhouse-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.2 percent in fiscal 2017, according to the Environment Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/world/social-issues-world/destitute-venezuelan-migrants-fled-brazil-border-live-abandoned-bus-going-nowhere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T13:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-venmigs-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-venmigs-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelans Angel Valderrama, 41, who was a construction worker, poses with his son, Erasmo, outside of an abandoned bus in the border city of Pacaraima, Brazil, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/world/youtube-flags-notre-dame-fire-9-11-conspiracy-says-system-made-wrong-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T14:14:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-notretube-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-notretube-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke billows as fire engulfs the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/politics-diplomacy/beijing-taro-kono-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-discuss-possible-xi-visit-japan-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T15:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-japanchina-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanchina-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi after arriving for a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-eyes-diplomatic-win-xi-jinping-visit-faces-balancing-act-china-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T15:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-focus-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks during his meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/business/carlos-ghosn-improperly-charged-renault-e3000-scooter-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T16:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ghosn-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image made from video released by Carlos Ghosn via his lawyer on April 9, former Nissan chairman Ghosn speaks on camera in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/business/corporate-business/south-korea-conglomerate-sell-asiana-airlines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T16:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing Co. 777-200 aircraft operated by Asiana Airlines Inc. lands at Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/business/u-s-waiver-concern-sees-iranian-oil-buyers-put-imports-hold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T17:21:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iranian national flag flies at the Persian Gulf Star Co. gas condensate refinery in Bandar Abbas, Iran, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/business/corporate-business/japans-ntt-looks-set-new-firm-london-despite-brexit-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T17:28:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The flags of the United Kingdom and the European Union flutter in front of the Chancellery in Berlin ahead of a meeting between the British and German leaders on April 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/world/julian-assange-chelsea-manning-reason-believe-leaks-hurt-u-s-prosecutors-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T17:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-wikileakcharges-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wikileakcharges-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spanish MEP Ana Miranda protests Monday outside Belmarsh Prison in London where Julian Assange is being held. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/japans-lower-house-oks-ban-flying-drones-military-sites-olympic-venues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T17:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-drone-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drone-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lower House passes a bill to prohibit drone flights over Self-Defense Forces and U.S. bases, as well as venues for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-lower-mobile-phone-fees-40-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T19:16:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo Inc. President Kazuhiro Yoshizawa says the carrier will cut its mobile phone charges by up to 40 percent in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/kim-putin-summit-rumors-heat-kremlin-says-preparations-underway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T19:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV screen showing a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the main railway station in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/japan-ready-support-france-rebuilding-notre-dame-cathedral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T19:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n reaction-z 20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke billows as flames burn through the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on Monday in the French capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/business/japan-u-s-focus-cutting-tariffs-goods-trade-talks-tokyo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T20:55:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-trade-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi kick off trade negotiations in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/english-level-japans-secondary-schools-falls-short-government-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T20:55:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junior high school students in Fukui Prefecture take an English test in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/business/economy-business/asian-development-bank-chief-says-japan-backed-lender-continue-loans-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T20:55:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-adb-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-adb-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takehiko Nakao]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/world/day-notre-dame-blaze-parisians-tourists-still-shock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-16T22:25:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-ndfire-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ndfire-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination pictures shows Notre Dame Cathedral before (top) and after it was devastated by a massive fire on Monday night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/crime-legal/japanese-police-arrive-thailand-investigate-phone-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T02:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-scam-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-scam-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai police arrested 15 Japanese on suspicion of working without permission last month in Pattaya. The group is suspected of carrying out a phone scam targeting people in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/japan-atomic-power-considers-launching-unit-specializes-scrapping-nuclear-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T02:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-jpatomic-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpatomic-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokai No. 2 plant (right) operated by Japan Atomic Power Co. in Ibaraki Prefecture, is seen in this photo taken last July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/business/google-blocks-chinese-app-tiktok-india-court-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T07:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-google-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A logo of the application TikTok is pictured in Paris last year. The Indian government on Tuesday ordered tech giants Google and Apple to take down the Chinese-owned Tiktok video app after a court expressed concerns over the spread of pornographic material, sources told AFP.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/31/national/bumpy-ride-feared-japan-new-visa-types-issued-ease-labor-crunch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T12:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-overview-a-20190401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-overview-a-20190401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese aspiring to work in Japan practice their Japanese.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/19/national/social-issues/welfare-ruling-stuns-foreigners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T15:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-welfareanalysis-a-20140720.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-welfareanalysis-a-20140720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisao Seto, a lawyer representing an 82-year-old ethnic Chinese permanent resident of Oita, addresses reporters in Tokyo on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled that permanent foreign residents are ineligible for welfare benefits.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/business/toyota-exec-likens-trumps-auto-tariffs-pulling-pin-grenade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T15:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cleaner walks past visitors wearing virtual reality (VR) goggles at a booth for Toyota Safety Sense during the media day for the Shanghai auto show in Shanghai Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/world/russian-support-stalin-surges-record-high-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T15:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stalin-a-20180418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers clean a monument representing Soviet leader Josef Stalin during a spring community work day at the Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/world/u-s-expands-indefinite-detention-asylum-seekers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T15:59:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-asylum-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-asylum-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Before a ruling by U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, those who crossed the border illegally and asked for asylum were eligible for bond once they proved to asylum officers that they had a credible fear of persecution.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/small-volcanic-eruption-observed-mount-aso-kumamoto-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-mtaso-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mtaso-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by the Meteorological Agency shows smoke rising following a small eruption on Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-can-learn-thing-two-canada-dealing-trump-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-trade-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trade-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Negotiating with the United States today is unlike anything Japan has experienced before. It's no longer about pursuing shared prosperity; it's about limiting the harm, writes Carlo Dade.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/top-u-s-envoy-north-korea-heads-moscow-speculation-kim-putin-summit-gains-steam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-usnkrus-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usnkrus-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are seen during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/business/corporate-business/nippon-paint-acquire-duluxgroup-%c2%a5300-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-dulux-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dulux-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Paint Holdings Co.'s CEO Tetsushi Tado speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/asia-pacific/satellite-images-may-show-reprocessing-activity-north-korea-nuclear-site-u-s-researchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-yongbyon-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yongbyon-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commercial satellite imagery shows what researchers of Beyond Parallel, a CSIS project, describe as specialized rail cars at the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, in this image taken April 12 and released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/foxconns-terry-gou-eyes-run-taiwan-presidency-stepping-back-daily-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-foxconn-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-foxconn-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terry Gou]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/business/corporate-business/nidec-acquire-omrons-auto-electronics-unit-%c2%a5100-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T17:39:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-omron-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-omron-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nidec Corp.'s chairman Shigenobu Nagamori (right) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/business/corporate-business/nissan-unveils-50th-anniversary-editions-gt-r-fairlady-z/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T18:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-nissan-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New models of Nissan Motor Co.'s GT-R (front) and Fairlady Z, both marking the 50th anniversary of their release, are displayed at a showroom in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/foxconns-terry-gou-says-will-follow-order-chinese-sea-goddess-run-taiwan-presidency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T19:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-gou-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gou-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, has said he plans to run for president in the nation's 2020 vote.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/crime-legal/examining-carlos-ghosn-japans-system-hostage-justice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T19:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-hostage-justice-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hostage-justice-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo on March 6 following his release from detention. He was rearrested April 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/three-years-officials-residents-pay-respects-victims-kumamoto-quakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T19:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-kumamoto-a-20190417.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kumamoto-a-20190417.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray early Tuesday for the victims of the devastating earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture three years ago, at temporary housing built in Mashiki.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/science-health/life-size-skeletal-replica-japans-largest-dinosaur-restored/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T20:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-fossil-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fossil-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A life-size replica of the largest complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan stands in Mukawa, Hokkaido, on April 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/worlds-biggest-single-day-election-indonesia-votes-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-17T20:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-indovote-b-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko Widodo and first lady Iriana Joko Widodo show their ink-stained fingers after casting their ballots during elections in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan logged a goods trade deficit of ¥1.59 trillion in the year through March, according to the Finance Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National security adviser John Bolton discusses new policy during a speech Wednesday in Coral Gables, Florida, at the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association on the 58th anniversary of the failed 1961 invasion of the island,. The Trump administration intensified its crackdown on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, rolling back Obama policy and announcing newsanctions against the three countries whose leaders Bolton dubbed the "three stooges of socialism."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T13:11:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists walk near Kiyomizu Temple in the city of Kyoto in November. The number of foreign visitors to Japan in the fiscal year through March is estimated to have surpassed 30 million, according to government data released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Federal Bureau of Investigation oversight on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka Bar Association said tissue paper sold inside Osaka Prison is priced about 4.5 times higher than the market price.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A set of pure gold coins with the current era name, Heisei (left), and the upcoming era name, Reiwa, go on sale for ¥1,296,000 at the Takashimaya department store chain's Nihonbashi branch in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peruvian presidential candidate Alan Garcia greets supporters during a campaign rally in Catacaos in May 2006.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aisin Seiki Co. and other Japanese car parts suppliers are bracing for the possibility of a rise in U.S. auto import tariffs.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T18:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phillip Morris USA Inc.'s production facility in Richmond, Virginia]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T19:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T19:10:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A foreign resident registers at a ward office in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T19:12:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T19:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[2020 Toyota Highlanders are put on display at the 2019 New York International Auto Show on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/national/science-health/first-ever-trial-drug-developed-ips-cells-begin-kyoto-university/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:20:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ips-a-20170802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto University's Junya Toguchida speaks at a news conference in Kyoto on Tuesday. His team is set to begin the world's first clinical trial of a drug developed from iPS cells.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/26/national/science-health/treatment-breakthrough-todai-led-team-creates-mouse-pancreas-rat-transplants-diabetic-mouse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/14/national/science-health/transplants-using-ips-cells-put-riken-specialist-forefront-regenerative-medicine-research/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Riken institute's Center for Developmental Biology, speaks during a news conference at the Foreign Press Center in Tokyo on June 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/07/national/science-health/worlds-first-method-mass-producing-platelets-ips-cells-unveiled-kyoto-startup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/n-ips-graphic-20170808.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n ips-graphic 20170808]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/18/national/science-health/fertile-offspring-produced-sterile-mice-using-ips-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ips-a-20170819.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fertile mice produced with sperm created from iPS cells are shown in this photo from Kyoto University. The iPS cells originated from sterile mice made with a chromosome abnormality, and the researchers said the method may lead to the development of a treatment for human infertility.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/25/national/science-health/kyoto-research-team-says-30-japanese-may-face-rejection-transplants-ips-cells-others/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ips-a-20170826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo shows donor iPS cells used to create retina cells which were transplanted by a Japanese team to a patient in March in the world's first such surgery.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supermarket worker replaces a price tag before Japan raised the consumption tax to 8 percent from 5 percent in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/28/national/science-health/japan-team-seeks-transplant-retinal-ips-cell-grown-another-persons-stem-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:32:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/18/national/science-health/japanese-team-produces-massive-number-eggs-mouse-ips-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/02/national/science-health/first-ips-cell-transplant-patient-makes-progress-one-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/n-ips-a-20151003.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ips-a-20151003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image shows iPS cells from a female patient in her 70s who underwent treatment a year ago using iPS-derived cells.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/17/national/science-health/kyoto-university-takeda-join-hands-ips-cell-venture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/27/national/science-health/mice-als-live-longer-ips-treatment-study-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:38:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/27/national/science-health/japanese-government-panel-oks-worlds-first-clinical-research-using-ips-cells/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-18T20:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130627e2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Official OK: Health Ministry officials answer questions from reporters Wednesday in Tokyo after the ministry's panel gave the green light to kick off clinical research using iPS cells for retinal regeneration.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-18T21:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is turning to workers from overseas for decommissioning work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unidentified woman delivers the Robert Mueller report to the Senate Judiciary Committee majority staff office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City is seen Thureday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transport ministry officials enter the headquarters of Suzuki Motor Corp. on Friday as part of an investigation into improper quality inspections related to the automaker's recall of more than 2 million cars in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva is seen in 2018. The WTO Thursday largely sided with the United States in its Obama-era case against Beijing over Chinese restrictions on imports of American grain. The WTO decision was the second in as many months to favor Washington's position on trade with China in grain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers and other lawmakers meet Friday at the Prime Minister's Office to discuss measures against gambling addiction.