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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matsuji Nakaizumi of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party speaks to voters at the city hall of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on July 11 ahead of the Upper House election. Akita's single-seat constituency has drawn much public attention as a symbol of the battle between ruling and opposition parties.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a census report released earlier this month, there were 14,047 foreign nationals living in Fukushima Prefecture as of the beginning of this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-19T18:14:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-19T18:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gestures while delivering a stump speech for Sunday's Upper House election in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T01:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/19/world/science-health-world/june-hottest-record-across-globe-noaa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T01:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cool off in the fountains of the Trocadero gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris June 28. Schools are spraying kids with water and nursing homes are equipping the elderly with hydration sensors as France and other nations battle a record-setting heat wave baking much of Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T11:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather at Kamejima Garage, a coworking space in Nagoya's Nakamura Ward for entrepreneurs and students seeking to start a business.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T11:53:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The British oil tanker Stena Impero, seen on May 5, is believed to have been captured by Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/19/business/economy-business/saury-catch-limit-pacific-agreed-first-time-eight-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T12:03:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T13:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kaesong industrial complex is seen in North Korea in February 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T13:54:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with South Korean Ambassador Nam Gwan-pyo at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/japan-propose-larger-quotas-pacific-bluefin-tuna/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T15:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kinki University Fisheries Laboratory staff member washes a farmed bluefin tuna at the laboratory in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, in October 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/business/airbus-mimics-nature-bird-prey-concept-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T15:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Airbus "Bird of Prey" is displayed at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, near Fairford, England, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/history/hideyo-noguchi-microscope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T22:32:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideyo Noguchi with his mother Shika.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/rain-pounds-southwestern-japan-typhoon-approaches-korean-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T15:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken by a resident shows a rice paddy submerged after heavy rain in Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T15:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The athletes' village for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is seen under construction in Tokyo's Chuo Ward this month. The building rush before the Olympics is affecting reconstruction efforts in the Tohoku region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/asia-pacific/north-koreas-2018-trade-lowest-10-years-seoul-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T16:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T16:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen poses for photos in St. Lucia on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T16:51:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A construction site at the Dara Sakor resort.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T16:51:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T16:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-20T22:59:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Power to the people: Taro Yamamoto, head of the Reiwa Shinsengumi political group, delivers a campaign speech to voters in Tokyo on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/tepco-decommission-reactors-fukushima-no-2-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-20T20:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 4 reactor building stands at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holding's Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power station in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, in July 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-21T10:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes his last calls for support in the city of Akita on Saturday, a day before the Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-21T10:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screenshot from video provided on Saturday allegedly shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces boarding the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/21/asia-pacific/philippines-adopts-strategy-violent-extremism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-21T14:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the local security forces carries personal belongings past a bullet-riddled apartment house in a residential area in the Malutlut district of Marawi in the southern Philippines on Oct. 27, 2017. The building was believed to have been rented by pro-Islamic State militant group leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute before their battle in the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ex-russian-arms-tycoon-quietly-wields-influence-british-leadership-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-21T16:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Temerko attends a news conference of members of the Yukos board of directors at the company's central office in Moscow on Dec. 17, 2003.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/21/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-leaves-japan-south-korea-gulf-coalition-high-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-21T16:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. national security adviser John Bolton speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/21/world/23-crew-members-seized-british-run-tanker-safe-iranian-tv-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-21T17:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops are seen on board a helicopter flying over the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday in this still image taken from video.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/elections-wake-host-foreign-policy-challenges-await-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-22T04:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aboard the MSDF helicopter carrier Kaga at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/21/world/crime-legal-world/new-zealanders-hand-10000-guns-weapons-parts-buy-back-scheme/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a newly built submarine at an undisclosed location in this undated picture released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/thousands-jam-san-juan-streets-demand-puerto-ricos-governor-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T15:30:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rossello-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take part in a protest calling for the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rossello in San Juan Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/asia-pacific/welcome-contested-island-philippines-eyes-tourism-islet-bid-bolster-south-china-sea-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T17:41:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk towards a parked Philippine Air Force plane on the island of Thitu in the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-top-lieutenants-set-retain-posts-cabinet-reshuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cabinet-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/national/social-issues/prominent-feminist-says-japan-not-feel-complacent-despite-signs-progress-womens-empowerment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-women-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-women-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants engage in an interactive discussion with panelists at the International Conference for Women in Business on July 7 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/national/tokyo-must-plan-ways-use-new-venues-beyond-olympics-says-iocs-coates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-interview-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-interview-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Coates]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/national/astronaut-ambassadors-encourage-tokyo-2020-torchbearers-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-olyspace-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olyspace-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronaut Soichi Noguchi will send messages of encouragement from space during torch relays for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/tokyo-decorated-mark-one-year-go-olympic-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:32:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-olympics-b-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-olympics-b-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. unveils the new uniforms that cabin crew, pilots and ground staff will sport from April at Haneda airport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/asia-pacific/south-korea-fires-warning-shots-russia-warplanes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-skrussia-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-skrussia-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the South Korean Coast Guard looks at the Takeshima islets, known in the South as Dokdo, aboard a patrol ship in the Sea of Japan in April 2005. South Korean jets fired warning shots after a Russian military plane violated South Korea's airspace on Tuesday, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/22/business/tumbling-exports-south-korea-signal-another-bad-month-global-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T19:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-koreaexport-a-20190723.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-koreaexport-a-20190723.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean protester wearing a mask of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe performs during a rally denouncing Japan for its enforcement of tighter export controls near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/plaintiffs-wartime-labor-case-seek-sale-mitsubishi-heavy-assets-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T20:28:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mheavy-b-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs who won a compensation case against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. seek approval to sell the manufacturer's assets Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/economy-business/japan-keeping-wary-eye-impact-slowing-china-economy-white-paper-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T20:28:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-whitepaper-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars await export at Yokohama port in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/south-korea-report-japans-tightening-exports-wto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-23T20:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-koreaexport-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-koreaexport-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean protesters hold placards that play on the Hinomaru during a rally in Seoul on July 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-touches-off-storm-india-kashmir-mediation-offer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T04:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-mediate-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mediate-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian soldiers stand guard at a closed market area during a strike called by separatists in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, July 13. India's opposition leaders are angrily demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarify his position about President Donald Trump mediating India's long-running dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said Tuesday Modi made no such request to Trump as the U.S. president had claimed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-says-venezuelas-opposition-contact-moscow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T08:47:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-rusven-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rusven-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juan Guaido, president of the National Assembly who swore himself in as the leader of Venezuela, gestures while leaving from a National Assembly session on rejoining the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, known as the Rio Treaty, in the Las Mercedes neighborhood of Caracas on Tuesday. The agreement, known in Spanish as TIAR, allows for countries of the Hemisphere to request support in case of aggression.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/asia-pacific/flooding-across-third-bangladesh-leaves-60-dead-displaces-hundreds-thousands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T08:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-banglafloods-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-banglafloods-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cross a flooded road in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/national/well-losers-2020-anti-olympic-activists-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T11:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-antiolympics-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-antiolympics-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Olympic activist and former soccer player Jules Boykoff (center) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo with Misako Ichimura (left) of Hangorinnokai (No Olympics 2020) and Annie Orchier, an organizing member with NOlympics LA.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/world/britain-wins-early-european-support-hormuz-naval-mission-weak-response-u-s-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T13:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-ukhormuz-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukhormuz-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iran Revolutionary Guard speedboat trains a weapon toward the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/business/u-s-tech-groups-warn-japan-south-korea-trade-spat-threatens-global-supply-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T13:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-ustech-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ustech-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An industrial robot folds a T-shirt during a demonstration at a Tokyo trade fair in January. U.S. technology companies are urging Japan and South Korea to resolve their trade dispute over key chemicals for semiconductor production, saying it could threaten the global chip supply chain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/business/tech/bot-office-computer-sizing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T14:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/business/corporate-business/japanese-adhesive-maker-konishi-form-joint-venture-indonesias-triputra-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T15:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/crime-legal/sons-struggle-acquittal-deadly-1949-mitaka-train-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T17:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-mitaka-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mitaka-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The wreckage of a train that crashed into Mitaka Station in Tokyo on July 15, 1949.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/asia-pacific/china-blasts-u-s-undermining-global-stability-defense-white-paper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T17:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-chinawhite-b-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinawhite-b-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian speaks during a news conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/crime-legal/tokyo-prosecutors-drop-charges-attempts-join-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T17:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-is-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-is-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosuke Tsuneoka]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-calls-renewal-defense-information-pact-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T18:13:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks with local officials in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 2.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/asia-pacific/russia-wants-probe-alleged-south-korean-airspace-violation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T19:19:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-airspace-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoon Sang-hyun (left), chairman of the South Korean parliament's foreign affairs committee, stands with acting Russian Ambassador to South Korea Maxim Volkov before their meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/abe-apologizes-kin-former-leprosy-patients-past-segregation-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T21:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-leprosy-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows to family members of former leprosy patients at his office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/tokyo-holds-highway-test-work-ease-traffic-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T22:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-traffic-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-traffic-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An entry point leading to the Metropolitan Expressway is seen closed Wednesday in Tokyo, as the capital conducts a test aimed at identifying ways to ease traffic during the 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/business/corporate-business/canons-profit-track-fall-36-hit-weak-china-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T22:06:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-canon-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-canon-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canon Inc.'s logo is seen on its mirrorless camera. The company's group net profit for this business year is now projected to fall by 36.7 percent from a year earlier due to the weakening demand for cameras in the Chinese market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/business/bolton-says-u-s-will-not-mediate-row-japan-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T22:35:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-bolton-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bolton-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/business/trade-controls-south-korea-hit-exports-japans-chip-making-gear-lawmaker-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T22:45:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-koreaspat-a-20190725.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-koreaspat-a-20190725.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Norihiro Nakayama]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/tech/basketball-robot-cue3-b-leagues-alvark-tokyo-join-olympic-effort-teach-students-math/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-24T22:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-robot-a-20190629.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robot-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cue3, a basketball robot developed by Toyota Motor Corp., demonstrates its shooting skills Friday at an elementary school in the western Tokyo suburb of Fuchu.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/25/asia-pacific/u-s-sends-warship-taiwan-strait-warning-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T13:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-taiwan-a-20190726.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwan-a-20190726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam is seen in the South China Sea in March 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/25/business/space-anarchy-lack-rules-evident-businesses-race-conquer-skies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T13:27:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-spacejam-a-20190726.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spacejam-a-20190726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Indian Space Research Organization's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII carrying the Chandrayaan-2 mission lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space center in Sriharikota, India, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/japan-start-research-growing-human-organs-animals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T13:50:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A science ministry committee of experts Wednesday approved Japan's first research involving the injection of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into fertilized animal eggs to grow human organs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign directs test-takers toward a Japanese-language exam in Manila in April for those who want to work in Japan under a new visa category. Japan is planning to conduct language tests in other countries in the autumn.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Accused swindler Bernard Madoff exits the Manhattan federal court house in New York in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators shout slogans and bang on pots during a protest demanding the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rossello in front of La Fortaleza in San Juan on Wednesday. Rossello's looming resignation leaves Puerto Rico's government in shambles and may strengthen the hand of federal overseers tasked with imposing austerity on the bankrupt island to pull it from a years-long financial crisis.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A grab from a broadcast on Sudan TV on Wednesday shows Gen. Mohamed Othman al-Hussein, the new head of the joint chiefs of staff, delivering a speech in Khartoum. Sudan's military said it had arrested a top general and several others over a foiled coup attempt announced earlier this month. The attempted coup came as the ruling military council, which took over after Omar al-Bashir's ouster in April, negotiated a power-sharing deal with protest leaders to form a joint civilian-military governing body.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's new prime minister, Boris Johnson, arrives back at 10 Downing Street in London Wednesday. Johnson took charge Wednesday, on a mission to deliver Brexit by Oct. 31 with or without a deal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pacific black brant fly past Mount Dutton over the Izembek Lagoon in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Vice Premier Liu He smiles as he talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (right) as he arrives at the office of the Trade Representative for further trade talks in Washington in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quote from the Muller report is displayed on a screen as former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T14:35:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane being built for India-based Jet Airways lands following a test flight in April at Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing Co. reported earnings on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T16:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toshiba Memory plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T16:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eels-a-20190726.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The domestic catch of juvenile eels for cultivation dropped to the lowest level since 2003.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T16:46:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chelsea FC midfielder Kenedy shoots during a friendly soccer match with Kawasaki Frontale at Yokohama stadium on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T16:51:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photos from April 1980 show judoka Yasuhiro Yamashita (left), who now heads the Japanese Olympic Committee, and wrestler Yuji Takada calling for the country's participation in that year's Moscow Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T17:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staffers at No. 10 Downing St. welcome new Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/25/world/ecological-chernobyl-looms-abandoned-siberian-chemical-factory-official-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T18:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T18:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T18:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday unveils a pint-sized, self-driving robot car with artificial intelligence developed to fetch javelins and hammers for use at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T18:10:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chris Coons]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T18:12:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Didi logo is seen on a vehicle during the China Internet Conference in Beijing in June 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T18:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Francesco Fini (left), the EU Delegation minister to Japan, speaks at a symposium in Tokyo on Monday where he urged Japan to abolish the death penalty.