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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Monday during a meeting of the Audit Committee of the House of Councilors.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T17:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three contact lens makers are suspected of forcing retailers not to list the prices of some disposable contact lenses on flyers or online ads.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T17:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiro Sakata, who heads the Agricultural Producers' Cooperative Corporation Uyama, looks at a rice field that will be planted with soybeans this year because of the damage caused by heavy rain and flooding last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T17:38:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T17:41:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T17:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Critics said a revised law on rape places an unfairly high burden on victims, deterring them from coming forward and hurting their chances in court if they do.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T17:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yumi Ishikawa, a 32-year-old actress and writer who is leading the #KuToo movement, a play on the words for "shoes" and "agony," wears a pair of blue New Balance sneakers while posing for photos on June 5 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/business/tech/microsoft-xcloud-game-service-offer-free-streaming-phones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:20:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees hold Microsoft Corp. Xbox One controllers while playing during a UbiSoft Entertainment SA event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on Monday. Ubisoft announced that Uplay+, its new subscription service, will launch on Sept. 3 for Windows PC. Players will be able to download more than 100 games, including new releases. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to hold talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his two-day visit to Tehran from Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-expected-meet-iranian-supreme-leader-june-12-14-trip-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator holds up a poster of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Friday during the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day, rally.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/16/national/politics-diplomacy/concerned-escalating-iran-u-s-tensions-japan-offers-work-tehran-minister-visits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shake hands at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/28/national/politics-diplomacy/iran-japan-nuclear-safety-cooperation-continue-despite-u-s-sanctions-iranian-agency-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, speaks during an interview in Brussels on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-conveys-support-irans-efforts-stick-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/business/sanctions-iran-create-diplomatic-headache-rather-economic-catastrophe-oil-dependent-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-offer-e2-million-iran-nuclear-safety-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:26:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida at their talks Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/14/business/iran-oil-terminal-offers-japan-priority-deals-thank-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in an oil terminal control room on Kharg Island, Iran, supervise the loading of a tanker on Aug. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flames rise from a natural gas chimney at refinery facilities in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone in Assaluyeh, southern Iran, on July 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/05/business/japan-signs-investment-pact-iran-boost-economic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:27:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (right) and Iranian Economic and Finance Minister Ali Taiebnia (left) exchange documents during a signing ceremony for an investment agreement in front of Japanese and Iranian business representatives at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/22/national/japan-lifts-nuclear-sanctions-iran/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:27:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/20/business/iran-official-says-japan-may-be-allowed-to-rejoin-oil-field-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/24/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-iranian-leaders-discuss-islamic-state-irans-nuclear-program/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/07/business/u-s-probe-chinas-huawei-includes-bank-fraud-accusations-linked-iran-sanctions-busting-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meng Wanzhou, executive board director of Huawei, attends a VTB Capital investment forum in Moscow in October 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/shocking-huawei-arrest-threatens-upend-trump-xi-trade-truce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard stands at the gate to the Huawei office compound in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/13/business/trump-blasts-saudi-arabia-oil-output-cut-relations-fray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih (right) talks as UAE Energy Minister Suhail Mohammed Faraj al-Mazroui listens during a meeting of their Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Saudi Arabia said it will trim oil exports by 500,000 barrels per day in December, as major producers met today to consider cuts to shore up sagging prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/08/business/trump-saves-china-jobs-reaches-deal-phone-maker-zte-includes-1-billion-fine-irks-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (center) leaves a hotel in Beijing. U.S. officials reached a deal Thursday to ease sanctions that threatened to cripple Chinese smartphone maker ZTE, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/06/business/chinas-zte-inked-preliminary-accord-lifting-u-s-supplier-ban-sources/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zte-a-20180607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors pass in front of the Chinese telecoms equipment group ZTE Corp. booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/14/business/trump-working-xi-restart-china-telecom-giant-zte-iran-sanctions-violator-sake-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zte-a-20180515.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sales clerk stands at counters selling mobile phones produced by ZTE Corp. at an appliance store in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, in 2012. ZTE, a Chinese tech giant, was brought to its knees and delayed shipments of imported U.S. cars, apples, lumber and other agricultural products are the early casualties as China and the U.S. exchange salvos in a trade dispute.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/business/u-s-probing-huawei-possible-iran-sanctions-violations-wall-street-journal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20180427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese people walk by a mobile phone accessories shop selling Apple iPhone and Huawei smartphones in Beijing April 20. As trade disputes simmer, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the No. 3 smartphone brand, is shifting its growth efforts toward Europe and Asia in the face of mounting obstacles in the U.S. market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/17/business/u-s-bans-american-firms-selling-iran-sanctions-breaching-chinese-phone-maker-zte/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zte-a-20180418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign for the ZTE booth is seen at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain i 2014. The U.S. Commerce Department is blocking Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. from importing American components for seven years, accusing the company of misleading U.S. regulators after it settled charges of violating sanctions against North Korea and Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/netanyahu-accepts-boehners-invite-address-u-s-congress-march-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/f-netanyahu-a-20150124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-netanyahu-a-20150124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California gestures during a Thursday news conference on Capitol Hill, where she told reporters that she disagrees with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the White House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/obama-snub-boehner-asks-netanyahu-address-congress-mulling-iran-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:37:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/20/national/iranian-paraplegic-pays-japanese-kindness-forward-disabled-people-back-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/n-iranian-a-20161121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iranian-a-20161121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohammad Pashai (second from left), an Iranian resident of Japan, consults people with disabilities in Tehran in August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/crime-legal/iranian-man-identified-as-victim-of-deadly-street-ambush-in-nagoya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/16/world/police-storm-sydney-cafe-end-hostage-siege-gunman-two-others-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[TOPSHOTS-AUSTRALIA-SEIGE-CONFLICT]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An injured hostage is carried out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney Monday evening. Police stormed the Sydney cafe where a gunman had taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-vows-re-start-enrichment-four-days-u-s-ditches-nuke-deal-bar-iaea-inspectors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-iranuke-a-20171017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranuke-a-20171017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran Sept. 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-continues-support-iran-nuke-deal-abe-tells-rouhani-heels-trump-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:41:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-abeiran-a-20170921.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeiran-a-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Tuesday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/kerry-makes-case-iran-nuke-deal-heated-closed-door-capitol-briefings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kerry-a-20150724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State John Kerry arrives for a classified briefing for all House members on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, to speak about the deal reached to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/national/hundreds-protest-across-japan-acquittals-men-sex-crimes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:45:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-protests-a-20190613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-protests-a-20190613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold up signs and flowers near Tokyo Station on Tuesday as part of a "Flower Demo" held across nine cities nationwide. The movement is protesting recent court acquittals of men in sex crime cases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/01/world/kerry-breaks-hip-cuts-europe-trip-short-just-iran-nuclear-deal-talks-look-set-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/f-kerry-a-20150602.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kerry-a-20150602.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A helicopter takes off at the General Hospital  in Geneva Sunday. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in bike crash outside of Geneva on Sunday and called off the rest of a four-nation diplomatic trip.  X-rays at the Swiss hospital confirmed a fracture of his right femur. Security measures were relieved after the departure of the helicopter but officials did not confirm that Kerry was on board.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-nuclear-talks-miss-deadline-u-s-threatens-walk-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:45:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-irantalks-a-20150402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-irantalks-a-20150402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[International TV cameras stand ready outside the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel during the Iran nuclear program talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday. The United States said on Tuesday that world powers and Iran would keep negotiating over an outline accord on Tehran's nuclear program beyond a midnight deadline, while warning that it was ready to abandon the talks altogether.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/irans-preliminary-nuclear-deal-finds-gulf-arabs-edge-weighing-options/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/04/world/u-s-believes-iran-launched-air-raids-islamic-state-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/f-usiran-a-20141205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usiran-a-20141205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakim al-Zamili, a parliament member and head of Iran's Security and Defense Committee, prepares for an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad on Wednesday. Mixed reactions were voiced in Baghdad over Pentagon reports that Iran launched airstrikes in Iraq against the Islamic State group.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/03/world/iranian-hacking-targeting-airlines-energy-infrastructure-firms-said-posing-serious-physical-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/28/business/asian-imports-iranian-oil-rise-nearly-70/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-republican-allies-endorse-iranian-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T18:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opponents of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in west London Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-detail-implementation-new-sanctions-tehran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-usiran-a-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usiran-a-20180807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference in Singapore on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/06/world/islamic-state-torches-oil-field-near-tikrit-militia-advance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/f-istikrit-a-20150307.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-istikrit-a-20150307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi soldiers gather near their vehicles as smoke rises from oil wells in the Ajil field east of the city of Tikrit in the Salahuddin province Wednesday. Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells in the Ajil field east of Tikrit to try to hinder aerial attacks aimed at driving them from the oil field, a witness and military source said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/11/national/japan-iran-pledge-continued-efforts-on-nuclear-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/world/crime-legal-world/iran-bank-must-pay-2-billion-u-s-kin-1983-beirut-bomb-victims-supreme-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/15/world/iran-warship-fires-warning-shots-singapore-flagged-tanker-gulf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/23/world/islamic-state-militants-claim-attacks-iranian-ambassadors-residence-tripoli-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view of the damage caused by a bomb blast is seen at the gate of the Iranian ambassador's residence in Tripoli on Sunday. Two bombs exploded at the gate of the Iranian ambassador's residence Sunday although nobody was hurt in the blast, Libyan security officials said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/22/world/pentagon-says-iranian-flotilla-factor-leading-boosted-u-s-warship-deployment-yemen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/f-flotilla-a-20150423.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An EA-18G Growler launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) alongside during maritime security operations in the Arabian Sea in this U.S. Navy photo taken Tuesday.  The Roosevelt and Normandy will join seven other U.S. warships near Yemen, which is torn by civil strife as Iranian-backed Houthi rebels battle forces loyal to the U.S.-backed president. The warships are also keeping tabs on an Iranian flotilla that may be trying to bring arms to the Houthis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/national/tokyo-government-ridiculed-omission-website-suggesting-mascot-supports-child-abuse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-website-a-20190613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-website-a-20190613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's website displays a caption that omits the word "prevention" to describe a mascot intended to promote the prevention of child abuse, before it was fixed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/25/world/iran-can-sink-u-s-warships-secret-weapons-military-official-tehran-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/national/japans-largest-warship-joins-u-s-carrier-military-exercises-disputed-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-izumo-a-20190613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-izumo-a-20190613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo, Japan's largest flat-topped helicopter carrier, joins the United States' sole forward-deployed aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, for joint military exercises in the disputed South China Sea this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T19:49:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-prison-a-20190613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prison-a-20190613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female inmate cuts a customer's hair at Kasamatsu Prison in Gifu Prefecture on May 22 as part of vocational training for life after her release.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T21:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Saikawa, president and chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., listens to a member of the media in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/national/japan-passes-bill-requiring-microchipping-pets-reduce-strays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T21:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pets-a-20190613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A puppy is seen at a pet shop in Tokyo. The Diet passed a bill Wednesday to toughen rules for selling young dogs and cats, as well as penalties for people found guilty of abusing animals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/04/world/israel-signals-launch-attack-iranian-weaponry-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T22:49:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/11/world/u-s-veterans-sue-banks-claim-pay-iran-funds-used-iraq-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-12T22:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-12T22:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-triran-a-20180504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump walks through the Oval Office an his way to a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/business/economy-business/surprise-gain-japans-machinery-orders-masks-cooling-investment-outlook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-13T02:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-13T04:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-13T05:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A study by the University of Tokyo and European institutions showed that men in managerial positions in Japan have a higher mortality rate than their counterparts in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/13/national/crime-legal/university-student-arrested-murder-doctor-yamagata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T08:21:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/11/national/politics-diplomacy/hong-kong-activist-urges-japan-extradition-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-hkbillnew-a-20190611.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hkbillnew-a-20190611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agnes Chow, a 22-year-old democratic movement leader from Hong Kong, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday after participating in a massive protest march against a controversial extradition bill the previous day in the former British territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/11/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/u-s-gravely-concerned-proposed-amendments-hong-kong-extradition-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkconcern-c-20190612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of people who turned out early Monday morning to demonstrate against a proposed extradition law block Gloucester Road, on Hong Kong Island.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/10/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/million-strong-hong-kong-protest-china-extradition-bill-turns-violent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:52:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkstrife-e-20190611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers use pepper spray against protesters during a rally against proposed amendments to the extradition law at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong during the early hours of Monday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/10/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/foreign-forces-seek-create-havoc-hong-kong-china-daily/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-chidaily-a-20190611.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chidaily-a-20190611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold signs and yellow umbrellas as they gather in front of the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday to protest a controversial extradition law proposed by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government to ease extraditions to China. An estimated 500 protesters gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/29/asia-pacific/first-hong-kong-judges-call-proposed-extradition-changes-stark-challenge-legal-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:54:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-hkextra-a-20190530.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkextra-a-20190530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers clash over the extradition bill in Hong Kong on May 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-presses-extradition-bill-undeterred-critics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:54:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-hkextradition-a-20190522.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkextradition-a-20190522.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai is restrained by security guards at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on May 11. The assembly descended into chaos that day as lawmakers for and against controversial amendments to the territory's extradition law clashed over access to the chamber.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/28/asia-pacific/thousands-take-hong-kong-streets-protest-new-extradition-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T11:55:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-hkprotest-a-20190429.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkprotest-a-20190429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters who oppose an extradition law march along a downtown street in Hong Kong on Sunday. The proposed new law would make it possible for people to be sent to mainland China to face the justice system there.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/10/business/corporate-business/japanese-car-rental-firm-install-dash-cams-new-vehicles-effort-deter-dangerous-driving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T12:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Nippon-Rent-A-Car.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Nippon-Rent-A-Car.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nippon Rent-A-Car Service Inc. outlet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/13/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-frustrated-lack-japan-trade-deal-ambassador-william-hagerty-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T12:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-hagerty-d-20190614.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hagerty-d-20190614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty is interviewed Tuesday in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/chemical-firm-kao-cancels-bewhite-project-employees-point-racial-connotations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-kao-z-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kao-z-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A #BeWhite image tweeted by the official Kao Twitter account.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/world/crime-legal-world/u-n-says-confirmed-17-killings-house-torchings-sudans-darfur-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-darfur-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-darfur-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at gutted houses during clashes between nomads and residents in Deleij village, located in Wadi Salih locality, Central Darfur, Sudan, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/twitter-deletes-thousands-accounts-tied-iran-seeks-end-false-info-campaigns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-twitter-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-twitter-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Twitter app is seen on a mobile phone in Philadelphia in April. Twitter said Thursday it has deleted nearly 4,800 accounts linked to the Iranian government that served to promote state actions without disclosing their political connection.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/world/social-issues-world/u-s-bound-migrants-rush-enter-mexico-ahead-security-crackdown-demanded-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-migrantflow-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-migrantflow-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants cross the Suchiate River on a raft from Tecun Uman, in Guatemala, to Ciudad Hidalgo, as seen from Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/world/u-s-said-consulting-allies-protect-shipping-wake-gulf-oman-tanker-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:32:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-usaction-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usaction-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Thursday photo made available by the Norwegian shipowner Frontline shows the crude oil tanker Front Altair through the observation window of a fire boat as water cannon operate to fight the fire onboard the Norwegian ship in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. Navy rushed to assist the stricken vessels in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of Iran, as two oil tankers came under suspected attack amid heightened tension between Iran and the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/world/science-health-world/russia-uncovers-40000-year-old-wolf-head-preserved-siberian-ice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-wolf-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wolf-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The head of an Ice Age wolf, is seen Monday at the Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia, Russia. Experts believe the wolf roamed the Earth about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to Siberia's frozen permafrost its brain, fur, tissues and even its tongue have been perfectly preserved, as scientific investigations are underway after it was found last August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/europol-highlights-russian-money-top-laundering-threat-calls-baltic-states-front-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-europol-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-europol-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Europol's headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, are seen in this photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/southwest-joins-american-extending-boeing-737-max-cancellations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:42:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/13/world/iran-little-gain-oman-tanker-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:45:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/13/world/tankers-struck-in-gulf-of-oman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T14:45:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-gulftankers-a-20190614.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gulftankers-a-20190614.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. Two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz were reportedly attacked the same day, an assault that left one ablaze as sailors were evacuated from both vessels.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/asia-pacific/hong-kong-searches-surge-behind-chinas-great-firewall-amid-extradition-law-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T15:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-huhkong-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-huhkong-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tear gas surrounds police officers during a protest against Hong Kong's extradition bill outside the government headquarters on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/corporate-business/aeon-plans-quadruple-product-sourcing-vietnam-2025/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T17:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-aeon-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aeon-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman rides past an Aeon shopping mall in Chiba in January 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/japans-may-exports-seen-falling-sixth-month-u-s-china-trade-war-escalates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T18:16:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/liquefied-natural-gas-another-fuel-persian-gulf-firing-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T18:56:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/corporate-business/activist-investor-dan-loeb-calls-sony-spin-off-semiconductor-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T18:56:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-sony-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sony-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenichiro Yoshida, chief executive officer of Sony Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/naruto-ninja-themed-area-open-amusement-park-base-mount-fuji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T19:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-naruto-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-naruto-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo illustration shows an indoor ride within a new area of the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, which is themed on the smash-hit "Naruto" ninja anime series and is set to open in July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/aid-tourism-japan-expand-language-support-offer-free-wi-fi-300-bus-train-routes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T19:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-tourism-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourism-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pose for a photo in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/japan-u-s-aim-seal-trade-deal-upper-house-election-motegi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T19:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/tech/japan-install-5g-network-relay-devices-traffic-signals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T20:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-5g-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-5g-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government on Friday approved a plan to use traffic signals to set up base stations for the superfast 5G communications network.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/politics-diplomacy/trumps-request-abe-asks-iran-release-american-captives-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T20:24:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-abeamerican-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeamerican-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport Friday morning after his trip to Tehran.