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A potential work by the artist Banksy discovered in January will be exhibited at Tokyo City Hall.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Popular vote: Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi won over plenty of supporters before eventually becoming prime minister of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Art imitates life: A still from "The Inaka Project," a first-person narrative game that leisurely takes players through Japan's countryside.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui (left) and former Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura hold a news conference April 7 in Osaka after they won the day's elections to swap their roles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-20T18:19:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-20T19:57:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees walk through the Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colorado, during Friday's vigil at the site for the victims of the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-20T20:26:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children exercise at the J-Village national soccer training center in the town of Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday after it resumed full operations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-20T20:27:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks about the name of the country's new era during a news conference in Tokyo on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-20T20:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okiharu Yasuoka]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. national security adviser John Bolton adjusts his glasses before an interview at the White House in Washington on March 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-20T21:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiko Sekino, the mother of the world's smallest baby to ever survive, carries her son, Ryusuke, who weighed just 258 grams when he was born, after he was discharged from the Nagano Children's Hospital in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Omar al-Bashir]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T11:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nakanishi]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T12:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T12:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demanding civilian rule dance at a sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/21/world/total-arrested-climate-activists-passes-750-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-21T12:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climate change activists walk near Oxford Circus in London on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T12:46:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar  Assad receives Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov in the capital, Damascus, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T13:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy personnel line the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier as it sails into Hong Kong in July 2017. The carrier will take part in a massive naval parade marking the 70th anniversary of China's navy on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/20/business/tech/u-s-intelligence-says-huawei-funded-chinese-spy-agency-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-21T13:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A surveillance camera is seen in front of the Huawei logo outside its factory campus in Dongguan, in China's Guangdong province, on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T13:36:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May holds a news conference in Brussels on April 11 following an extraordinary European Union summit to discuss Brexit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T15:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People exercise with wooden dumbbells during an event marking Respect for the Aged Day at a temple in the Sugamo district of Tokyo in September 2016. A new report has said that a quarter of Japan's breadwinners will turn 75 or older by 2040.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T15:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[He Jiankui speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong last fall. On Tuesday, Stanford University said it had cleared three faculty members of any wrongdoing in dealings with He, who claims to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T17:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A facility which can be roughly translated as Miyakojima Future Creation Center is seen under construction in the city on April 2. Amid a building boom on the island of Miyakojima, construction workers are being brought in from elsewhere, creating shortages of apartments.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-21T19:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Navy soldiers moor the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Suzutsuki at Qingdao Port for the 70th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the city on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T11:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lights illuminate cracking towers at the Persian Gulf Star Co. (PGSPC) refinery in Bandar Abbas, Iran, in January this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T11:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T13:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T14:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T14:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee interacts with a child at a nursery school in Tokyo in July 2016. A government panel plans to include in a set of recommendations in May a proposal calling for allowing nursery teachers and others to keep using their original surnames at workplaces after marriage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T14:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T15:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T15:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security personnel arrive outside the Telecommunication Ministry during a gunfight with insurgents in Kabul Saturday. A suicide blast rocked Afghanistan's capital Saturday during a gun battle with security forces, officials said, killing several people a day after hopes for all-encompassing peace talks collapsed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T15:40:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schifftalks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after attending an event to call for the protection of affordable health care for those with preexisting conditions in Washington April 2. Schiff said Sunday that his party would likely decide within a few weeks whether a move to impeach President Donald Trump would be "the best course for the country."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Larry Mitchell Hopkins appears in a police booking photo taken at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T16:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T17:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Hiroshima Prefecture, many registered bone marrow donors are already in their 40s and 50s, a fact that has prompted the prefecture to seek younger donors. The age limit is 55..]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T17:51:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Yara (center), supported by the opposition camp, celebrates his victory in the Lower House by-election in Okinawa on Sunday with Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (second from right) and other supporters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T18:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T18:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuyoshi Tabata]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/22/business/corporate-business/tight-labor-market-japan-forces-companies-revamp-recruitment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-22T18:38:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major firms will begin hiring university graduates year-round under a new Keidanren guideline.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T18:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brig. Gen. Christopher Mahoney speaks to reporters Monday at the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T18:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn and his wife, Carole, encounter the media in Tokyo on March 9, three days after Ghosn was released on bail.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T18:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk is locked in a Twitter spat with Panasonic Corp., the company that makes all of the lithium-ion battery cells that power Tesla's electric vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T20:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in cross the military demarcation line into the South Korean side at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on April 27 last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-22T21:48:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A senior Japan Exchange Group official (left) shakes hands with a Shanghai Stock Exchange executive in Beijing on Monday regarding an agreement on exchange-traded funds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/22/national/gold-tub-japanese-resort-recognized-guinness-worlds-heaviest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-23T01:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This gold bathtub in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the heaviest in the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T04:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) speaks at a Merrimack County Democrats Summer Social at the Swett home in Bow, New Hampshire, last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T06:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T12:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T14:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Yemeni child receives treatment for cholera at a hospital in the Khokha district of the western province of Hodeidah on April 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:13:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Striker, who goes by an alias to protect his identity, the leader of Constitutional Patriots New Mexico Border Ops militia Team, smokes a cigarrette outside the team's camper near the U.S.-Mexico border in Anapra, New Mexico, in March. The FBI has arrested a member of the armed rightwing militia group accused of illegally detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the United States of House of Representatives, faces the media with Richard Neal, chair to the House Ways and Means Committee, and members of an American delegation during a press conference in the Great Hall at Parliament Building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the Truman Balcony during the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. visits Keene State College during a campaign visit on Saturday in Keene, New Hampshire.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani border security officials (right) and Iranian border security officials meet at Zero Point at the Pakistan-Iran border in Taftan Sunday. Iran and Pakistan have agreed to set up a joint border "reaction force" following a number of deadly attacks by militant groups on their frontier, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Monday after talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:22:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iran's Lavan oil refinery quay on the Islamic republic's Lavan island is seen in 2004. The United States said Monday it would start imposing sanctions on friends such as India that buy Iranian oil, in its latest aggressive step to counter Tehran that could jeopardize U.S. relationships. The announcement sent global crude prices spiraling higher, although President Donald Trump tweeted that Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies would "more than make up" for decreases in Iranian oil.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers guard women and children who are relatives of Kosovo Jihadis who returned from Syria, at the foreigner detention center in Pristina Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T15:25:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This April 13 photo provided by Royal Thai Navy shows a floating home lived in by an American man and his Thai partner in the Andaman Sea, off Phuket island, Thailand. Thai authorities on April 18 raided the floating home lived in by the couple who sought to be pioneers in the seasteading movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation's laws.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T16:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Russian-held islands, including the Habomai islet group (center), lie just off Cape Nosappu (bottom) at the eastern tip of Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T16:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito visits the tomb of his father at the Musashino Imperial Graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man visits a Tesla showroom in Beijing last year. Tesla said Monday it launched an investigation after a video circulating in China showed one of its cars suddenly burst into flames in a garage in Shanghai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son greets the company's Pepper robot during a news conference in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, in June 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government removed a reference to applying "maximum pressure" on North Korea in the Diplomatic Bluebook 2019 released by the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of civil society organizations from Japan and the rest of the world present Civil 20's recommendations for Japan's leadership of the Group of 20 to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-23T22:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phone home: Suspected Japanese scammers arrested in Thailand sit at an Immigration Bureau holding center in Bangkok.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-24T15:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Hitachi Ltd. said it has reached a deal to buy a U.S. assembly robot-﷯maker to strengthen its factory automation business in the American market.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Since regaining control of the House in last fall's elections, Democrats have begun a number of investigations into U.S. President Donald Trump and those around him.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-24T17:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-24T18:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-24T18:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a married couple seeking damages from the government walk to Sapporo District Court in Hokkaido on Thursday to file a lawsuit over the wife's forced sterilization and abortion carried out under the now-defunct eugenics protection law.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/national/crime-legal/japan-sued-3-plaintiffs-forced-sterilizations-defunct-eugenics-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-24T21:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kikuo Kojima (seated in a wheelchair) heads to Sapporo District Court in Sapporo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-issue-apology-victims-forced-sterilization-japans-now-defunct-eugenics-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-24T21:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-apology-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government sources have said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to issue an apology to those subject to forced sterilization under a now-defunct eugenics law.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/national/victims-sterilized-japans-eugenics-law-get-%c2%a53-2-million-state-redress-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-24T21:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<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/2018/06/28/national/crime-legal/three-sue-state-forced-sterilizations-abortion-japans-now-defunct-eugenics-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-24T21:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lawsuit-a-20180629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiff Kazumi Watanabe (second from left) speaks in front of the Kumamoto District Court on Thursday before filing a damages suit against the government over his forced sterilization carried out under the now-defunct eugenics protection law.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-24T21:53:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before their joint news conference in Paris on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/business/financial-markets/softbanks-son-lost-130-million-bitcoin-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-24T21:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-son-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of SoftBank Group Corp., explains his company's earnings for the April-December period at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-24T23:20:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/national/japan-passes-bill-pay-survivors-forced-sterilization-eugenics-law-%c2%a53-2-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-24T23:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sterilization-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the plaintiffs seeking damages for forced sterilization (right) watches an Upper House session pass legislation Wednesday to compensate survivors and offer an apology, as his lawyer also looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/business/japan-anti-trust-watchdog-may-stop-convenience-chains-imposing-24-hour-opening-franchises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-25T01:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson is reducing the number of stores running 24 hours a day in light of a staff shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/25/world/water-life-unexpected-rainfall-revives-iraqs-historic-marshlands/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iraqi Marsh Arab paddles his boat as he collects reeds at the Chebayesh marsh in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, April 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T07:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese refugees, who fled from the clashes between forces loyal to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar, rest at a school in Libya's capital Tripoli on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T12:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-centenarian-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masao Matsumoto (front right) and his wife Miyako (front left) pose for a photo at a retirement home in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in September after being recognized by the Guinness World Records in July as the world's oldest living married couple.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T12:46:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nikai-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai shake hands in Beijing on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/national/sword-presented-emperors-birth-displayed-kyoto-shrine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-25T12:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sword-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sword created using leftover iron from the so-called amulet sword, which was presented to the Imperial family when Emperor Akihito was born, will be displayed at Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, starting Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/national/hiroshima-museum-displays-new-photos-possessions-left-bomb-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-25T13:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artifacts from the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima are shown to the media at the renovated Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Wednesday, ahead of its public opening Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T13:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Yong Chol, North Korea's lead negotiator in nuclear diplomacy with the United States, is escorted by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during talks in Washington in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T13:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T15:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artisanal miner climbs out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the mining pit at the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T15:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flooded homes are seen after Cyclone Idai in Buzi district outside Beira, Mozambique, March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T15:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. (center), joined from left by Dale Ho, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, New York State Attorney General Letitia James, and New York City Census Director Julie Menin, speaks to reporters after the Supreme Court heard arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T15:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane being built for India-based Jet Airways lands following a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle April 10. Boeing Co. reports earnings Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/25/national/security-tightened-central-tokyo-preparation-reiwa-era-celebrations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-25T16:23:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-security-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The police will restrict access to the plaza in front of the Imperial Palace from 6 p.m. on April 30 until 5 a.m. the next day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T16:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshio Takiguchi, president of Canon Inc.'s medical business arm Canon Medical Systems Corp., speaks to employees at its headquarters in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T16:57:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-memorial-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of West Japan Railway Co. and others pray for the victims of a 2005 train derailment that killed 107 people, on the 14th anniversary of the crash in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T17:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pajero-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. started selling 700 units of the Pajero Final Edition in Japan on Wednesday. The model, which is priced at ¥4.5 million domestically, will continue to be sold overseas in more than 70 countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T18:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[HAPSMobile CEO and President Junichi Miyakawa, who also serves as an executive at SoftBank, speaks during a news conference Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon makes a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Brexit and a second independence referendum, at Holyrood, central Edinburgh, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T18:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The central business district in Singapore]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T19:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takayoshi Yamaguchi, the former chairman of now-bankrupt Japan Life Co., is surrounded by reporters outside his house in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-25T21:47:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves a Tokyo detention facility after he is released on bail on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinamilitary-j-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops at the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison in 2017 as part of events marking the 20th anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/world/offbeat-world/largest-uncut-diamond-found-recent-history-found-botswana-mine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T13:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-diamond-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 1,758 carat diamond recovered from Lucara Diamond Corp.'s Karowe mine in Botswana]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/china-mind-abe-italys-conte-cite-need-caution-infrastructure-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T14:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-abeitaly-a-20190426.