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T19:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T19:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyer Yuji Ogawara addresses a symposium on the death penalty in Tokyo on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T19:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/05/national/minamata-recognition-criteria-called-outrage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-25T19:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T19:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T20:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a submarine factory in an undisclosed location in North Korea in this undated picture released by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on Tuesday. The North on Wednesday reportedly fired unidentified projectiles from around Wonsan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T20:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T20:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Funago is one of two lawmakers with severe physical disabilities elected to the Upper House in Sunday's election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-25T20:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delegates arrive for the meeting before the General Council at the World Trade Organization in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss the worsening trade and diplomatic dispute between South Korea and Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's new prime minister, Boris Johnson, waves from the steps outside 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows a reservoir tainted with waters from a closed copper mine, on a bank of the Yenisei River in the Siberian settlement of Maina, Republic of Khakassia, Russia, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the National Urban League Conference Thursday in Indianapolis.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is joined by fellow Democrats as he tells reporters that the Republicans have killed every piece of legislation the Democrats have crafted to protect elections, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-26T10:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daydreamers: A recent study at Hiroshima University has revealed that people who are good at enjoying the imagination derived from manga, animation and games may be better at unlocking the benefits of daydreaming.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's population in the under-19 age group has already peaked, government data show. The nation, which has more young people than any other country, is running out of time to harness the potential of its youth to drive economic growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-26T20:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Coast Guard says two China Coast Guard ships briefly entered Japanese waters Friday off Aomori Prefecture. The last time one was spotted in the same area was in July 2017, as shown in this photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in are at loggerheads as their governments continue to spar over exports of crucial chemicals and a wartime labor dispute. Given the strained ties, a group of citizens has launched an online petition calling on Tokyo to take a cool-headed approach to easing tensions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-27T14:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cook prepares eel at a restaurant in Nagoya on Saturday, the traditional eel-eating day known as the Day of the Ox. Many people eat eel, typically grilled with sweet soy sauce, to honor an old saying that promotes consumption of the fish to help the body withstand the summer heat.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sunbathers lie on the beach in De Haan, Belgium, on Thursday as Belgium experienced a "code red" warning for extreme heat.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple displays a Mac Pro sits during its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, on June 3.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mukhtar Hadi, who survived a Saudi-led air strike that killed dozens, including children, in August 2018, stands with his brother and sister in Saada, Yemen, on Sept. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-27T15:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesians protest against single-use plastics in Jakarta on July 21. Behind them is an anglerfish made out of plastic waste.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-27T23:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blunt advice: Hiroshi Kume discusses his time at TV Asahi's ground-breaking show, "News Station," in Tokyo in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/27/national/typhoon-nari-makes-landfall-central-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-27T20:32:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians battle fierce winds and rain in Nagoya on Saturday after Typhoon Nami made landfall in neighboring Mie Prefecture earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-27T20:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, attends a post-election event at the Prince Hotel in Tokyo on July 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/28/national/anti-moon-youtubers-south-korea-win-fans-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-28T12:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mobile phones set up on tripods for a live broadcast film members of a conservative civic group taking part in a protest in Seoul on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-28T12:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-28T12:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters face police at a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow's regional legislature on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/27/national/science-health/privately-launched-momo-4-rocket-fails-liftoff-crashes-sea-off-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-28T13:10:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takafumi Horie (left), founder of Interstellar Technologies Inc., and Takahiro Inagawa, the aerospace startup's president, attend a news conference in Taiki, Hokkaido, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/28/asia-pacific/thousands-protest-development-sacred-maori-land-new-zealand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-28T15:30:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-28T19:20:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The interior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, is seen in October 2004.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/28/national/tokyo-traffic-reduction-falls-far-short-target-2020-games-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-28T20:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer blocks an entrance to an expressway during a large-scale test in Tokyo on Wednesday that is aimed at cutting down on traffic during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/rohingya-tell-myanmar-wont-return-without-recognition-ethnic-group-right-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T03:20:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's permanent foreign secretary, U Myint Thu, speaks during a meeting with representatives of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday. Thu led a 10-member delegation for the weekend talks in refugee camps to discuss creating conditions for the safe repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh, officials said Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/beijing-says-millions-tons-u-s-soy-shipped-china-trade-consensus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T03:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soybeans fall into a bin as a trailer is filled at a farm in Buda, Illinois, July 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/miner-cap-says-oil-spill-remote-chilean-island-contained/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T04:22:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chilean navy ship Marinero Fuentealba prepares to leave to contain an oil spill at the Guarello Island dock, about 250 km from Puerto Natales city in the region of Magallanes, Chile, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/28/national/cloudiest-tokyo-summer-129-years-leaves-japans-retailers-hurting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T08:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women in yukata (lightweight kimono) enjoy the day in Tokyo's Asakusa district on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-s-johnson-heads-scotland-edinburgh-leader-attacks-no-deal-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T08:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boris-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pauses during a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, Saturday. Economists have warned that leaving the European bloc without an agreement in under 100-days would disrupt trade and have an impact on finances and investment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/asia-pacific/hong-kong-police-struggle-contain-unpredictable-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T13:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A riot police officer fires tear gas in the direction of demonstrators during a protest in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/brother-singapores-prime-minister-backs-opposition-party-election-twist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T13:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Hsien Yang, son of former leader Lee Kuan Yew, delivers his eulogy during a funeral service at the University Cultural Centre at the National University of Singapore in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/airspace-incursion-russian-plane-seen-testing-japans-collaboration-u-s-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T14:13:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian A-50 Airborne Warning and Control System plane was sighted over the Sea of Japan last Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/meghan-guest-edits-british-vogue-features-forces-change-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T14:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vogue-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo received in London, issued on Sunday by Kensington Palace, shows the cover of British Vogue's September issue, titled "Forces for Change," showing photographs by Peter Lindbergh. The issue is guest edited by Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-judge-sets-monday-hearing-trump-lawsuit-ny-tax-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T14:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ttax-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Reps. Richard Neal (eft) and Kevin Brady, meets with members of the House Ways and Means Committee about proposed changes to the U.S. tax code at the White House in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/crime-legal-world/senior-democrat-jerrold-nadler-no-deadline-trump-impeachment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T14:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-impeach-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler holds a news conference to discuss the committee's oversight agenda following the Robert Mueller hearing in Washington Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/vietnam-detains-380-chinese-illegal-online-gambling-bust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T14:28:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/like-frances-enduring-yellow-vest-movement-hong-kong-protests-unlikely-end-anytime-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T15:48:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold up signs while marching towards Causeway Bay during a protest in the Central district of Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/facial-recognition-push-india-airports-raises-privacy-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T15:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airport staff member shows a passenger how to register his personal details at a facial recognition counter at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/johnson-forms-war-cabinet-force-brexit-oct-31-no-deal-prospect-rises-times-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:08:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boriscabinet-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/asia-pacific/cambodia-says-will-increase-arms-purchases-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian naval personnel are seen on boats berthed at a jetty at the Ream naval base in Preah Sihanouk province on Friday during a government-organized media tour.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/deer-population-nara-park-record-size-despite-deaths-illness-accidents-plastic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-deer-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-deer-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of deer at Nara Park has increased to a record high, the Nara Deer Preservation Foundation said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/27/asia-pacific/two-south-koreans-dead-water-polo-athletes-hurt-nightclub-collapse-gwangju/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-gwangju-a-20190728.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gwangju-a-20190728.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers prepare to inspect a collapsed internal balcony at a nightclub in Gwangju, South Korea, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/economy-business/bank-japan-may-enhance-commitment-ultralow-rates-prevent-yen-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the International Monetary Fund in Washington on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/corporate-business/renaults-troubled-ties-nissan-hurting-bottom-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:37:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-renault-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Captur crossover SUVs move down the assembly line at a Renault automobile plant in Moscow in May. Renault's troubled ties with Nissan are hurting its earnings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/17/national/tokyo-hopes-keep-gsomia-military-information-sharing-pact-seoul-foreign-minister-taro-kono-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T16:55:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/arson-struck-kyoto-animation-offered-wide-range-assistance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T17:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans of Kyoto Animation carry a portable shrine on Sunday decorated with characters from “Lucky Star,” a production of the studio, in the city of Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, where the anime was set. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-29T17:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiwan-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks after reviewing the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy fleet in the South China Sea in April last year. China has announced large-scale military exercises in broad swaths of the waters and airspace in both the South and East China seas near Taiwan for this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/corporate-business/japan-post-workers-forged-papers-sell-insurance-policies-internal-document-reveals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T18:05:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-postal-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazumasa Iwata, head of the government's postal privatization panel, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/japan-keen-continue-military-intelligence-sharing-pact-south-korea-top-government-spokesman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T18:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gsomia-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan wants to maintain a bilateral accord on military intelligence-sharing with South Korea that was signed in 2016 in response to growing concerns over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/south-korean-city-exchange-programs-flight-routes-japan-suspended-amid-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T20:23:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpsk-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean business owners stamp on boxes bearing the logos of Japanese companies, during a protest in Seoul on July 5 against Japan's tightening of rules on exports to South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/kyoto-animation-hopes-recover-drawing-storyboard-data-server-arson-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T20:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A room on the ground floor of a Kyoto Animation Co. building is seen on July 20 following the fatal arson attack two days before.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/social-issues-world/nearly-1400-detained-moscow-protest-largest-crackdown-decade-opposition-figure-alexei-navalny-hospitalized/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T21:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moscow-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in 2015, in Moscow in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/think-european-heatwave-bad-climate-already-hitting-key-tipping-points/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T21:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Horses on dry land look for grass to graze on near Bastelicaccia on the French island of Corsica on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/world/u-s-teen-wins-3-million-fortnite-world-cup-esports-tournament/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-29T21:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fortnite-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyle Giersdorf, who plays under the name Bugha, celebrates with a trophy after winning the final of the solo competition at the 2019 Fortnite World Cup on Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/28/national/new-visas-wont-help-japans-restaurants-stay-staffed-unless-hours-pay-improve-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T12:46:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-restaurant-a-20190729.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-restaurant-a-20190729.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Min-joong, an apprentice chef from South Korea, poses at the Kisentei Tokyo Midtown restaurant in Tokyo's Roppongi district on July 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/asia-pacific/u-s-imposes-sanctions-vietnam-based-north-korean-party-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T13:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-nksanx-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nksanx-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A short-range missile is launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea on Thursday. The U.S. Treasury Department said Monday it has imposed sanctions on a North Korean operating in Vietnam for his alleged role in facilitating Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/genome-study-finds-roots-komodo-dragons-tenaciousness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T13:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-komodo-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komodo dragons walk in Komodo National Park on Indonesia's Komodo island in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/aging-filipino-war-orphans-race-time-bid-japanese-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T13:56:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-filipino-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-filipino-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ines Mallari, president of Philippine Nikkei Jin Kai, Inc., speaks at a seminar-workshop with younger Filipino-Japanese descendants on June 29 in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/national/japan-lodges-protest-north-korea-launch-ballistic-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-nkprotest-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkprotest-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency has released footage of what it called a "new-type tactical guided weapon," which Japan has identified as a short-range ballistic missile.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/business/candidate-elizabeth-warren-outlines-trade-proposal-calls-strict-requirements-future-deals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:42:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-wartrade-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wartrade-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren greets people as she arrives at a campaign event Saturday in Derry, New Hampshire.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/world/crime-legal-world/man-pushes-boy-front-train-germanys-frankfurt-station-killing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-gertrain-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-gertrain-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Policemen and fireworkers hold a white blanket as a visual cover at the site of a deadly attack at the railway station in Frankfurt am Main on Monday. An 8-year-old boy died and his mother was injured when a man pushed them in front of a train, police said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/economy-business/japan-cuts-2019-growth-forecast-amid-weak-exports-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-growthcut-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-growthcut-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars await shipment at a port in Kawasaki. The government has cut its economic growth forecast for fiscal 2019, citing weak exports caused mainly by a slowdown in demand from China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/corporate-business/softbank-groups-108-billion-vision-fund-2-draws-microsoft-apple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan (second from left) talks to SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son after a meeting with Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, at the presidential palace in Jakarta on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/japan-u-s-trade-chiefs-hold-negotiations-later-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-tradetalks-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradetalks-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japanese economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi hold talks in Tokyo on May 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/rainy-season-ends-japans-kanto-koshin-region-giving-way-intense-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T14:50:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-weather-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians brave the heat as they walk in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Monday. The weather agency said the same day that the rainy season had ended in Tokyo and other areas in the Kanto-Koshin region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/national/canceled-races-fainting-players-climate-change-turns-heat-sports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T15:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climate-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyoites endure a heat wave in the Japanese capital in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/08/business/new-tax-free-investment-scheme-not-likely-to-increase-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T15:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/yl-20130808-NISA-doc.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[yl-20130808-NISA-doc.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New tax-free investment scheme not likely to increase investment]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/world/science-health-world/innovation-rush-aims-help-farmers-rich-poor-beat-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T16:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees take pictures of the Scientific Cal Ag Gen 6 prototype drone during the World Agriculture Expo in Tulare, California, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/train-disruptions-hong-kong-show-protests-affecting-daily-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T16:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hktrains-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands next to some protesters who are blocking the door of a train at a subway platform in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Protesters in Hong Kong have disrupted subway services during the morning commute by blocking the doors on trains, preventing them from leaving the stations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/business/economy-business/japans-factory-output-slides-pressure-global-slump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T16:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work on the assembly line at the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/billionaire-friend-trump-aimed-profit-middle-east-nuclear-deal-congressional-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T16:32:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpfriend-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Barrack speaks with members of the press at Trump Tower in New York City in January 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/politics-diplomacy/teen-voter-turnout-31-upper-house-election-14-points-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T16:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-teenage-a-20190724.