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/business/third-japans-new-graduate-recruits-thinking-changing-jobs-within-five-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-14T20:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-recruits-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-recruits-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Central, holds a ceremony in April to welcome its new employees in Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/business/economy-business/trump-says-doesnt-matter-xi-agrees-meeting-osaka-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T11:08:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-trumpxi-a-20190616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpxi-a-20190616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/crime-legal/nobel-winner-honjo-eyes-decision-opdivo-lawsuit-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T11:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-honjo-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-honjo-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo delivers a speech at the Swedish parliament in Stockholm on Dec. 11 after receiving the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/asia-pacific/encrypted-messages-car-crashes-helped-hong-kong-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T12:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-hklearn-a-20190615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hklearn-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong residents protest the proposed extradition law outside the government headquarters on Wednesday, when a show of strength against the government paralyzed the city center.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-treasury-chief-solid-ground-withholding-trump-tax-returns-justice-department-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T12:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-trumptaxes-a-20190616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumptaxes-a-20190616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Mnuchin]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-denounces-tanker-attacks-stays-silent-possible-suspects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T13:31:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeiran-a-20190616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters Friday night at his office in Tokyo after a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/politics-diplomacy/tehran-visit-hurdles-remain-high-abe-bid-mediate-u-s-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T14:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran on Thursday. A portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, hangs on the wall.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-15T14:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minoru Kato, president of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt. Ltd., is interviewed in Gurgaon in the northern state of Haryana, India, on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/national/history/oshio-heihachiro-confusing-confucianism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T22:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oshio Heihachiro (1793-1837), disturbed by high tax rates on citizens during a time of famine, led an Osaka rebellion against the Tokugawa shogunate in 1837.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-15T15:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/national/media-national/lawyerlessness-luxury-japan-can-no-longer-afford/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T22:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doing things by the book: Outlets offering elementary legal advice are available in Japan but, at ¥5,000 per half hour, they're not cheap.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/national/media-national/combating-unfounded-fear-japans-recluses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T22:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays at the site of a mass stabbing on June 4, a week after the incident in which a knife-wielding man killed two and injured more than 15 people near a bus stop in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/national/media-national/examining-morbid-fascination-violence-social-media-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T22:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fan club: Convicted killer Tatsuya Ichihashi attracted plenty of sympathy online following his capture in July 2011. 	Kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/asia-pacific/wall-street-learns-hard-lesson-not-say-pig-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T15:56:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-15T16:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-15T17:12:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester is confronted by riot police during a massive demonstration outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/asia-pacific/calls-mount-compromise-unpopular-hong-kong-bill-protesters-call-new-march/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T17:14:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hundreds of mothers holding placards, some of which read "If we lose the young generation, what's left of Hong Kong," and lit smartphones protest against the amendments to the extradition law in Hong Kong on Friday night.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-15T17:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai No. 1 (front) No. 2 reactors in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/business/corporate-business/nissan-weighs-giving-oversight-committee-seats-renault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T19:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renault CEO Thierry Bollore (from left), Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard, Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa, and Mitsubishi Motors Chairman Osamu Masuko attend a news conference at Nissan Global Headquarters in Yokohama on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/business/tanker-attacks-spark-concerns-among-japanese-companies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T19:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vessel purported to be an Iranian navy patrol boat approaches the Japanese-operated methanol tanker Kokuka Courageous to remove what was said to be an unexploded mine in this photo released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/business/corporate-business/bus-technology-automatically-stops-vehicle-detecting-health-problems-driver-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T20:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hino Motors' S'elega bus, equipped with new technology capable of automatically stopping the vehicle if it senses something is wrong with the driver, will debut in Japan next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/business/japanese-companies-opposed-u-s-slapping-additional-tariffs-chinese-goods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-15T21:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly manufactured cars await export at the port of Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/national/amid-u-s-china-trade-war-osaka-braces-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T11:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-viewosaka-a-20190616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A West Japan Railway Co. official on Monday shows the media how trash cans at Osaka Station will be closed during the Group of 20 summit for security reasons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/national/science-health/drug-devised-replace-chemotherapy-may-reshape-cancer-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T13:26:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A breast cancer treatment called DS-8201, jointly developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Daiichi Sankyo Co., could become an alternative to chemotherapy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/asia-pacific/brusque-bruised-hong-kongs-lam-caves-pressure-extradition-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T14:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hklam-a-20190617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam gives a news conference on Saturday at which she announced the government will indefinitely suspend consideration of a China-backed extradition bill that has triggered some of the biggest mass protests since the former British colony's return to China. She has refused to step down, but her ability to govern has been questioned on numerous fronts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/german-spds-record-low-poll-puts-strain-merkels-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T15:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The parliamentary group leader of the SPD, Rolf Muetzenich (left) and his deputy Carsten Schneider are seated at the start of a meeting in Berlin on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-16T15:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zuzana Caputova is applauded during her swearing-in ceremony as Slovakia's first female head of state in Bratislava on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/national/contemporary-japanese-artist-nara-wants-raise-awareness-struggles-faced-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T17:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara speaks at an event Saturday at the United Nations University in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/world/saudi-seeks-oil-supply-protection-u-s-iran-face-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T19:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the extraordinary Arab summit at al-Safa Royal Palace in Mecca on May 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/national/fukushimas-ground-zero-town-slowly-comes-back-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T23:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiyoshi Fushimi and his wife, Teru, carry a painting of hollyhocks into a new housing unit for evacuees in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-seeks-cooperation-mongolia-north-korean-abduction-issue-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-16T23:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/asia-pacific/philippines-asks-u-n-make-protection-sailors-priority-south-china-sea-boat-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a sign during a rally outside the Chinese Consulate in the financial district of Makati, in Metropolitan Manila, during an event marking Independence Day on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/asia-pacific/pakistan-removes-isi-chief-appoints-hard-liner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:28:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/shadow-banking-crisis-raises-risk-renewed-indian-bad-loan-reckoning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/team-trump-dumps-pollsters-persistent-low-numbers-reporters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/boeing-crisis-trade-tensions-cast-pall-paris-airshow-despite-hefty-plane-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Air Self-Defense ForceKawasaki aircraft stands outside the Boeing Co. exhibition area ahead of the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget in Paris on Sunday. The show is the world's largest aviation and space industry exhibition and runs from June 17-23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/world/hundreds-rally-moscow-decry-state-abuse-investigative-journalist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:40:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a rally organized by Union of Journalists and approved by authorities in support of the investigative journalist Ivan Golunov in Moscow Sunday. The banner reads "Freedom to Kirill Vyshinsky," referring to the director of the Ukrainian office of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, who was detained on treason charges in Kiev in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/world/libya-leader-serraj-will-not-sit-rival-khalifa-hifter-end-war-tripoli/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister of Libya Fayez al-Sarraj addresses media during a press conference in Prague in January. The head of Libya's U.N.-supported government on Sunday proposed holding nationwide elections to end the war in the North African country, as the forces of the rival military commander, Khalifa Hifter, continue their two-month-long battle to take Tripoli.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/canada-backs-start-boost-big-data-space-debris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/world/social-issues-world/peru-tightens-border-desperate-venezuelans-cling-asylum-lifeline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan migrants arrive at the Ecuadorian Peruvian border service center with their belongings, to process their documents and be able to continue their journey, in the outskirts of Tumbes, Peru, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/business/ministry-plans-step-efforts-prevent-seeds-saplings-high-end-fruit-varieties-taken-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T13:56:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The agriculture ministry plans to tighten its control over seeds and saplings of domestically developed high-end fruit varieties so that they won't be taken out of Japan and grown in other countries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-support-rate-falls-47-6-amid-pension-system-controversy-telephone-poll-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T14:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-opinionpoll-a-20190617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of his Cabinet attend a meeting on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/south-korean-studio-behind-cult-game-mir-engaged-assault-copycats-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T14:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-mir-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mir-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Henry Chang, chief executive officer of Wemade Co., sits at the company's headquarters in Seongnam, South Korea, on June 5. Over the last three years, Chang has filed about 65 lawsuits in China, Singapore and South Korea against Chinese gaming studios, attempting to block what he alleges are unlicensed versions of his two-decade-old title The Legend of Mir.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/father-japanese-girl-abducted-london-1983-taken-north-korea-receives-letter-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T14:47:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-abducletter-a-20190617.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abducletter-a-20190617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihiro Arimoto, whose daughter Keiko Arimoto was abducted to North Korea at the age of 23 while studying English in London in 1983, displays a copy of a hand-written letter from U.S. President Donald Trump at his home in Kobe on Sunday .]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/economy-business/economists-expect-bank-japan-will-expand-stimulus-sometime-soon-not-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T15:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/japans-labor-crunch-provides-opportunities-women-take-wheel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T15:47:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-drivers-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-drivers-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asuka Maemura, a moving assistant at Osaka-based Sakai Moving Service Co., holds a package while working in Osaka earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/corporate-business/revival-fiat-renault-deal-hinges-nissans-backing-frances-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T15:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-fiat-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fiat-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renault SA Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard has said he is open to a future tie-up with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/future-economic-payout-mind-asean-appears-unwilling-get-tough-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T16:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-asean-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-asean-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen in Singapore on June 12, 2018, after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/corporate-business/inpex-inks-20-billion-deal-abadi-lng-project-largest-investment-ever-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T17:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-inpex-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inpex-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inpex Corp. has reached a new deal with Indonesia on the $20 billion Abadi liquefied natural gas project.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/national/crime-legal/police-officer-stabbed-osaka-prefecture-man-flees-service-pistol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T18:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-cop-a-20190617.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cop-a-20190617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators seal off the area around a police station in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday morning hours after a police officer was stabbed and his pistol stolen. The suspect is still at large.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/rugby-world-cup-organizers-tap-traditional-japanese-art-ticket-designs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T18:17:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-rugbytickets-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rugbytickets-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Designs for Rugby World Cup 2019 match tickets are unveiled in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/japanese-fathers-spend-time-playing-kids-mothers-want-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T18:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-fathers-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fathers-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey by Bornelund Inc. found that nearly 87 percent of young mothers want their husbands to spend more time playing with their children.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/taking-aim-boris-johnson-british-prime-minister-hopefuls-make-brexit-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T18:42:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-boris-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boris-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson, leadership candidate for Britain's Conservative prime minister, leaves home in London Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/released-prison-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-vows-join-protests-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T18:44:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-wong-c-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wong-c-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong addresses the crowds outside the Legislative Council during a demonstration in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/china-plans-pilot-nuclear-reactor-heating-northeast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T19:11:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-chinanuclear-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinanuclear-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shepherd tends his flock to the frozen fields of China's northern Heilongjiang province in February 2006. China plans to build a pilot small-scale nuclear reactor that could replace coal or gas to heat towns and cities the colder northern regions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/crime-legal/kurdish-refugee-released-bail-17-months-detention-reunites-family-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T20:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-detainee-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-detainee-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mehmet Colak, a 39-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker, leaves the Tokyo Regional Detention Center with his youngest son and wife on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/japan-defense-minister-takeshi-iwaya-apologizes-errors-aegis-deployment-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T21:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-aegis-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aegis-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (left) bows to Akita Gov. Norihisa Satake at the Akita Prefectural Government building on Monday, as he apologizes for errors in the ministry's geographical survey used for plans to deploy the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/corporate-business/chinas-harvest-tech-investment-fund-postpones-decision-%c2%a580-billion-package-japan-display/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-17T21:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-japandisplay-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japandisplay-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. is struggling to secure an injection of capital to the value of ¥80 billion from a Chinese-Taiwanese consortium.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/asia-pacific/china-harvesting-organs-falun-gong-members-expert-panel-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T03:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-distancing-u-s-claims-iranian-involvement-tanker-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-tankerattack-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tankerattack-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga briefs reporters at a news conference on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/world/u-s-preparing-send-troops-middle-east-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-deploy-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-deploy-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. military image released by the Pentagon in Washington on Monday shows what the Pentagon says are members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy photographed from a U.S. Navy MH-60R helicopter after removing an unexploded limpet mine from the M/T Kokuka Courageous, a Japanese owned commercial tanker, after it was attacked with another mine that did explode on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/business/boeing-dealt-new-blow-airbus-launches-long-range-a321/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-airboeing-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airboeing-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guillaume Faury, chief executive officer of Airbus SE, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview during the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget in Paris on Monday. The show is the world's largest aviation and space industry exhibition and runs from June 17-23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/business/canada-talks-malaysia-taking-back-plastic-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:46:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/new-loan-sharks-increasing-social-media-japan-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/national/crime-legal/man-sought-stabbing-osaka-police-officer-steal-pistol-apprehended/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-stabgun-b-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stabgun-b-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers and reporters are seen Monday in front of the Suita Police Station in Osaka Prefecture following the arrest of a man suspected of stabbing a police officer multiple times and stealing his pistol in the city of Suita the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/corporate-business/suzuki-starts-minicar-production-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T13:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-suzuki-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-suzuki-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuki Motor Corp. headquarters in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/business/tech/skys-limit-rise-delivery-drones-u-s-cities-asking-owns-airspace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:21:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-drones-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-drones-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Uber Eats car and drone are displayed at the Uber Elevate Summit 2019 in Washington on June 12. Uber has said it plans to speed up restaurant meal delivery using drones.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/business/corporate-business/yahoo-japan-fire-china-like-rating-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-yahoo-a-20190618.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoo-a-20190618.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yahoo Japan Corp.'s app]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/07/business/g20-seek-stricter-taxation-rules-digital-giants-fukuoka-meeting-draft-statement-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-g20-a-20190608.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-g20-a-20190608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are accused of not paying their fair share of taxes.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/06/business/corporate-business/amazons-new-drones-start-delivering-packages-months-no-specifics-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-amazon-a-20190607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20190607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Wilke, chief executive of consumer business at Amazon.com Inc., speaks next to a Prime Air delivery drone during a reveal event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/06/business/g7-cooperate-regulating-global-tech-giants-protect-competition-japan-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-g7-a-20190607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-g7-a-20190607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apps made by well-known tech giants are displayed on a smartphone.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/05/business/japan-eyes-legislation-regulate-global-domestic-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/05/business/top-tech-execs-will-asked-testify-u-s-house-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:31:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-techprobe-a-20190606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-techprobe-a-20190606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a Google sign in San Francisco May 1. The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are moving to investigate Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple over their aggressive business practices, and the House Judiciary Committee has announced an antitrust probe of unidentified technology companies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/05/world/science-health-world/satellite-data-show-amazon-deforestation-rising-brazils-bolsonaro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-deforest-a-20190606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-deforest-a-20190606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Piles of wood are seen during "Operation Green Wave" conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, to combat illegal logging in Apui, in the southern region of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/04/business/ftc-wins-right-competition-probe-facebook-wsj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-facebook-a-20190605.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebook-a-20190605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, the Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, April 30. Facebook's stock is plunging following a Wall Street Journal report that the Federal Trade Commission will lead any antitrust investigation into the company as part of an arrangement that would give the Justice Department oversight of Google.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/31/business/g-20-seek-agreement-international-tax-rules-giants-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/29/business/corporate-business/toyota-considers-investment-chinese-ride-hailing-giant-didi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/14/business/tech/amazon-rolling-machines-pack-orders-replace-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-amazon-a-20190515.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20190515.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 6-axis robotic arm picks up sorting containers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore April 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-ruling-party-grills-google-data-protection-looks-tighten-regulation-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:35:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ruling Liberal Democratic Party questioned a Google LLC executive Wednesday over the company's data protection and transaction practices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/15/business/tech/microsoft-targets-video-game-developers-challenge-amazons-cloud-dominance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Phil Spencer, Microsoft Corp.'s executive vice president of gaming, speaks at one of the company's Xbox events in this undated photo released from Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/06/world/crew-recording-doomed-amazon-cargo-jet-reflect-loss-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capt. Ricky Blakely, pilot of the cargo jet that crashed in Texas on Feb. 23, is seen in an undated photo provided by the Chambers County Sheriff's Office. The office reported over the weekend that remains recovered last week from Trinity Bay are those of the pilot.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/world/ntsb-says-found-second-black-box-doomed-u-s-cargo-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/business/3-french-tax-internet-giants-yield-e500-million-yearly-bruno-le-maire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:36:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/business/corporate-business/antitrust-watchdog-question-amazon-japan-new-rewards-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20190227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Fair Trade Commission plans to start a full-fledged survey from Wednesday to determine whether Amazon Japan gave smaller businesses and individual sellers the chance to negotiate the terms of the new system starting in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/25/world/texas-searchers-find-one-body-search-two-crew-members-black-boxes-cargo-jet-plunges-bay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Law enforcement officers man a road block leading to a staging area during the investigation of a plane crash in Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/15/business/corporate-business/amazon-scrapped-plans-new-york-headquarters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:37:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-newamazon-a-20190216.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traffic moves along 44th Drive in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York. Amazon announced Thursday it was abandoning its plan to create a new headquarters site in New York City, citing opposition from some local political leaders.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/29/business/microsofts-stock-market-value-pulls-ahead-apples-3-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Microsoft Board and other audience members watch a video slide demonstrating a software feature called Microsoft Translator that can translate Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into other languages, as they attend the annual Microsoft Corp. shareholders meeting Wednesday in Bellevue, Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/28/world/crime-legal-world/top-democratic-lawmaker-probe-hate-crimes-surveillance-minorities-gop-ranks-balked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/27/business/cyber-monday-set-become-record-u-s-online-shopping-day-tune-7-8-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:42:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A journalist looks at a computer screen with webpages arranged to show Cyber Monday deals by various online retailers Monday in New York. The physical rush of Black Friday and the armchair browsing of Cyber Monday are increasingly blending into one big holiday shopping event as more customers buy items online and pick them up at brick-and-mortar stores.