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeitaly-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hold a joint news conference in Rome on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/asia-pacific/xi-tells-summit-chinas-belt-road-initiative-must-green-sustainable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T14:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-greenbelt-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-greenbelt-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for the opening ceremony of the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/asia-pacific/trump-approved-payment-2-million-north-korea-bill-care-otto-warmbier-says-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T14:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warmbier-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otto Warmbier at North Korea's Supreme Court on March 16, 2016]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/world/social-issues-world/judge-blocks-trump-rule-barring-tax-funded-clinics-referring-patients-abortion-providers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T14:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/junichiro-koizumi-maverick-reformer-left-japan-shook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T16:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koizumi-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visits Graceland, Elvis Presley's former estate, in Memphis, Tennessee, in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/corporate-business/japans-showa-denko-build-third-plant-vietnam-eyeing-72-boost-aluminum-can-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T17:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/mice-work-can-get-kansai-cities-vie-bigger-slice-japans-meetings-industry-pie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T17:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-beyondtokyo-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trade show at the Intex Osaka convention center is packed with visitors earlier this month. Osaka Prefecture hopes to lure more exhibitions and large-scale conferences from home and abroad to boost its economy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/corporate-business/trading-house-sumitomo-manage-japan-financed-special-economic-zone-near-dhaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T17:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/corporate-business/sony-posts-record-net-profit-second-straight-year-solid-game-music-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T17:55:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-sony-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sony-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony's strong sales in its game and music businesses lifted its net profit to a record in the business year that ended in March, according to its earnings report released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/economy-business/surprise-drop-factory-output-adds-warning-signs-japans-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T18:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-factoryoutput-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-factoryoutput-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steam rises from a plant in the Keihin Industrial Area in Kawasaki. Data released Friday shows the nation’s factory output fell unexpectedly in March, fueling concerns about the country’s economy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/goldman-sachs-strategist-says-japan-still-holding-back-talented-women-20-years-upbeat-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T18:48:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-matsui-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-matsui-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kathy Matsui, chief Japan strategist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/instant-democratic-front-runner-joe-bidens-2020-bid-reshapes-crowded-white-house-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T19:26:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-biden-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-biden-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden greets people at Gianni's Pizza in Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday, hours after announcing his candidacy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/economy-business/abes-poker-face-japans-leader-wavering-tax-hike-resolve-will-know/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T19:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-abetax-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abetax-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In five months, Japan is set to raise the consumption tax to 10 percent from the current 8 percent to help ease the developed world's biggest debt load. If the Abe administration postpones the move, it would mean his Abenomics policies have failed to generate the stable growth he promised.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/emperor-akihito-performs-last-official-duty-outside-imperial-palace-ahead-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T19:41:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-emperor-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend a ceremony in Tokyo on Friday to award the Midori Prize, which is given to those who make significant contributions to conservation, research and the sustainable use of biodiversity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-freed-bail-tokyo-second-time-condition-not-contact-wife/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T19:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-ghosn-b-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-b-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House with his lawyer after being released on bail Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/japan-grants-first-work-permits-new-blue-collar-visa-system-address-labor-crunch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T21:08:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-visa-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visa-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign job applicants take a test as part of a new visa system earlier this month in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/number-abandoned-homes-japan-edges-record-high-nearly-8-5-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T21:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1006044608.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n house-a 20190427]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abandoned homes as a proportion of total housing stock in Japan hit a record high of 13.6 percent, up 0.1 point from the previous survey five years earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/business/economy-business/u-s-talks-japan-finance-minister-taro-aso-opposes-linking-currency-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-26T23:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-aso-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aso-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso shakes hands with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-u-s-paid-no-money-north-korea-otto-warmbier-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T09:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-warmbier-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warmbier-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday. Trump said the U.S. never paid $2 million medical bill to North Korea to secure the June 2017 release of American college student Otto Warmbier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/world/science-health-world/oldest-human-footprint-found-americas-confirmed-chile-researchers-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T10:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-footprint-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-footprint-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ancient footprint is pictured, having formed cracks due to desiccation after being extracted from its original site, in Osorno, Chile, sometime this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-turns-diplomats-kim-sidelines-point-man-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T11:09:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-nkdiplo-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkdiplo-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (far left) and Kim Yong Chol (far right), vice chairman of the North Korean Workers' Party Central Committee, attend the extended bilateral meeting in the Metropole hotel with U.S. President Donald Trump and his delegation during the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/business/japan-raps-wto-ruling-favor-south-korean-ban-japanese-seafood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T13:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/business/japan-visas-hit-record-high-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T13:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-visas-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists wearing kimono walk through gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/world/not-fast-trumps-alaska-drilling-study-slammed-u-s-wildlife-regulator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T14:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-anwr-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-anwr-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/business/economy-business/weak-south-korean-economy-cooling-north-korea-ties-threatening-moon-jae-ins-political-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T14:53:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-moonecon-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moonecon-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters wear masks of U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally demanding peace on the Korean Peninsula, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/national/732-problematic-child-child-sex-cases-logged-japanese-care-facilities-fiscal-2017-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T15:05:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-children-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-children-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The welfare ministry found 732 cases of problematic sex-related conduct between children at care facilities, such as the one seen here in Tokyo, during fiscal 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-consents-congressional-interview-ex-staffer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T15:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/japanese-police-officer-quits-busted-driving-patrol-cars-without-license/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T15:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/national/media-national/japans-internet-took-life-heisei-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T22:42:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/p16-stmichel-heisei-memes-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-heisei-memes-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social media has become a major talking point online during the Heisei Era.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/national/media-national/trains-planes-automobiles-celebrate-golden-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T22:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/p16-schreiber-GW-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-GW-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast track: Weekly Asahi Geino rated the introduction of the Shinkansen's 300 Nozomi limited express series in 1992 as the most significant rail development of the Heisei Era (1989-2019).]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/national/media-national/keeping-appearances-workplace-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T22:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/p17-brasor-work-rules-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-work-rules-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blending in: Conservative "recruit suits" are popular with job seekers looking for work after graduating from university.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/26/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-election-trail-foreign-born-candidates-discuss-challenges-prejudice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T17:07:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-election-a-20190427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-election-a-20190427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[India-born Puranik Yogendra, backed by the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, makes a speech in front of Nishikasai Station in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, on April 19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/national/meti-hatches-plan-build-japanese-style-broadway-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T19:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-broadway-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-broadway-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is looking to create a theater district similar to New York's famous Broadway entertainment area in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/27/national/crime-legal/carlos-ghosns-release-bail-part-wider-trend-japans-criminal-justice-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-27T20:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-bail-a-20190428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bail-a-20190428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle carrying former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House on Thursday after being granted bail.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-27T20:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid a labor shortage, Kanazawa University Hospital in Ishikawa Prefecture will close its outpatient service during the 10-day Golden Week holiday period.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-27T22:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vacationers crowd Haneda airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of the 10-day Golden Week holiday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T11:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Congregation Chabad synagogue in the town of Poway, California, hug as they gather near the Altman Family Chabad Community Center on Saturday. A shooting at the synagogue outside San Diego, where worshippers were celebrating the last day of Passover, left one dead and three injured.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More companies in Aichi Prefecture are moving their headquarters to areas around Nagoya Station to take advantage of the maglev line's debut.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chile's President Sebastian Pinera (front left), Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping wave while posing during the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean soldier stands on the blue bridge ahead of a ceremony to mark the first year anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration on the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on Saturday. The agreement was adopted by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on April 27, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T18:43:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T23:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees pack calendars bearing Japan's new Imperial era name, Reiwa, at a production plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T23:26:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T23:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T23:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T23:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a government advisory panel on emperor abdication, including Chairman Takashi Imai (second from right), attend a second meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[LGBT supporters march in the parade for the Tokyo Rainbow Pride festival, Japan's largest such event for supporting the rights of sexual minorities, in the capital's Shibuya Ward on Sunday. The festival was expected to attract 180,000 people this year, according the organizer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit Takeuchi Farm, whose workforce includes people with disabilities, on Friday in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-28T23:38:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Accompanied by Empress Michiko, Emperor Akihito greets the public at the Imperial Palace on his 84th birthday on Saturday. He is scheduled to abdicate on April 30, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Tokyo are considering growing human pancreases in pigs by using iPS cells, a professor leading the project said recently.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women increased their roles in the workforce during the Heisei Era but their share of leadership roles remains low.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The waterfront Intex Osaka convention center will be the venue for the Group of 20 leaders summit in June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence practices ship maneuvers as it transits the Pacific Ocean last June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responds to a question during a visit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fred Volf (right), president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc., meets with Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, in front of a Lexus NX300 vehicle at the company's manufacturing facility in Cambridge, Ontario, on Monday. Volf said that the automaker will produce the Lexus NX crossover, in gasoline and hybrid versions, beginning in 2022 at the plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fall colors are seen as a train runs through Yamatsuriyama Park, in the town of Yamatsuri, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T13:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko kneel on the floor to meet with evacuees at a shelter in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, in July 1991 after the eruption of Mount Unzen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As he faces the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Emperor Hirohito waves his hat as he looks out over the crowd during a visit to the city on Dec. 7, 1947.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T14:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Imperial Household Agency on Saturday released the first images in half a century of a conference room inside an air-raid shelter at the Imperial Palace compound in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/10/national/japanese-government-secretly-weighed-five-dates-era-name-change-heisei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T14:43:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, waves as Crown Prince Akihito (left) looks on during an Imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on May 19, 1988.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:28:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako attend an Imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/01/national/history/exploring-japans-military-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:46:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[True steel: The battleship Mikasa still flies the famous "Z" flag.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The original 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education is unveiled at the education ministry Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:51:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino (left) speaks with his wife Princess Kiko (right) and their children, Princess Mako (standing, left), Princess Kako (standing, right) and Prince Hisahito (center) at their residence in Tokyo on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palau President Tommy Remengesau (in vest) observes on Wednesday the work of a Japanese team searching for the remains of soldiers who died in battle on Peleliu Island, Palau.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/06/national/media-national/imperial-couple-take-stand-remembrance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:55:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p19 media mix brasor-a 20160207]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honoring the fallen: Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko bow their heads while paying tribute to Japanese soldiers who fought in World War II, at a memorial shrine in Cavinti, the Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/17/national/imperial-couple-pray-lost-fishermen-tsunami-hit-port-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko offer their prayers at a monument to fishermen who lost their lives on March 11, 2011, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:57:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T15:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko speak with guests at a tea party they hosted at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday to mark the Emperor’s 30-year reign.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/29/national/crime-legal/imperial-swindle-scammers-reportedly-handing-japanese-flags-asking-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T16:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hinomaru flag is reportedly the latest tool for scammers seeking to take advantage of this week's Imperial succession.