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teenage-a-20190724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A voter casts a ballot for the Upper House election on Sunday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/national/japans-cargo-vessel-resupply-international-space-station-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T16:58:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-rocket-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rocket-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kounotori8 unmanned cargo transporter is shown to the media on July 19 at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-lawmaker-sparked-scandal-russia-war-remarks-join-anti-nhk-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T17:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-maruyama-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maruyama-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower House member Hodaka Maruyama (right) meets with Takashi Tachibana, who leads political party NHK Kara Kokumin wo Mamoru To, on Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/national/despite-increased-number-seats-won-upper-house-election-komeito-officials-worried-drop-votes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T17:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi gives a radio interview in Tokyo on July 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T17:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. vehicles are lined up in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in January. The alliance of Nissan, Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. lost its lead in global auto sales in the first half of 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T18:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Biegun]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T18:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T18:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn arrives at the Tokyo District Court on May 23 for a pretrial hearing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/national/deadly-heat-major-fear-ahead-2020-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T18:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Asada of Weathernews Inc. measures the temperature at Odaiba Marine Park, the 2020 Olympic triathlon venue in Tokyo, in July 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T18:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Ishin no Kai chief and Mayor Ichiro Matsui waves to voters in the city of Osaka on March 21 during election campaigning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T19:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (center) speaks to a child in a Tokyo subway car decorated with characters from the popular children's animation "Thomas &amp; Friends" during its test runs Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T19:47:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T19:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The thunder god is featured on the 2020 Tokyo Olympic commemorative coin.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T19:51:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lizards-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[These bobtail lizards were confiscated from two Japanese men who have been convicted of attempting to smuggle them out of Australia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/national/tokyos-five-major-networks-trial-simultaneous-online-streaming-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-30T20:29:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T21:23:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's recent return to racial politics may be aimed at rallying his base of white working-class voters across rural America, but the risks of the strategy are glaring in conversations with suburban women.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-30T21:44:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees wait to enter the Nintendo Co. Pokemon Sword and Shield exhibit during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/business/economy-business/japans-working-women-top-30-million-jobless-rate-improves-2-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T09:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-women-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of working women topped 30 million in June for the first time on record, as more women are encouraged to work to cope with a chronic labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/business/japan-u-s-agree-accelerate-trade-talks-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T10:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanustrade-a-20190629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic reviltalization Toshimitsu Motegi is greeted by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Washington on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/japans-plutonium-stockpile-declined-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T13:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The central control room at the Rokkasho reprocessing plant in Rokkasho Village, Aomori Prefecture, is seen in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/new-attack-apparent-bid-back-views-trump-says-u-s-intelligence-agencies-run-amok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T13:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ratcliffe-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, a Republican of Texas, listens as former special ccounsel Robert Mueller testifies in Washington July 24. President Donald Trump's choice of a lawmaker with limited experience to oversee the massive U.S. intelligence community has sparked concerns over the possible politicization of crucial national security decisions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/tech/u-s-decide-special-licenses-firms-sell-huawei-next-week-wilbur-ross/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T13:37:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks during a meeting with businessmen in the American Chamber of Commerce in Sao Paulo Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/bayer-ceo-opens-door-roundup-settlement-suits-swell-stocks-slide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T13:38:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tthe logo of German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer is pictured at the group's plant in Wuppertal, western Germany, in April. One year after taking over U.S. seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto in a $63 billion gamble, the payoff for pharma giant Bayer remains in question as it battles a massive wave of cancer lawsuits over a flagship weedkiller.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/world/science-health-world/russians-demand-vast-wildfires-consuming-siberia-doused/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T13:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A view through an aircraft window shows smoke from wildfires rising above the Verkhoyansky district of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. Press Service of the Republic of Sakha]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/27/national/media-national/tracing-fluctuations-moral-standards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T14:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moral code: Minke whale meat is sold in the food section of Hankyu's main department store in Osaka on July 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/japan-taps-jomon-period-sites-world-heritage-nomination-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T15:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ofune site in Hakodate, Hokkaido, is one of the archaeological sites in northern Japan that the government plans to submit as a candidate for World Heritage recognition.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/tech/five-eyes-security-alliance-calls-access-tech-firms-encrypted-material/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T15:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during a visit to the West Midlands Police Learning &amp; Development Centre in Birmingham, England, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-31T15:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees wait for a shuttle bus at a 5G testing park at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-31T16:27:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson,  accompanied by local farmer Ingrid Shervington, holds a chicken during his visit to rally support for his farming plans post-Brexit, at Shervington Farm, in St Brides Wentlooge near Newport, south Wales, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-07-31T16:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Father Chris Ponnet, leader of the St. Camillus Center in Los Angeles, speaks during a rally protesting against the death penalty and in favor of immigration reform in Anaheim, California, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/corporate-business/hitachi-build-165-train-cars-british-railway-operator-abellio-u-k/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T17:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building that houses the Hitachi Ltd. headquarters in central Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/corporate-business/e-commerce-firm-mercari-buys-j-leagues-kashima-antlers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T17:59:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercari Inc. COO Fumiaki Koizumi (right) poses with Kashima Antlers F.C. President Hiroshi Shono (center) and Hiroshi Tsuga, a Nippon Steel executive, in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/social-issues/passports-surnames-brackets-puzzling-mix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T18:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-passport-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The usage of premarital surnames on passports has triggered confusion among some and anger among others in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/o-bon-holiday-last-nine-days-japanese-workers-not-everyone-happy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T19:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vacation-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play at a fountain in a park in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward on Wednesday as a heat wave smothered wide swaths of the archipelago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/social-issues/women-male-dominated-japan-fight-identity-starting-names/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T19:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Married couple Kazuya Ishizawa (left) and Miki Haga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/actor-turned-politician-taro-yamamoto-aims-real-life-starring-role-future-japan-pm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T19:28:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-yamamoto-a-20190801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamamoto-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Yamamoto holds up a placard asking people to fill Twitter with posts about his party, Reiwa Shinsengumi, as he campaigns for the Upper House election in Tokyo on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-multiple-projectiles-sea-japan-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T19:36:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV broadcast of a news report on North Korea firing short-range ballistic missiles, in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People call for wage hikes near where a labor ministry panel subcommittee is holding a meeting in central Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/economy-business/japan-may-achieve-fiscal-health-fiscal-2027-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-07-31T22:05:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fiscal-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's long-term projections released Wednesday shows Japan may achieve fiscal health in the year ending March 2028, one year later than previously estimated, due to decreased tax revenues amid a slowdown in the global economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-01T08:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese boats are anchored near their claimed reef, Subi, as seen from the Philippine-claimed island of Thitu during a visit by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to the island in the Spratlys in 2017. The Philippines on Wednesday criticised a fresh "swarming" of Chinese vessels near Thitu in the disputed South China Sea, which a top official said could be aimed at preventing Filipino control of the outcrop.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-01T08:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson, U.K. prime minister, speaks as Priti Patel, U.K. home secretary, listens during the National Policing Board meeting in London on Wednesday,. Johnson went a long way toward cementing his working majority in the U.K. Parliament with a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday, but did little to break the Brexit impasse with Dublin and Brussels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/corporate-business/japan-post-insurance-policies-affected-sales-scandal-double-180000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T09:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A post office in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-01T10:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A roadside advertisement for Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy smartphones in Seoul]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/asia-pacific/north-korean-soldier-makes-rare-defection-across-dmz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T13:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-01T13:44:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Destroyed homes are seen following a landslide in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, in July 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-01T13:49:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kavi Chongkittavorn, a columnist for The Bangkok Post and senior fellow at Chulalongkorn University, speaks during an interview in Bangkok on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-01T13:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russia's jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny sitts on a hospital bed in Moscow Monday, when he said he might have been "poisoned" in his prison cell amid a crackdown on anti-Kremlin protesters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/01/business/japans-energy-policies-critical-juncture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T13:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-insiderreport-a-20190702.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-insiderreport-a-20190702.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Because of the domestic lack of fossil fuels, nothing is more important than securing a homegrown energy supply.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/08/business/building-toward-large-scale-use-renewable-energy-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T13:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers walk past rows of panels at a floating solar power station in Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/facebook-defeats-appeal-u-s-claiming-aided-hamas-attacks-israel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebook-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 3-D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed binary code in this June illustration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/future-nuclear-power-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-insiderreport-a-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-insiderreport-a-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Media members in protective suits and masks receive a briefing from employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/22/business/will-progress-switch-low-carbon-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coal-fired power plant in Lamma Island, Hong Kong]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/future-japans-energy-environmental-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-insiderreport-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-insiderreport-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smart houses sport rooftop solar panels in the Higashiyama district of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/ryanair-tells-ranks-900-pilots-crew-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-ryanair-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ryanair-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ryanair logo is pictured on the the jacket of a cabin crew member ahead of a news conference by Ryanair union representatives in Brussels last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/japanese-prince-hisahito-along-parents-leave-bhutan-aug-16/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-bhutan-a-20190801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bhutan-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito, along with his parents Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko,  attend a graduation ceremony at his Tokyo elementary school in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/corporate-business/panasonics-april-june-operating-profit-sags-43-percent-lower-china-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-panasonic-a-20190801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-panasonic-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp.'s April-June operating profit fell 43 percent on lower China sales, the company announced Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/pompeo-calls-standstill-agreement-give-feuding-japan-south-korea-time-cool-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T14:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-usjpsk-a-20190801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usjpsk-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukushiro Nukaga (left) and Suh Chung-won (right) shake hands Wednesday at a hotel in Tokyo, prior to discussing ways to deal with escalating trade tensions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-fears-compromise-south-korea-wartime-labor-issue-open-pandoras-box/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T15:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-skfocus-a-20190801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-skfocus-a-20190801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with South Korean Ambassador Nam Gwan-pyo at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/asia-pacific/weekend-violent-clashes-beijing-address-hong-kong-unrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T16:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-hongkong-d-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hongkong-d-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Guang, spokesperson for mainland China’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, answers questions concerning the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, at a press conference in Beijing on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/corporate-business/didi-mobility-japan-starts-taxi-hailing-service-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T17:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-didi-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-didi-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Didi Mobility Japan Corp. employees hold a media event to promote the firm's taxi-hailing service at Fukuoka Dome on June 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/first-brydes-whale-auction-held-since-restart-japans-commercial-hunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T17:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-whale-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-whale-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants at a Sendai wholesale market eat Bryde's whale sashimi on Thursday, during a tasting event held in conjunction with an auction of the whale meat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/tax-takeout-food-nonalcoholic-drinks-japan-remain-8-percent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T17:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-tax-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After the tax hike in October, food bought at movie theaters and baseball stadiums will still be subject to the 8 percent consumption tax rate if consumers eat it at their seats.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-friendly-taipei-mayor-form-political-party-challenge-tsai-ing-wen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T17:57:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-tsaiwan-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tsaiwan-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taipei mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je speaks after winning an election at his campaign headquarters in Taipei in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/economy-business/bank-japan-deputy-chief-signals-easing-steps-u-s-rate-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T18:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-boj-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Masayoshi Amamiya speaks at a news conference in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/china-u-s-plan-next-round-trade-talks-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T18:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-uschinatrade-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uschinatrade-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (left) gestures toward U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as he chats with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He at the Xijiao Conference Center in Shanghai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/economy-business/fed-cuts-key-rate-first-reduction-decade-amid-trumps-trade-wars-dim-global-outlook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T18:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-fed-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fed-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A trader works as a screen shows Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's news conference after the U.S. Federal Reserve interest rates announcement on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/asian-business-bloodlines-brink-lack-heirs-pushes-owners-arms-private-equity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T22:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-buyouts-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-buyouts-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Tsusaka, CEO of Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko, a private-equity firm in Tokyo, says around 66 percent of small and midsize businesses in Japan lack successors.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/tech/parts-makers-literally-reinventing-wheel-keep-shift-autonomous-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T22:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-autoparts-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee sits behind the steering wheel of a Pony.ai Inc. autonomous vehicle during a road test in Guangzhou, China, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/tech/japanese-startup-integriculture-dreams-feeding-world-cheap-meat-fresh-lab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T22:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-meat-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-meat-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Culnet System developed by agriculture startup IntegriCulture Inc. is displayed in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/iran-says-u-s-sanctioning-top-diplomat-childish-tensions-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-01T22:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/facebook-says-dismantled-covert-influence-campaign-tied-saudi-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T04:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of the U.S. online social media and social networking service Facebook is seen July 4. Facebook on Thursday said it derailed a pair of shady online influence campaigns in the Arabic-speaking world, including one linked to the Saudi Arabian government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/defying-pushback-japan-set-remove-south-korea-white-list-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T07:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Bangkok on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/social-issues-world/four-killed-renewed-sudan-protests-opposition-medics-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T07:15:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People demonstrate against the killing of protesting children, who were shot dead when security forces broke up a student protest in Khartoum, Thursday in this still image taken from video.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-defends-obama-legacy-democratic-criticism-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T08:35:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden looks down as U.S. Sen. from California Kamala Harris speaks during the second round of the Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit Wednesday. Biden said Thursday he was "surprised" at the intensity of debate-night criticism leveled at his onetime boss, Barack Obama, saying the popular ex-president has nothing to apologize for.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/japan-names-new-envoys-ireland-nato/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T13:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-02T14:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kura Sushi President Kunihiko Tanaka (right) poses for a photo in New York on Thursday, the same day the U.S. arm of his sushi chain debuts on the Nasdaq.