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/14/business/corporate-business/amazon-picks-new-york-city-arlington-5-billion-new-hqs-nashville-key-hub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:43:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/b-amazon-a-20181115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20181115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (right) speak during a news conference about Amazon's headquarters expansion to Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York City Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/12/business/democrats-probe-trump-used-power-block-att-time-deal-punish-amazon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:44:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-powerplay-a-20181113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/31/business/amazon-dealt-250-billion-blow-market-jitters-earnings-confusion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-amazon-a-20181101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20181101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid intensifying investor shock, Amazon.com Inc.'s shares have now lost one quarter of their value since hitting a record high last month of $2,039.51.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/30/business/britain-target-online-platform-giants-like-google-facebook-amazon-new-digital-services-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:45:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uktax-a-20181031.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses for pictures with the Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in London Monday before presenting the government's annual Autumn budget to Parliament.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/corporate-business/amazon-alphabet-growth-engines-sputter-spending-surges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-amazon-a-20181027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc.'s third-quarter sales lagged analysts' estimates.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/24/business/tech/amazon-pitched-facial-recognition-ice-monitor-immigrants-amid-misgivings-workers-rights-groups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20181025.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer picks up an Amazon package at a Femsa's Oxxo convenience store in Monterrey, Mexico, in August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/tech/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-showed-bias-women-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:47:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job seekers line up to apply during "Amazon Jobs Day," a job fair at the Amazon.com Fulfillment Center in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/11/business/u-s-air-force-gives-2-3-billion-rocket-contracts-blue-origin-united-launch-services-northrop-grumman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:47:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/05/business/tech/apple-amazon-deny-bloomberg-report-chinese-hardware-attack-chip-infiltration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:48:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-apamhack-a-20181006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apamhack-a-20181006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination of pictures created on July 28 shows the Apple logo in Paris and the Amazon logo in New York. Tiny chips inserted in U.S. computer equipment manufactured in China were used as part of a vast effort by Beijing to steal U.S. technology secrets, a published report said Thursday. The Bloomberg News report said the chips, the size of a grain of rice, were used on equipment made for Amazon, which first alerted U.S. authorities, and Apple, and possibly for other companies and government agencies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/business/corporate-business/amazon-ditching-bonuses-stock-awards-help-pay-wage-hike-15-hour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:48:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-amazon-a-20181005.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20181005.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers prepare to move products at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore last year. Amazon's announcement Tuesday that it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour will intensify the pressure on other companies to also lift their pay levels, particularly retailers and warehouse operators that are looking to staff up for the holidays.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/media-national/will-don-quijote-tilt-lance-amazon-giant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T14:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Treasure hunt: A shopper fills her basket in a Don Quijote outlet in Tokyo's Shinjuku district.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/21/business/corporate-business/amazon-helps-shenzhen-entrepreneur-turn-moms-money-billion-dollars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-anker-a-20180522.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work at the head office of Anker Innovations in Shenzhen, China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/30/business/sainsbury-grocer-add-asda-10-billion-deal-walmart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/27/business/corporate-business/amazon-announces-strong-profit-first-quarter-2018-sales-jump-51-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:50:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/25/business/facebook-yanks-accounts-advertising-stolen-identities-info-motherboard-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:51:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/24/business/tech/amazon-reportedly-working-another-big-bet-home-robots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-amazon-a-20180425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20180425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sources say Amazon has embarked on a plan to build domestic robots.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/23/world/crime-legal-world/canadian-accused-killing-peruvian-medicine-woman-lynched-amazon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/13/business/amazon-cutting-hundreds-seattle-jobs-rare-cutback-shifts-focus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/02/business/corporate-business/amazon-posts-largest-profit-history-sales-tax-boost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/31/business/berkshire-amazon-jpmorgan-bosses-look-shake-u-s-health-care-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-health-a-20180201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Business titans (from left) Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon are teaming up to create a health care company announced Tuesday that is "free from profit-making incentives and constraints."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/24/business/tech/post-holiday-gamble-apple-debuts-homepod-voice-speaker-take-google-amazon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20180125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The HomePod speaker is photographed in a showroom during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. Pre-orders for the HomePod will begin Friday in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, two weeks before the speaker goes on sale in stores.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/23/business/least-u-k-website-amazon-pulls-kids-clothes-bearing-slavery-gets-shit-done-slogan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/19/business/corporate-business/amazon-shortlists-20-cities-including-toronto-second-hq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20180120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Amazon employee gives her dog a biscuit as the pair head into a company building, where dogs are welcome, in Seattle in October. Amazon announced Thursday that it has narrowed its hunt for a second headquarters to 20 locations, concentrated among cities in the U.S. East and Midwest. Toronto made the list as well, keeping the company's international options open.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/10/business/tech/amazons-alexa-voice-assistant-coming-toyotas-cars-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-alexa-a-20180111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Scumniotales, of Amazon Alexa Automotive, stands next to the Toyota e-Pallet concept vehicle at a news conference at CES International on Tuesday in Las Vegas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/28/business/amazon-japan-warned-not-use-misleading-reference-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T15:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/b-amazon-a-20171229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20171229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Amazon's share of retail sales grows, its corporate stewardship is coming under greater scrutiny.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/27/business/top-business-news-stories-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-bizten-a-20171229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shadowy figures: The silhouettes of Toray Industries President Akihiro Nikkaku (left), Executive Vice President Akira Umeda (center) and Nobuhiro Suzuki, president of Toray Hybrid Cord Inc., a Toray unit that makes cords that go into tires, are seen as they attend a news conference in November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/15/business/corporate-business/disney-buying-fox-film-tv-units-52-billion-digital-push-amid-netflix-amazon-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shows the logo and a ticker symbol for The Walt Disney Company on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/06/business/tech/google-yanks-youtube-amazon-devices-escalating-reciprocity-spat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Amazon Fire TV streaming device with its remote control is seen in September. On Tuesday, Google announced plans to pull its popular YouTube video service from Amazon's Fire TV and Echo Show devices in an escalating feud that has caught consumers in the crossfire.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Oxfam activist stages a satirical street-play mimicking a wealthy person hidding his money in a tax haven, on Tuesday near the European institutions in Brussels, where a meeting of European Union ministers is ongoing over a credible blacklist of non-EU tax havens. The EU has struggled for over a year to finalize the blacklist, with smaller, low-tax EU nations such as Ireland, Malta and Luxembourg worried about scaring off multinationals.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hashtag is displayed inside Amazon's Black Friday pop-up space in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Habeck, a candidate for Germany's Green Party, speaks to television journalists in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Masuda, chief strategy and marketing officer of Line Corp., holds the company’s Wave smart speaker during the company’s annual strategy briefing in Tokyo on June 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/business/purist-whole-foodies-amazons-takeover-triggers-downmarket-angst/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:48:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand outside a Whole Foods Market in Upper Saint Clair, Pennsylvania, in May. Amazon's planned $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods signals a massive bet that people will opt more for the convenience of online orders and delivery or in-store pickup, putting even more pressure on the already highly competitive industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/16/business/corporate-business/amazon-plunk-13-7-billion-upmarket-grocer-whole-foods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-18T16:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in and out of a Walmart store in Dallas in August 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taki-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pierre Taki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/world/u-s-boosts-pressure-iran-tests-trumps-appetite-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T17:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shows a signed memorandum after delivering a statement on the Iran nuclear deal at the White House in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/world/pentagon-shares-new-photos-time-line-gulf-oil-tanker-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T17:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. military image released by the Pentagon in Washington on Monday that it says was taken from a U.S. Navy MH-60R helicopter in the Gulf of Oman in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran on June 13, shows personnel that the Pentagon says are members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy removing an unexploded limpet mine from the M/T Kokuka Courageous, a Japanese owned commercial tanker.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-18T17:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-18T17:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester shouts in front of police as a group of demonstrators rally outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/world/ousted-president-morsi-67-dies-court-egypt-tv-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T18:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohammed Morsi, then the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, holds a rally in Cairo in May 2012. Morsi died on Monday after collapsing during a court session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-clout-rising-age-u-s-china-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T19:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Chipman, director-general of the IISS, speaks during the Shangri-La Dialogue  in Singapore on June 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/comes-north-korean-nukes-xi-wants-u-s-japan-know-still-wields-immense-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T19:31:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Footage showing Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen on a television at a shopping mall in Beijing on Jan. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/national/osaka-vows-strengthen-disaster-measures-one-year-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T19:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-osakaquake-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mie Sato (front, left), principal of Juei Elementary School, and other officials from Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, offer a silent prayer alongside a fence at the school, which has replaced a concrete wall that collapsed during a major earthquake in the city a year ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kongers-fearful-chinas-grasp-look-longingly-toward-democratic-beacon-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T22:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protester Yung Xiu Kwan, 67, poses with a Taiwan flag during a demonstration against a proposed extradition bill, in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/national/social-issues/japan-worlds-lowest-proportion-working-age-people-u-n-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-18T23:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elderly people participate in an exercise class in Miyota, Nagano Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-19T07:07:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he stands next to former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks outside of the Oval Office as he departs the White House for a trip to Cleveland in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/world/social-issues-world/survivors-recall-horror-congo-ethnic-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internally displaced Congolese wait inside an IDP camp for clothes last year in Bunia. Hundreds of thousands have fled inter-ethnic violence in northeastern areas of Congo in the past two weeks, authorities and the U.N. said Tuesday. The U.N. refugee agency voiced deep concern over a flare-up in violence in Ituri Province, which it said had seen "multiple attacks" involving the Hema and Lendu groups since early June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-19T10:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard tries to subdue a knife-wielding man in the aisle of a bullet train car during a drill conducted by JR Central in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/world/trump-sows-doubt-use-u-s-force-protect-gulf-oil-minor-ship-attack-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, walks to his office after a weekly conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. McConnell praised the Trump administration's plan to send 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East and placed blame for the risk of conflict on "Tehran's decisions to resort to violence."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/tech/eviation-targets-commuters-electric-plane-alice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-alice-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Omer Bar-Yohay, Eviation CEO and co-founder, gestures as he speaks during a media conference next to his prototype electric aircraft at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, Tuesday. Israeli startup Eviation displayed an all-electric airplane prototype dubbed Alice, as the aviation industry increasingly looks to electric and hybrid technology because of pressure from regulators and the public to reduce emissions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/world/mike-pompeo-snubs-experts-blocks-inclusion-saudis-u-s-child-soldiers-list-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:40:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, are greeted by supporters as they secure the area where Dagalo attends a rally, in Khartoum Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 7 mission in this October 1968 NASA handout photo. The photograph is one of more than 12,000 from NASA's archives recently aggregated on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/boeing-737-max-boosted-iag-plan-order-200-jets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:47:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Kevin McAllister (left) and International Airlines Group CEO Willie Walsh attend the Boeing 737 Max 8 commercial announcement during the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/battleground-state-florida-trump-launch-re-election-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:47:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpcampaign-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump that have been in line almost 40 hours to be near the front, wait for the arena doors to open for a campaign rally Tuesday in Orlando, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/business/japan-post-bank-cap-international-transfers-counter-money-laundering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T13:48:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jppost-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an effort to counter money laundering, Japan Post Bank will limit the amount of cross-border money transfers to ¥5 million.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/trump-xi-meeting-g20-raises-hope-trade-truce-lifts-wall-street/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T16:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpxi-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Larry Kudlow, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Kudlow said President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping's phone conversation was largely about scheduling their meeting at the G-20 in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/economy-business/japan-incurs-goods-trade-deficit-may-amid-u-s-china-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T16:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/bad-parts-humanity-facebook-warns-cant-fully-solve-toxic-content-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T16:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebook-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 3-D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed binary code in this illustration Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-writes-rare-op-ed-north-koreas-ruling-party-newspaper-touts-grand-plan-east-asia-stability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T16:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-xikim-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV news program reporting on Chinese President Xi Jinping's planned visit to North Korea for talks with leader Kim Jong Un, at the main railway station in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/asia-pacific/chinas-advanced-big-brother-experiment-bureaucratic-mess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T17:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-osmanthus-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese city of Suzhou was one of a dozen places chosen in 2018 by President Xi Jinping's government to run a social-credit trial.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/social-issues/liberal-democratic-party-tradition-may-stymie-push-sex-marriage-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T17:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-marriage-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-marriage-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs head to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 14 to file a lawsuit against the government over marriage equality, arguing that its refusal to allow same-sex couples to marry is unconstitutional and discriminatory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/asia-pacific/chinese-raids-hit-north-korean-defectors-underground-railroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T18:07:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photo sheets of the North Korean refugees helped by the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association of Korea are displayed in Seoul on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/economy-business/japanese-businesses-see-economy-peaking-want-stimulus-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T18:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/corporate-business/japan-post-bank-cap-international-transfers-counter-money-laundering-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T18:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-japanpost-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanpost-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A replica post box is displayed at the Japan Post Holdings Co. headquarters in Tokyo in January last year. The company plans to set a limit on over-the-counter international cash transfers of ¥5 million ($46,000) to combat money laundering, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/corporate-business/nomura-shares-jump-%c2%a5150-billion-buyback-governance-tweaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T18:50:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-nomura-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nomura-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nomura Holdings Inc. surged the most in more than two years in Tokyo trading after it announced a surprise ¥150 billion ($1.4 billion) share buyback along with plans to reduce its chairman's role to bolster governance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/u-s-trade-representative-calls-prioritizing-initial-deal-japan-farm-tariff-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T19:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-ustr-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ustr-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-soar-hopes-progress-u-s-china-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T19:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/world-refugee-day-well-japan-fulfilling-obligations-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T20:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n refugees-a 20190620]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks at a news conference on the annual Global Trends report on forced displacement at the United Nations in Geneva on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/japans-sumitomo-fire-labor-dispute-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-19T20:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-plantation-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-plantation-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul John Dizon (right), president of the Philippine labor union Namasufa, speaks Tuesday at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan as Jamila Seno, a member of the group’s board of directors, looks on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/team-trump-replaces-obama-era-power-plant-rule-boost-coal-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T03:53:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-coal-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coal-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks with the media at the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday in Washington. Wheeler signed a repeal of one of the Obama era's two biggest climate change initiatives, the Clean Power Plan, and adopted an alternative plan that would loosen regulations on coal plants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/japan-bans-parents-physically-punishing-children-offenders-face-no-penalties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T12:27:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-childabuse-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childabuse-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet passes legislation Wednesday banning parents and other guardians from physically punishing children, following recent fatal cases of abuse conducted in the name of discipline.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-snap-election-nowhere-mind-likely-take-words-face-value/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T12:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-debate-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-debate-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a Diet debate session Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/labours-jeremy-corbyn-backs-second-referendum-britain-brexit-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T12:46:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-corbyn-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-corbyn-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during the regular Question Time where lawmakers are able to ask questions to the prime minister inside the House of Commons in London Wednesday in London.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/sing-hallelujah-lord-unlikely-anthem-hong-kong-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T13:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-hkhymn-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkhymn-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Civil Human Rights Front attend a news conference regarding the proposed extradition bill, outside the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/social-issues-world/human-rights-watch-accuses-nicaragua-torturing-protesters-urges-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-nicaragua-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nicaragua-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator holds a portrait of Edward Lacayo, who was arrested during the protests against Ortega's government last year, at a protest outside the La Modelo prison to demand the release of political prisoners in Tipitapa, Nicaragua, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/social-issues-world/20-missing-migrant-boat-ferry-rescues-27-off-spanish-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:23:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-rescue-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rescue-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A migrant, rescued by the ferry Vronskiy off the Spanish coast in the Mediterranean Sea, walks as he is helped by Red Cross members after arriving at the port of Motril, southern Spain, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/canada-becomes-first-g20-country-ban-trade-shark-fins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-canshark-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-canshark-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fins of thresher sharks are seen beside their carcasses at a fishing port in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, June 13. Canada Thursday banned trade in shark fins, becoming the first G20 nation to do so.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/iran-suspected-rocket-strikes-near-foreign-oil-firms-iraq-prompting-staff-evacuations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-basra-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-basra-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iraqi soldiers sit on a tank at the entry of the Zubair oilfield after a rocket struck the site of residential and operations headquarters of several oil companies in the Burjesia area, in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/crime-legal-world/adam-schiff-time-patience-running-robert-mueller-testimony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-schiff-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-schiff-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif (right), joined by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif, the ranking member, opens a hearing on politically motivated fake videos and manipulated media, on Capitol Hill in Washington June 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/sully-sullenberger-tells-congress-737-max-pilots-get-new-simulator-training/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-sully-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sully-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, retired US Airways pilot, waits to begin a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Pilots and flight attendants, who have been critical of Boeing Co.'s handling of the beleaguered 737 Max, aired their concerns at the hearing with lawmakers probing actions by the company and its regulators in the run-up to two fatal crashes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/japan-sees-record-number-foreign-visitors-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-tourists-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourists-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign tourists pose for a photo in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka in October 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/unesco-lists-mountainous-site-japan-biosphere-reserve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T14:47:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-unesco-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial photo taken last month shows the Kobushi mountain region, which straddles the prefectures of Nagano, Yamanashi and Saitama, as well as Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-fire-rivals-remarks-civility-segregationists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T15:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-biden-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-biden-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden addresses patrons and media during a visit to the Stonewall Inn Tuesdayin New York. Biden paid a visit to the Stonewall Inn ahead of the 50th anniversary of an uprising that helped spark the gay rights movement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/japan-rejects-south-koreas-proposal-settle-wartime-labor-row-diplomatic-channels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T17:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-jpsk-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpsk-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in lawsuits filed against Japanese firms over wartime labor and their lawyers attend a news conference in Gwangju, South Korea, on April 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/financial-markets/fed-hints-future-rate-cut-boss-jerome-powell-says-plans-serve-full-term-amid-trump-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T17:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-powell-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-powell-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington on Wednesday. The Fed indicated a readiness to cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade to sustain a near-record U.S. economic expansion, citing uncertainties in their outlook.