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T18:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demolition work continues May 13 at National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, ahead of the facility's reconstruction for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/end-era-saying-goodbye-heisei-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T18:19:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks along a street past a monitor showing TV reports on the abdication of Emperor Akihito in Tokyo on April 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/not-performed-200-years-japan-abdication-seen-recently-monarchies-europe-bhutan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T20:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/crime-legal/south-koreans-sue-japanese-firms-wartime-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T20:24:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans and their lawyers filing lawsuits against Japanese firms over wartime labor attend a news conference in Gwangju on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-entering-prince-hisahitos-school-knives-found-desk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T21:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Hasegawa (center), who was arrested on suspicion of entering the premises of the junior high school Prince Hisahito attends, is taken to the Otsuka police station in the capital on Monday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/people-look-back-heisei-express-hopes-new-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T22:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take photos of the famous double bridge in the compound of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/19/national/emperor-empress-pay-visit-future-abode/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-04-30T22:49:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-04-30T22:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako returns home in the Akasaka district in Tokyo on Tuesday night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Yang Shangkun (left) and Emperor Akihito review an honor guard in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 23, 1992.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life goes on: Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako watch children play at a nursing facility in the city of Koriyama on Sunday while visiting earthquake and tsunami victims in Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko speak with the people of Peleliu Island on April 9, 2015, during their visit to Palau.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (right) attends a preparation committee meeting Friday at the Prime Minister's Office to help plan the Imperial succession rituals.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako are set to become the Emperor and Empress on Wednesday following the abdication of his father, Emperor Akihito. The Crown Prince's formal enthronement will take place at a more elaborate ceremony in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko stroll on a beach near their Imperial villa, where they were staying for the Emperor's recuperation, in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:30:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington last June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/people-japan-reflect-emperor-akihitos-abdication-express-hopes-successors-reign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A policeman stands guard as people gather outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/emperor-akihito-begins-abdication-rituals-japan-marks-end-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito speaks during a nationally televised ceremony marking his abdication in the Pine Chamber of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/talks-imperial-succession-rules-may-delayed-next-fall-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female Imperial family members attend the annual New Year's poetry reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 2018. Princess Ayako (right) lost her royal status in October after getting married.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/enigmatic-nod-smile-japans-crown-prince-learns-will-one-day-known-emperor-reiwa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako visit the Imperial Palace on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/31/national/japan-keep-official-records-new-era-names-selection-process/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:41:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-erarecord-a-20190401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-erarecord-a-20190401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito is accompanied by Empress Michiko and Imperial family members (from left) Princess Yoko, Princess Akiko, Princess Nobuko, Prince Akishino and Crown Prince Naruhito, as they arrive at the autumn garden party in Tokyo in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/name-japans-new-era-revealed-1130-m-monday-abe-statement-due-12/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-eraname-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eraname-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds a news conference on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/crown-prince-naruhitos-memoir-time-oxford-reissued-english-ahead-may-1-accession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-crownprince-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crownprince-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The English translation of the memoir of Crown Prince Naruhito was republished Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/national/japan-invite-guests-195-nations-events-marking-enthronement-new-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-enthronement-a-20190320.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-enthronement-a-20190320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito (left), Emperor Akihito (second from left) and other Imperial family members attend a spring concert for gagaku, Japan's ancient court music, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/national/japan-start-discussions-soon-imperial-succession-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-emperor-a-20190319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko listen to gagaku, Japan's ancient court music, at a concert in the Imperial Palace on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/palace-tokyo-emperor-akihito-starts-series-succession-rites-ahead-april-30-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-emperor-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito attends the first of a series of rituals and ceremonies at the Imperial Palace on Tuesday before his planned abdication on April 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/national/public-will-invited-greet-japans-new-imperial-couple-may-4-earlier-planned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-emperor-b-20190305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-b-20190305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/03/national/prime-minister-show-crown-prince-naruhito-new-era-name-candidates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-eraname-a-20190304.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eraname-a-20190304.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Emperor Akihito attend a tea party at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 25. The event was held to mark the Emperor's 30-year reign.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/21/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-coming-japan-new-emperor-enthronement-g20-summit-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T16:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-trumpcoming-a-20190222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpcoming-a-20190222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Sebastian Kurz, Austria's chancellor (left), meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/world-leaders-trump-xi-moon-send-congratulations-japans-new-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T17:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-reactions-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reactions-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania welcome Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie at the White House on April 26. The Trumps are set to be the first state guests to be welcomed by Emperor Naruhito later this month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/man-apparently-kills-crossbow-imperial-burial-site-western-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T17:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-suicide-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Musashino Imperial Graveyard in Hachioji, in western Tokyo, is seen Wednesday after an apparent suicide there.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/discos-back-japan-grooves-bubble-beat-heisei-era-sayonara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T17:53:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-discos-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-discos-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds a card showing the kanji characters for Reiwa at the Maharaja nightclub, in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, on Tuesday night, ahead of Emperor Naruhito's enthronement the following day.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/english-lessons-tennis-days-emperors-host-u-k-oxford-recalls-delightful-guest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-emperorhost-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperorhost-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Col. Tom Hall speaks at his home in Oxfordshire, England, last October.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/02/national/japans-next-era-name-might-draw-japanese-classics-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-newera-a-20190303.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-newera-a-20190303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe performs a traditional banzai cheer for Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at a ceremony marking the 30th year of his reign at the National Theatre in Tokyo on Feb. 24.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/25/national/japans-emperor-akihito-addressed-emeritus-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-emperor-a-20190226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wrap up a ceremony Sunday in Tokyo at the National Theatre of Japan, marking 30 years of his reign.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/23/national/crown-prince-ready-honor-legacy-new-role-next-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:35:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-crownprince-a-20190223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crownprince-a-20190223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Emperor Akihito appear before the public on Jan. 2 for New Year's greetings.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/22/national/history/crown-princess-masako-symbol-japanese-womens-struggles-male-dominated-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-masako-b-20190223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-masako-b-20190223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Masako, wearing a traditional junihitoe (12-layer robe) kimono, walks the corridor at the Imperial Palace after her wedding ceremony on June 9, 1993.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/21/national/history/crown-prince-naruhito-likely-stay-close-people-upon-becoming-japans-first-postwar-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-naruhito-a-20190222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-naruhito-a-20190222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito (second from left) and Crown Princess Masako (left) speak to survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in the town of Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture on June 4, 2011.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/chief-cabinet-secretary-yoshihide-suga-announce-japans-new-era-name-april-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-suga-a-20190217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suga-a-20190217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference at the State Guesthouse in Tokyo's Akasaka district in November 2015.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/female-imperial-family-members-barred-key-succession-rite-line-japanese-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/n-imperial-a-20190118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-imperial-a-20190118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito, Crown Prince Naruhito, Empress Michiko, Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko are pictured before the annual New Year's poetry reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/30/national/new-era-approaches-japans-dwindling-imperial-line-clouds-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:43:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-emperor-a-20181231.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20181231.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and other members of the Imperial family appear on a balcony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to greet a crowd gathered to celebrate his 85th birthday on Dec. 23. The event was the last opportunity for the general public to visit the palace for the birthday of Emperor Akihito, who is set to abdicate on April 30.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/23/national/emperor-akihito-85-greets-public-celebrates-last-birthday-throne/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-imperial-a-20181224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-imperial-a-20181224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito delivers a brief speech at the Imperial Palace as about 82,850 came to celebrate his 85th birthday Sunday, with Empress Michiko looking on.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/18/national/first-japan-postpones-decorations-announcement-due-imperial-succession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:45:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-decor-a-20190218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-decor-a-20190218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko greet guests at the autumn garden party in Tokyo in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/18/national/politics-diplomacy/donald-trump-may-first-state-guest-meet-japans-new-emperor-invite-planned-may-26/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:45:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-trumpvisit-a-20190219.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpvisit-a-20190219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/16/national/government-formalizes-plan-unveil-japans-new-era-name-crown-prince-ascends-throne-may-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-gengo-a-20181216.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gengo-a-20181216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko greet guests during the annual autumn garden party at the Imperial garden at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo in 2014.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/09/national/crown-princess-masako-vows-serve-people-becomes-empress-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-princess-a-20181210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-princess-a-20181210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito look at a booklet at the Togu Palace, the couple's official Tokyo residence, on Dec. 4.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-mulls-announcing-new-era-name-april-11-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/04/national/japan-mulls-inviting-trump-new-emperors-accession-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/n-trumpvisit-a-20181205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpvisit-a-20181205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering inviting U.S. President Donald Trump after Crown Prince Naruhito's planned accession on May 1.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/30/national/controversy-funding-imperial-succession-ceremonies-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daijosai (the Great Food Offering Ceremony) is held in November 1990 at the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/20/national/japan-simplify-court-banquets-celebrating-new-emperors-ascension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:50:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Tokyo on Tuesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a government committee meeting regarding ceremony arrangements for the ascension of the new Emperor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/04/national/japan-mulls-holding-celebration-event-next-fall-new-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito (front, left) walks with Emperor Akihito and other members of the Imperial family in Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/20/national/public-exhibition-imperial-throne-considered-following-2019-enthronement-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/government-designate-may-1-day-new-emperors-accession-public-holiday-creating-10-day-golden-week-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T18:53:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the first meeting of a government committee organizing the details of the Imperial succession ceremonies, at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/pictures-japans-new-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T19:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Emperor Naruhito arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/politics-diplomacy/among-asian-countries-japan-least-satisfied-democracy-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T19:47:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electoral officials count ballots for the general election at the city office in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/crime-legal/lawsuit-filed-japans-state-funded-ceremonies-marking-imperial-enthronement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T19:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-enthronement-a-20181211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito waves to visitors at the Imperial Palace on the monarch's 84th birthday on Dec. 23, 2017. Beside him is Crown Prince Naruhito.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/emperor-akihitos-last-garden-party-held-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T19:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito (left), Empress Michiko (second from left) and other members of the Imperial family make their way to greet guests during the annual autumn garden party at the Akasaka Palace Imperial garden in Tokyo in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/04/national/emperor-recovering-dizzy-spell-japans-imperial-household-agency-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T20:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/08/national/crown-prince-naruhito-arrives-lyon-mark-160th-anniversary-japan-france-diplomatic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T20:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-naruhito-a-20180909.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito is welcomed by French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb at Lyon's airport on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/crown-prince-visit-france-september-mark-anniversary-diplomatic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T20:07:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/japanese-government-sets-secretariat-prepare-imperial-succession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T20:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-imperial-a-20180802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito waves to the crowd gathered at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to celebrate his 84th birthday on Dec. 23, 2017, as Crown Prince Naruhito looks on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/japans-new-emperor-ascends-throne-vowing-emulate-father-fulfill-duties-symbol-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T21:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-f-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito makes his first speech at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday, as his wife, Empress Masako, stands by his side, as other imperial family members, including Emperor Emeritus Akihito's younger brother Prince Hitachi, look on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/japans-public-celebrates-dawning-reiwa-new-emperor-takes-throne/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T21:20:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-voices-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-voices-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Well-wishers cheer and wave Japanese flags as a motorcade carrying Emperor Naruhito leaves the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/tokyo-welcomes-new-reiwa-era-festive-mood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T21:20:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-reiwa-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reiwa-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuto Masu and his wife, Aki, hold up the characters for Reiwa at the Sumida Ward office where they submitted their marriage registration on the first day of the era on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/meiji-taisho-showa-heisei-japan-times-covered-previous-era-changes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-01T21:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-archives-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A story on the death of Emperor Mutsuhito, posthumously known as Emperor Meiji, appears on the front page of the July 31, 1912, edition of The Japan Times.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/business/u-s-china-reported-near-deal-end-tariffs-amid-productive-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T07:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradewar-a-20190503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (left) huddles with Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as they arrive for a group photo session after their meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/thousands-protest-maduro-regime-venezuela-standoff-sparks-u-s-russian-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T08:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-government protesters clash with security forces during the commemoration of May Day on Wednesday after a day of violent clashes on the streets of the capital spurred by Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido's call on the military to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/celebrations-across-japan-mark-start-reiwa-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T12:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-celebrations-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 1,500 people gather in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, to form the characters of Reiwa, the name of the new imperial era that started Wednesday. The name was drawn from an introduction to poems in "Manyoshu," the oldest existing anthology of Japanese poetry, which referenced a flower-viewing party held by poet Otomo no Tabito (665-731) in Dazaifu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/no-system-failures-reported-name-change-new-era-government-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T12:43:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/emperor-empress-relocate-tokyo-abdication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T13:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-residence-a-20190501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko greet guests during the autumn garden party at the imperial garden within the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/friend-japanese-imperial-family-recalls-hosting-party-england-quite-shy-new-emperor-80s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T13:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperorfriend-a-20190503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lady Nadine Bonsor gives an interview in London in November last year. She recalled the weekend when Prince Hiro, who became emperor on Wednesday, came to stay at her country house in Bedfordshire in 1984.