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/new-arms-race-feared-u-s-russia-inf-nuclear-treaty-expires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T14:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attend welcoming ceremonies at the White House on the first day of their disarmament summit on Dec. 8, 1987.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/corporate-business/yahoo-japan-pushes-ceo-partner-askul-public-dispute-heats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/first-engine-powered-aircraft-ever-fly-japan-returns-tokorozawa-city-saitama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokorozawa Aviation Museum in Saitama Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/people-involved-tokyo-olympics-encouraged-get-measles-rubella-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-measles-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to encourage people to get measles and rubella vaccinations ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/whats-next-south-korea-braces-tighter-japan-export-restrictions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-skimpacts-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV program showing an image of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at Seoul Station on Friday. Japan has approved the removal of South Korea from a "white list" of countries with preferential trade status, escalating tensions between the neighbors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/science-health-world/astronomers-find-milky-way-warped-twisted-galaxy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-milkyway-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration made from 3D mapping shows the warped shape of the stellar disk of our Milky Way galaxy, with distances noted in light-years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-unidentified-projectiles-sea-japan-third-launch-just-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nklaunch-b-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watching a missile launch is seen during a news program on a TV screen at Seoul railway station on Thursday. South Korea's military said the North conducted its third weapons tests in just over a week on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/inf-treatys-demise-u-s-seeks-funds-missile-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T16:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-infree-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan shake hands after signing the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House on Dec. 8, 1987.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/asia-pacific/dozens-top-kashmiri-separatists-still-imprisoned-india-bids-marginalize-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T17:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-kashbox-a-20190803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kashbox-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The wife of Krishan Lal, an Indian Army soldier who was killed during shooting from the Pakistan side of the border last Saturday, wails by his body in the village of Ghagriyal, in the Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir state, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/trumps-tariffs-chinese-goods-paid-u-s-importers-not-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T17:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. flag flies over a container ship unloading its cargo from Asia at the Port of Long Beach, California, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/defense-chief-takeshi-iwaya-meet-new-u-s-counterpart-mark-esper-japan-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T17:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-defense-a-20190803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Iwaya]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/russian-pm-dmitry-medvedev-visits-disputed-island-off-hokkaido-despite-protest-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting in Chita, Russia, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/corporate-business/toyota-posts-record-sales-profit-quarter-cuts-outlook-due-stronger-yen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motors Executive Vice President Moritaka Yoshida (right) speaks beside operating officer Kenta Kon at a news conference to announce first-quarter financial results at the company's Tokyo headquarters on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/japans-social-security-benefits-topped-%c2%a5120-trillion-hit-record-high-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/former-vietnamese-refugee-reunites-okinawan-ship-captain-saved-104-others-1983/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawatimes-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masakazu Minami (left), a former Vietnamese refugee, meets Gensho Miyagi in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/crime-legal/past-participants-japans-lay-judge-system-reveal-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-layjudges-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former lay judges attend a gathering held at Senshu University in Tokyo in December to share their experiences.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-korean-petition-ban-imports-sex-dolls-forces-government-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-taro-kono-asks-new-u-k-foreign-secretary-dominic-raab-orderly-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T18:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-raab-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-raab-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab walks through the venue of the 52nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/trump-resisted-treasury-chiefs-proposal-warn-china-new-tariffs-tweeting-even-spoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T19:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-trumptrade-a-20190803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumptrade-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/crime-legal-world/justice-department-declines-prosecute-james-comey-leaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T19:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-comey-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill last December in Washington. The Justice Department has declined to prosecute Comey over his handling of memos he wrote documenting personal interactions with President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/indias-top-court-moves-politicians-rape-trial-intimidation-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T19:41:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indiarape-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shout slogans as they carry an effigy depicting Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a legislator of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), during a protest demanding justice for a woman who is fighting a rape case against the legislator in Kolkata, India, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/national/japan-tighten-japanese-language-school-standards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T19:55:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-schools-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-schools-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Immigration Services Agency plans to toughen eligibility standards for Japanese-language schools that can accept foreign students, effective Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/27/asia-pacific/chinese-paper-says-west-trying-falsify-history-communist-party-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinaarmy-a-20151028.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor waits for customers to buy wall hangings depicting late Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong at a market in Beijing on Sunday. A Chinese military newspaper says that unnamed forces in the West are trying to falsify the party's and the military's history.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/12/world/army-paper-says-weaknesses-china-military-training-wont-win-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/business/corporate-business/seven-cease-7pay-smartphone-payment-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:08:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-7pay-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-7pay-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Fumihiko Nagamatsu uses the 7pay smartphone payment service at a convenience store in central Tokyo on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/31/business/corporate-business/seven-holdings-resets-7pay-passwords-%c2%a538-6-million-hack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:09:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-7ids-a-20190731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-7ids-a-20190731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer enters a 7-Eleven convenience store, operated by Seven &amp; I Holdings Co., in Tokyo on June 17.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/06/national/crime-legal/government-urges-seven-eleven-japan-beef-security-7pay-mobile-payment-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-7payfraud-a-20190707.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-7payfraud-a-20190707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government has told the operator of Seven-Eleven stores that its mobile payment service is not secure enough after customers of the convenience store chain were allegedly defrauded through unauthorized access.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/05/national/crime-legal/chinese-pair-arrested-tokyo-e-cigarettes-worth-%c2%a5730000-bought-via-7pay-stolen-ids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-seven-a-20190706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-seven-a-20190706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two men were arrested over attempted fraud after one allegedly bought e-cigarettes using stolen IDs for Seven-Eleven's new 7pay payment service.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/04/business/corporate-business/users-7-elevens-mobile-payment-service-lose-total-%c2%a555-million-900-accounts-hacked/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-sevenpay-a-20190705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sevenpay-a-20190705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The smartphone app 7pay, which allows users to make online payments at over 20,000 7-Eleven stores across the country]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/24/business/corporate-business/seven-eleven-japan-wrap-billions-rice-balls-bioplastic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-seveneleven-a-20190625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven stores will wrap its onigiri rice balls in biomass plastic derived from sugar cane.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/08/national/media-national/convenience-stores-work-hard-stay-relevant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:10:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-convenience-stores-a-20190609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Open all hours: An ad agency in the 1990s estimated that the average resident of Tokyo's 23 wards lived 4½ minutes on foot from the nearest convenience store.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/17/business/corporate-business/japans-seven-eleven-lawson-discount-foods-close-expiration-bid-cut-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-food-a-20190518.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-food-a-20190518.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee at a convenience store in Shinagawa Ward in Tokyo removes food that is close to its expiration time from the shelves on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/27/business/corporate-business/japans-24-hour-convenience-stores-struggle-keep-doors-open-night-due-labor-crunch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-convenience-a-20190228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-convenience-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven Japan Co. is in a dispute with one of its franchises in Osaka Prefecture over its decision to end around-the-clock service.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/16/national/media-national/will-removing-porn-convenience-stores-japan-hurt-ailing-tabloids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:11:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/p16-schreiber-convenience-a-20190217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-convenience-a-20190217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leading the way: Family Mart is planning to halt sales of pornographic material nationwide by the end of August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/18/national/seven-eleven-store-owner-claims-chain-forced-stay-open-fukui-blizzard-union/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-seven-eleven-a-20180419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The owner of the Seven-Eleven store in Fukui Prefecture in this photo provided by a labor union was allegedly forced to work for about 50 hours during a blizzard in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/19/business/corporate-business/43-years-convenience-stores-still-grinding-profits-demand-services-evolves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:12:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-convenience-a-20171120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-convenience-a-20171120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a 7-Eleven in Kawasaki in April 2016. Convenience stores have thrived in Japan, supplanting the country's mom-and-pop stores.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/23/national/media-national/prepare-future-convenience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:12:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p16-hoffman-bij-a-20170924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-bij-a-20170924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quick fix: A 7-Eleven shop assistant holds up a boxed, ready prepared salad at a store in the Chiyoda district of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/23/national/media-national/sudden-exit-japans-convenience-store-pioneer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:13:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/p18-schreiber-eleven-a-20160424.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p18-schreiber-eleven-a-20160424.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[End of an era: Toshifumi Suzuki, CEO of Seven &amp; I Holdings, is surrounded by the press after announcing his resignation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/28/business/corporate-business/activist-investor-loeb-warns-seven-nepotism-deciding-ceo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/b-sevenandi-a-20160329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sevenandi-a-20160329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshifumi Suzuki, chairman and chief executive officer of Seven &amp; I Holdings Co., addresses the company's new employees during an initiation ceremony in Tokyo on March 19 last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/31/business/%c2%a5100-convenience-store-coffees-fuel-japans-surge-java-big-leagues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/b-coffee-a-20150801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coffee-a-20150801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cup of ice coffee sold at a 7-Eleven convenience store is seen in Tokyo on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/30/business/corporate-business/7-eleven-wizard-80-to-take-on-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130731a3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A matter of convenience: A woman bicycles past a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kawasaki on May 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/business/corporate-business/ministop-begins-charging-plastic-bags-two-chiba-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:21:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ministop-a-20190626.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a convenience store, operated by Ministop Co., in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, in October 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/japan-officially-approves-removing-south-korea-white-list-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-whitelist-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a Cabinet meeting with Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) and Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii and others at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/06/business/corporate-business/coca-cola-start-using-100-recycled-plastic-bottles-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:22:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-7eleven-a-20190426.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a 7-Eleven convenience store, operated by Seven &amp; I Holdings Co., at night in Kawasaki in April 2016.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/04/business/corporate-business/seven-eleven-japan-replace-president-address-labor-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/09/national/media-national/just-convenient-convenience-stores-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/p17-brasor-convenience-hours-a-20190310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-convenience-hours-a-20190310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the line of fire: Seven-Eleven Japan Co. franchises are required to keep their stores open 24/7.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/02/business/corporate-business/seven-eleven-japan-asks-tokyo-stores-get-rid-ashtray-receptacles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-ashtray-a-20181203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ashtray-a-20181203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has asked its franchise convenience stores in Tokyo to remove all ashtray receptacles set up outside their outlets.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/09/business/corporate-business/seven-eleven-open-250-stores-okinawa-around-fiscal-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-seveneleven-a-20170610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven Japan Co., the nation's largest convenience store operator, says it will open outlets in Okinawa Prefecture around fiscal 2019.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/21/business/conbini-coffee-wins-praise-profit-convenience-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b-coffee-a-20141022.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coffee-a-20141022.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman rides past a Starbucks and a McDonald's in Tokyo's Jinbocho district in a March 2007 file picture. The success of those two chains in selling coffee has inspired convenience store operators to offer their own premium brews.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/05/business/corporate-business/seven-eleven-chief-warns-short-handed-franchise-owner-gunma-cutting-hours-one-night/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-convenience-a-20190706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-convenience-a-20190706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has sent a formal warning to a franchise owner in Gunma Prefecture who requested permission to temporarily shorten operating hours because of a labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/27/national/behind-scenes-24-7-service-realities-owning-japanese-convenience-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20190528.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The owner of a 7-Eleven convenience store in the Chubu region looks at a photo of his family on his smartphone while taking a break before dawn in late March.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sevenshikoku-a-20140705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the kiosks Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has taken over, at JR West's Kyoto Station. The convenience store giant is opening around 500 outlets at JR West stations across western Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-seven-a-20160408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshifumi Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-02T20:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over half of fatal child abuse victims in Japan in fiscal 2017 were babies less than one year old, according to a report by a health ministry expert panel.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition lawmakers Eiko Kimura (left) and Yasuhiko Funago, who both have disabilities, enter the plenary session hall of the Upper House on Thursday for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yosuke Amaike is seen at Gifu University, where he works as a part-time lecturer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita speaks at a news conference on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and CEO of Rakuten Inc., speaks at the Rakuten Optimism conference in Yokohama on Wednesday. The business conference focusing on 5G innovation will end on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/business/aussie-japanese-fishmongers-swap-tips-wake-tsukiji-transfer-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T14:31:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former chief director of the Tsukiji fish market, Hiroyuki Morimoto (fifth from left), tours the Sydney Fish Market during the morning auction Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/media-national/low-voter-turnout-upper-house-election-may-reflect-indifference-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T22:46:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-voter-turnout-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voting privilege: A man places an advance vote in a ballot box in Tokyo ahead of the July 21 Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/asia-pacific/trump-minimizes-missile-launches-north-korea-opens-door-powerful-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T15:36:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look at a TV screen at the main railway station in Seoul on Friday during which a news program is broadcasting file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/puerto-rico-new-governor-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T15:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedro Pierluisi holds a news conference after being sworn in as governor of Puerto Rico in San Juan on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/media-national/news-outlets-japan-less-afraid-tackle-entertainment-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T22:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-kitagawa-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facing the press: Yoshimoto Kogyo President Akihiko Okamoto apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-urges-japan-south-korea-settle-diplomatic-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T17:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trilateral-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures between South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Friday in Bangkok after the three met to discuss the deterioration in Tokyo-Seoul ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/media-national/re-examining-2001s-fatal-kabukicho-blaze-wake-kyoto-animation-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T18:53:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather at the scene of a fatal fire in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district in 2001.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/business/economy-business/u-s-bend-auto-imports-hasten-trade-deal-japan-economic-revitalization-chief-toshimitsu-motegi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T19:34:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-ustrade-a-20190804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ustrade-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/11-month-old-baby-among-three-dead-heat-wave-hits-parts-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-03T23:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-heat-a-20190804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heat-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians use parasols to shield themselves from the hot sun in Tokyo's Ginza district on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/new-china-history-textbook-stress-territorial-rights-japan-administered-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T13:14:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinatext-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new Chinese history textbook will stress that the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture have been part of China since ancient times, according to the Global Times, a newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party of China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/media-national/anime-director-makoto-shinakais-new-film-cant-shake-name-comparisons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T13:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-salupen-weathering-with-you-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Shinkai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/asia-pacific/india-calls-off-kashmir-pilgrimage-militant-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T13:41:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian couple wait for transport out of Srinagar on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-struggles-find-footing-trade-history-row-threatens-japan-south-korea-intel-sharing-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T13:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-rokintel-a-20190804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rokintel-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha pose after a trilateral meeting in Bangkok on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/top-russian-activist-lyubov-sobol-700-detained-moscow-protest-free-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T13:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-ruscrack-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ruscrack-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers detain opposition politician Lyubov Sobol as she headed to an unsanctioned rally urging fair elections in downtown Moscow on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/petition-drive-man-lost-wife-daughter-car-crash-involving-elderly-driver-calls-punishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T13:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-ikebukuro-a-20190804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ikebukuro-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man who lost his wife and daughter in a car crash in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, in April, on Saturday collects signatures after organizing a petition demanding the elderly driver be punished.