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/corporate-business/macron-discuss-renault-nissan-abe-next-week-french-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T17:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-macron-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-macron-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of President Georges Pompidou's presidential victory, in Paris on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/economy-business/bank-japan-maintains-ultraloose-policy-trade-tensions-cloud-global-outlook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T18:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-boj-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/crime-legal/convicted-man-armed-knife-escapes-custody-flees-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T18:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-convicted-a-20190620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-convicted-a-20190620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man convicted of assault and theft fled by car Wednesday in Kanagawa Prefecture after police and prosecutors tried to take him into custody.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/science-health/revealed-happened-city-hiroshima-bomb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T18:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p-3-hooper-natural-selections-b-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall before the nuclear bomb of 1945.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/niigata-yamagata-schools-reopen-trains-resume-operations-two-days-magnitude-6-7-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T18:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/2020-tokyo-olympics-website-backs-ticket-winners-announced-overseas-sales-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-20T19:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-olytickets-z-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olytickets-z-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tickets from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Millions were disappointed starting Thursday when applicants in a ticket lottery began learning if they landed tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/world/india-deploys-two-ships-gulf-oman-tanker-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T03:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A picture taken during a guided tour by the U.S. Navy (NAVCENT) shows the Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous off the port of the Gulf emirate of Fujairah on Wednesday. The tanker attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week was damaged by a limpet mine resembling Iranian mines, the U.S. military in the Middle East said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/world/least-30-dead-bus-plunges-off-indian-mountain-road/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T03:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman comforts her son who was injured when a bus plunged off a mountain road, at a hospital in Kullu, India, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-prosecutors-say-ex-trump-adviser-roger-stone-violated-court-imposed-media-gag-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T08:46:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Stone, longtime political ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for a hearing to convince a judge to dismiss charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, at U.S. District Court in Washington May 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-21T08:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is seen behind closed doors during an interview with the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-heads-north-korea-meet-kim-ahead-chinese-leaders-talks-trump-osaka-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T08:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a television news screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, at Seoul railway station in the South Korean capital on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/japan-requests-south-korea-take-next-step-arbitration-process-wartime-labor-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T11:32:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters call for an apology and compensation by Japan over wartime labor on May 1 in Busan, South Korea, in front of a statue symbolizing Korean wartime laborers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/walmart-agrees-pay-282-million-settle-brazil-unit-bribe-claim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T13:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Walmart logo is seen on a store in Washington in march. International retail giant Walmart agreed to pay $282 million to settle charges over potentially illegal payments to foreign officials in Brazil, China, India and Mexico, the U..S Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/trump-weighs-limits-uranium-imports-security-risk-found/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T13:44:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right) leaves after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-human-trafficking-report-drops-child-separation-warning-demotes-cuba-saudi-arabia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T13:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump (right) present the 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Hero Award to Roseline Eguabor from Italy during the release of the 2019 Trafficking in Person (TIP) Report at the U.S. State Department in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/airbus-demands-chance-bid-iags-surprise-boeing-737-max-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T13:52:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Airbus A350-1000 performs a flying display next to a board reading "Boeing" during the International Paris Air Show on Thursday at Le Bourget Airport, near Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/crime-legal/13-women-sue-tokyo-medical-school-rigged-entrance-exams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman who wasn't accepted into Juntendo University's medical school looks at a letter of apology from the school last month. The letter said the exam was manipulated to accept less women and she actually got passing scores.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/slovenia-faces-similar-fiscal-challenges-japan-finance-minister-andrej-bertoncelj-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrej Bertoncelj, finance minister and deputy prime minister of Slovenia, speaks during an interview with The Japan Times on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/business/corporate-business/renault-nissan-agree-explore-driverless-services-partnership-waymo-france-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Samantha Jackson, right, and her daughter Kyla Jackson — members of the Waymo Early Rider Program — stand next to a Waymo LLC Chrysler Pacifica autonomous vehicle in Chandler, Arizona, on July 30, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/japanese-director-comfort-women-documentary-sued-interviewees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-film-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-film-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobukatsu Fujioka, vice chairman of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday after suing producers of a documentary about "comfort women."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/politics-diplomacy/high-profile-defector-says-kim-shown-great-interest-meeting-abe-summit-will-come-cost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:18:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-defector-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thae Yong Ho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/japans-junior-high-school-teachers-face-longest-average-working-hours-oecd-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-teachers-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teachers-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by a teacher who works for a public junior high school in Tokyo shows documents piled up on his desk because he had little time to process them and give them back to his students.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/tokyo-allow-students-bring-smartphones-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-smartphones-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smartphones-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Board of Education said Thursday that it will let each high school to decide whether to allow students to bring a smartphone or not.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/emperors-succession-rite-follow-precedent-despite-controversy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-emperor-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The takamikura (front), a 6.5-meter-high canopied throne for the imperial enthronement ceremony, in the Kyoto Imperial Palace in April 2018]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/two-boris-johnson-jeremy-hunt-last-vie-u-k-helm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T14:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-boris-a-20190622.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boris-a-20190622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeremy Hunt (left) and Boris Johnson are seen outside 10 Downing Street. The two are the final two contenders for leadership of the Conservative Party, it was announced Thursda. Following elimination votes Britain's Conservative Party members will vote for the final two contenders with the winner due to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as party leader and prime minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/2020-ticket-rules-ban-content-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T15:16:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-olympics-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olympics-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteer workers take selfies at the speedskating venue for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, on Feb. 8, 2018, the day before the games opened.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/community-support-urged-dementia-patients-reported-missing-2018-hit-record-16927/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T16:30:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People participate in a drill to search for a missing dementia patient in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/politics-diplomacy/trade-feuds-tsukuba-japan-faces-uphill-task-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T16:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-g20analysis-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers from the Group of 20 major economies attend a session on trade and the digital economy in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/sex-tapes-apparently-showing-mahathir-aide-another-man-cloud-pms-succession-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T16:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-azmin-a-20190622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mahathir Mohamad (left), Anwar Ibrahim (center) and Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/national/no-injuries-fire-reported-ground-self-defense-force-helicopter-crashes-west-tokyo-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter is seen after a crash landing at a camp in the suburbs of Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/national/defense-ministry-says-russian-bombers-violated-japanese-airspace-prompting-asdf-scramble/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-russiabomber-a-20190622.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-russiabomber-a-20190622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government lodged a "stern protest" with Moscow, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, after two Russian bombers allegedly violated airspace near Okinawa and elsewhere on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/economy-business/core-consumer-prices-japan-rose-0-8-year-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/12/business/costly-cabs-japanese-taxis-second-highest-fares-worldwide-research-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:27:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers enter a taxi in Otaru in Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/national/u-s-state-department-keeps-japan-top-tier-human-trafficking-list-second-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese intern (left) works at a steel processing plant in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/corporate-business/slack-valuation-hits-21-billion-debut-firm-shuns-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:34:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-slack-a-20190622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Slack Technologies Inc. logo is seen behind the "Fearless Girl" statue outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company's direct listing in New York Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/tech/southeast-asia-looks-taiwan-recycling-pioneer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:52:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artificial islands are illuminated at dusk on the 55 km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Hong Kong in October.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/national/foreign-travelers-venturing-beyond-tokyo-osaka-nagoya-areas-reports-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T17:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-travel-a-20190622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "hot water field" is lit up at Kusatsu hot-spring resort in Gunma Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/national/politics-diplomacy/finance-minister-taro-aso-survives-no-confidence-motions-rejection-japan-pension-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T18:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-aso-a-20190622.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aso-a-20190622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/21/business/economy-business/business-sentiment-japans-large-manufacturers-3-year-low-poll-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-21T18:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a group interview in Tokyo in 2013. The Bank of Japan has pushed back the timing for hitting its inflation target on six occasions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson, former U.K. foreign secretary and U.K. Conservative party leadership candidate, arrives for an event in London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei contends that equipment seized by the U.S. government did not need a license because it was only for testing and would be returned to China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An increased use of the internet is one of the biggest factors behind young people becoming more receptive to illegal drugs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kong Xuanyou, China's new ambassador to Japan, speaks at a news conference Friday at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-22T19:03:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Obachaaan, an Osaka-based group of women aged 66 years on average, have released a rap music video in English called "Oba Funk Osaka."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/mexico-auctions-narco-safe-houses-ranches-luxury-flats-proceeds-set-aid-guerrero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T11:48:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man bids during an auction of seized properties from drug traffickers and others, in Mexico City Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/science-health-world/death-toll-acute-encephalitis-east-indian-town-rises-129-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T12:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aes-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), where children have died from acute encephalitis syndrome, is pictured from outside in Muzaffarpur, in the eastern state of Bihar, India, June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/crime-legal-world/trump-naming-jeff-sessions-u-s-attorney-general-biggest-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T12:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sessions-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House after a weekend in Camp David, Maryland, on Sunday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/social-issues-world/trump-sets-deadline-democrats-change-asylum-system-vows-deportation-raids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T12:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-traids-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney Roberto Lopez (center) and pastor Jacobita Cortes fparticipate in an emergency meeting plan of action on how to defend and protect undocumented communities of deportation at Lincoln Methodist Church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood Wednesday. With renewed pledges on mass deportations, immigrant rights activists have fine-tuned and ramped up one of their most basic organizing tools: The know-your-rights training.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/economy-business/trump-says-not-threaten-demote-fed-chief-jerome-powell-nbc-interview/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T13:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-powell-a-20190625.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-powell-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference following a two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/business/china-no-match-japan-southeast-asia-infrastructure-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T13:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-infra-a-20190624.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-infra-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Piers for the Luang Prabang railway bridge, a section of the China-Laos Railway built by the China Railway Group Ltd., stand under construction near Luang Prabang, Laos, last October. China's "Belt and Road" initiative plans to connect Southeast Asian countries with the southwest region of Yunnan through a series of high-speed railways.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/national/osaka-braces-unprecedented-security-measures-ahead-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T13:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-g20security-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top local and central government officials, including Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, visit the Intex Osaka convention center on Saturday, the venue for the Group of 20 summit scheduled for this Friday and Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/national/crime-legal/convicted-japanese-man-arrested-four-days-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T13:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fugitive-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Kobayashi arrives at the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday after his arrest earlier in the day. It took four days for police to catch the fugitive after he escaped an attempt to take him into custody. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/beginning-end-turkeys-opposition-deals-blow-erdogan-istanbul-mayoral-win/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T13:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-erdogan-a-20190625.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-erdogan-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters attend a rally for Istanbul mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu in the city on Sunday. Imamoglu, of the main opposition Republican People's Party, handily won the election over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's handpicked candidate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ruling-partys-ghazouani-declared-winner-election-mauritania-ally-west-islamist-militants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T13:38:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter of presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani attends a rally on in Nouakchott on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/national/social-issues/olympics-way-activist-groupnext-campaign-target-human-trafficking-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trafficking-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sarah de Carvalho, CEO of It's a Penalty, which runs international campaigns around major sporting events to raise awareness of and prevent human trafficking, is interviewed in Tokyo on May 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/national/politics-diplomacy/chinas-xi-make-three-day-visit-japan-thursday-osaka-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:26:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-xijinping-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures next to Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/world/science-health-world/acropolis-museum-opens-ancient-athens-neighborhood-site-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-acropolis-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit the newly opened archaeological site underneath the Acropolis Museum in Athens on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/world/jared-kushners-50-billion-peace-prosperity-plan-faces-broad-arab-rejection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-kushplan-a-20190624.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kushplan-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks during an interview at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-receives-letter-trump-says-will-seriously-contemplate-interesting-content/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-nkletter-a-20190624.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkletter-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reads a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/22/national/media-national/2020-tokyo-olympics-puts-spotlight-animal-welfare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-animal-welfare-a-20190623.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cramped conditions: Japan consumes more eggs per capita than any other country in the world.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/22/national/media-national/embracing-social-media-protect-others-danger-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-hairclips-a-20190623.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Train trauma: A post about clip-on hair extensions on social media sparked debate on ways to prevent groping on public transport in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/nomura-ceo-face-shareholders-call-ouster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T16:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/national/science-health/japanese-study-detecting-chromosomal-abnormalities-fertilized-eggs-expanded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T17:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/national/irans-envoy-japan-denies-responsibility-tanker-attack-saying-trump-doesnt-deserve-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T18:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Morteza Rahmani Movahed]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/toyota-brings-forward-revamp-dealership-strategy-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T18:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota cars are displayed at a Toyopet dealership in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pompeo-says-u-s-north-korea-relationship-better-place-letters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T18:24:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkletters-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sunday before boarding a plane headed to Saudi Arabia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/vietnam-jails-american-12-years-attempting-overthrow-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T18:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nguyen-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Nguyen is tried in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/economy-business/eurozone-likely-going-period-japanification-ing-group-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T19:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanification-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A financial trader monitors data on computer screens on the trading floor of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/house-flipper-takes-advantage-japans-8-million-plus-empty-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T19:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-house-a-20190625.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-house-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsutoshi Arai, president and chief executive officer of Katitas Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/national/high-school-students-volunteer-sort-waste-quake-hit-yamagata-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T19:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-volunteers-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student volunteers sort through a pile of broken roof tiles on Monday in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, after the area was shaken by a strong earthquake last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/u-k-offshore-wind-get-127-million-fund-boost-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T21:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/u-s-government-rejects-call-disclose-size-nuclear-arsenal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T21:49:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-warheads-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nuclear warhead of a Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile in the state of Wyoming in September 2005]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/national/first-ibaraki-prefecture-issue-partnership-certificates-lgbt-couples-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T23:06:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ibaraki-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ibaraki Gov. Kazuhiko Oigawa announces Monday that the prefecture will start issuing partnership certificates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples from July 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/ghosn-lawyer-asks-charges-dropped-nissan-ceo-hiroto-saikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T23:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn heads to the Tokyo District Court for a pretrial proceeding on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/world/billionaires-george-soros-pritzker-disney-heirs-call-u-s-wealth-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-24T23:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wealthtax-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/world/pilot-killed-eurofighter-collision-eastern-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T05:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A burning Eurofighter airplane crashes near the village of Malchow in northern Germany Monday. Two unarmed fighter jets collided on Monday near Lake Mueritz, 100 km north of Berlin.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/world/crime-legal-world/new-lawyer-ex-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-says-may-need-time-prep-sentencing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T05:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flynn-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse in Washington Monday with his lawyer, Sidney Powell (left).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/corporate-business/caesars-deal-catapults-underdog-eldorado-casino-powerhouse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T07:05:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes pictures of Caesars Palace hotel and casino, in Las Vegas in 2015. Eldorado Resorts will buy Caesars in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $17.3 billion, creating a casino giant. The acquisition Monday puts about 60 casinos and resorts in 16 states under a single name, one of the biggest gambling and entertainment ventures in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/will-nissan-reforms-finally-bring-end-corporate-governance-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T12:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker cleans a window at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-ruling-coalition-aims-win-majority-seats-available-upper-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T13:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's secretary-general, briefs reporters at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/tech/u-s-tariffs-china-made-consumer-tech-goods-seen-cutting-sales-delaying-upgrades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T13:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Container trucks arrive at the Port of Los Angeles on June 18 in San Pedro, California, where the U.S.-China trade war has created logistical havoc on the docks following a months-long surge if imports in anticipation of higher tariffs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-two-men-die-nagoya-stabbing-incident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the scene where two men were stabbed late Monday in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/world/science-health-world/london-midwifery-students-use-augmented-tech-improve-clinical-skills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:04:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-midwives-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Midwifery educator at Middlesex University Sarah Chitongo instructs a trainee midwife wearing an augmented reality (AR) headset in London June 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-pledges-brexit-october-without-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-boris-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boris-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime minister hopeful Boris Johnson leaves his home in London June 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/u-s-supreme-court-allows-foul-language-trademarks-f-word-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fuct-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hoodie of the FUCT brand is seen in Los Angeles. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the clothing brand in a free speech case Monday, saying the name could be trademarked.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/613000-japan-aged-40-64-recluses-says-first-government-survey-hikikomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-hikikomori-a-20190330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hikikomori-a-20190330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 56-year-old man from Tokyo says he withdrew from society when he was 40, and could do little to take care of his parents —, both of whom died during that time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/tech/huaweis-u-s-research-arm-builds-separate-identity-seeks-university-research-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:12:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-futurewei-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-futurewei-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Huawei company headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, is seen June 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/world/russian-air-force-plane-lands-venezuela-witness-website/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:12:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ruskies-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airplane with the Russian flag is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/japanese-talent-agency-suspends-11-comedians-accepting-money-alleged-organized-crime-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-comedian-a-20190625.