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/ana-plane-bound-kumamoto-tokyo-lands-airport-near-nagoya-due-engine-trouble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T14:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ana-a-20190503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An All Nippon Airways jet bound for Kumamoto landed at Chubu airport near Nagoya on Wednesday evening due to engine trouble.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/south-korea-court-asked-sell-nippon-steel-nachi-fujikoshi-assets-wartime-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T14:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers representing South Koreans who said they were forced to work for Japan Iron &amp; Steel Co., now known as Nippon Steel Corp., are seen outside the company's head office in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/world/report-tells-u-k-adopt-worlds-toughest-targets-parliament-declares-climate-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T16:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graffiti believed to have been created by street artist Banksy is seen at the site where hundreds of Extinction Rebellion climate protesters camped recently at Marble Arch in London, on April 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-02T17:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-02T17:24:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wristbands, key chains and badges featuring India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and masks of the party president, Amit Shah, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are displayed at a BJP office ahead of the general election in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on April 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-02T17:44:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The debris of a house destroyed during a gunbattle with Indian security forces and suspected militants lies in a heap in Pinglan in southern Kashmir on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/japans-new-emperor-make-visits-aichi-akita-niigata-ibaraki-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T17:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito is driven to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 1, following his accession to the throne.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/17/national/japan-likely-announce-name-next-imperial-era-around-april-1-2019-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:37:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-throne-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito makes a speech on the Takamikura canopied throne during his accession ceremony at the Imperial Palace in November 1990. The Imperial Household Agency plans to transport the throne from Kyoto to Tokyo for repairs around August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/37-public-wants-know-next-eras-name-years-end-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/national/state-not-plan-female-members-imperial-family-attend-key-enthronement-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n-imperial-a-20180318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-imperial-a-20180318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The previous Kenji to Shokei no gi — a ceremony for handing down the Sacred Sword and Curved Jewels of the Imperial regalia to the new emperor, as well as the Privy Seal and the State Seal — was held at the Imperial Palace (above) on Jan. 7, 1989.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/23/national/crown-prince-turns-58-vows-self-improvement-ahead-accession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20180224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito speaks with Princess Aiko about the lunar eclipse as Crown Princess Masako looks on in a picture taken at the Togu Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/09/national/basic-government-plan-imperial-succession-compiled-mid-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20180110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (right) speaks Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo. .]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-mulls-holding-emperors-abdication-ceremony-state-occasion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:44:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20171220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/national/japan-mulls-10-consecutive-days-off-around-crown-princes-succession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-holidays-a-20171207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-holidays-a-20171207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is reportedly considering designating 10 consecutive days as holidays, from April 27 to May 6 in 2019, to coincide with Crown Prince Naruhito’s succession to the throne on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/national/abdication-planners-mull-march-31-2019-potential-date-chrysanthemum-throne-handover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20171021.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito addresses the nation in a rare prerecorded video message in August 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/crown-prince-ldp-exec-say-japan-can-help-world-cope-water-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/n-water-a-20170722.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-water-a-20170722.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a speech during a United Nations session on water and disasters at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/13/national/crown-prince-naruhito-says-will-devote-heart-soul-job-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T18:47:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-prince-a-20170614.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20170614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during a news conference at his palace in Tokyo on Tuesday ahead of a visit to Denmark.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/separation-state-religion-controversy-rekindled-shinto-linked-imperial-succession-rite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-rituals-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rituals-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito attends the Kenji to Shokei no Gi ritual Wednesday at the Imperial Palace, as Crown Price Akishino looks on.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/business/office-makeovers-focus-comfort-productivity-activity-based-working-takes-hold-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-office-a-20190503.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-office-a-20190503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itoki Corp. installed a meditation room fitted with sound and lighting equipment in its office in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. Yoga and lessons for mindfulness and mental fitness are sometimes held there.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/19/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-approves-bill-allow-japans-first-abdication-emperor-200-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-abdication-a-20170520.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20170520.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/12/national/malaysia-bound-crown-prince-calls-overseas-trip-important-task/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:30:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-prince-a-20170413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20170413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito attends a news conference at his residence in Tokyo on Tuesday. POOL / VIA KYODO]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/23/national/politics-diplomacy/crown-prince-turns-57-voices-readiness-ascend-throne-recalls-shaken-emperors-abdication-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/n-naruhito-a-20170224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-naruhito-a-20170224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito takes part in the opening ceremony of the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/21/national/media-national/emperors-abdication-highlights-inconvenience-behind-countrys-imperial-naming-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/p21-media-mix-emperor-a-20170122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p21-media-mix-emperor-a-20170122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Busy itinerary: Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend a New Year's ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The Imperial Household Agency believes such activities would make it "difficult" for the Emperor to step down, which had been suggested by the media to happen on Dec. 31, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/19/national/abdication-panel-lobby-one-off-legislation-emperor-akihito/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-emperor-a-20170120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20170120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/science-health/launch-private-momo-3-rocket-delayed-time-due-strong-wind-hokkaido-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-rocket-a-20190503.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rocket-a-20190503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[MOMO-3, a rocket developed by Japanese aerospace venture Interstellar Technologies Inc., is seen on April 12. The rocket was originally slated to be launched from Taiki in Hokkaido on Tuesday. The launch was delayed again on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/emperor-abdication-85th-birthday-2018-day-succession-discussion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-emperor-a-20170119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20170119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file photo taken on Jan. 2, 2015, shows Emperor Akihito waving to well-wishers beside Crown Prince Naruhito during their new year greetings in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/11/national/era-name-new-emperor-may-announced-ahead-accession-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-era-a-20170112.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-era-a-20170112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers with Crown Prince Naruhito and Empress Michiko during their New Year's greeting from the balcony of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/11/national/idea-floated-crown-prince-naruhito-ascending-throne-jan-1-2019-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-abdication-a-20170111.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abdication-a-20170111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and other members of the Imperial family wave to well-wishers at the Imperial Palace during a New Year's public appearance on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/02/national/emperor-empress-expected-make-goodwill-visit-vietnam-early-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:36:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-emperor-a-20170103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20170103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Princess Masako, Crown Prince Naruhito, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wave to well-wishers during the New Year's celebrations at the Imperial Palace on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/01/national/princess-aiko-turns-15-studies-official-duties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:36:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/n-aiko-a-20161202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aiko-a-20161202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Aiko talks about a school trip to Hiroshima in May with her father, Crown Prince Naruhito, at the family's palace in Tokyo on Nov. 23.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/25/national/14-year-old-princess-aiko-absent-school-last-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:38:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-aiko-a-20161026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aiko-a-20161026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Aiko attends an event marking the start of Japan's newest national holiday — Mountain Day — on Aug. 11 in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/deep-imperial-reform-likely-sensitive-touch-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:39:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-spotlight-a-20161017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-spotlight-a-20161017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Osaka's Umeda district watch a video message Aug. 8 by Emperor Akihito speaking about his feelings on abdication.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/national/japans-crown-prince-ready-for-throne-but-no-fairy-tale-for-his-unhappy-crown-princess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-princess-a-20160811.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-princess-a-20160811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito (left), Crown Princess Masako (center) and Prince Akishino see off Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2013.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/14/national/emperors-abdication-plan-poses-challenges-japans-imperial-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/n-emperor-a-20160715.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20160715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito is seen at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 26 before flying to the Philippines. With him is Crown Prince Naruhito. On the five-day visit, the Emperor paid tribute to warm bilateral ties that grew from the ashes of World War II.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/12/national/crown-princess-masako-attends-chiba-prefecture-greenery-event-crown-prince/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:41:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/n-masako-a-20160613-e1465717375204.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-masako-a-20160613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako arrive at Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday to attend a greenery event.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/23/national/crown-prince-turns-56-hopes-disaster-hit-tohoku-recovers-soon-says-wife-getting-better/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-crownprince-a-20160224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crownprince-a-20160224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito chats with Crown Princess Masako and Princess Aiko at their residence in Tokyo's Akasaka district ahead of his 56th birthday Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/18/national/science-health/crown-prince-naruhito-new-york-attend-u-n-meetings-water-disasters-sanitation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/n-princenewyork-a-20151119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-princenewyork-a-20151119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Princess Masako sees off Crown Prince Naruhito upon his departure for the U.S. at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/04/national/crown-prince-princess-attend-tonga-coronation-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:43:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/n-tonga-a-20150705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tonga-a-20150705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako chat with Tonga's Princess Pilolevu in Nuku'alofa on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/01/national/crime-legal/man-allegedly-left-knives-princes-school-desk-sent-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:44:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-knives-a-20190502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-knives-a-20190502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Hasegawa (right) is taken to a police station Monday after being arrested for allegedly trespassing on the grounds of Prince Hisahito's junior high school.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/03/national/crown-prince-princess-arrive-tonga-first-trip-abroad-two-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/08/national/crown-prince-plays-viola-made-of-tsunami-debris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nn20130709a8a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130709a8a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No ordinary driftwood: Crown Prince Naruhito displays a viola Sunday at a concert held by Gakushuin University alumni in Tokyo. The viola was partially built from a pine tree hit by the March 2011 tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/05/national/japans-crown-prince-naruhito-seen-slightly-shy-u-k-archives-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20170106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako greet onlookers during a New Year celebration at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/01/national/japans-crown-prince-princess-attend-coronation-of-new-dutch-king/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T19:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nn20130501d1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130501d1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Royal well-wishers: Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako arrive at the Nieuwe Kerk church in Amsterdam on Tuesday for the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/world/crime-legal-world/william-barr-defends-clearing-trump-obstruction-chides-snitty-robert-mueller-letter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T20:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-snitty-a-20190503.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Barr, U.S. attorney general, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Barr said he didn't feel there was enough evidence to prove President Donald Trump's instructions to his then-White House counsel Don McGahn about removing special counsel Robert Mueller had "corrupt intent."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/world/one-giant-bid-first-moon-landing-manual-fetch-9-million-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T20:15:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/business/boycott-brunei-owned-businesses-gay-sex-death-penalty-expected-expand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T20:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah before the bilateral meeting of the Second Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People on April 26 in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/world/social-issues-world/israel-marks-holocaust-remembrance-day-solemn-ceremony-netanyahu-hit-surge-anti-semitism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T20:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony of the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem WSednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-denies-u-s-claim-told-venezuelas-maduro-not-flee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T20:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the National Guard throws an object toward opposition supporters during a rally against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and to commemorate May Day in Caracas Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/science-health/eating-rice-help-fight-obesity-study-led-japan-researcher-suggests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T21:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer walks in a rice paddy in Katori, Chiba Prefecture, last August. Experts have found that people following a diet based on rice were less likely to be obese than those living in countries where rice consumption was low.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/politics-diplomacy/south-koreas-moon-jae-says-ties-japan-must-improved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T21:47:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/02/national/nearly-80-japan-support-women-throne-82-feel-affection-new-emperor-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-02T21:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko attend an event in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward in August 2016. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/19/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-says-abduction-probe-will-take-another-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:40:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/inoki-returns-says-pyongyang-set-air-results-abductee-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/n-inokireturn-a-20140904.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-inokireturn-a-20140904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diet lawmaker Antonio Inoki waves as he leaves Pyongyang international airport Tuesday after taking part in a rare two-day pro-wrestling event in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/02/national/politics-diplomacy/senior-member-of-n-korea-secret-police-met-japan-diplomat-over-abduction-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/keiji-furuya-vows-tough-stance-on-north-korean-abduction-issue-will-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:45:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/16/world/french-ambassador-says-27-killed-in-burkina-hotel-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French special forces take up positions outside a hotel that was the site of an attack by Al-Qaida linked gunmen on Saturday in Ouagadougou.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/22/national/japan-wants-north-korea-clarify-150-points-abduction-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:53:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/30/asia-pacific/rescues-of-south-koreans-abducted-by-north-come-with-controversy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T00:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/w1-skabductees-a-20131031.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-skabductees-a-20131031.