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/national/social-issues/japans-new-labor-policy-puts-labor-short-taiwan-notice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T15:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-jtaiwan-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jtaiwan-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese worker picks tomatoes at a farm in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, last December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/business/south-korean-trade-minister-raises-japans-export-controls-issue-rcep-meet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T15:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-rcep-a-20190804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rcep-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko speaks at a news conference in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/asia-pacific/u-s-looks-deploy-new-missiles-asia-defense-chief-says-amid-tensions-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T16:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-missiles-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-missiles-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper gestures as he listens to President Donald Trump speak during a full honors welcome ceremony at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/national/allergies-dental-problems-higher-among-kids-families-getting-welfare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T17:31:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-kids-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kids-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent study has found the proportion of children with allergies or dental problems is more than 10 times higher in families on welfare.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/world/iran-seizes-another-foreign-oil-tanker-gulf-says-vessel-smuggling-fuel-arab-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T18:39:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/asia-pacific/major-blackout-darkens-jakarta-neighboring-provinces-java/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T20:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/world/science-health-world/syrian-presidents-wife-says-fully-recovered-breast-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T21:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-syriawife-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-syriawife-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asma al-Assad]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/nuon-chea-khmer-rouges-chief-ideologist-dies-age-93/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-04T22:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-khmer-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-khmer-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Khmer Rouge chief ideologist and "Brother No. 2" Nuon Chea attends the tribunal in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh in February 2008. He died Sunday aged 93.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/world/crime-legal-world/el-paso-shooting-mexico-take-legal-actions-protect-citizens-u-s-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T04:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/world/cease-fire-gives-wary-syrians-idlib-respite-airstrikes-shelling-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T08:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-idlib-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian civilians gather around a damaged car after an explosive device wounded a man and a child in the town of Binnish in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/world/wfp-yemens-houthis-reach-deal-lift-partial-sanaa-aid-halt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T12:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-houthis-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-houthis-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Houthi rebel fighter fires in the air during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for their movement, in Sanaa, Thursda. The conflict in Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of Sanaa by the Houthis, who drove out the internationally recognized government. Months later, in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition launched its air campaign to prevent the rebels from overrunning the country's south.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/03/national/protests-may-see-comfort-women-statue-removed-japanese-art-event-aichi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T14:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-comfort-a-20190804.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20190804.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A section of the Aichi Triennale 2019 art festival in Nagoya featuring the "Statue of a Girl of Peace” symbolizing wartime “comfort women” was shut down late Saturday amid heated Japan-South Korea tensions in a move that has stoked freedom of expression concerns.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-told-abe-u-s-will-continue-accept-short-range-ballistic-missiles-launches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T14:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-nktrump-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nktrump-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A replica of a North Korean Scud-B missile (center) and South Korean Hawk surface-to-air missiles are displayed at the Korean War Memorial in Seoul on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump has directly told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he will continue to tolerate North Korean launches of short-range ballistic missiles, according to diplomatic sources.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-south-korea-planning-trilateral-summit-december/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T14:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-trilateral-a-20190805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trilateral-a-20190805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan, China and South Korea are reportedly arranging a three-way summit in December between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russian-opposition-plans-new-protest-despite-1000-arrests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T14:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-russop-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-russop-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands near members of the Russian national guard during a rally against the exclusion of opposition candidates from local polls in Moscow Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/shadow-banking-crisis-seen-sending-indias-auto-sector-swerving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T14:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-indiacars-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-indiacars-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker adjusts the windshield wipers of a parked car at a Maruti Suzuki stockyard on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/tech/israeli-army-no-rush-go-fully-robotic-puts-sealed-tanks-paces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T14:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-istanks-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-istanks-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An exhibitor shows the operating suite of an Israeli armored vehicle during a display of future systems at Elyakim Military Base in northern Israel Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/economy-business/tiny-booths-telecommuting-begin-rollout-ahead-tokyo-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T15:30:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/highlighting-industrys-troubles-kobe-steels-shares-take-huge-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T15:42:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-05T16:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea is reportedly considering conducting defense drills this month on Takeshima, a group of disputed islets off Shimane Prefecture that are claimed by Japan but controlled by South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-05T17:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans during a rally to denounce Japan's new trade restrictions against South Korea in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-05T17:43:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference Monday at the prime minister's office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/radiation-research-facility-opens-public-anniversary-hiroshima-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T19:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks into a microscope to observe human blood cells at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in the city of Hiroshima on Monday, ahead of the anniversary on Tuesday of the atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-05T20:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many records relevant to landmark civil cases, most of which were fought all the way up to the Supreme Court, have been disposed of by courts cross the country, according to Kyodo News findings released Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-05T20:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sculpture of a "comfort woman" is displayed in Gallery Furuto in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Monday. The sculpture was the prototype for a controversial bronze statue placed in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/national/nationwide-test-results-highlight-japanese-students-poor-english-speaking-writing-skills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T20:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-english-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at a junior high school in Tokyo take the speaking portion of this year's nationwide English achievement test in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/four-japan-firms-fined-south-korea-auto-parts-bid-rigging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T21:20:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-skfine-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Electric Corp.'s headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/world/crime-legal-world/el-paso-massacre-deemed-domestic-terrorism-shooter-idd-faces-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-05T21:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image provided by the FBI shows Patrick Crusius, the alleged gunman who opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area packed with people during the busy back-to-school season Saturday, killing over a dozen.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-05T22:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice Monday at Miyazaki Airport Station says the number of train services will be reduced as Typhoon Francisco approaches Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/corporate-business/renault-mulls-cutting-stake-japans-nissan-win-support-fiat-merger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T01:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-renault-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renault SA is reportedly considering reducing its 43.4 percent stake in Nissan Motor Co. to gain support from its Japanese partner for the revival of its merger plan with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/dollar-hits-seven-month-low-%c2%a5106-tokyo-morning-trading-china-u-s-trade-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T10:33:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dollar-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Current exchange rates are displayed at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/aichi-governor-calls-mayors-demand-comfort-women-exhibition-closed-unconstitutional/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T10:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aichiexhibit-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideaki Omura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/science-health/amid-changing-views-death-body-donations-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T10:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bodies-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junko Hirota, 55, an acupuncture and moxibustion therapist, became a registered body donor for anatomical training purposes a few years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/politics-diplomacy/can-anyone-beat-koike-ldp-others-wary-ahead-2019-tokyo-gubernatorial-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T12:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokyogov-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/25/business/sky-limit-japan-form-public-private-panel-flying-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T13:42:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-flyingcars-a-20180826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flying cars that can zoom over congested roads are closer to reality than many people think.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-06T13:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cables are strewn over the ground in front of the Samson Crane at the Harland and Wolff shipyard after workers voted to continue their occupation of the shipyard, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/business/tech/with-quake-disruptions-in-mind-aichi-team-working-on-flying-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T13:50:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/n-chubu-a-20160524.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20160524.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsubasa Nakamura (center) and his fellow engineers test a prototype flying car in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/business/firm-shows-off-flying-car-costing-1-million-monaco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T13:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aero-a-20170422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Aeromobil, a flying supercar, is on display as part of the "Top Marques" show, dedicated to exclusive luxury goods, on Wednesday in Monaco.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/china-hits-back-trump-weaker-yuan-halt-crop-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T13:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uschinatrade-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wheat is harvested in Kirkland, Illinois, on July 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/business/corporate-business/yamato-agrees-jointly-develop-flying-delivery-trucks-u-s-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T13:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yamato-a-20181013.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yamato Holdings Co. and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. are planning to develop an unmanned "flying truck" by the mid-2020s. The aircraft is expected to be able to carry up to 453 kilograms of cargo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/taiwan-japan-demographic-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T14:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taiwan-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play at a preschool in Taipei in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/world/drone-strike-khalifa-hifters-forces-south-libyan-town-kills-least-43-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T14:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/victorias-secret-hires-transgender-model-following-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T14:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-victrans-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio wears a creation from the Amir Slama collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo in 2017. Sampaio has become the first openly transgender model hired by Victoria's Secret nearly a year after a top company official was pressured to apologize for implying trans women are off-brand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/asia-pacific/china-hold-fresh-military-exercises-disputed-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T14:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scs-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Magazines with front covers featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping and the words "South China Sea" and "Xi against U.S. President Donald Trump" are sold at a roadside bookstand in Hong Kong on July 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-06T14:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumplash-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on Monday. Trump delivered his most forceful condemnation of racism and white supremacy and said he had ordered federal officials to work with social media companies to identify people who may perpetrate mass shootings before they can act.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/world/crime-legal-world/roger-stone-appeals-judges-order-wants-back-instagram-twitter-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T15:08:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-06T15:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-06T15:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An activist takes part in a protest in Bangalore, India, on Monday in reaction to the government scrapping of Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-06T15:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles are displayed at the company's main showroom in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/asia-pacific/u-s-seeks-renew-pacific-islands-security-pact-foil-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T15:58:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/corporate-business/japans-monopolies-agency-investigating-apple-hammering-suppliers-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T16:25:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Browsers check out iPhones at the Apple store in Tokyo's Omotesando area in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/typhoon-francisco-pelts-kyushu-high-winds-heavy-rain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T16:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman is caught in strong wind and rain on Tuesday morning in the city of Fukuoka after Typhoon Francisco made landfall on Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/financial-markets/amid-global-market-turmoil-bitcoin-becomes-surprising-sanctuary-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T17:43:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bitcoin-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major cryptocurrencies, increasingly seen as a refuge during distressed times, rose Monday, with bitcoin gaining more than 14 percent and smaller peers including XRP and litecoin each rising more than 5 percent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/bomb-anniversary-hiroshima-mayor-calls-japan-join-nuclear-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T17:46:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People bring flowers to lay at the cenotaph in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on Tuesday. A ceremony was held to mark the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/hiroshima-pianos-survived-bombing-play/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T17:50:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsunori Yagawa fixes a piano that survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/corporate-business/softbank-hires-nomura-%c2%a5400-billion-bond-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T18:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Founder Masayoshi Son has transformed SoftBank into a technology investment juggernaut in recent years, and the company said last month it will commit $38 billion of its own capital to a second Vision Fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/economy-business/japans-household-spending-firm-wages-weaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T18:45:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-household-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Household spending across the nation rose 2.7 percent in June from the same month last year but was down 2.8 percent from May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/world/crime-legal-world/cesspool-hate-sporadic-outages-8chan-new-host-mass-shootings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T18:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patrick Crusius]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/abe-urges-seoul-uphold-1965-agreement-wartime-compensation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T20:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses reporters on Tuesday in Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/financial-markets/stocks-tank-worldwide-u-s-china-trade-war-worsens-trump-hits-beijing-currency-manipulation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T20:20:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen in the capital shows the Nikkei average after it fell more than 500 points in early trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/57-dead-18000-taken-hospitals-one-week-amid-japan-heat-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T20:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk below a large screen in Tokyo's Akiharaba district on Saturday that shows temperatures were forecast to rise above 30 C across the nation that day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/losers-first-round-tokyo-2020-ticket-lottery-get-second-chance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-06T20:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olytickets-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Tokyo Organising Committee official announces on July 4 in Tokyo that an additional lottery will be held for those who didn't win any tickets during the first-round lottery in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/business/trump-shrugs-off-trade-war-concerns-china-warns-market-chaos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T03:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-chitrade-a-20190808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chitrade-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow speaks to the media on the driveway of the White House in Washington Tuesday. President Donald Trump wants a trade agreement with China, but it must be "the right deal," Kudlow said Tuesday. "The president was not happy with the progress" of talks in Beijing earlier this month, Kudlow told CNBC. "The president is defending the American economy" against "a lot of unfair trading practices."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/business/u-s-probes-chinese-banks-role-north-korean-nuclear-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T04:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T07:17:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer walks outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Jeffrey Epstein has been held since his arrest, in New York on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T08:43:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A damaged aluminum boat, recovered from the shores of the Nelson River by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) searching for fugitive murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, is seen in Sundance, Manitoba, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/04/world/offbeat-world/french-inventor-franky-zapata-crosses-english-channel-jet-powered-hoverboard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T12:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/28/business/tech/lexus-heads-back-future-hoverboard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T12:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lexus-a-20150629.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype model of a 'hoverboard' similar to the one used in the 1985 hit "Back to the Future" is shown in this undated photo from Toyota Motor Corp.