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comedian-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Miyasako]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/japan-post-admits-insurance-banking-units-engaged-improper-sales-elderly-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A signboard of Japan Post Group, consisting of Japan Post Bank, Japan Post Insurance and Japan Post, is seen in November 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/myanmar-blackout-may-cover-gross-human-rights-violations-u-n-investigator/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-myanmar-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-myanmar-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Chilean Michelle Bachelet speaks during the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/candidate-bernie-sanders-calls-canceling-1-6-trillion-student-loan-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T14:28:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-bernie-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bernie-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., flanked by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (left) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., calls for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington Monday. Sanders called the student debt burden in this country the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation, the millennial generation, to a lifetime of debt for the crime of doing the right thing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/japan-start-testing-unmanned-vehicles-public-roads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T15:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-unmannedcar-a-20190625.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five unmanned ground vehicles are shown at the economy ministry in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/crime-legal/kyoto-court-hands-man-suspended-sentence-forcing-women-sex-trade-clear-debts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T17:43:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/asia-pacific/three-chinese-banks-face-u-s-restrictions-north-korea-sanctions-probe-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T17:45:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-nksactionbanks-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile is prepared for launch in the country's northwest in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/u-s-plays-expectations-trump-xi-meeting-osaka-insists-isnt-ready-compromise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T17:45:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-trumpxi-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpxi-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/graffiti-found-stone-wall-near-emperor-naruhitos-residence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T18:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-graffiti-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Red lines can be seen spanning dozens of meters of a stone wall that surrounds the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo, in this photo taken Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-muses-privately-ending-unfair-postwar-u-s-japan-defense-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T19:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-usdef-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usdef-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Kaga helicopter carrier in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/corporate-business/taiwanese-fund-drops-bailout-consortium-japan-display/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T19:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-jdi-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jdi-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The exit by CGL Group follows the departure of Taiwan's TPK Holding Co. last week from the consortium that was supposed to offer a capital injection of up to ¥80 billion ($748 million) to Japan Display Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/filipino-worker-new-visa-category-reflects-opportunities-challenges-living-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T19:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-foreigners-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foreigners-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Magil Farah Piastro, from Davao City in the Philippines, is among the first batch of foreign workers to be given permission to work in Japan under a new visa status introduced in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/economy-business/economic-revitalization-minister-denies-japan-will-agree-early-farm-tariff-deal-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T20:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-motegi-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-motegi-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic Revitalization Minister Toshimitsu Motegi briefs reporters May 25 in Tokyo after discussions with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/sea-shepherd-australia-eyes-measures-japanese-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T20:41:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-seashepherd-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ship belonging to the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd closes in on a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean in February 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/constitutional-democratic-party-japan-sets-social-welfare-focused-election-platform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T20:45:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-cdp-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cdp-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, announces a set of election pledges in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/90-foreign-residents-japan-say-need-public-support-living-conditions-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T20:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survey-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A foreign worker serves customers at a convenience store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/corporate-business/nissan-shareholders-express-concern-strained-partnership-renault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T21:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-nissan-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees leave the venue for Nissan Motor Co.'s annual general meeting in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/u-s-agriculture-secretary-says-american-farmers-casualties-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-25T22:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/japan-weighs-strategy-shocking-climate-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/womens-empowerment-equals-economic-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/z11-yoshida-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[z11-yoshida-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at the joint conference of W20 and the 5th World Assembly for Women in Tokyo on March 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/walking-talk-gender-equality-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[z11-OECD-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/japan-promote-okinawa-indians-outbound-wedding-destination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T10:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-okinawa-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sea off Miyakojima Island, Okinawa Prefecture, is seen in this undated file photo. Japan is promoting the prefecture in India as a wedding tourism destination.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-government-cites-trump-denying-report-considered-ending-defense-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T10:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-trumpsecurity-a-20190626.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpsecurity-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo has quoted U.S. President Donald Trump as having denied a report that he had recently mentioned the possibility of terminating the post-war defense pact with Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/eco-friendly-financing-sustainable-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideki Takada, secretary general of GFNJ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/universities-lure-foreign-students-falling-population/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/denmark-becomes-third-nordic-country-form-leftist-government-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T13:04:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mette Frederiksen addresses the press after finalizing government negotiations at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen shortly after midnight on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-cabinet-oks-plan-hold-upper-house-election-july-21/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T13:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters his office Wednesday to attend a Cabinet meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/world/science-health-world/parched-tourists-seek-gelato-shade-sweltering-paris-rome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T13:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/no-confidence-motion-japans-cabinet-handling-pension-report-voted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T14:09:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe survives a no-confidence motion submitted against the Cabinet by opposition parties in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-special-counsel-robert-mueller-testify-house-panels-july-17/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T14:44:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller speaks on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, at the Justice Department in Washington on May 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/trump-thinks-dollar-strong-blames-fed-policy-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dollar-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at the "C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Jerome H. Powell" at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/world/crime-legal-world/trump-denies-womans-sexual-assault-accusation-shes-not-type/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[E. Jean Carroll is seen in an undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/economy-business/blow-china-japans-quality-infrastructure-get-endorsement-osaka-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-infrastructure-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at the site of Colombo Port City stands by a billboard featuring an artist's impression of the Colombo International Financial City project, both developed by China Harbour Engineering Co., in Colombo in March 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/national/politics-diplomacy/g20-host-abe-election-hopes-ride-summit-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard behind barricades Saturday near the Intex Osaka convention center as preparations continue for the Group of 20 Summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-russia-unlikely-reach-agreement-talks-joint-economic-activities-disputed-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin are unlikely to strike a final agreement on joint economic activities on disputed islands off Hokkaido when they meet Saturday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, according to Russian sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/osaka-plays-need-new-safety-measures-g20-summit-recent-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:26:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car is seen stuck near Tsuruoka Station in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, on Wednesday after the large earthquake caused liquefaction in the area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/17/asia-pacific/chinas-xi-make-first-visit-north-korea-president-thursday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/world/science-health-world/elon-musks-spacex-lifts-24-satellites-orbit-difficult-launch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T15:43:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/world-first-facebook-share-data-hate-speech-suspects-french-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T16:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook website is displayed on a smartphone.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/economy-business/can-g20-summit-pave-path-future-multilateral-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T17:27:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trade-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors get ready for a family photo in Fukuoka on June 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/asia-pacific/pro-china-groups-step-offensive-win-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T18:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-chiwan-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiwan-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lin Guo-cing, a senior official of the Chinese Unification Promotion Party, is pictured on April 9 in a shop at a theme park in Chiayi, Taiwan, that he is planning to introduce to the Chinese market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/crime-legal/mother-chiba-girl-died-suspected-abuse-father-gets-suspended-jail-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-26T21:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A court illustration shows Nagisa Kurihara attending a trial Wednesday at the Chiba District Court.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/crime-legal-world/trump-without-offering-evidence-accuses-robert-mueller-crimes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T06:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpaccuse-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in WashingtonWednesday. Trump is traveling to Osaka for the G20 Summit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/economy-business/palestinians-reject-economic-solutions-punitive-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T06:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-kushnerplan-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli border police use teargas to disperse Palestinian protesters during a rally against the American-led Mideast peace conference, near the settlement of Beit El, at the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/business/corporate-business/gyoza-no-ohsho-ban-plastic-straws-spoons-july-bid-address-environmental-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ohsho Food Service Corp., the operator of the Gyoza no Ohsho chain of Chinese-style restaurants, said Tuesday it will stop supplying customers with single-use plastic straws and spoons at all of its 729 restaurants from July to address environmental concerns.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/national/politics-diplomacy/g20-energy-ministers-agree-meeting-japan-outlines-framework-tackle-marine-plastic-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-g20-a-20190617.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-g20-a-20190617.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 countries wrap up their two-day meeting in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Sunday. They have agreed to the outlines of a new international framework to tackle marine plastic waste.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/15/business/g20-envoys-assemble-nagano-discuss-climate-change-plastic-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:25:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-g20-a-20190616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry minister Hiroshige Seko (center) holds a cup made of environmentally friendly material at the G20 energy and environment ministers' meeting in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Saturday as Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada (right) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/07/national/japanese-government-paper-calls-review-handling-plastics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-plastic-a-20190608.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-plastic-a-20190608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven &amp; I Holdings Co.'s plastic bottle recycling machine is seen in a photo taken Wednesday. The machine is set up at its retail stores to collect plastic bottles and use them to make new bottles.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/04/national/japan-ban-free-plastic-bags-stores-small-midsize-firms-may-exempt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T11:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-plasticbags-a-20190605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Garbage cans at a Tokyo station overflow with plastic bags in February 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/crown-prince-akishino-crown-princess-kiko-leave-european-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T13:58:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko greet an ambassador in Tokyo on Thursday morning before leaving for Europe the same day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/europe-sizzles-record-temperatures-fueling-concern-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coati enjoys a fish ice cake at the Bordeaux-Pessac Zoo in Pessac, southwestern France, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/united-nations-warns-u-s-iran-not-sleepwalk-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:47:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-iranthreat-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranthreat-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joanna Wronecka, Polish ambassador to the U.N., speaks next to Germany's Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. Juergen Schulz, United Kingdom Ambassador Karen Pierce, Estonia Ambassador Sven Juergenson, French Ambassador Francois Delattre and Belgian Ambassador Marc Pecsteen, after the U.N. Security Council briefings on implementation of the resolution that endorsed the Iran nuclear deal, at the United Nations headquarters in New York Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/social-issues-world/u-k-s-prince-william-says-fine-kids-gay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:48:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, reacts to receiving a gift bag from trust chief executive officer Tim Sigsworth during a visit to the Albert Kennedy Trust in London to learn about the issue of LGBTQ youth homelessness in London on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/science-health-world/diseases-food-shortages-plague-migrant-jungle-camp-bosnia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants take a shower in camp Vucjak in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-says-chances-no-deal-brexit-million-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson (left) meets with President of Iraq Barham Salih at the Houses of Parliament in London Wednesday. The two contenders, Jeremy Hunt and Johnson, face election by party members of Britain's Conservative Party with the winner due to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as party leader and prime minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/dozens-killed-foiled-ethiopia-coup-attempt-regional-government-reveals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:53:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethiopian army generals carry the flag-draped coffin of Ethiopian Army Chief of Staff Seare Mekonnen, who was killed by his bodyguard, during his funeral ceremony in Mekele, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/crime-legal-world/official-saudi-probe-dodges-ordered-jamal-khashoggi-murder-u-n-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T14:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-callamard-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-callamard-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agnes Callamard, lU.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, next to Coly Seck, president of the Human Rights Council, presents the main findings of the inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/protests-erupt-indian-cities-muslim-man-lynched-modi-says-pained/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T15:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-indialynch-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indialynch-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indians hold placards condemning the recent mob lynching of Muslim youth Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand state as they listen to a speaker during a protest in New Delhi Wednesday. Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the helm of government, Hindu mobs have lynched dozens of people, mainly Muslims and lower-caste Dalits.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/no-injuries-reported-japan-msdf-minesweeper-cargo-ship-collide-off-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T15:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-collision-new-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-collision-new-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Notojima, a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper, is seen damaged Thursday after a collision with a cargo ship off the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/asia-pacific/north-korea-tells-south-let-deal-directly-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T16:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/asia-pacific/fresh-protests-rock-hong-kong-activists-seek-voice-g20-osaka-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T16:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-hkprotests-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkprotests-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong leads a marche towards the Central Government Office during a rally against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/japan-plans-phone-relay-service-impaired-hearing-catching-rest-g7/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T16:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/dodge-u-s-trade-war-chinese-exporters-shift-production-myanmar-low-cost-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T16:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-chinamove-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinamove-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers conduct quality checks on products at a factory owned by Yakeda Outdoor Travel Products Co. in Yangon on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/faa-finds-new-risk-737-max-orders-boeing-make-changes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T16:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-boeing-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 MAX airplanes sit on the tarmac at the Boeing Factory in Renton, Washington, in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/crime-legal-world/revenge-porn-victims-may-granted-anonymity-u-k-courts-government-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T17:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democrats-clash-health-care-border-issues-scrappy-first-u-s-presidential-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T17:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-demdebate-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-demdebate-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wednesday's debaters in Miami, from left: Bill de Blasio, Tim Ryan, Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee and John Delaney.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/corporate-business/nissan-cancel-carlos-ghosns-retirement-stock-linked-compensation-benefits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T17:52:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-nissan-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn arrives for a pre-trial hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/walmart-eyes-listing-japanese-supermarket-unit-seiyu-raise-funds-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-seiyu-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Seiyu supermarket in central Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/european-council-president-donald-tusk-visits-bomb-site-nagasaki-ahead-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:28:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-eunagasaki-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eunagasaki-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Council President Donald Tusk speaks at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/crime-legal/supreme-court-rejects-retrial-92-yr-old-woman-1979-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-retrial-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-retrial-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has denied a retrial for a 92-year-old woman who served 10 years in prison over the 1979 murder of her former brother-in-law in Kagoshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/half-chinese-consumers-shun-u-s-goods-due-trade-warsurvey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:31:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-chinagoods-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinagoods-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poll conducted by London-based advisory firm Brunswick, which surveyed 1,000 Chinese consumers, said 56 percent of respondents had said they had avoided U.S. products, while 68 percent said their opinion of American firms had become more negative.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/no-misconduct-found-year-10-medical-schools-previous-admissions-irregularities-says-education-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-medschools-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medschools-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students enter Tokyo Medical University in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Feb. 16 as the university announces results for its entrance exams.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/13/business/corporate-business/renesas-buy-u-s-chip-maker-intersil-3-2-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:35:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/22/business/corporate-business/renesas-electronics-looks-acquire-intersil-amid-automotive-chip-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:36:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-renesas-a-20160823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-renesas-a-20160823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renesas Electronics Corp. products are displayed for a photo. The Japanese chipmaker is said to be looking to purchase U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp. by the end of the month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-looks-secure-voter-mandate-stability-upper-house-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-abediet-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abediet-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo after the ordinary Diet session wrapped up earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/crime-legal/man-64-arrested-kidnapping-teenage-girl-kanagawa-demanding-%c2%a520-million-ransom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-kidnap-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kidnap-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 64-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping a teenage girl in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, and demanding ¥20 million in ransom, police said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/sharp-consider-investing-japan-display-asked-ceo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:41:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-sharpceo-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sharpceo-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor image shows Sharp Corp. CEO and Chairman Tai Jeng-wu (left) speaking during the company's annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/trump-says-trade-deal-osaka-g20-xi-possible-proposed-tariffs-may-cut-10/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:43:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-uschina-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uschina-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he leaves Air Force One during a refueling stop Wednesday at Joint Base Elmendorf, Alaska, on his way to the G20 Summit in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/regulator-mulls-fining-nissan-%c2%a52-4-billion-ghosn-pay-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-nissan-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn arrives for a pretrial hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/mount-fuji-opens-climbers-monday-summit-inaccessible-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-mtfuji-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mtfuji-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Large rocks of lava are seen blocking part of a trail near the summit of Mount Fuji last autumn.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/u-s-companies-find-legal-loophole-avoid-trumps-huawei-blacklist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-huawei-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Huawei staffer uses her mobile phone at the Huawei Digital Transformation Showcase in Shenzhen, in China's Guangdong province, in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/business/canadas-pain-japans-gain-mitsubishi-buys-crj-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T18:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-mhi-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mhi-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iberia Bombardier CRJ-1000 plane is seen on the tarmac at the Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport in Colombier-Saugnieu near Lyon, France, on March 14, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/politics-diplomacy/south-koreas-moon-urges-japan-accept-plan-firms-nations-pay-wartime-labor-plaintiffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T20:35:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-moon-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moon-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called for Japan to accept Seoul's proposal to compensate Korean wartime laborers through funds from companies of both countries.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/no-need-review-renault-nissan-capital-setup-says-french-president-emmanuel-macron/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T21:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-macron-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-macron-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are greeted by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/corporate-business/mufg-track-japans-first-yuan-clearing-bank-likely-abe-xi-deal-osaka-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-27T21:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-mufg-a-20190628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mufg-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People enter a branch of MUFG Bank Ltd. in Tokyo to use the company's automated teller machines, or ATMs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/22/national/media-national/japan-finding-hard-say-whos-poor-anymore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T00:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p16-schreiber-poor-a-20190623.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-poor-a-20190623.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Working on retirement: Companies in Japan are facing greater pressure to extend retirement until the age of 70.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/politics-diplomacy/liveblog-osaka-g20-look-ahead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T09:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/TOPSHOTS-TOPSHOT-JAPAN-G-850542-0.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[TOPSHOTS-TOPSHOT-JAPAN-G-850542-0.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman takes a picture of a G20 Osaka design set up outside the venue for the G20 Osaka Summit Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/world/u-s-senate-backs-huge-defense-bill-targeting-china-sets-vote-prevent-iran-attack-without-congress-ok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T12:39:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-ndaa-a-20190629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ndaa-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An oil tanker passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Senate will vote Friday on an amendment that would ban Republican President Donald Trump from attacking Iran without first obtaining congressional approval.