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rogue rescuer: Choi Sung-yong, an activist who is fighting for the return of South Koreans kidnapped by the North, holds a photo of his father, Choi Won-mo, one of the kidnapping victims, at his Seoul office on Oct. 21. Although some have called him a lifesaver, not everyone likes the way he operates]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/29/national/north-korea-may-delay-first-abduction-probe-report-late-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:24:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/crime-legal-world/new-york-man-arrested-defrauding-parents-abducted-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:25:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/abductees-families-welcome-new-abduction-minister-eriko-yamatani/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/n-abductreact-a-20140904.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductreact-a-20140904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka speaks to reporters outside his home in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday afternoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/03/national/tokyo-strongly-urge-north-stay-course-abductee-investigation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/17/national/abductees-mentioned-pyongyang-report-handed-rejected-japan-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/n-abductees-a-20150618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20150618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance at a historic site associated with the Korean War in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang June 9. Information about the fate of Japanese abducted by the North was not provided in a recent report Pyongyang promised to provide to Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-sends-list-470-potential-abductees-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/w1-s1-nkabductees-y-20140609.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-s1-nkabductees-y-20140609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean soldier uses her mobile phone next to a sentry post on the banks of the Yalu River, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on June 1. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced Sunday that the government has submitted a list of about 470 Japanese citizens who may have been kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/13/world/u-s-will-work-tirelessly-find-journalist-abducted-syria-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-north-korea-intelligence-officials-held-secret-meeting-october-mongolia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-nktalks-a-20181020.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nktalks-a-20181020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Kitamura]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/14/national/politics-diplomacy/kim-expressed-readiness-trump-summit-meet-abe-japanese-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-abekim-a-20180615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abekim-a-20180615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A japanese government source said Kim Jong Un (right) expressed readiness to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/22/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-confirms-pyongyang-not-abandoned-2014-accord-abductions-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:38:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/19/national/crime-legal/kin-japanese-abducted-north-korea-will-urge-icc-prosecute-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:38:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/17/national/japan-struggles-resolve-north-korea-abduction-issue-kin-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-abduction-a-20171218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abduction-a-20171218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet on Nov. 6 with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in this photo posted to Abe's Twitter account.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/pyongyang-wants-japanese-officials-visit-meet-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abductee-hopes-hinge-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/n-furuya-a-20140830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-furuya-a-20140830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiji Furuya is interviewed in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-imposes-asset-freeze-on-north-korean-shipping-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:43:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/14/national/north-korea-minister-said-confirm-abductee-report-coming-early-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:43:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/20/national/aging-yokotas-pine-for-daughters-return-from-north-korea-as-abductee-talks-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-yokota-a-20140721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokota-a-20140721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru and Sakie Yokota hold a portrait of their daughter, Megumi, after an interview in Kawasaki on Wednesday. A new inquiry into Japanese abducted by North Korea offers the Yokotas their best and perhaps final chance of being reunited with the daughter, who was snatched by the North at age 13.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/18/national/identical-twin-clings-hope-sister-alive-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-abductee-a-20140719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductee-a-20140719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Misa Morimoto, 50, points at a photograph of her older identical twin Miho Yamamoto (left) and herself at a high school graduation ceremony in 1982, at her home in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/04/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-finalizes-decision-ease-sanctions-n-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/31/national/pyongyang-abduction-post-eyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/17/national/abductee-matsumoto-living-in-pyongyang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/world/u-n-child-agencys-report-says-boko-haram-abducted-1000-children-northeast-nigeria-since-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-boko-a-20180414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boko-a-20180414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image, titled "Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived," by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times and released by World Press Photo on Thursday, was awarded first prize in the people stories category. It shows Falmata, age 15, on Sept. 22, as part of portraits of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. It was taken in Maiduguri, in Nigeria's Borno state. The girls were strapped with explosives and ordered to blow themselves up in crowded areas, but managed to escape and find help instead of detonating the bombs. Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group whose name translates roughly as "Western education is forbidden," expressly targets schools and has abducted more than 2,000 women and girls since 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/24/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/eu-expects-swedish-citizen-gui-minhai-detained-china-released-immediately-ambassador/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/f-euhk-a-20180125.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-euhk-a-20180125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police walk past a missing person notice for bookseller Gui Minhai (left) posted on top of the sign for China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong in January 2016. Rights campaigners have slammed as "appalling" reports that Gui has been snatched again in mainland China, the latest person ensnared in Beijing's crackdown on civil society.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/03/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-japan-south-korea-seek-bigger-role-from-china-on-north-korea-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/27/asia-pacific/captives-beheading-highlights-philippine-rebels-lucrative-kidnap-business-ups-leverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-ransom-a-20160428.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ransom-a-20160428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image from an undated hostage video shows Canadians John Ridsdel (right) and Robert Hall.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/08/world/amazonian-tribe-peru-takes-hostages-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:56:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/07/asia-pacific/china-faces-diplomatic-crisis-missing-hong-kong-booksellers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/f-hkbook-a-20160208.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkbook-a-20160208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "closed" sign with words of support from visitors written on it is displayed outside the security gate of Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/19/national/u-n-expert-discusses-north-korea-abductions-kin-japan-ministers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/n-unexpertnk-a-20160120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unexpertnk-a-20160120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea Marzuki Darusman (right) talks with Katsunobu Kato, state minister in charge of the abduction issue (left), on Monday at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/09/national/kin-abductees-hit-revolving-door-cabinet-appointments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T08:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/asia-pacific/abbot-set-to-curb-australian-immigration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hostages on Dec. 16 run toward armed tactical response police for safety right after the police stormed into a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney. Two staff members of the Lindt Cafe said in paid interviews broadcast Sunday by Nine Network television that they had armed themselves with box cutters after gunman Man Horan Monis took them and 16 other people hostage in the cafe in downtown Sydney.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luke Somers, an American photojournalist killed by al-Qaida militants on Saturday, as his photo taken in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in July 2013. APLuke Somers, an American photojournalist killed by al-Qaida militants on Saturday, as his photo taken in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in July 2013. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A victim of human trafficking prays at a Thai government shelter in Phang Nga province on Oct. 17. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pupil of the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri leaves the facility after classes in May. The city, which is Boko Haram's spiritual birthplace, has been a theater of deadly attacks and targeted killings, leaving hundreds of victims dead.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This May 12 screen grab from a video made by Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haren shows its leader, Abubakar Shekau. The United States is reportedly going to fund a TV channel in Nigeria to counter insurgencies organized by such groups.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukiko Okudo (left) and Kaoru Hasuike, who were abducted by North Korea, return to Japan on Oct. 15, 2002. The government hopes an agreement with North Korea this week will result in the return of other missing individuals.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michelle Obama holds up a placard expressing solidarity and sympathy for the kidnapped Nigerian girls and their families in a photo sent out Thursday on the U.S. first lady's official Twitter account.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking the unspeakable: Colombia's Jineth Bedoya Lima (center), the 2012 winner of the International Women of Courage Award, poses for a photo in March 2012 with then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) and first lady Michelle Obama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-willing-meet-kim-jong-un-settle-issue-japanese-abducted-north-korea/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with a group representing the families of people abducted by North Korea, at his office in Tokyo on Wednesday. The visitors included Sakie Yokota (left) and Shigeo Iizuka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-abductee-missing-since-1978-living-pyongyang-source/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minoru Tanaka]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who has also been appointed as abduction minister, speaks during a group interview on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-seeks-set-liaison-office-pyongyang-solve-abduction-issue/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diplomats from the Japanese and North Korean foreign ministries attend a meeting in Stockholm in May 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsunobu Kato, the Cabinet minister in charge of the abduction issue, right, speaks at an event in Tokyo in June calling for the return of Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korean agents decades ago.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and North Korean university students discuss issues between the two countries during their annual exchange program in Pyongyang on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[EMBARGOED-n-abetrump-a-20180512.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abduction-a-20180504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family members of Japanese abductees meet with senior officials of a U.S. human rights group in Washington on Wednesday. Center: Takuya Yokota, whose sister, Megumi, was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (right), the 82-year-old mother of Megumi, who was abducted in 1977, speaks during an event focusing on Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea on April 22 in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward as Shigeo Iizuka, who heads a group representing abductees' families, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abecalls-a-20180430.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters on Sunday at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman appears to yawn as she walks by a TV in Tokyo on Friday showing South Korean President Moon Jae-in meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abduction-a-20180423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers opening remarks to family members of Japanese abducted by North Korea, during a meeting in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/abductee-families-pins-hopes-u-s-n-korea-summit-last-chance-longtime-effort-see-kin-returned/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20180419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka, the head of a group representing families of people abducted by North Korea, talks to reporters Wednesday in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/10/national/u-s-envoy-convey-wishes-abductees-kin-trump-ahead-summit-abe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (right), mother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea agents at age 13 in 1977, meets U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-ask-trump-press-north-korea-short-medium-range-missiles-well-icbms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/via-unofficial-route-north-korea-informed-japan-earlier-year-abduction-issue-resolved-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/teacher-training-program-north-korean-abduction-issue-introduced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-abductions-a-20180403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductions-a-20180403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Hasuike, a former abductee who returned from North Korea in 2002, talks to pupils at a junior high school in the western Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa in November. The government will offer to train schoolteachers on how to raise awareness of the abduction issue starting this autumn.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-abductees-kin-urges-u-s-relist-north-korea-state-sponsor-terrorism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-abductee-a-20170915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductee-a-20170915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuya Yokota, whose sister, Megumi Yokota, was abducted by North Korea in 1977, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday. Yokota and former abduction minister Eriko Yamatani (left) met with U.S. officials and lawmakers to discuss the matter.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/31/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-asks-u-n-disarmament-forum-address-north-korea-kidnappings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/01/national/suspected-north-korea-abductee-found-alive-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:30:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/hacked-memo-reveals-details-bill-clintons-2009-meeting-north-koreas-kim-jong-il/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:31:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/f-clintonkim-a-20161031.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-clintonkim-a-20161031.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Il poses with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and members of his delegation in Pyongyang on Aug. 4, 2009.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/16/national/japanese-abductee-possibly-hospitalized-pyongyang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-abductee-a-20161016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductee-a-20161016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoko Matsumoto]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/23/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-abductees-kin-worried-issue-nay-overlooked-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/16/national/man-thought-abducted-north-korea-found-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/09/national/lawmaker-reveals-photos-family-reunion-involving-parents-north-korea-abductee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T09:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/n-yokota-a-20160610.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokota-a-20160610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (center) is pictured with her 10-month-old great-granddaughter and granddaughter, Kim Eun Gyong, in this handout photo taken during a rare family reunion in Mongolia in March 2014.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/15/national/north-repeatedly-tried-invite-yokotas-meet-megumis-daughter-mother-says-tokyo-didnt-tell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/n-yokota-b-20150916.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokota-b-20150916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokota]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-north-korea-foreign-ministers-meet-kuala-lumpur/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-nkorea-a-20150807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkorea-a-20150807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ri Su Yong]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/01/national/politics-diplomacy/top-diplomats-japan-north-korea-may-hold-abduction-talks-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/03/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-appears-play-time-abductions-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/29/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-japan-seem-far-apart-on-abduction-report-as-deadline-nears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/15/national/north-korea-defectors-say-dont-trust-regimes-claims-abductees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/n-nkspy-a-20150416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkspy-a-20150416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cheol Hwan Kang]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/national/abductees-kin-disappointed-lack-progress-north-korea-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-abductees-a-20150331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20150331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeo Iizuka (front), a brother of abductee Yaeko Taguchi and the head of a group of relatives of Japanese abducted to North Korea, takes part in a rally in Tokyo's Ueno district on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/26/national/crime-legal/police-search-home-chongryon-leader-suspected-north-korea-mushroom-shipment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-chongryon-a-20150327.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chongryon-a-20150327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ho Jong Man, chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, speaks to reporters outside his house in Tokyo's Suginami Ward after police raided it.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/16/national/politics-diplomacy/shanghai-n-korea-briefed-japan-grilling-suspected-abductors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-denies-report-that-abductee-yokota-died-in-1994/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/n-yokota-b-20141108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokota-b-20141108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru and Sakie Yokota hold a portrait of their daughter Megumi after an interview in Kawasaki on July 16.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/05/national/north-korea-claims-it-will-question-perpetrators-on-abductee-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/30/national/north-korea-didnt-offer-delegation-any-new-info-on-abductees-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/japan-n-korea-reportedly-had-secret-contact-over-abduction-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:04:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/05/national/families-fear-hundreds-left-out-of-abductee-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/n-abduction-a-20140906.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abduction-a-20140906.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Fujita holds a photo of his brother Susumu, who went missing in 1976 (left), and a photo of a Japanese man who is believed to be Susumu after he was allegedly abducted to North Korea, during a recent interview at his home in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/faced-with-many-challenges-reshuffled-cabinet-must-hit-the-ground-running/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:05:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/02/national/politics-diplomacy/number-suspected-japanese-abduction-victims-n-korea-rises-883/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/18/national/politics-diplomacy/pyongyang-abductee-probe-stirs-speculation-early-japan-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-snappoll-c-20140719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-snappoll-c-20140719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Japan presses North Korea over the fate of the Japanese it abducted, speculation is simmering that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seen at a news conference in Tokyo on July 1, could use a breakthrough on the issue to call a snap election.