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/politics-diplomacy/cdpj-leader-yukio-edano-tries-bury-hatchet-fellow-opposition-parties-counter-ruling-bloc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T13:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-edano-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-edano-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano (right), head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and Democratic Party for the People chief Yuichiro Tamaki hold talks Monday in the Diet over the possible formation of a joint parliamentary group in the Lower House to counter the ruling bloc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/asia-pacific/north-korea-warns-new-road-launching-two-projectiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T13:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester carries a signboard during a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul to oppose joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/world/crime-legal-world/puerto-rico-orders-search-governors-phone-amid-protests-message-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T13:41:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard during clashes with demonstrators in a protest calling for the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rossello in San Juan Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/erna-takazawa-samoas-optometrist-focused-bringing-island-nation-access-eye-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T14:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-samoa-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Erna Takazawa, Samoa's first and only optometrist, poses with her father, Misao, in the Samoan capital of Apia in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/national/shindo-japan-earthquake-intensity-scale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T14:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shindo-b-20160422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cyclist passes by the debris at an arcade street in Kumamoto city on April 17, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/01/national/japanese-child-consultation-centers-handled-record-159850-abuse-cases-fiscal-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T14:22:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays for 2-year-old Kotori Ikeda outside of the toddler's home in Sapporo. Ikeda died in the home as a result of alleged abuse in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-missile-test-adequate-warning-u-s-drills-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T14:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kimthreat-b-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new type of North Korean tactical guided missile is test-launched early Tuesday in an undisclosed western part location of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/yomiuri-chairman-as-ambassador-to-switzerland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T14:28:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kojiro Shiraishi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-france-urge-swift-trial-last-surviving-khmer-rouge-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T14:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuon Chea]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T15:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-walmart-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Walmart hat sits at a memorial three days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/national/japans-food-self-sufficiency-rate-hits-lowest-level-25-years-due-drop-wheat-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T15:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T15:24:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T18:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koizumi-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi and TV journalist Christel Takigawa discuss their marriage plans Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/politics-diplomacy/russia-accuses-japan-trying-meddle-domestic-affairs-protest-island-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T18:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rusprotest-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Habomai group of islets are seen from the air in winter. The islands are a few kilometers off the coast of Hokkaido, part of which is visible to the left of this image.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/corporate-business/kddi-softbank-sell-huawei-smartphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T18:28:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds a Huawei Mate 20 Pro smartphone at the International Consumer Electronics Expo in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/asia-pacific/trump-aide-john-bolton-links-future-missile-deployment-protecting-asian-allies-including-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T18:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese soldiers salute in front of missile launchers during a parade in Beijing. The event in 2009 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during an interview in the city of Fukuoka on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign in Spanish that translates "Don't Lose Your Voice, Vote!" is displayed near a polling place in a Cardenas supermarket in Las Vegas in June. In the battleground state of Nevada, some 17 percent of eligible voters are Hispanics. Here, Latinos have clearly demonstrated the power they wield when they either turn out or stay home.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington before the justices hear arguments in Abbott vs. Perez, weighing a bid by Texas to revive Republican-drawn electoral districts for state legislative and U.S. congressional seats that were thrown out by a lower court for diminishing black and Hispanic voters' clout, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/12/business/african-americans-twice-likely-whites-default-student-debt-doe/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at George Mason University Arlington, Virginia, campus Sept. 7. Students who attended for-profit colleges were twice as likely or more to default on their loans than students who attended public schools, according to a new federal study. The report comes as DeVos rewrites rules that had been put in place by the Obama administration to protect students who said they were defrauded by their for-profit colleges.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T19:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a May 27 rally in Fresno, California. Trump says he made "a lot of money" in a deal years ago with Moammar Gadhafi, despite suggesting at the time he had no idea the former Libyan dictator was involved in renting his suburban New York estate.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T19:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio speaks at a presidential forum sponsored by Heritage Action at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Friday, in Greenville, South Carolina.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Sept. 10 news conference at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York. Reaching for a successful end to global climate talks, Biden will call on other nations to commit to ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases at a gathering of U.S. and Chinese leaders Wednesday in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, he slammed GOP candidate Donald Trump's xenophobic immigration rants.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T19:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. said Wednesday its group net profit in the April-June period nearly quadrupled from a year before to top ¥1 trillion for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NEC Corp. conducts a hover test for a prototype flying car Monday in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/business/corporate-business/japans-ftc-demands-action-four-general-contractors-keep-cropping-antitrust-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T21:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T21:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanpost-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government panel has decided to end Saturday delivery for standard mail at Japan Post Co. to deal with a labor shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/asia-pacific/trump-says-talks-south-korea-way-aimed-getting-pay-defense-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-07T23:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-07T23:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-08T04:40:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London in 2017. British Airways said Wednesday it canceled some dozens of flights from London airports after its check-in systems were hit by a computer glitch.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/business/novartis-says-knew-zolgensma-data-problems-u-s-approval/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T07:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CEO Vas Narasimhan of Swiss drugmaker Novartis addresses the company's annual news conference in Basel, Switzerland, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/eye-russia-china-u-s-defense-chief-visits-mongolia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T08:41:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-08T08:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Badran Jia Kurd, a top Syrian Kurdish official, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Qamishli, Syria, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-08T11:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koizumi-a-20190505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinjiro Koizumi, a Lower House lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks about the Japan-U.S. alliance in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/civil-groups-push-get-comfort-women-statue-exhibition-nagoya-reopened/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T12:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A section of the Aichi Triennale 2019 art festival in Nagoya featuring the "Statue of a Girl of Peace," symbolizing wartime "comfort women," was shut down late Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/bombed-cross-returned-nagasaki-cathedral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T12:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-08T12:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/pentagon-chief-mark-esper-urges-japan-help-protect-shipping-persian-gulf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T13:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-esper-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper (left) meets with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya (right) at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-08T13:33:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Joaquin Castro (left) stands next to his brother Julian Castro in the spin room following the Democratic presidential candidate debate in Detroit on July 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/asia-pacific/chinese-survey-ship-leaves-vietnams-eez-standoff-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T13:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-08T13:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poketalk-a-20190808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pocketalk mobile language translation unit is demonstrated at the Sourcenext Corp. stand during a trade fair in Barcelona, Spain, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/asia-pacific/nato-address-chinas-rise-alliance-chief-jens-stoltenberg-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T14:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/national/japanese-foreign-ministry-issues-safety-advisory-u-s-mass-shootings-describes-country-gun-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T15:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take pictures in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/world/science-health-world/flight-shame-website-spells-emissions-toll-global-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T15:09:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-flygskam-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The environmental impact of a flight from Haneda airport to Heathrow airport would destroy 11.1 sq. meters of Arctic ice, according to shameplane.com.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/world/offbeat-world/neighbors-frown-bullying-emoji-california-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T15:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-emojihouse-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The emoji house in Manhattan Beach, California]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/national/globe-traveling-japanese-cyclist-dies-road-accident-peru/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T15:16:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/business/china-fuels-fears-currency-war-setting-weak-yuan-target-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T15:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yuan-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese central bank has set weaker daily yuan reference rates for six consecutive trading days since Aug. 1 amid an escalating trade dispute with the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/business/japans-current-account-surplus-first-half-2019-weak-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-08T15:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-surplus-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars await export at a logistics center in Kawasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-09T15:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-09T16:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-09T17:43:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Rifle Associations Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre listens as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington in 2017. In the latest furor over mass killings, the tpolitical power of the NRA is likely to stymie any major changes to gun laws. LaPierre is the public face of the Second Amendment with his bombastic defense of guns after every mass shooting.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko stand in silence at Banzai Cliff in Saipan during their 2005 visit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Michiko]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Qishan]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-11T22:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pause in front of financier Jeffrey Epstein's house after he was found dead in his cell in the Manhattan Correctional Center of New York City Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during the International Conference for Democracy in Venezuela in Lima on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women dance to disco music during a traditional Bon festival in Tokyo last month, as more and more such festivals now feature contemporary pop music.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outward bound: Holidaymakers heading to overseas destinations line up at the check-in counters at Narita airport Saturday as the Bon summer holidays began.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/20/national/traffic-deaths-record-low-bon/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Such sweet sorrow: Two cousins who spent the Bon holidays together part at JR Sendai Station on Saturday as the rush of travelers returning home peaked.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/12/national/bon-summer-holiday-exodus-peaks-across-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the annual Roppongi Hills Bon Odori festival in central Tokyo on Saturday dance to traditional music.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children dance during the Tsukudajima Bon festival in Tokyo's Chuo Ward last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-12T17:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists photograph Uluru from a viewing area inside Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-12T23:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-manga-a-20190812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 37-year-old man was arrested by Fukuoka police on Saturday for allegedly engaging in the management of an illegal manga-viewing website that hosted copies of "One Piece," a hugely popular series.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-12T23:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alejandro Giammattei]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buildings at a Russian military base in the small town of Nyonoska in the Arkhangelsk region are seen in 2011l Russia's nuclear agency chief on Monday confirmed that five scientists killed last week were developing "new weapons" and vowed to continue testing despite the explosion.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-13T11:48:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a sign during a rally in Seoul Thursday against Japanese moves to tighten exports to South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/10/national/media-national/japan-south-korea-trade-spat-gains-little-traction-among-youth-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T12:01:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-jp-sk-relations-a-20190811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The second wave so-called Korean wave in Japan started around 2011, launched when K-pop groups such as Girls' Generation appeared on NHK's year-end music contest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-13T12:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters outside the White House on Friday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-13T12:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean protesters attend a rally against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-13T13:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dog owners walk with their pets in a shopping street in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Monday. They spoke to elderly people and told them to be on alert for suspicious phone calls asking for money.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/judo-gives-japan-soft-power-boost-pacific/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Samoan judoka Derek Sua trains with Japanese coach Kohei Kamibayashi in a church hall in Apia, the capital of Samoa, last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/27/national/government-set-panel-stable-imperial-succession-year-end/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, taken in August 2016, shows then-Crown Prince Naruhito, Crown Princess Masako and their only child, Princess Aiko, attending a symposium in Tokyo on water issues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mauricio Macri, (left) Argentina's president, speaks as Miguel Angel Pichetto, the leader of Peronism in Argentina's Senate, listens during a press conference at the Presidential Palace (Casa Rosada) in Buenos Aires on Monday. The cost of hedging Argentina's sovereign debt against losses soared to a multiyear high Monday after Macri was unexpectedly defeated by a landslide in a primary vote.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anthony Scaramucci, former director of communications for the White House and founder of SkyBridge Capital II LLC, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York Aug. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-13T14:21:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Law enforcement officers detain Muscovite Daria Sosnovskaya after a rally to demand authorities allow opposition candidates to run in the upcoming local election in Moscow Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/world/british-warship-sets-sail-u-s-led-tanker-escort-mission-gulf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T14:23:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-escort-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2015 photo released by the Ministry of Defense in London on Monday shows Britain's HMS Kent as the Type 23 frigate carries out duties off the coast of Djibouti. The HMS Kent left Portsmouth Naval Base on Monday to take over duties in the Strait of Hormuz from Type 45 defender HMS Duncan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/financial-markets/wall-street-slides-geopolitical-recession-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T14:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/trump-adviser-john-bolton-u-s-will-enthusiastically-support-u-k-choice-no-deal-brexit-quickly-pursue-fta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T14:33:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bolton-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton arrives to speak to members of the media at a hotel in central London Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser says the United States is ready to negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.K. "in pieces" to help speed the process. Bolton met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, and their discussion covered Brexit, Hong Kong, Iran and other issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/world/science-health-world/scientists-hail-promise-first-effective-ebola-treatments-congo-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T15:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health workers wearing protective gear check on a patient isolated in a plastic cube at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo, July 13. Health authorities in Congo have halted an Ebola treatment study early with good news: Two of the four experimental drugs seem to be saving lives. More than 1,800 people have died in the African country's yearlong outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/09/national/treated-water-fukushima-plant-hit-storage-capacity-summer-2022-current-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T15:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-water-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A massive number of tanks storing treated water at the Fukushima No. 1 plant are seen in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/singapore-ban-domestic-trade-elephant-ivory-two-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T15:44:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ivory-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials at the Kenya Wildlife Service set fire to some 105 tons of elephant tusk ivory, mainly confiscated from poachers, at Nairobi National Park in April 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/surge-arrests-foreign-teachers-reported-china-pushes-clean-education-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T16:08:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinateachers-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Switzerland-based Education First, which runs 300 schools across China, has seen a "significant" increase in detentions for alleged offenses involving drugs, fighting and cybersecurity violations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/politics-diplomacy/flush-electoral-success-abe-vows-diet-debate-amending-japans-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T16:10:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, visit the grave of his father, Shintaro Abe, in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/world/hispanics-el-paso-flock-firearms-classes-targeted-walmart-mass-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T16:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-texasaftershoot-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-texasaftershoot-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael McIntyre, general manager of Gun Central, one of the largest gun shops in El Paso, said on Friday his store tallied double the usual number of sales in the week following the attack, something that did not happen after previous mass shootings in Texas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/japan-likely-see-fewer-fireworks-next-summer-due-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T16:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-fireworks-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fireworks-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fewer fireworks events are planned next summer in Tokyo due to the Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/strong-yen-poses-risks-japan-u-s-china-trade-war-rumbles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T16:41:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yen-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles await shipment at a port in Nagoya. A yen stronger than 105 to the dollar is often seen by automakers as determining whether the exchange rate will mean a significant hit to profit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/lacking-house-role-models-japanese-women-management-look-elsewhere-advice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-women-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-women-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yumi Kajimoto]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/13-die-japan-holiday-accidents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:10:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/economy-business/japan-wholesale-prices-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:12:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-wholesaleprice-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wholesaleprice-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan is warning that falling crude oil and commodities could trigger a global decline in prices.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/war-bereaved-okinawan-hopes-peace-efforts-will-continued-new-emperor-empress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:20:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-okinawa-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-okinawa-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko talk to family members of those who lost their lives during World War II, at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 27, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/asia-pacific/china-armyworm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinaworms-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer picks corn in her field at Nuodong village, within Menghai county in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, on July 13. Farmers in China are bewildered by the formidable fall armyworm, a new pest that has infested crops this year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/06/national/oma-coast-fishermen-dream-landing-tuna-jackpot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-omatuna-a-20170307-e1488784464762.