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-fumes-u-s-supreme-court-blocks-census-citizenship-question/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T13:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-citizenship-a-20190629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-citizenship-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[News breaks on Thursday of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration did not give an adequate explanation for its plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/world/science-health-world/france-sets-2050-carbon-neutral-target-new-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T13:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/23/reference/report-japan-pension-shortfall-spurs-anxiety-closer-look-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T13:47:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T13:51:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Moscow headquarters of internet group Yandex is seen. Sources say agents from Western intelligence agencies broke into the search company late last year and deployed a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man collects plastic and other recyclable material from the shores of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai in June 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping, first lady Peng Liyuan, U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania attend a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The G20 Osaka Citizens' Summit, in session Wednesday, focused on encouraging world leaders to listen to the voices of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities, as well as refugees and the elderly. The two-day event wrapped up the same day ahead of the G20 leaders summit set to start Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Silvana Koch-Mehrin (center), president of Women Political Leaders, speaks at its summit meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, as House of Representatives speaker Tadamori Oshima (right) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visiting French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of their meeting Wednesday in Tokyo. Macron plans to attend the Group of 20 summit, which is set to kick off in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during a special address on the second day of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/sniffing-potential-threats-police-dogs-patrol-osaka-g20-summit-venues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officers with police dogs patrol around the venue of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on Thursday, a day before the meeting begins.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/politics-diplomacy/underlining-improved-japan-china-ties-abe-xi-meet-ahead-g20-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T14:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Osaka on Thursday for the Group of 20 summit that starts Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-favored-next-british-prime-minister-genius-joker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T15:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-London Mayor Boris Johnson cycles off after speaking to the media in front of his home in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/corporate-business/japan-securities-regulator-seeking-fine-nissan-%c2%a52-billion-says-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T15:33:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/economy-business/japans-unemployment-rate-flat-may-2-4-amid-tight-labor-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T15:48:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jobless-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government data released Friday shows the nation's unemployment rate stayed flat at 2.4 percent in May as the labor market remained at its tightest in decades.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/economy-business/japans-industrial-output-rises-2-3-may-higher-auto-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T16:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-output-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars are built on an assembly line at Mazda Motor Corp.'s plant in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Japan's industrial output rose 2.3 percent in May from the previous month, helped by robust auto production.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/tech/peek-wests-failed-fight-chinas-cloud-hopper-hackers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T16:19:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T17:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hkprotest-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters, both from Hong Kong and Japan, demonstrated against extradition legislation that would allow residents of Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial, in front of Osaka's Namba Station on Thursday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/approach-osaka-g20-trump-whips-storm-abe-defense-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T17:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-g20main-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers check vehicles near the main venue of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on Thursday amid tightened security in preparation for the start of the two-day meeting Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/06/national/leprosarium-prison-dig-site-opens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T18:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130807a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Starting off right: Officials pray in front of a monument commemorating those who died in the "special prison" that existed in Kuriu Rakusenen loprosarium in Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture, before beginning on Tuesday a research excavation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T19:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Thursday before leaving for the Group of 20 summit in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/corporate-business/line-adds-services-credit-scoring-ai-receptionist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T19:37:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-line-a-20190628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. is launching new services, from credit scoring to an AI-powered robot receptionist, as it tries to move away from an advertising-reliant business model.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/business/economy-business/japan-prep-worst-u-s-china-trade-war-economists-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T19:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People crowd a shopping area in downtown Osaka on Wednesday as the city prepares to host world leaders for the G20 summit.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T19:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jonathan "Jony" Ive, chief design officer for Apple Inc., uses an iPhone to take a photograph during the grand opening of the company's new flagship store at Union Square in San Francisco in May 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-28T19:57:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators against gerrymandering gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/model-senior-citizens-older-south-koreans-take-catwalk-youtube/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T21:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Chil-doo (left) and another model talk at a practice session in Seoul on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/g20-host-work-cut-creating-consensus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T22:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Intex Osaka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/27/national/profiles-g20-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-28T22:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Castle]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/national/politics-diplomacy/liveblog-osaka-g20-day-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-29T06:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a sign at the venue for the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on Wednesday ahead of the start of the summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a TV news bulletin showing a map of Japan and the Korean Peninsula during a missile launch by North Korea, in Tokyo in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-06-29T11:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/national/tensions-simmer-g20-summit-osaka-trade-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-06-29T11:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaders of Group of 20 nations and other delegates pose for a group photo at the G20 summit in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/national/g20-summit-brings-annoying-disruptions-life-residents-tourists-osaka/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign put up at a bus stop in front of Osaka Station says the service is behind schedule due to the Group of 20 summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn and his wife, Carole, leave the office of his lawyer in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (right) on Friday signed a bill to restore the voting rights of felons who have served their time, with exceptions for those convicted of murder and sexual offenses.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-01T18:44:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display's headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The education ministry]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadao Takashima in October 1988]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women walk amid a heat wave in Tokyo on July 23, 2018. Being built behind them is the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/no-deal-brexit-end-japan-investment-boom-taro-kono-tells-u-k-leadership-candidates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-01T18:47:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-brexit-a-20190629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-brexit-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono has warned the two candidates vying to replace Prime Minister Theresa May that a no-deal Brexit would be disruptive for Japanese firms that have invested in the U.K.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/national/politics-diplomacy/party-chiefs-clash-tax-japans-constitution-upper-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-01T19:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-partychiefs-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-partychiefs-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The leaders of major political parties face off in a debate broadcast online Sunday, days before the start of official campaigning for the Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/asia-pacific/industry-insiders-say-half-chinas-breeding-pigs-may-died-swine-fever-epidemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-01T19:53:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pigs are seen on the back of a truck outside a slaughterhouse in Dongguan, in southern China's Guangdong province, in December 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/29/national/media-national/japanese-politics-finds-ways-target-youth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-01T20:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-mediamix-ab-20190630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fashion moves: An SNS image of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's collaboration with ViVi magazine for a range of T-shirts sporting the LDP logo and an online advertisement for the same shirts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/business/economy-business/japan-sticks-plan-raise-consumption-tax-despite-weak-tankan-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-01T20:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-analysis-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-analysis-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shop at a Daimaru department store in Sapporo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/world/crime-legal-world/moscow-presses-u-s-swap-russian-pilot-american-held-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T04:17:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-russwap-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russwap-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested for alleged spying in Moscow at the end of 2018, waits for a hearing in a court in Moscow May 24. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said on Twitter Monday that the condition of American Whelan has worsened and that the Russian authorities had rejected a request to send a doctor to examine him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/world/science-health-world/scientists-conclude-cigar-shaped-interstellar-object-isnt-alien-spaceship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T06:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-alienrock-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-alienrock-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist's impression shows the first-known interstellar object to visit the solar system, 'Oumuamua, which was discovered on Oct. 19, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, with subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/world/social-issues-world/u-s-lawmaker-describes-horrifying-conditions-texas-migrant-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T08:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-clint-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-clint-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., prepares to do a television interview on Capitol Hill Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/national/kyoto-mayor-asks-kardashian-west-reconsider-choice-kimono-underwear-brand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T09:28:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-kimono-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kimono-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa has sent a letter to Kim Kardashian West asking her to reconsider using Kimono as the name of her new underwear brand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/osaka-g20-trump-bit-help-shunned-strongmen-return-political-wilderness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T11:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-trumpdictator-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpdictator-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-vietnam-bolster-monitoring-labor-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T12:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-vietnam-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vietnam-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomes his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, to the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/national/japan-urges-tourists-pick-travel-insurance-hospitals-complain-unpaid-medical-bills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T12:53:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-insurance-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-insurance-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists receive an explanation about travel insurance at Narita airport on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/crime-legal/mother-arrested-death-malnourished-2-year-old-daughter-left-home-sendai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T13:31:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/national/japan-resumes-commercial-whaling-three-decade-hiatus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T14:08:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-whaling-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-whaling-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whaling vessels leave Kushiro Port in Hokkaido on Monday to conduct coastal hunting of minke whales, a day after Tokyo formally left the International Whaling Commission.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/asia-pacific/chinese-newspaper-calls-zero-tolerance-following-violent-hong-kong-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T15:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-chinapaper-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinapaper-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrew Leung, president of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, looks at damaged glass panels on Tuesday, a day after protesters broke into the council building.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/business/keep-boredom-bay-japanese-retirees-launching-startups-late-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T16:26:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-seniors-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-seniors-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiaki Sato pours coffee at his cafe in a housing complex in Tachikawa, western Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/business/corporate-business/u-s-firm-applied-materials-agrees-buy-japans-kokusai-electric-bolster-memory-chip-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T16:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-kokusaielec-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kokusaielec-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Applied Materials Inc., based in Santa Clara, California, is betting big on rising demand for memory chips.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/summer-event-featuring-300-live-beetles-held-tokyo-skytree/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T16:28:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-beetle-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-beetle-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors will be able to observe and touch over 300 beetles during an event set to be held from July 20 at Tokyo Skytree.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korean-media-reports-trumpet-kims-meeting-trump-demilitarized-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T16:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-nkpapers-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkpapers-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans read a newspaper carrying reports Sunday's meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and their leader, Kim Jong Un, in Pyongyang on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/japans-crown-prince-says-poland-visit-high-hopes-future-two-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T16:46:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-prince-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino and his wife, Crown Princess Kiko, chat with children after a drum performance during a reception in Warsaw on Monday held to mark a century of Japanese ties with Poland.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/business/japan-defends-tighter-export-controls-amid-south-korea-wartime-labor-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T17:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-korearow-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-korearow-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga briefs reporters Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/hiroshima-bomb-victims-paper-crane-donated-exhibit-aboard-wwii-u-s-battleship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T17:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-sadako-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sadako-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paper crane folded by Hiroshima atomic bomb victim Sadako Sasaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/toeic-wont-provide-english-tests-japans-new-university-entrance-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T18:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n toeic-a 20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The domestic operator of TOEIC said Tuesday it will not provide its English proficiency test as part of the country’s standardized university entrance exam system due to start next April because the process is too complicated.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/business/corporate-business/new-auto-sales-japan-slightly-january-june-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T18:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-autosales-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autosales-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car dealer in the town of Shinhidaka, Hokkaido]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/australia-disappointed-japans-return-commercial-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T19:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-whaling-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-whaling-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru departs Monday from Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture to conduct Japan's first commercial whaling operation in 31 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/business/tech/google-internet-balloon-spin-off-loon-still-looking-wings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T19:52:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-loon-a-20190703-1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-loon-a-20190703-1.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Loon internet balloon carrying solar-powered mobile networking equipment flies over the company's launch site in Winnemucca, Nevada, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/business/corporate-business/walkmans-40th-anniversary-sony-opens-retro-exhibition-ginza/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T20:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-sony-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sony-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mock-up of Sony Corp.’s WM-F5, a waterproof music player released in 1983, stands at Ginza Sony Park in central Tokyo on Monday for the “#009 Walkman in the Park” exhibition.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/business/corporate-business/blue-collar-clothier-workman-shakes-japans-stagnant-apparel-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T20:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-workman-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-workman-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks into a Workman Co. store in Ota Ward, Tokyo, on June 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/weather-agency-issues-torrential-rain-warning-urging-early-evacuations-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T20:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-rain-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rain-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Oyodo River in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, is swollen Tuesday due to heavy rain across Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/japan-begin-screening-departing-foreign-travelers-facial-recognition-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T20:47:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-facial-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-facial-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People use facial recognition scanners at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture last July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-reached-japan-like-minded-nations-freedom-navigation-persian-gulf-saudi-minister-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T20:47:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-saudi-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-saudi-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Arabian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/jedi-johnson-u-k-leadership-hopeful-keeps-lightsaber-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-02T23:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-jediboris-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jediboris-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conservative MP and leadership contender Boris Johnson takes part in a Conservative Party Hustings event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-bidens-lead-shrinks-elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-rise-post-debate-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T02:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-biden-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-biden-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California and 2020 presidential candidate, laughs while speaking during the San Francisco Pride Parade in San Francisco on Sunday. Harris's profile has risen since Thursday's debate, where she challenged former Vice President Joe Biden's record of opposing federal mandates to desegregate schools through the use of busing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[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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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T08:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T08:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country's rightful interim ruler, speaks during the session of Venezuela's National Assembly in Caracas Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T08:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T12:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T12:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T13:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before congressional committees on July 17 on his report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T13:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T14:19:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumano Kodo, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is seeing a steady rise in tourists every year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/national/vandalism-suspected-eye-shinjuku-artwork-found-damaged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T15:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage to "Shinjuku no Me" ("The Eye of Shinjuku") is seen on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to U.S. President Donald Trump as they attend a meeting on the digital economy at the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T16:46:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-operator-switch-plastic-paper-bags-worldwide-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T17:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The paper shopping bags made from recycled paper and other eco-friendly materials that Uniqlo plans to introduce globally from September]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/business/corporate-business/sony-daiwa-securities-eye-%c2%a520-billion-fund-invest-high-tech-start-ups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T18:12:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp. headquarters in central Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/business/china-end-foreign-ownership-controls-one-year-early-premier-li/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T18:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang makes a speech on Wednesday at a World Economic Forum meeting in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T18:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya Wednesday visits the Yamaguchi Prefectural Government to apologize over errors made in a geographical survey conducted by the ministry. The survey was used to select the prefecture as a candidate to host the Aegis Ashore missile defense system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/business/japans-tax-revenue-hit-record-%c2%a560-36-trillion-2018-fiscal-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T18:38:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T19:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T22:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also the Liberal Democratic Party president, and other heads of political parties participate in a debate on Wednesday at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T23:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news conference to announce the launch of mobile game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is held in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-03T23:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Inagaki, an engineer behind a music-playing toothbrush dubbed Possi, poses with the product on Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/business/corporate-business/former-chrysler-ceo-lee-iacocca-died-94/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T23:46:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/business/japan-looks-turn-heat-south-korea-stricter-export-controls-items/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-03T23:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in passes by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after the two shake hands at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-04T08:57:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[DF-21C medium-range ballistic missiles belonging to the Chinese military are driven through Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a military parade marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Oct. 1 2009. The DF-21D model of the missile may have been tested in the South China Sea in recent days, according to experts.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-04T11:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk near Kagoshima-Chuo Station in the city of Kagoshima on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/03/national/crime-legal/man-referred-prosecutors-attempt-join-university/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-04T12:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ISIS logo is seen on a computer screen]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/04/asia-pacific/latest-protests-beijing-sends-message-hong-kong-fall-line-face-irrelevance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graffiti and umbrellas are seen outside the main chamber of Hong Kong's Legislative Council during a media tour Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-04T13:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protestors march to raise awareness of climate change and ecology on the second day of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, on June 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Corp. and KDDI Corp. will team up on wireless networks for their 5G services in a bid to cut costs and speed up the rollout.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini addresses the Lower Chamber in Rome, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea will seek to invest 1 trillion won (¥91.8 billion) annually in developing homegrown materials and equipment used to produce microchips, a senior ruling party lawmaker said Wednesday, after Japan tightened curbs on exports of some high-tech materials to the country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police car is parked Sunday in front of a confectionery shop in Tokyo’s Arakawa Ward where the body of an 18-year-old female college student was found in a refrigerator.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/british-ambassador-u-s-trashed-trump-diplomatic-cables-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T13:41:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<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.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/06/national/media-national/japan-faces-uphill-battle-reduce-plastic-consumption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T13:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-plastic-a-20190707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The trash heap has spoken: While official figures show that Japan recycles 84 percent of the plastic it collects, a recent Forbes Japan article argues that the recycling efforts are not exactly what they seem.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/06/world/crime-legal-world/botswana-government-appeal-court-ruling-legalized-gay-sex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T13:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists hold the rainbow flag as they celebrate outside the Botswana High Court in Gaborone on June 11. The country's attorney general said Friday that the government will appeal last month's landmark high court ruling that decriminalized homosexuality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/06/national/media-national/japan-prepares-open-casinos-gangs-wont-afraid-test-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T13:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p5-adelstein-casino-gangs-a-20190707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Easy money: It's easy to imagine that gambling resorts in Japan will be attractive targets for organized crime.