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/suga-denies-report-pyongyang-provided-list-japanese-living-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:06:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/03/national/while-japan-presses-n-korea-on-abductions-s-koreas-victims-are-forgotten-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-yokota-a-20140704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokota-a-20140704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Young-ja holds a photo of her brother, an abductee living in North Korea named Kim Young-nam (right), at her home in Jeonju, South Korea. The photo was taken during a reunion in 2006.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/01/national/japan-n-korea-discuss-details-new-body-probe-past-abductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:07:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-nkorea-a-20140702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkorea-a-20140702.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/01/national/tokyo-pyongyang-agreed-on-visit-to-japan-by-yokota-kin-seoul-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-t3-yokota-a-20140702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-t3-yokota-a-20140702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Eun Gyong]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/17/national/north-notification-details-discussed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/12/national/north-said-to-resume-reprogramming-of-abductees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/03/national/abe-says-talk-n-korea-visit-premature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/28/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-talks-fall-flat-abduction-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/22/national/n-korea-abductees-renew-hopes-tokyo-pyongyang-settlement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/w1-s1-abductees-a-20140523-e1400732270945.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-s1-abductees-a-20140523.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeyo Hasuike, Emi Chimura, Kiyoshi Chimura (front row, from second from left), Yasuhiko Chimura and Katsuya Hasuike (back row, from left) are seen as they depart for Japan at Pyongyang Susan International Airport in May 2004.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/national/japan-suggest-foreign-minister-talks-north-korea-arf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/24/national/obama-meets-abductees-kin-pledges-help-solve-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:09:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/w3-obamabduct-z-20140425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w3-obamabduct-z-20140425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie and Shigeru Yokota (right, second right) show a photograph of their daughter Megumi, who was kidnapped by North Korea, to U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday at the State Guesthouse in Tokyo's Akasaka district.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/02/national/north-link-to-lost-at-sea-cases-probed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/29/national/n-korea-wanted-to-release-japanese-abductees-daughter-in-2010/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nn20130529e3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130529e3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diplomatic pawn: Kim Eun Gyong, the daughter of abductee Megumi Yokota, is seen in a photo taken by Japanese officials during a visit to Pyongyang in September 2002. The North told Tokyo in May 2010 that it would allow Kim to leave for a country other than Japan, a source said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-adviser-called-for-deadline-to-resolve-abductions-during-north-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/20/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-spin-were-ready-to-talk-about-abduction-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nn20130520e3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130520e3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage control: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters Sunday in Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/16/national/politics-diplomacy/iijimas-north-trip-ups-hope-for-progress-on-abductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nn20130516a6a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130516a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isao Iijima]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/04/national/relatives-of-abductees-issue-call-in-the-u-s-for-international-teamwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nn20130504a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130504a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeking outside help: Shigeo Iizuka, a brother of abduction victim Yaeko Taguchi and a representative of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, calls for international cooperation in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/04/national/tokyo-to-turn-up-heat-on-north-at-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abductees-kin-disappointed-lack-progress-trump-kim-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/n-abductees-a-20190301.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20190301.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota, the 83-year-old mother of Yokota Megumi, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977, speaks to reporters Thursday in Kawasaki after the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump ended with no tangible achievements earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/18/national/politics-diplomacy/message-kim-families-say-wont-oppose-normalization-japan-north-korea-ties-abductees-returned/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (center) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday, along with Shigeo Iizuka (right), the head of a group of families of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/16/national/pessimism-grows-north-korean-abductions-issue-tokyo-pyongyang-summit-nowhere-sight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (second from right), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977, meets with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (right) at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-hopes-second-summit-north-koreas-kim-good-mike-pompeo-meeting-pyongyang/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpkim-a-20181009.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) in Pyongyang in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-north-korea-held-secret-meeting-vietnam-july-irking-u-s-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-secretalks-a-20180830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at the White House in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-russia-agree-pursue-denuclearization-north-korea-still-odds-missile-defenses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jprussia-a-20180802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facing reporters (from left) Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attend a news conference Tuesday in Moscow following two-plus-two talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-provides-little-new-info-japanese-abductees-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:14:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkabductees-a-20180723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un tours a factory in the city of Sinuiju in this undated photo released July 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/12/national/abductees-relatives-hope-trump-kim-summit-will-lead-return-loved-ones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T10:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20180613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota, the mother of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea in 1977, speaks during a news conference in Kanagawa Prefecture after the U.S-North Korea summit in Singapore on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/03/world/crime-legal-world/white-house-letter-blasts-robert-mueller-report-says-trump-right-tell-advisers-not-testify-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T13:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpsnub-a-20190504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York and chairman of the House Judiciary committee, listens during a hearing in Washington on Thursday. Attorney General William Barr escalated his fight with House Democrats eager to question him about special counsel Robert Mueller's report after spending five contentious hours before a Senate panel defending the actions of President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T13:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-charctic-a-20190504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Navy submarines and warships take part in an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/national/japanese-woman-hopes-trump-kim-summit-will-bring-news-missing-twin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/minister-charge-abduction-issue-katsunobu-kato-presses-north-korea-resolve-matter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abduc-a-20180505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsunobu Kato, the Cabinet minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks to reporters Thursday at the U.N. headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/national/abductees-kin-watch-inter-korean-summit-japan-hoping-return-loved-ones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:16:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abductees-a-20180428.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a rally for the abductees in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/tokyo-asks-seoul-raise-abduction-issue-north-south-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-kono-a-20180412.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-a-20180412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, pose for a photo Wednesday before holding bilateral talks in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/former-lawmaker-shizuka-kamei-set-visit-north-korea-may-meet-top-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shizuka Kamei]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends at an Upper House parliamentary session in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitomi Soga and Charles Jenkins]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers in the Old Guard arrive to place U.S. flags at graves in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in 2017. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called for tougher action against sexual assault in the military Thursday after an annual Pentagon report said the number of assaults in 2018 had risen from recent years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Displaced Syrians gather under a tree in a field near a camp for displaced people in the village of Atme, in the jihadi-held northern Idlib province, on Wednesday. Bombardment by the regime and its Russian ally on northwestern Syria has displaced nearly 140,000 people since February, the U.N. said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A service boat carries workers back to shore from a platform off Seal Beach, California, in 2015. The Trump administration is easing safety rules adopted after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T14:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T15:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this grab taken from video, Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-03T18:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Le Thi Anh Ngoc (left) and Hoang Thi Diem Lien work at Aoyama Japan Farm Co. in Gonohe, Aomori Prefecture, on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (left) and his Vietnamese counterpart, Ngo Xuan Lich, pose for a photo Thursday before talks in Hanoi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atomic bomb survivors Jiro Hamasumi (left), assistant secretary-general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, and secretary-general Sueichi Kido speak to reporters in New York on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protestors demonstrate at the entrance of Westminster Magistrates Court in London Thursday. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing a court hearing over a U.S. request to extradite him for allegedly conspiring to hack a Pentagon computer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken from a helicopter shows the Imperial Palace on Wednesday, the first day of the Reiwa Era.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video message from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is shown Friday at a forum in Tokyo hosted by a conservative grassroots group aligned with Japan Conference (Nippon Kaigi).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke emerges from the Nakadake crater of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture after a small eruption Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mother of a Maritime Self-Defense Force member who killed himself after being bullied by a superior officer speaks to reporters in April 2014 after the Tokyo High Court ordered the government and the officer to pay damages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/trump-putin-discuss-possible-new-nuclear-accord-white-house-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T13:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/national/politics-diplomacy/new-group-south-korean-lawmakers-plans-visit-japan-month-help-mend-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T13:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nam Gwan-pyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/venezuelas-neighbors-accuse-nicolas-maduro-protecting-terrorist-groups-colombia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T13:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, accompanied by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, arrives at Fort Tiuna in Caracas on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/south-sudanese-parties-agree-six-months-form-unity-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T13:42:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Sudanese militar chaplain prays during a visiting to soldier at Juba Military Hospital on April 27. Despite a ceasefire arrangement signed by the government and the opposition forces last year, violence and interethnic fights have continued within the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/u-s-oks-nearly-6-billion-weapons-sales-persian-gulf-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T13:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/foreign-government-leases-trump-world-tower-stir-emoluments-concerns-u-s-lawyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T14:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Trump World Tower looms over other buildings in Manhattan on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/national/media-national/deciphering-curious-act-talking-oneself/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T22:44:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/p16-hoffman-talking-a-20190505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-talking-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-reflection: To be seen talking to yourself is to expose yourself to the pitying or condescending thoughts of anyone who sees you.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/national/media-national/social-media-fails-follow-traditional-news-outlets-stricter-approach-portrait-rights-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T22:56:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-portrait-rights-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the frame: Traditional news outlets generally avoid identifying random passers-by in the images.  Getty Images]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/congress-gives-u-s-attorney-general-deadline-release-full-mueller-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T15:58:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-barr-a-20190505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-barr-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General William Barr discusses the Mueller report at a news conference in Washington on April 18. Behind him is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/asia-pacific/background-royal-instruments-thai-kings-coronation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T17:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/national/media-national/japans-gang-members-running-places-hide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T19:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-adelstein-gangs-decline-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gang membership is declining in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-several-rounds-short-range-missiles-sea-japan-south-korea-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T19:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmissile-b-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/business/corporate-business/softbank-said-considering-ipo-100-billion-vision-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T20:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/business/japan-calls-asian-development-bank-reduce-loans-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-04T21:58:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso speaks at an annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Nadi, Fiji, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/world/boeing-737-slides-florida-river-136-board-no-fatalities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T14:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-riverland-a-20190505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-riverland-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Authorities work at the scene of a plane that ended up in the water in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-vietnam-agree-promote-defense-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T14:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-vietnam-a-20190505.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, right, and Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya hold talks in Hanoi on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/despite-data-scandals-australian-parties-get-free-rein-gather-online-data-voters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T16:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/world/trump-proposal-make-easier-deport-immigrants-including-green-card-holders-use-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T17:10:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-deport-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-deport-a-20190506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General William Barr would have to sign off on the new policy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/world/probe-begins-boeing-737-800-slid-off-runway-florida-river/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T18:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-riverland-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-riverland-a-20190506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aerial view of the Miami Air International Boeing 737-800 that overran the runway at NAS Jacksonville and came to rest in the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/business/corporate-business/drop-shop-osaka-firm-offers-rooms-weary-dads-no-mood-golden-week-shopping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T19:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-dads-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dads-a-20190506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 200-square-meter rental office room in Osaka's Minami district was offered to fathers and children who wished to rest while other members of their family were out shopping during Golden Week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/business/tech/south-koreas-booming-webtoons-put-japans-print-manga-notice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T19:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-manga-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-manga-a-20190506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jay Kim, head of Kakao Japan Corp., a subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp. and operator of the popular manga app Piccoma, poses during an interview in Tokyo's Roppongi district last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/business/tech/momo-3-becomes-first-privately-developed-japanese-rocket-reach-outer-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T22:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-rocket-a-20190505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rocket-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Interstellar Technology Inc. launches its Momo-3 rocket in Taiki, Hokkaido, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/business/corporate-business/zozo-founder-yusaku-maezawa-says-selling-valuable-paintings-jokes-never-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T23:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-zozo-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zozo-a-20190506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9 last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/austrian-far-right-leader-ramps-anti-immigration-rhetoric-ahead-european-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-05T23:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-austria-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Austria's Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache addresses the media after a cabinet meeting in Vienna on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/national/science-health/japanese-scientists-play-role-capturing-first-photo-black-hole/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T01:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-blackhole-a-20190413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-blackhole-a-20190413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mareki Homma from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan speaks at a news conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Thursday after the first-ever image of a black hole was unveiled by an international team of scientists.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/business/economy-business/americas-1-6-trillion-student-debt-woe-spurring-suicidal-thoughts-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T04:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-debt-a-20190507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-debt-a-20190507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic president candidate and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper speaks at a town hall gathering at Keene State College, in Keene, New Hampshire, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/business/boeing-left-airlines-faa-dark-737-alert-linked-lion-air-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T05:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-boeing-a-20190507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20190507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A number of grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft are shown parked at Victorville Airport in Victorville, California, March 26.