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-omatuna-a-20170307.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Kimura (right), president of Kiyomura Corp., which runs a sushi restaurant chain, cuts a ¥74.2 million bluefin tuna at his restaurant in Tokyo on Jan. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/12/national/relatives-gather-gunma-prefecture-remember-victims-1985-jal-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T17:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-jalcrash-a-20190813.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jalcrash-a-20190813.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pray for the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash at Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/12/business/economy-business/survey-finds-major-japanese-companies-pessimistic-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T18:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-econsurvey-a-20190813.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-econsurvey-a-20190813.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a display of mannequins set up in a store window in Tokyo's upscale Ginza shopping district in April.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/financial-markets/nikkei-sinks-two-month-low-continued-u-s-china-trade-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T18:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-jpstocks-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpstocks-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wall Street traders work after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/japan-says-south-korea-failed-justify-stripping-tokyo-fast-track-trade-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-13T23:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-jpskrow-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shipping containers await transport at the port of Busan in South Korea on July 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/world/iran-says-britain-might-release-oil-tanker-soon-gibraltar-begs-differ/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T08:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-tanker-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tanker-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Spanish Civil Guard boat sails past the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 as it sits anchored after it was seized in July by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria, in the Strait of Gibraltar, southern Spain, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/world/kremlin-says-winning-arms-race-u-s-despite-rocket-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T08:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-armsrace-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-armsrace-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Armored personnel carriers compete during the International Army Games 2019 at the Khmelevka firing ground on the Baltic Sea coast in Kaliningrad Region, Russia, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/world/social-issues-world/key-saudi-woman-activist-rejects-release-deal-tied-videotaped-statement-denying-torture-family-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T08:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-hathloul-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hathloul-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators from Amnesty International stage a protest on International Women's day to urge Saudi authorities to release jailed women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef, outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/world/meat-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T13:54:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-redmeat-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-redmeat-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sausages and cuts of pork and beef sit on a butcher's stall at a market in Berlin on Saturday. A national debate was triggered in the home of the Bratwurst when animal-rights activists urged lawmakers to raise the levy on meat products to 19 percent, from the current discounted rate of 7 percent, to fund improvements to the living conditions of livestock.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/asia-pacific/china-refuses-allow-u-s-warships-make-port-calls-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T14:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/business/u-s-britain-discuss-trade-deal-take-effect-nov-1-first-day-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T16:12:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-usukfta-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-usukfta-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid (left) shakes hands with U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton at Downing Street in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/business/corporate-business/honda-car-production-argentina-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T16:19:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-honda-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Honda Motor Co. logo is seen in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Feb. 13. Honda has decided to halt production in Argentina next year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/national/alcohol-detected-breath-jal-star-flyer-co-pilots-preflight-testing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T16:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-pilots-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pilots-a-20190815.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carriers Japan Airlines and Star Flyer both said Tuesday that alcohol had been detected on the breath of their co-pilots in preflight tests.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/social-issues/japanese-government-conduct-first-national-survey-child-poverty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T16:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-childpov-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childpov-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An amendment to the law to combat child poverty is enacted in June at the Diet in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/business/pokemon-launches-indonesian-language-cards-southeast-asian-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T16:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-pokemon-a-20190814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pokemon-a-20190814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pokemon Co. aims to penetrate the Indonesian market by introducing Indonesian-language versions of its popular trading cards.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/business/negative-interest-rate-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T16:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-negativerates-a-20190815.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European Central Bank in Frankfurt]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/national/futenma-still-open-protesters-slam-government-inaction-15-years-chopper-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-14T17:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stage a rally to denounce Japan's trade restrictions on South Korea in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Aug. 6 photo released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un observing the demonstration fire of two new-type tactical guided missiles at undisclosed location.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norway's first battery-powered aircraft, piloted by Avinor Chief Executive Dag Falk-Petersen, is seen partly submerged in a lake after crash-landing, in Nornestjonn, Arendal, Norway, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-15T13:45:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-15T13:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about U.S. energy production and manufacturing at the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaco, Pennsylvania, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-15T14:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-15T16:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters cross a road in Tokyo in March. According to research by Morgan Stanley, employing more women brings firms a boost on the stock market.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An iPhone displays a Facebook page Sunday in New Orleans. Facebook says it paid contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its Messenger service.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This statue symbolizing "comfort women," which was removed from an art exhibition in Aichi Prefecture this month, has been bought by a Spanish businessman.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi shake hands in front of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Steve King speaks during a town hall meeting Tuesday in Boone, Iowa. The Iowa Republican is defending his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether "there would be any population of the world left" if not for births due to rape and incest. Speaking Wednesday before a conservative group in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale, he reviewed legislation he has sought that would outlaw abortions without exceptions for rape and incest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-15T18:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antonio Basco cries beside a cross at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex, in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 6. Basco, whose 63-year-old wife was among the mass shooting victims, says he has no other family and welcomes anyone wanting to attend her services in El Paso.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rebel fighters pose for a picture with the remains of a downed regime warplane near the jihadi-held Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun in the south of Idlib province on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visits the 6th Army Command ahead of Lunar New Year in Taoyuan in January. The president's Cabinet has signed off on an 8.3 percent increase in military spending for the year starting January to 411.3 billion New Taiwan dollars ($13.11 billion).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Gil Won-ok (center), a former "comfort woman," attends a weekly anti-Japanese demonstration near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/15/business/financial-markets/hong-kong-faces-new-threat-chinese-companies-reconsider-ipos/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police in the street prepare to charge protesters during a demonstration Wednesday in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong. On the day, the city was marking the Hungry Ghost Festival, during which people pay homage to deceased ancestors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/15/business/hagoromo-japans-rolls-royce-chalk-continues-writing-legacy-south-korea/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takayasu Watanabe (front, center) and workers at Sejongmall, now the sole producer of Hagoromo chalk, pose in November 2015 in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-15T19:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The leader of Britain's opposition Labour party Jeremy Corbyn makes a speech during a rally in London on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures to Foreign Minister Taro Kono and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha after a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN and dialogue partners foreign ministers' meeting in Bangkok on Aug. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T04:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler speaks at a news conference in Washington in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/turkish-backed-syrian-rebels-counterattack-regime-forces-advance-idlib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T07:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) recovers a body from the rubble after a reported airstrike by regime planes on the town of Maaret Hurmah in the southern countryside of Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Wednesday. An agreement between the United States and Turkey to establish a safe zone in northwest Syria will be implemented gradually, with some operations beginning soon, a Pentagon spokesman said Thusday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T09:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by Empress Masako, makes a speech at a service marking the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, at Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/14/national/typhoon-korsa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High waves are seen at a port in Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, on Wednesday as Typhoon Krosa approaches western Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/13/national/powerful-typhoon-krosa-looms-closer-threatening-wallop-western-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:34:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite photo provided by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology shows Typhoon Krosa approaching Japan on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/12/national/weather-agency-warns-powerful-typhoon-may-hit-area-around-kyushu-shikoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:35:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:36:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars are swept off a road Sunday morning after the Tachiarai River flooded due to typhoon-induced heavy rains in the town of Tachiarai, Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/national/okinawa-hit-heavy-rain-tropical-cyclone-predicted-turn-typhoon-approaches-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/04/national/powerful-typhoon-kong-rey-approaches-okinawa-may-affect-wide-area-japan-weekend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:38:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[tyhoon-1.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waves hit the seawalls at a coast of Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Saturday as Typhoon Trami approaches Kyushu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/national/strong-earthquake-rocks-niigata-japan-meteorological-agency-issues-tsunami-advisory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T10:58:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quake-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cans and bottles are scattered on the floor of a supermarket  in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Wednesday following a major quake that hit Japan's northeastern region late Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/15/business/japan-south-korea-row-may-cause-lasting-economic-security-shift-aiding-china-north/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T12:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in greets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to a photo session at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/crime-legal-world/homicide-retrial-resume-salvadoran-rape-victim-delivered-stillborn-son/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T13:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-salvador-a-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salvadorean rape victim Evelyn Hernandez (second, right) leaves after a hearing in Delgado, San Salvador department, El Salvado, on Thursday. A court in El Salvador resume Thursday the trial of Hernandez over homicide charges after she gave birth to a stillborn baby at home. The country has an extremely strict abortion ban.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-blames-mass-shootings-mentally-ill-calls-institutions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T13:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-trumental-a-20190817.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumental-a-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, Thursda en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/myanmar-bangladesh-agree-restart-rohingya-repatriation-effort-next-week-activist-says-refugees-werent-consulted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T13:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers stand near two bodies at a police outpost after an attack Thursday in Gote Twin, Naung Cho township, northern Shan State, Myanmar. Members of an ethnic rebel alliance in Myanmar staged coordinated attacks in five locations Thursday in Mandalay Region and in northern Shan State, where 14 people were reported killed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/crime-legal-world/suicide-jeffrey-epstein-autopsy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T14:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jepstein-a-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Razor wire fencing is seen Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York where financier Jeffrey Epstein died while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinas-hard-line-hong-kong-boosts-beijing-critics-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T14:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen attends a ceremony to sign up for Democratic Progressive Party's 2020 presidential candidate nomination in Taipei in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/business/corporate-business/japans-rakuten-swings-quarterly-loss-lyft-mobile-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T14:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rakuten-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and chief executive officer of Rakuten Inc., speaks during the Rakuten Optimism conference in Yokohama on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/business/fedex-cuts-ties-amazon-sign-new-rivalry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T14:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fedex-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A FedEx truck travels on 3rd Avenue in New York City last year. FedEx said Wednesday it would stop ground deliveries for Amazon in the latest sign of competition between the two firms. The move comes two months after the package delivery giant announced it was ending express service with Amazon as it moves to work with others in the online retail sector.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/radioactive-iodine-russian-missile-accident-detected-norway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T14:43:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20190807.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, speaks at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/business/tech/mark-esper-says-heard-white-house-wasnt-told-start-review-10-billion-pentagon-cloud-computing-contract/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:19:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (right) walks with Australia's Chief of the Defence Force Gen. Angus Campbell (left) and Australian Secretary of the Department of Defense Greg Moriarty at Victoria Barracks in Sydney on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/02/world/crime-legal-world/accused-seattle-hacker-capital-one-tied-threat-shoot-california-social-media-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:20:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-paige-a-20190803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles are parked outside the home of Paige A. Thompson, who uses the online handle "erratic," Wednesday in Seattle. Thompson was taken into custody Monday at her home and has been charged with computer fraud and abuse in connection with hacking data from more than 100 million Capital One credit holders or applicants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/25/business/private-equity-directly-killed-600000-u-s-retail-jobs-study-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee holds up a "Wall Street Is Driving Retail Bankruptcies" sign during a news conference on the Stop Wall Street Looting Act on Capitol Hill in Washington July 18. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan would make private-equity firms responsible for debts and retirement pension obligations of companies they purchase, while making their profits contingent on the success of the entities they control.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/business/warren-buffett-confronts-tech-driven-change-berkshire-investors-question-moves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks during a game of bridge following the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/business/amazon-kicks-off-recruiting-leases-office-virginia-hq2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20190501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women pass under a sign in Crystal City where Amazon announced its new headquarters would be based in Arlington, Virginia, last November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/25/business/japans-info-protection-panel-considers-beefing-protections-internet-users-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:23:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b data-a 20190426]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Future guidelines may require companies to stop using personal information for advertising if requested by consumers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/20/business/protect-sellers-government-working-group-eyes-stricter-regulations-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:24:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/19/business/national-enquirer-reportedly-sold-hudson-news-heir/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-enquirer-a-20190420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Cohen speaks from the witness stand in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 2014. The National Enquirer is being sold to Cohen, the former head of the airport newsstand company Hudson News. The deal comes after a rocky year for the tabloid in which it was caught up in a federal probe of illegal campaign contributions to Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/18/business/corporate-business/amazon-close-domestic-marketplace-business-china-say-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon shoppers in China will no longer be able to buy goods from third-party merchants in the country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's antitrust watchdog suspects Amazon and other technology giants are using their dominate positions to disadvantage vendors on their e-commerce sites or smartphone apps.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T15:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa voice assistant was among the big ads featured during this year's Super Bowl commercials.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T16:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bilquis, sister of Irfan Ahmad Hurra, a Quran teacher who was arrested during a government clampdown in Kashmir, cries beside their mother, Jameela, on Tuesday at their house in Pulwama, south of Srinagar.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protest leader Pania Newton addresses a rally at Ihumatao in Auckland in this undated photo released on Aug. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T17:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T17:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oliver Fagalilo receives a traditional tattoo inked by Samoan tattoo artist Li'aifva Imo Leni in Apia last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T17:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/science-health-world/genetic-study-implicates-humans-demise-prehistoric-cave-bear-20000-years-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some male cave bears weighed up to a ton.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dolls made in China are displayed at a store in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/business/corporate-business/softbanks-fortress-emerges-white-knight-hotel-chain-unizo-1-3-billion-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors leave the Solaniwa Onsen spa at Osaka Bay Tower owned by Fortress Investment Group, a unit of the SoftBank Group.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/head-democratic-party-people-seeks-constitution-debate-not-focused-article-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T18:57:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Tamaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/business/aston-martin-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T19:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andy Palmer speaks in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/15/national/politics-diplomacy/china-instructs-fishermen-stay-away-senkaku-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T23:12:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of the Senkaku Islands, disputed between Japan and China, are seen in September 2012. Beijing reportedly ordered Chinese fishermen not to approach them recently.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/national/first-overseas-trip-prince-hisahito-crown-prince-akishinos-family-leaves-bhutan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T23:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito and Crown Princess Kiko are seen at Haneda airport Friday before leaving for Bhutan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/business/south-korea-japan-radiation-checks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T23:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A waste plastics storage site in Hiroshima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/national/tropical-storm-krosa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-16T23:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People spend the night at Kansai International Airport on Thursday, as more than 200 domestic and international flights were canceled due to a powerful tropical storm.