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/japanese-comedians-turn-yakuza-linked-underground-performances-due-unstable-income/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T14:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Miyasako, a comedian belonging to major entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., has taken part in so-called underground performances for organized crime groups, the firm has said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/business/corporate-business/spritely-seniors-japan-signing-deliver-foot-uber-eats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T16:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., is stressing the importance of the food delivery market in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/world/flew-epsteins-lolita-express-feds-want-talk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T16:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-epsteinbook-a-20190710.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/japanese-man-wanted-running-illegal-manga-site-detained-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T16:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-manga-a-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Romi Hoshino, who was wanted in Japan for allegedly infringing copyrights by running an illegal manga website, has been detained in Manila, authorities said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/japans-youngest-pro-go-player-sumire-nakamura-claims-first-win/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumire Nakamura, who in April became at age 10 the youngest professional go player, plays a match Monday. She claimed her first career win the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/crime-legal/saitama-student-14-arrested-alleged-murder-spoken-school-problems-victim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayuki Idei, an official of the Tokorozawa Education Board, speaks at a news conference on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/japanese-consumer-agency-wont-relocating-tokushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Consumer Affairs Agency has offices in this private building in central Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/asia-pacific/2-2-billion-taiwan-u-s-arms-deal-angers-china-sale-symbolic-signal-strength/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. State Department on Monday OK'd the sale of M1A2T Abrams tanks like this one to Taiwan as part of a $2.2 billion arms deal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/world/shake-u-s-navy-leadership-adds-pentagon-churn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:40:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. William Moran speaks during the Commissioning of the USS Montgomery in Mobile, Alabama, in September 2016. Moran, the navy admiral who was set to become his service's top officer on Aug. 1, 2019, says he will instead retire. The extraordinary downfall of Moran was prompted by what Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Sunday called poor judgment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/business/okinawa-town-adopts-directive-promote-awamori-rice-based-spirit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spirit-a-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa tourism officials display bottles of awamori, a rice-based distilled spirit, in the Japanese Embassy in London in November 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/asia-pacific/chinese-military-signals-will-keep-hong-kong-based-troops-barracks-amid-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers take part in a performance during an open day a naval base in Hong Kong on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/princess-mako-leaves-peru-bolivia-mark-anniversary-japanese-emigration-south-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako leaves on an official visit for Peru and Bolivia from Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/social-issues/tokyo-npo-tries-new-strategy-tackle-youth-suicide-supporting-supporter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T17:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-a-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nonprofit organization Light Ring holds a training session in January for social workers in Tokyo on preventing suicide among college students — one of many it hosts in the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/doctors-patients-parts-japan-pediatricians-turn-mobile-apps-advice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T18:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some local governments in rural areas, which are suffering from a shortage of medical staff, have introduced a smartphone app that allows a doctor to give advice via a video call.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/business/ruby-roman-grapes-sell-%c2%a51-2-million-kanazawa-auction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T19:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official from a ryokan chain shows off a record-setting bunch of Ruby Roman grapes Tuesday in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/national/team-successfully-replicates-imagined-ancient-sea-migration-taiwan-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-09T19:51:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A team of Japanese and Taiwanese paddlers in a dugout canoe arrives at Yonaguni Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Tuesday, successfully replicating a hypothetical human migration between Taiwan and Okinawa about 30,000 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-09T20:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean merchants attend a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday to denounce export controls announced by Tokyo. The signs read: "Boycott Japanese products."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-09T22:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor takes a photo Sunday of a crack on the ground following recent earthquakes, outside of Ridgecrest, California.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping sits during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 2.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The big day: A wedding procession marches through a shrine, a more public affair than the nuptials of many celebrities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[How to make a Big Bang in show business]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuya Kimura (left) earned gushing plaudits for his role opposite Mitsugoro Bando in "Bushi no Ichibun"]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Archaeologists take part in excavation work after they discovered what they believe to be the burial site of French Gen. Charles Etienne Gudin in a park in Smolensk, Russia, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-10T05:32:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior Adviser Jared Kushner attends a bilateral meeting between US. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka June 28. The House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday it was preparing subpoenas of Trump's son-in-law Kushner and former attorney general Jeff Sessions as it probes Trump's alleged obstruction of the Russia investigation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-10T05:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as Sen. Todd Young speaks to reporters following the weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-10T05:37:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican Finance Minister Carlos Urzua speaks as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looks on during a news conference to announce a plan to strengthen finances of state oil firm Pemex, at the National Palace in Mexico City in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-10T08:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-obamacare-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait to enter the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to sit in overflow rooms to hear arguments in New Orleans Tuesday. The court will hear arguments on whether Congress effectively invalidated former President Barack Obama's entire signature health care law when it zeroed out the tax imposed on those who chose not to buy insurance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/south-koreas-moon-warns-business-leaders-prepare-prolonged-fight-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T13:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-moon-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Chung Eui-sun, chief vice chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, during a meeting with executives from South Korea's top 30 conglomerates at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/world/science-health-world/worlds-biggest-polluting-firms-not-track-climate-goals-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T14:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-climate-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-climate-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Kabacan, on the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines, is seen flooded after Tropical Storm Tembin dumped torrential rains in 2017. A single degree of warming since the industrial revolution has already boosted the frequency and intensity of heat waves, droughts and tropical storms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/business/japan-pushes-back-south-koreas-calls-scrap-export-curbs-wartime-labor-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T14:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko speaks to reporters June 16 at the Group of 20 environment and energy ministers meeting in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/tech/japan-eyes-innovation-effort-curtail-traffic-accidents-elderly-drivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T14:44:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-drivers-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drivers-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Whill wheelchair has helped many elderly people with mobility issues.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-parliament-flexes-muscle-boris-johnson-doubles-no-deal-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T15:10:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-brexit-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brexit-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conservative leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt take part in a debate on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/corporate-business/apple-announces-summer-launch-homepod-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T15:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-apple-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple Inc. will launch its HomePod smart speakers in Japan this summer at a retail price of ¥32,800, according to its website.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/nine-deer-nara-died-swallowing-plastic-bags-preservation-foundation-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T15:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-deer-a-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A deer picks up garbage from the ground last month in Nara Park in the city of Nara. Numerous plastic bags were found in the stomachs of more than half of the 14 wild deer that have recently died in the park.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/corporate-business/central-japan-railway-unveils-first-battery-powered-shinkansen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T16:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-shinkansen-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shinkansen-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Central Japan Railway Co. conducts a test run Wednesday of its new battery-powered shinkansen in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-end-lower-amid-wait-see-mood-ahead-u-s-fed-chiefs-testimony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T17:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/new-commander-u-s-naval-forces-japan-named-amid-regional-tensions-questions-forces-readiness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T17:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-usnavy-b-20190710.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usnavy-b-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rear Adms. Brian Fort (left) and Gregory Fenton speak to reporters in Yokosuka on Wednesday after a change-of-command ceremony in which Fort assumed command of U.S. naval forces in Japan from Fenton.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/u-s-says-huawei-still-blacklisted-except-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T18:05:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/world/u-s-wants-military-coalition-safeguard-waters-off-iran-yemen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T18:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-coalition-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-coalition-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph Dunford]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-hopes-see-freeze-north-koreas-nuke-program-starting-point-not-endgame-state-department-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T19:07:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-nkfreeze-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkfreeze-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks to greet U.S. President Donald Trump at the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea at the Joint Security Area in the truce village of Panmunjom at the Demilitarized Zone on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/asia-pacific/hong-kong-broadcaster-accused-pro-beijing-protests-coverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-10T23:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-hktvb-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hktvb-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-extradition bill protesters march to West Kowloon Express Rail Link Station in Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/world/man-swept-canadian-side-niagara-falls-survives-57-meter-plunge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T05:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-niagara-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-niagara-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Horseshoe section of Niagara Falls is seen in 2012 in Niagara Falls, New York. A man who was swept over the largest of the Niagara Falls has been recovered alive, found sitting on a rock in the river below with nonlife-threatening injuries, Canadian police said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/business/walmart-workers-strike-retailers-robot-push-chile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T07:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-walbot-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-walbot-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators with a placard that reads "No more abuses" take part in a protest during a strike of workers of the retailer Walmart demanding better wages and working conditions, in Santiago Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italys-matteo-salvini-denies-league-party-took-money-russians-via-secret-oil-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T07:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-salvini-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-salvini-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini arrives in Mineo, near Catania, southern Italy, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/business/u-s-appeals-court-hands-win-trump-hotel-emoluments-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T08:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-emoluments-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-emoluments-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The arched facade of The Trump International Hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington is seen in 2016. A federal appeals court has ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/world/crime-legal-world/family-wishes-maduro-regime-buries-navy-captain-died-captivity-alleged-torture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T08:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-vencap-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vencap-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The grave of Navy Capt. Rafael Acosta lies at the East cemetery in Caracas Wednesday. Acosta, who died of suspected torture while in government custody, was buried by authorities against the family's wishes to perform a private ceremony, an attorney and relatives said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/world/science-health-world/merkel-third-visible-bout-shaking-says-fine-working-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T09:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-merkel-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-merkel-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister of Finland Antti Rinne listen to the national anthems at the chancellery in Berlin Wednesday. Merkel's body shook visibly as she stood alongside the Finnish prime minister and listened to the national anthems during the welcoming ceremony at the chancellery.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/history/decades-justice-still-eludes-interned-japanese-canadians-kin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T09:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-internment-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-internment-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, titled "New Arrivals to New Denver," shows the Oda family from Port Alice, British Columbia, in front of their new home in the Orchard internment camp for Japanese Canadians in New Denver, B.C., in October 1942.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/japan-surprised-south-korean-response-export-control-accuses-seoul-trying-make-issue-free-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T11:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-skexport-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-skexport-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean students shout slogans as they march to denounce the Japanese government's decision to impose some restrictions on exports, near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/business/corporate-business/two-japans-largest-regional-banks-agree-business-partnership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T11:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-bank-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bank-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Yokohama President Yasuyoshi Oya (left) and Chiba Bank President Hidetoshi Sakuma shake hands at a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/japanese-population-falls-10th-straight-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T12:21:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-population-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-population-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of Japanese citizens living in the country as of Jan. 1 was down for the 10th straight year at 124,776,364, according to government data released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-needs-build-ties-canada-face-trumps-america-first-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T12:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-canada-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-canada-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on April 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/crop-damaging-fall-armyworms-found-japan-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T12:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-armyworms-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-armyworms-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fall armyworm larvae, like the one seen here, were found in Japan for the first time earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/asia-pacific/hong-kong-chief-executives-departure-seen-just-matter-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T14:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-lamduck-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lamduck-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam pauses during a news conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/national/tokyo-games-committee-unveils-additional-445-licensed-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T15:48:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-olygoods-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olygoods-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New officially licensed merchandise went on sale at the Olympic store at Tokyo Skytree on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/business/tech/richard-bransons-virgin-orbit-completes-key-high-altitude-rocket-launch-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T16:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-branson-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-branson-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit, with a rocket underneath the wing of a modified Boeing 747 jetliner, takes off for a key drop test of its high-altitude launch system for satellites from Mojave, California, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-president-leaves-caribbean-tour-warns-threat-overseas-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T17:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-taiwan-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwan-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen attends a ceremony to sign up for the Democratic Progressive Party's 2020 presidential candidate nomination in Taipei on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/10/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-eyes-another-meeting-irans-president-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T17:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-abeiran-a-20190711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeiran-a-20190711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meet at the U.N. headquarters in New York in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/national/crime-legal/japanese-artists-plagiarism-claim-goldfish-filled-phone-booth-rejected-nara-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T17:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-goldfish-a-20190712.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-goldfish-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Nobuki Yamamoto’s telephone booth filled with water and goldfish is seen on the right in a photo provided by the artist. Next to it is a photo taken in April last year of a similar telephone booth in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/asia-pacific/u-s-weighs-18-month-sanctions-pause-north-korea-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-11T17:56:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stand on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone in Panmunjom on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Notices for a campaign to boycott Japan-made products are displayed at a store in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T04:43:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T05:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T05:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson, a leadership candidate for Britain's Conservative Party, speaks during a hustings event in Maidstone, Britain, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most notorious criminals, is extradited to the United States to face charges. U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday called for the "ruthless" drug lord to be jailed for life plus 30 years..]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T07:13:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Thursday. Milley said Iran's armed forces present the most "formidable conventional and unconventional" threat in the Persian Gulf as the U.S. tries to press the Islamic Republic to end its nuclear program.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T07:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T08:46:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2017 photo provided by the FBI shows Xudong Yao. The software engineer is accused of stealing trade secrets from the Illinois locomotive company he once worked for and taking the information with him to China, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging Yao with nine counts of trade secrets theft.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/u-n-launches-investigation-philippines-drug-war-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-12T12:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T13:37:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T13:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T14:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T15:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T15:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T16:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T16:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/national/japans-increasing-tourism-numbers-tensions-will-inevitably-follow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-12T17:51:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T18:31:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T18:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T19:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-12T19:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first ¥500 and ¥100 coins featuring the new Reiwa imperial era at the Japan Mint in Osaka on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in meet at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Panmunjom, South Korea, on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/business/corporate-business/coca-cola-japan-shoot-90-recycled-content-ratio-pet-bottles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-12T21:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coca-Cola (Japan) Co. aims to raise the ratio of recycled materials in the plastic bottles it uses to 90 percent by 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/business/corporate-business/vw-ford-extend-collaboration-electric-self-driving-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-12T23:44:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right: Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Company, Bryan Salesky, chief executive officer and co-founder of Argo AI LLC, and Herbert Diess, chief executive officer of Volkswagen Group, pose ahead of a news conference on Friday in New York City.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/national/abe-offers-heartfelt-apology-kin-former-leprosy-patients-suffering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T09:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters at a news conference Friday after announcing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement in which he offered a "heartfelt apology" to family members of former leprosy patients.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/national/crime-legal/japanese-police-departments-reprimand-20-officers-paid-work-police-exam-study-guides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T09:06:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T12:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T12:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukie Kirioka, who lost her husband last year in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains, waters her flowers at a place where her house used to stand in the town of Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/national/taboo-family-registry-records-meiji-era-sold-auction-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T12:32:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T12:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. regulators have approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook to settle a probe into the social network's privacy and data protection lapses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/world/ecuador-tribes-victory-legal-battle-selling-ancestral-amazon-land-upheld/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T13:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen arrives for VIP reception at the Hyatt hotel in New York on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T14:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/national/crime-legal/seven-eleven-japan-employee-becomes-third-suspect-7pay-mobile-payment-thefts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T15:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The smartphone app for the 7pay mobile payment service is shown on a handset.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/asia-pacific/indias-ruling-party-revive-plan-hindu-settlements-kashmir/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T15:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kashback-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ram Madhav says the Hindu nationalist BJP is committed to helping bring back some of the 200,000 to 300,000 Hindus who fled Kashmir after an armed revolt that began in 1989.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/national/politics-diplomacy/61-south-koreans-blame-japanese-government-diplomatic-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T15:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice for a boycott campaign of Japanese-made products is displayed at a store in Seoul on Friday. The sign reads: "We don't sell Japanese products."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/business/complexity-economic-spat-comes-focus-japanese-south-korean-officials-meet-trade-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T15:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeon Chansu (right), manager of South Korean Trade Security Section at Ministry of Industry, Trade and Resources, and Jun Iwamatsu (left), director of Japanese Trade Control Policy Division, Trade Control Department, meet to discuss Japan's tightening of controls on high-tech exports to South Korea, in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T16:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tge Facebook logo is seen at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California in March last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/national/media-national/working-harder-bid-save-labor-proving-exhausting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T22:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-exhaustion-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stuck at the top: Managers have picked up much of the slack of the corporate restructuring that began in the 1990s with mass layoffs and hiring freezes.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T16:31:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T18:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media tour the new National Stadium in Tokyo on July 3 as preparations continue for the 2020 Olympics.	kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/world/hawaii-declares-emergency-maui-wildfires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T18:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wind whips trees under a smoky red sky on Maui on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-avoids-sticky-iran-territorial-issues-campaign-speeches-japans-upper-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T19:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks in front of a poster of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka on June 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/business/tokyo-seoul-give-dueling-accounts-talks-amid-export-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T21:14:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sktrade-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade ministry officials hold a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/world/police-warning-media-u-k-diplomats-leaked-memos-stirs-anger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T21:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-leakbasu-a-20190714.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-leakbasu-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neil Basu]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-13T23:11:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hagerty-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty speaks during an interview at his residence in Tokyo on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/national/crime-legal/japanese-comedians-pocketed-%c2%a51-million-secret-show-alleged-crime-group-yoshimoto-kogyo-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-13T23:13:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/13/national/media-national/convenience-store-operator-struggles-wake-security-fiasco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T01:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-7pay-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security breach: Around 900 convenience store customers using Seven &amp; I Holdings' payment service 7pay may have lost a total of ¥55 million after their accounts were hacked.