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/business/fed-canada-tells-u-s-help-china-crisis-huawei-exec-forget-favors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T06:04:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-canbiz-a-20190507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-canbiz-a-20190507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian and Chinese flags are seen prior to a meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on December 2017 in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/04/national/cheers-screams-japans-emperor-naruhito-greets-public-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T12:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-emperor-a-20190505.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako greet well-wishers during their first public appearance in their new roles at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/business/financial-markets/two-tweets-trump-shatters-historic-calm-global-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T20:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-tweets-a-20190507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tweets-a-20190507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a bank's electronic display showing the share index at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday. Shares tumbled in Asia excluding Japan early Monday after President Donald Trump threatened in a tweet to impose more tariffs on China, spooking investors who had been expecting good news on trade.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/national/japanese-health-ministry-urge-hospitals-enhance-disaster-preparedness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T22:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-hospitals-a-20190506.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hospitals-a-20190506.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry will urge all of the nation's hospitals designated as disaster response medical centers to stock enough fuel to run their power generators for at least three days by March 2021.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/world/crime-legal-world/trump-says-just-dont-robert-mueller-testimony-tentatively-set/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T22:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-twumper-a-20190507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-twumper-a-20190507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller (left) is seen in 2013 and U.S. President Donald Trump in 2017. Trump declared Sunday that special counsel Mueller "should not testify" before Congress on his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 elections. The House Judiciary Committee has asked Mueller to testify on May 15 about his 22-month-long investigation, which found that Trump attempted to thwart the probe but was silent on whether he should be charged with obstruction of justice.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/global-backlash-brunei-says-wont-enforce-gay-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T22:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-brunei-a-20190507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brunei-a-20190507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah attends the retreat session during the APEC Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, last November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/05/national/rush-golden-week-intensifies-jams-40-km-forecast-approach-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-06T23:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The international arrival floor of Narita airport near Tokyo is packed Sunday as many people return to Japan following an extended Golden Week holiday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo released by Leonardo Alves, students run from their school during a shootout between police and suspected drug traffickers in the Mare shantytown of Rio de Janeiro Monday. Brazilian officials say an anti-crime operation by police resulted in eight people being killed during the shootout.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at church, as Brexit turmoil continues, in Sonning, Britain, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Talking trash: An organization that promotes litter collection as a sport has overseen 639 events nationwide comprising 76,000 participants.  Getty Images]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-07T12:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) appears with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as they meet on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese-Americans move into the internment camp in Manzanar, California, in June 1942. Roughly 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to the desolate camps that dotted the West during World War II because the government claimed they might plot against the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over 120 shops line narrow Nishiki Market in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-07T16:24:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the first "pilgrimage" to California's Manzanar in December 1969 clean the obelisk marking the internment camp's cemetery.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-07T16:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With a $19 billion stake in Sprint Corp., SoftBank Group Corp., led by Masayoshi Son, will bear the brunt of the fallout if Sprint's takeover by T-Mobile US Inc. is blocked.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-07T17:47:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan chapter of the Britain-based 30 Percent Club aims to achieve better female representation on the boards of major companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-07T17:55:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks April 16 to a government committee tasked with expanding the number of midcareer hires by companies to improve labor productivity.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World No. 1 tennis player Naomi Osaka reacts to cheers on Sunday after defeating Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in the first round of the Madrid Open.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo celebrate with their children after being freed from prison, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-05-07T18:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rugby Australia CEO Raelene Castle speaks to the Japanese media at Rugby Australia headquarters in Sydney on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the denuclearization of North Korea and Trump's state visit to Japan in late May, among other topics, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nikkei 225 stock average fell below 22,000 on Tuesday, hit by renewed concerns over U.S.-China trade tensions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange is set for tumultuous market moves Tuesday in the wake of fresh escalation in the U.S.-China tariff war.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks privately after addressing a bipartisan group at the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University Tuesday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/world/crime-legal-world/michael-cohen-says-helped-racy-falwell-photos-go-away-evangelical-family-backed-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T13:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-falwell-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-falwell-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (left) shakes hands with Jerry Falwell Jr. at a campaign rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/world/russia-riled-presence-u-s-b-52-strategic-bomber-near-baltic-sea-border-sends-fighter-intercept/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T13:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-scramble-a-20170608.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scramble-a-20170608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flies during the annual recurring multinational, maritime-focused NATO exercise BALTOPS 2017 near Ventspils, Latvia, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/business/tech/faa-convenes-multiagency-board-review-boeing-software-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T13:45:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-boeing-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 Max jetliners are parked on the tarmac at the Boeing Factory in Renton, Washington, March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/07/national/back-grind-workers-japan-return-extended-golden-week-holiday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T14:17:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-backtowork-a-20190508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-backtowork-a-20190508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk at a crossing near Tokyo Station on their way to work on Tuesday, the first working day of the Reiwa Era following the unprecedented 10-day Golden Week holiday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/07/national/politics-diplomacy/emperor-naruhito-conducts-first-regular-duties-imperial-palace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T14:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-emperor-a-20190508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this handout photo taken Tuesday, Emperor Naruhito carries out his first regular duties in his new role at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/business/new-wagyu-brand-wakayama-aimed-health-conscious-meat-lovers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T15:15:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-wagyu-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wagyu-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new, less fatty brand of wagyu is being targeted at health-conscious meat lovers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-senates-mitch-mcconnell-calls-robert-mueller-probe-case-closed-top-democrat-slams-coverup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T15:28:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-mitch-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mitch-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell before joining Senate Republicans for lunch in Washington in March. McConnell said Tuesday it was "case closed" regarding the special counsel's report on Russian interference and urged Democrats to drop their investigations of Trump. The majority leader laid out his argument for turning from "unhinged partisanship" and paralysis after a 2016 election that did not go Democrats' way to cooperating on legislation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/trump-supports-plan-humanitarian-food-aid-north-korea-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T15:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-northfood-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-northfood-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy takes a selfie as he stands on an observation deck of the Goseong observatory on the south side overlooking the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the east coast of North Korea on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/world/crime-legal-world/white-house-tells-don-mcgahn-snub-congress-subpoena-trump-battles-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T15:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-mcgahn-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mcgahn-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House Counsel Don McGahn sits behind U.S. President Donald Trump as the president holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington last June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/business/corporate-business/google-debuts-privacy-controls-principles-o-developers-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T16:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-google-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephanie Cuthbertson, director of product management for Android at Google, discusses the mobile operating system during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/glitch-automated-check-system-forces-jal-ground-18-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T17:44:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-jal-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jal-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People form a long line Wednesday at a Japan Airlines check-in counter, at Haneda airport in Tokyo, after the airline's automated check-in system suffered a system glitch.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/social-issues/graying-japan-pet-hoarding-proving-pesky-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T17:45:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-pethoard-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pethoard-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Food and garbage are strewn across a tatami room at a home where too many pets have been kept.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/japan-research-institute-studying-use-ai-nuclear-forensics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T17:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-ai-a-20190508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ai-a-20190508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has launched a study over the possible use of artificial intelligence in identifying the origin and characteristics of nuclear materials collected in the aftermath of an act of nuclear terrorism.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-claimed-business-losses-1-17-billion-decade-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T18:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-trumptax-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumptax-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens during an event to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the "Be Best" initiative in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/half-guide-dog-users-say-tokyos-preparations-2020-games-not-yet-adequate-survey-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T18:03:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-guidedogs-a-20190418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-guidedogs-a-20190418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visually impaired man with his guide dog assisted by a station employee walk on a subway platform in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/japans-cd-album-output-fell-100-million-first-time-2018-industry-data-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T18:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-music-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-music-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hikaru Utada's "First Love," released in 1999, is Japan's best-selling CD album to date.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korea-may-make-contact-japan-abe-says-hes-ready-summit-without-conditions-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T18:10:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-nkorea-a-20190508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkorea-a-20190508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the mourning service for his father, late leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, in this handout photo taken on Dec. 29, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/business/tariff-war-renewed-u-s-china-trade-talks-play/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T19:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-scenario-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-scenario-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whether the world's two largest economies will sink deeper into their trade conflict may depend on negotiations Thursday and Friday, when a Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Liu He will visit Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-open-sharply-lower-u-s-china-trade-war-fears-grow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T20:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-stocks-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stocks-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor shows the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average extending sharp declines during early trading Wednesday amid fears about a U.S.-China trade war.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/crime-legal/school-intruder-says-intended-stab-12-year-old-prince-hisahito/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T21:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-prince-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Hasegawa is handed over to prosecutors in Tokyo on May 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-fall-back-ex-dividend-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T22:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/25/business/financial-markets/nikkei-225-logs-biggest-loss-since-december-tokyo-stocks-dropping-3-global-economic-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T22:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-stock-a-20190326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stock-a-20190326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo stocks ended 3 percent lower Monday, their lowest close since Feb. 15 amid fears of a U.S. recession.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/24/national/japan-agreed-hide-okinawas-role-u-s-bombing-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T22:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-b52-a-20140725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-b52-a-20140725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A B-52 bomber flies over the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture in May 1976.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/15/business/corporate-business/lexus-crafting-high-end-yacht-ploy-polish-fading-luxury-car-credentials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T22:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lexus-a-20180316.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus Sport Yacht Concept (above) and a Lexus LC 500 vehicle are displayed at the Japan International Boat Show in Yokohama on March 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/no-problems-found-car-driven-87-year-old-involved-fatal-crash-tokyos-ikebukuro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-08T22:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-ikebukuro-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ikebukuro-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer examines the wreckage of a car that crashed into pedestrians in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district on April 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-president-trump-inspect-japanese-destroyer-prime-minister-abe-visit-late-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T12:37:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-destroyer-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-destroyer-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kaga, a Maritime Self-Defense Force Izumo-class helicopter carrier, is moored at a naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in April last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-supports-taiwans-world-health-assembly-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T12:53:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-taiwan-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwan-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/09/business/opposed-republicans-u-s-senate-oks-exim-bank-nominees-restores-lending-powers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T12:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/sudan-protest-coalition-calls-civil-disobedience-campaign-hits-military-dragging-feet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T12:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-sudan-a-20190510.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sudan-a-20190510.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rashid al-Sayed, a Sudanese protest leader, speaks to the press in Khartoum on Wednesday. Sudanese protest leaders threatened to launch a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after accusing the country's military rulers of delaying the transfer of power to a civilian administration.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/09/world/crime-legal-world/ex-member-alleged-new-york-sex-cult-tells-jury-forced-encounter-shame/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T12:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-cult-a-20190510.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cult-a-20190510.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this courtroom drawing, defendant Keith Raniere (center) is seated between his attorneys, Paul DerOhannesian (left) and Marc Agnifilo during the first day of his sex trafficking trial Tuesday. Raniere, the former leader of the self help group called NXIVM, has pleaded not guilty to tcharges that he turned his followers into sex slaves.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/science-health/japan-sees-record-number-medical-accidents-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T13:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-medical-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medical-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of medical accidents reported in Japan hit a record high of 4,565 cases in 2018, according to the nonprofit organization Japan Council for Quality Health Care.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/national/crime-legal/three-people-plead-guilty-fraudulent-tokyo-land-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T13:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/n-sekisui-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sekisui-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sekisui House suffered a huge loss after paying for this plot of land near Gotanda Station in central Tokyo, in a deal that turned out to be a scam.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/09/world/crime-legal-world/house-panel-hold-william-barr-contempt-congress-refusal-turn-russia-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-05-09T13:17:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The burden on the working population to support the national health care system is expected to continue increasing in the coming decades as Japan's rapid graying continues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo made available April 9 by the Iranian presidential office, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listens to the head of Iran's nuclear technology organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, on Nuclear Technology Day in Tehran.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves his lawyers' office in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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