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/polish-opposition-unveiling-election-pledges-promises-eliminate-coal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T13:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/world/science-health-world/elephant-rhino-populations-rebounding-tanzania-crackdown-poaching/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T13:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A herd of elephants in Tanzania's Singita Grumeti Game Reserve]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-police-reportedly-identify-suspect-behind-leaked-envoy-memos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T13:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f darroch-a 20190715]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[then-British Ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch hosts a National Economists Club event at the British Embassy in Washington on Oct. 20, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-14T15:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Bangladesh President Hussain Muhammad Ershad enters a court in Dhaka on Jan. 17, 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/business/ready-drink-baby-formula-enjoying-strong-sales-across-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T15:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-liquid-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents and their children try liquid baby formula in March in Tokyo's Sumida Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-14T16:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-chiwan-a-20190715.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiwan-a-20190715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visits an exhibition of Taiwanese products in Port-au-Prince on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/business/tech/new-agile-robots-speed-takeover-jobs-done-humans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T17:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-14T17:48:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-poll-a-20190714.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters listen to a speech by an Upper House election candidate in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/national/politics-diplomacy/lgbt-community-hopes-upper-house-election-will-spur-debate-advance-gay-rights-legislation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T18:12:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-lgbt-a-20190715.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeyoshi Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/national/japan-mulling-possible-sdf-dispatch-strait-hormuz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T20:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The damaged Japanese-owned, Panama-flagged oil tanker Kokuka Courageous is seen behind a U.S. sailor during a trip organized by the U.S. military for journalists, off Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-14T20:43:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kumamoto-a-20190715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hisato Fujiki is taken to a police station in Kumamoto Prefecture on Sunday after turning himself in to the police in neighboring Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/national/firms-offer-telework-ease-traffic-jams-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-14T22:26:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teleworking-a-20190715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster is displayed at a subway station in Tokyo to promote a telework trial program to be conducted between July 22 and Sept. 6, roughly a year before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-14T22:36:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkprotest-a-20190715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters against "parallel traders" and police face off in the Hong Kong border town of Sheung Shui on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-15T00:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-detention-center-a-20190714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Contributing to society: Kurdish residents of Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, help to clear up a park in 2015. There are some 2,000 Kurdish refugees in Japan, more than half of whom live in Warabi and Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-15T00:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-blackout-a-20190715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk along a dark street near Times Square in Manhattan during a blackout on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/16/business/hitting-the-mark-at-the-miraikans-ninja-exhibition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T02:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20160716-ninja1-20160715.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitting the mark at the Miraikan's ninja exhibition]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/22/national/airport-railway-staff-duties-darkly-ni-ni-ni-ninja-day-central-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T02:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ninja-b-20190223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakae Okamoto (center), mayor of Iga, Mie Prefecture, poses as a ninja with others on Friday, locally designated as "Ninja Day," in front of a train station nicknamed "Ninja City Station."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-15T02:06:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-ninja-a-20180623.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ninja-a-20180623.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sanwa Koutsu Group taxi driver sports a ninja outfit on Monday in Yokohama as part of the firm's unique effort to attract new customers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-trails-joe-biden-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-nbc-wsj-poll-matchups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T02:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden greets audience members during a campaign stop at Mack's Apples in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/business/american-airlines-extends-boeing-737-max-cancellations-fourth-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T04:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Max 8, being built for American Airlines, rolls down the runway and past another jet of the same model as it's prepared for takeoff on a test flight in Renton, Washington, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/business/turkey-will-drill-gas-greek-cypriots-accept-plan-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T06:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A helicopter flies over Turkey's drilling ship the Fatih dispatched toward the eastern Mediterranean, near Cyprus on July 9. Turkish officials say the drillships Fatih and Yavuz will drill for gas, which has prompted protests from Cyprus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/world/social-issues-world/guatemala-scrubs-trump-summit-will-not-sign-safe-third-country-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T06:51:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants arriving from Guatemala disembark in June from a raft in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. Guatemala's presidency said Sunday a meeting between Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and U.S. President Donald Trump would be rescheduled due to legal appeals aimed at preventing Morales from acceding to Trump's requests for migrants to remain in Guatemala while they apply for U.S. asylum instead of waiting at the Mexico-U.S. border.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/world/french-missile-claim-hints-role-war-take-tripoli-libya-minister-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T08:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fighters loyal to the internationally recognized Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) display U.S.-made Javelin anti-tank missile and precision guided munitions, that were reportedly confiscated from forces loyal to Gen. Khalifa Hifter in Gharyana June 29. The French defense ministry said July 10 that its missiles had been found on the base used by forces loyal to Hifter, but it denied supplying them to the rebels in breach of a U.N. arms embargo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italys-matteo-salvini-struggles-contain-fallout-russia-funding-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T08:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Italian Northern League leader Matteo Salvini speaks during a news conference at the RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow i 2016. Salvini's office on Sunday distanced itself from a lobbyist who's under investigation for allegedly seeking Russian money for Interior Minister Salvini's pro-Moscow League party, saying that man attended a recent dinner hosted by Italy for visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin strictly due to pressing by a Salvini staff adviser.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/14/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-wont-mediate-japan-south-korea-spat-top-american-diplomat-asia-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T14:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell speaks to waiting media as he arrives at Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/business/bank-england-picks-gay-world-war-ii-code-breaker-alan-turing-new-50-bank-note/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T22:11:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney announces at a news conference in Manchester, England, on Monday, that scientist Alan Turing is the person chosen for Britain's new £50 note. Turing's cracking of a Nazi code helped the Allies win World War II,]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/national/crime-legal/tokyo-couple-arrested-pouring-scalding-water-11-year-old-boy-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T22:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/15/business/u-s-china-trade-war-may-provide-window-opportunity-japan-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-15T23:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/25/national/washi-paper-making-village-hopes-unesco-designation-will-bring-tailwind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T00:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teizo Takano, who runs a "washi" Japanese paper-making studio in Higashi-Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, says during an interview on Nov. 18 that he hopes the impending UNESCO recognition will help support the survival of the craft.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/world/crime-legal-world/trump-aide-kellyanne-conway-expected-snub-house-panels-subpoena/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T04:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway is greeted as she arrives at the airport in McAllen, Texas, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/trump-sees-slowing-chinese-growth-pressuring-beijing-trade-u-s-tariffs-major-effect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T05:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker prepares a section of concrete for a bridge on China's high-speed rail network in Donghai county, in Lianyungang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, Sunday. China's growth slowed to its weakest pace in almost three decades in the second quarter, with the U.S.-China trade war and weakening global demand weighing on the world's number-two economy, official data showed Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/world/crime-legal-world/louisiana-police-probe-slaying-civil-rights-activist-historian/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T06:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadie Roberts-Joseph chats with Louisiana State Police Lt. Col. Murphy Paul, who was appointed as the new chief of police for the Baton Rouge Police Department by Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2017. East Baton Rouge Coroner Beau Clark released preliminary autopsy results Monday that show Roberts-Joseph was suffocated before her body was found in the trunk of a car on July 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/asia-pacific/100-killed-4-million-displaced-floods-india-nepal-bangladesh/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T08:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flood affected villagers travel on boats near a submerged house in Burha Burhi village east of Gauhati, India, Monday. After causing flooding and landslides in Nepal, three rivers are overflowing in northeastern India and submerging parts of the region, affecting the lives of more than 2 million, officials said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/tech/spacex-astronaut-mission-looking-increasingly-difficult-2019-exec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T13:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, carrying the U.S. Air Force's Space Test Program-2 mission, is shown during launch preparation at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida,  June 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-russia-will-discuss-nuclear-arms-limits-geneva-wednesday-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T13:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka June 28. Delegations from the U.S. and Russia are meeting this week to discuss arms control and the possibility of coaxing China into negotiating a new, three-way nuclear weapons pact, two senior administration officials said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/google-not-biased-conservatives-exec-tell-u-s-senate-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T13:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees wait to ask a question of a Google Assistant at a giant "Hey Google" gumball machine game at CES 2019, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vega in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-administration-denies-possible-ouster-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T13:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-wilbur-a-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, delivers remarks on citizenship and the census in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington July 11. President Trump is considering removing Ross after the administration failed to add a question on citizenship to next year's census, NBC news reported Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/not-going-anywhere-handle-worlds-growing-trash-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T14:34:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker sweeps up shredded paper on the floor of a recycling facility operated by Impetus Conceptus Pte. in Singapore on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/world/science-health-world/robots-install-telescopes-peer-cosmos-moon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T15:22:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University of Colorado Boulder graduate researcher Ben Mellinkoff (left) sets up an experiment for Armstrong, an assembly robot that utilizes low latency telerobotics that will allow for close to real time video monitoring, at a lab in Boulder, Colorado, on June 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/asia-pacific/strong-undersea-quake-near-bali-causes-panic-minor-damage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T15:23:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men collect fallen stones from a damaged temple in Bali on Tuesday after an earthquake caused minor damage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-says-will-freeze-u-s-companies-sell-arms-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T15:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks to the media at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/large-scale-test-congestion-2020-olympic-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T16:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laser mapping displays a message outside the observation deck of Tokyo Skytree on Sunday. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will open on July 24 next year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/corporate-business/nissan-releases-hybrid-version-skyline-part-effort-recover-scandals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T16:22:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Vice President Asako Hoshino unveils a new version of the company's Skyline sports sedan at its headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/sentence-man-found-guilty-2015-murder-11-year-old-remain-despite-change-mental-illness-diagnosis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T16:32:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/two-men-get-suspended-sentences-negligence-death-mentally-disabled-man-left-vehicle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T17:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The welfare facility Cosmos Earth in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, seen in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-ambassador-japan-william-hagerty-step-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T18:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-16T22:09:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-signals-creative-approach-north-korea-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T22:14:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/corporate-business/forget-fido-cuddly-lovot-promises-high-tech-pet-replacement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T22:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors can play with pet-replacing Lovot robots at an event in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/social-issues/school-matters-no-1-issue-behind-youth-suicides-2018-japanese-government-white-paper-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T23:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[School-related matters led to more suicides last year among youths aged between 10 and 19 years old than any other issue, the government said Tuesday in its annual white paper.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/tech/50000-bitpoint-japan-customers-cryptocurrency-stolen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T23:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitpoint-a-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitpoint Japan President Genki Oda holds a news conference on Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/japans-defense-chief-no-plan-dispatch-sdf-troops-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T23:10:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Iwaya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/police-hunt-suspect-boy-17-stabbed-saitama-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T23:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate a home where a where a 17-year-old high school student was stabbed in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, by a suspected intruder Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/corporate-business/morinaga-milk-consider-business-merger-snack-maker-morinaga-co/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-16T23:57:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This building in Tokyo's Minato Ward houses Morinaga Milk Industry Co. and Morinaga &amp; Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/ex-captive-japanese-journalist-jumpei-yasuda-denied-passport-foreign-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T00:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jumpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist, is interviewed on June 3 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-17T04:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-trumpenn-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lara Trump, who is pregnant, gestures during a Women For Trump campaign rally for President Donald Trump in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/business/bills-targeting-chinas-huawei-introduced-u-s-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T04:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Huawei logo is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-unveils-border-security-merit-based-immigration-bill-cabinet-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T05:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-tbill-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tbill-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, presents "The Trump Immigration Plan" during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. On Sunday, President Donald Trump issued a series of tweets inviting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her three closest allies to "go back" where they came from. All four women are U.S. citizens, and three of them were born in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/world/syrian-regime-airstrike-idlib-village-market-kills-least-12-rescuers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T06:54:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-idlib-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Civilians and members of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the "White Helmets," carry a wounded person following an airstrike by Syrian regime forces in Maaret al-Numan in northwest Syria on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/business/trump-says-will-take-look-accusations-google-worked-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T13:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-google-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., pauses during a television news interview at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday. Cicilline is the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law and is a key figure in the debate over whether technology giants like Facebook and Google should be broken up.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/world/gun-megastore-plan-new-zealands-christchurch-sparks-backlash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T14:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-christchurch-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand police officers handle a gun example at a press preview ahead of a gun buyback scheme at the Trentham racecourse in Upper Hutt, near Wellington on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/asia-pacific/north-korea-likely-suffering-worst-downturn-since-1990s-famine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T14:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A view of Pyongyang on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/crime-legal/police-instructor-stabbed-officer-knife-training-exercise-went-wrong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T16:08:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/u-s-bans-myanmar-army-chief-top-brass-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T16:59:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-myanmar-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-myanmar-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, pays his respects to independence hero Gen. Aung San and eight others assassinated in 1947, during a ceremony to mark the 71th anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon last July. The U.S. said Tuesday it would ban entry into the country of Myanmar's army chief and four other generals due to their role in "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya minority.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/business/japan-stress-legitimacy-controls-exports-south-korea-world-trade-organization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T17:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-wto-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wto-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a defaced image of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a rally denouncing the Japanese government's decision on their exports to South Korea in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/crime-legal/three-given-prison-terms-bogus-tokyo-land-sale-sekisui-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T17:25:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-bogus-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bogus-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three people were given jail terms Wednesday, in relation to the bogus sale, in 2017, of the site of a closed inn in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-fall-trade-war-concerns-wall-street-downturn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T17:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/politics-diplomacy/dear-young-people-dont-vote-say-japans-senior-citizens-campaign-viral-video/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T18:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-video-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-video-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A senior woman shares a message for the nation's youth: "Dear young people, don't vote!" The video was produced by entertainment firm Shokasonjuku, to encourage young voters to engage with politics and social issues, ahead of Sunday's Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/politics-diplomacy/fun-games-school-workshops-use-comedy-stir-political-engagement-among-youths-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T18:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-workshops-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nana Takamatsu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-celebrities-speak-politically-ahead-upper-house-vote-shattering-long-established-taboos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T18:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-celebrities-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-celebrities-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Twitter post by Kanna Hashimoto says she voted early for Sunday's Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/store-featuring-astro-boy-creator-osamu-tezukas-manga-characters-opens-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T18:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-tezuka-a-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tezuka-a-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tezuka Osamu Shop &amp; Cafe in Tokyo is seen July 4, a day before its grand opening. The shop features characters created by the legendary manga author.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/business/u-s-japan-eye-possible-small-trade-deal-september-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T20:46:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-usjptrade-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-usjptrade-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/politics-diplomacy/ahead-upper-house-vote-komeito-abe-remain-apart-revision-pacifist-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T20:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-komeito-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi waves to supporters while campaigning Sunday in Tokyo's Koto Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/business/south-korea-unveil-plans-ease-dependence-japanese-industries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T20:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/japan-saw-record-16-63-million-foreign-visitors-first-half-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T21:07:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visitors-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk around the Dotonbori downtown area of Osaka last month. Japan saw a record 16.63 million overseas visitors in the first six months of this year, according to government data released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/world/crime-legal-world/italian-u-s-police-make-arrests-mafia-clan-looks-regroup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-17T23:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/business/tech/huawei-says-italys-new-5g-powers-discriminate-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T03:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Huawei store in Vina del Mar, Chile, is seen Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/world/millions-stranded-india-early-monsoon-downpours-bring-flood-havoc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T03:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-monsoon-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian residents wade along a flooded street carrying their belongings following heavy monsoon rains at the Sitamarhi district in the Indian state of Bihar on Wednesday. In India, the death toll rose to at least 120 and entire communities were cut off by rising floodwaters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/world/cannonball-highlights-close-napoleon-came-victory-waterloo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T04:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-waterloo-a-20190719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-waterloo-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Army veterans, who recently served as soldiers in war zones, show bullets found in what used to be a battlefield of Waterloo as part of archaeological research campaign called "Waterloo Uncovered," which aims to explore the battlefield of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Belgium, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/business/corporate-business/boeing-spend-50-million-support-737-max-crash-victim-families/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T05:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-boeing-a-20190719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Njoroge, representing the families of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, and Michael Stumo, father of Flight ET302 victim Samya Stumo, speak with reporters after testifying before a House Transportation and Infrastructure Aviation Subcommittee hearing on the "State of Aviation Safety" in the aftermath of two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes since October, in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/house-poised-hold-william-barr-wilbur-ross-contempt-census-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T07:12:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-contempt-a-20190719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-contempt-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[(Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross  talks with the Chinese delegation, including Vice Premier Liu He, during U.S.-China trade talks in Washington in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/world/crime-legal-world/judge-orders-release-documents-related-hush-payments-trumps-ex-lawyer-michael-cohen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T07:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-cohen-a-20190719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cohen-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former lawyer, speaks to reporters as he leaves his apartment building to report to federal prison in the Manhattan borough of New York May 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/18/world/crime-legal-world/jeffrey-epsteins-mystery-foreign-passport-stamps-contradict-bail-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T08:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-epstein-a-20190719.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-epstein-a-20190719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past the front door of the Upper East Side home of Jeffrey Epstein, after the Southern District of New York announced charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, in New York July 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/asia-pacific/u-s-needs-new-bases-new-capabilities-asia-counter-china-threat-defense-chief-nominee-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T08:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-secdef-b-20190918.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-secdef-b-20190918.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles take part in a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/japans-record-breaking-free-diver-sayuri-kinoshita-dies-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-18T12:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-diver-a-20190718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diver-a-20190718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese free diver Sayuri Kinoshita (left) poses for a photo after competing in an international diving championship in Turkey in 2018. She died Monday from injuries sustained in a fall from her apartment in Okinawa days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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