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/asia-pacific/indian-defense-chief-says-no-first-use-nuclear-weapons-depends-situation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T12:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/business/28-million-onetime-japanese-government-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T12:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-plane-a-20190818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A listing for one of the two Japanese government Boeing 747-400 planes that were decommissioned in March is seen in this screen shot of the Controller website on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/business/imitation-uni-vegan-sea-urchin-japan-hit-sushi-counters-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T13:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-uni-a-20190818.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-uni-a-20190818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. has developed the world's first imitation uni, the orange innards of sea urchins like the one above.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/japanese-government-give-budget-priority-municipal-anti-disaster-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T13:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-17T13:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trilateral-a-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono (center) speaks while seated next to South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a meeting in Manila in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/business/financial-markets/growth-fears-chinese-equity-plunge-haunt-global-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T14:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trader Michael Milano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. U.S. stocks moved lower in morning trading, led by banks and technology companies, putting the market on track for its first losing week since January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-17T14:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-17T14:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-17T14:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank's Vision Fund is investing $110 million in Energy Vault, a Swiss startup that's using cranes and concrete to store energy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-17T14:57:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Huawei company logo is pictured at Shenzhen International Airport in Shenzhen, China, on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/history/anarchy-japans-industrial-revolution/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalist Shusui Kotoku (1871-1911)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/philippines-space-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T16:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/media-national/excessive-homework-may-exhausting-students-japan-summer-vacation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-17T22:54:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-summer-vacation-a-20190818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitting the books: School children in Japan are typically given a mountain of homework to complete over their summer vacation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/kitakyushu-introduce-accommodation-tax-april/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Truth and lies: Iwao Mitsuishi claimed CT scans are too "scientific" in a book titled "Medical Common Sense is Full of Lies."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. is looking to launch a ferry service connecting Haneda airport with central Tokyo to attract tourists and secure an additional transport route during disasters]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/politics-diplomacy/north-korean-officials-cancel-rare-trip-japan-olympic-seminar-without-explanation/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-17T22:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese protesters from the city of Atbara arrive at the Bahari Station in Khartoum on Saturday to celebrate the nation:s transition to civilian rule.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/kyoto-international-meeting-museum-directors-creators-opportunity-learn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-18T12:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyoto will host the general assembly meeting of the Paris-based International Council of Museums in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-18T16:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Thai Muslim prays before the tomb of his relatives during the Eid al-Adha festival in the southern province of Narathiwat on Aug. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/rare-collection-japanese-whiskey-auctioned-hong-kong-equivalent-%c2%a597-5-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-18T17:10:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-18T18:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paddy where Hoshijirushi, a high-yield rice, is cultivated for Curry House CoCo Ichibanya is shown in the town of Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, in May in this supplied photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/18/business/minivehicles-prices-surge-low-inflation-mired-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-18T18:52:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/19/national/chinese-military-aircraft-conducted-drills-simulating-targeting-msdf-warships-east-china-sea-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T02:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gas field drilling facility that China built around the so-called median line between the exclusive economic zones of Japan and China in the East China Sea, is seen in this photo from the Japanese Foreign Ministry's website.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/18/national/62-people-disabilities-expect-paralympics-help-promote-understanding-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-18T20:07:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[2020 Tokyo Paralympics mascot Someity]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-18T20:08:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is shown in the Arabian Sea in January 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-18T20:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kohei Ehara, a sign language interpreter, works beside Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A case of art imitating life?: A sign announces the closure of the "After 'Freedom of Expression?'" exhibition in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/magnitude-6-5-earthquake-shakes-fukushima-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:31:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:34:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This fishing boat was found recently of the coast of Kochi, 900 kilometers from its home port of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/26/national/japan-saw-record-3451-rain-quake-induced-mudslide-disasters-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:55:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of Asakita Ward in Hiroshima is covered by mud following torrential rains that hit a wide area of western Japan in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wearing a small camera, rescue dog Will from the Metropolitan Police Department looks for survivors in the Yanohigashi district of Hiroshima's Aki Ward, which was hit hard by heavy rains in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/08/national/typhoon-shanshan-bring-heavy-rain-strong-winds-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T11:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians outside JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo resist strong winds on Wednesday afternoon as Typhoon Shanshan approaches the eastern coast.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devastated houses are shown Sunday in Kuchita, a part of Hiroshima's Asakita Ward that hosts a large population of foreign residents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/03/national/indonesian-interns-unable-understand-japanese-evacuation-alert-narrowly-escaped-death-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/beach-fukushima-prefecture-reopens-first-time-since-2011-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in the sea at Kitaizumi Beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/17/national/volcano-erupts-southern-japans-kagoshima-no-evacuation-warning-issued/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image taken by the Meteorological Agency shows thick black smoke billowing out of Kuchinoerabu Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/11/national/japanese-government-begins-discussion-contingency-plans-event-mount-fuji-eruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fuji-a-20180912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji, seen in this photo taken in June, is an active volcano with a history of a number of major eruptions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T12:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T13:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in gestures as he speaks during an event marking the 74th anniversary of Korea's Independence Day in Cheonan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T13:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T14:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington from Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn plays table tennis during a visit to unveil new plans to give councils the power to reopen abandoned shops that have been left vacant for 12 months or more, in Bolton, England, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T14:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T15:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia makes up 7 percent of all global fossil fuel exports by carbon dioxide potential, as it accounts for almost one-third of the world coal trade.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Portable fans on display at a Tokyu Hands store in Tokyo on Aug. 9]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T15:37:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini meets the journalists at the end of a security conference in Castel Volturno, southern Italy, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T16:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T17:22:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T17:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decommissioning work continues at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in April. The government has reportedly told the United States it is ready to provide robot technology for dismantling the nuclear and uranium enrichment facilities in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T18:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T18:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T18:46:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masuyuki Naruse presents the Onepedal device in February 2013. He developed the device to help reduce accidents where a driver mistakenly presses the accelerator instead of the brake.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomofumi Nishinaga, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, visits South Korea's Foreign Ministry on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-19T19:05:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles are paraded past Tiananmen Gate in Beijing in this 2015 file photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean man who was arrested on suspicion of theft last week fled Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital in Nakano Ward on Sunday, according to police.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign advertising Juul brand vaping products is seen outside a shop in Manhattan in New York City in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees shout slogans against repatriation at the Unchiprang camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh last fall. Myanmar and Bangladesh are making a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims after more than 700,000 of them fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during his meeting with his French counterpart at the French president's summer retreat at the Bregancon fortress on the Mediterranean coast, near the village of Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-20T17:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A detection station of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization is seen on the roof of the CTBTO headquarters in Vienna.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/women-made-record-37-successful-civil-service-examinees-fiscal-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T17:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-20T17:26:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate the Yasukuni Shrine on Monday after a man threw a black liquid onto a white curtain and was arrested for property damage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/19/national/crime-legal/rare-japan-road-rage-manhunt-prompts-national-debate-dangerous-driving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T17:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Miyazaki is surrounded by police officers in Osaka on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/asia-pacific/u-s-test-previously-banned-missile-raises-fears-new-nuclear-arms-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T17:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A conventionally configured U.S. cruise missile is launched Sunday on San Nicolas Island off the coast of California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/business/corporate-business/bando-densen-expands-cable-production-laos-amid-china-u-s-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T18:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-20T18:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-20T18:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers move through Narita International Airport on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/22/national/empowering-women-globally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T19:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/crime-legal/road-rage-suspect-to-prosecutors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T19:38:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Miyazaki leaves Toride Police Station in Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday to be taken to prosecutors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/hiroshima-marks-fifth-anniversary-deadly-mudslides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T19:39:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees look at the names of victims on a cenotaph during a memorial service Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of landslides in Hiroshima that killed 77 people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/japans-crown-prince-akishino-family-meet-bhutans-king/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T20:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino, Crown Princess Kiko and their 12-year-old son, Prince Hisahito, visit Tashichho Dzong in Thimphu on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/tokyo-2020-olympics-ambulances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T20:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heat-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People find ways to cool down during a beach volleyball test match for the upcoming Olympics held in Tokyo on July 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/g7-summit-biarritz-to-skip-communique/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T20:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump talk during the Group of 20 summit meeting in Osaka on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/social-issues/art-exhibits-comfort-women-freedom-of-expression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T20:53:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aichi-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A videographer captures images of a statue symbolizing the "comfort women" at the Aichi Triennale modern art festival in Nagoya on Aug. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/business/haneda-innovation-city-cultural-technological-complex-next-tokyo-airport-gets-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T20:55:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-haneda-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rendering of Haneda Innovation City shows the Innovation Corridor, which will boast various cultural and technological facilities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/despite-toned-rhetoric-no-compromise-likely-taro-kono-gets-set-meet-south-korean-counterpart-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T21:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks while seated next to South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at a meeting in Manila on Aug. 7, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/johnsons-opening-brexit-bid-lands-flat-eu-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-20T22:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the first meeting of the National Policing Board at the Home Office in London in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/business/nearly-3-5-million-freelancers-working-japan-amid-rise-flexible-employment-styles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T02:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Uber Eats delivery person in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-house-panel-says-time-essence-trump-tax-return-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T04:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-returns-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump greets Romanian President Klaus Iohannis upon his arrival on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/world/social-issues-world/saudis-open-borders-women-travel-without-male-guardians-permission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T09:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Saudi woman walks with her luggage as she arrives at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/19/national/yokohama-join-race-host-casinos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T09:45:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-casino-a-20190820.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yokohama, a port city with a population of some 3.75 million, is considering joining the race to host casinos in Japan, city government sources said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/19/national/crime-legal/pakistani-files-lawsuit-seeking-special-permission-remain-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T11:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohamad Sadaq (center) holds a news conference Monday in Tokyo after filing a lawsuit seeking special permission to stay in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/18/business/deforestation-brazil-vote-argentina-endanger-eu-mercosur-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:13:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/business/u-s-antitrust-chief-working-states-probe-power-big-tech-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-techprobe-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, speaks at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/scrapping-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant-cost-%c2%a5220-billion-annually-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/world/russian-backed-syrian-army-seen-poised-take-key-idlib-town-sarin-attack-fame-rebels-withdraw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) recover a body from the rubble of a building following a reported government airstrike in the village of Benin, about 30 km south of Idlib in northwestern Syria on Tuesday. Jihadis and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria as President Bashar Assad's forces pressed an offensive against the jihadi-run Idlib region.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/business/japan-releases-second-batch-high-tech-material-south-korea-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:54:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-export-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the second time, the government has reportedly cleared a shipment of a high-tech material to Samsung Electronics Co.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-praises-new-weapons-tests-vows-build-invincible-military-capabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkwrap-a-20190818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea test-fires a new weapon in this photo released Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/national/japan-considering-8-6-billion-pledge-u-n-sustainable-development-goals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T13:55:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sdgpledge-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/national/japan-north-korea-nuclear-warheads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T14:05:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkwhitepaper-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrates the successful test-firing of a new weapon at an undisclosed location on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/mike-pompeo-says-north-korea-talks-not-resumed-quickly-hoped-cbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T14:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken Friday and released Saturday by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows the test-firing of a new weapon, presumed to be a short-range ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed displeasure Tuesday about North Korea's series of missile tests, but said he wants to resume negotiations on denuclearization with Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/business/tech/faa-issues-safety-warning-sensor-linked-737-max-crashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T14:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sensors-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dozens of grounded Boeing 737 MAX airplanes, including one for Icelandair and TUI Airlines, crowd a parking area adjacent to Boeing Field Aug. 15 in Seattle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/ex-vatican-treasurer-george-pell-loses-appeal-sex-abuse-convictions-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T15:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Cardinal George Pell is escorted in handcuffs from the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/world/science-health-world/fossil-fuels-u-s-climate-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T15:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mound of coal waits to be loaded at a coal transfer facility in Totz, Kentucky, on Aug. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/business/british-trade-secretary-hopes-visit-japan-end-october-fta-tpp-talks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British trade secretary Liz Truss leaves No. 10 Downing St. on July 24. Truss spoke with Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko by telephone Tuesday to discuss trade issues.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most European countries saw a rise in acceptance of same-sex relationships between 2002 and 2016, according to Hungarian researchers who analyzed results from the European Social Survey.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese authorities confiscate ivory products illegally imported from Japan at customs in China in this supplied photo taken in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A launch ceremony for the Immigration Services Agency on April 1 in Tokyo is attended by Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita (left) and the agency’s first commissioner, Shoko Sasaki. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple holding identity cards pose for photographs while registering for marriage at a Household Registration Office in Taipei on May 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.'s Japan unit has joined Keidanren, the nation's most powerful business lobby.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie Bezos arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, last March. Bezos says he and his wife, MacKenzie, have decided to divorce after 25 years of marriage. Bezos, one of the world's richest men, made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prompts on how to use Amazon's Alexa personal assistant are displayed in an Amazon "experience center" in Vallejo, California, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk by a building that has been chosen by Google as part of its expansion plans Monday in New York. Google is spending more than $1 billion on a new campus along the Hudson River that will allow it to double the number of people it already employs in the Big Apple.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:23:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-keidanren-a-20181215.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercari Inc. makes its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June. The online flea market app operator and Amazon Japan, the Japan arm of e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc., joined Keidanren (the Japan Business Federation) on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/business/japans-antitrust-watchdog-study-tech-giants-see-fair-business-regulations-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:24:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fair Trade Commission plans to launch a massive survey next month into business practices of internet technology giants, according to a senior ruling party lawmaker.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:25:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-21T19:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A selection of online video content provided by Netflix Inc. is displayed on an iPad. A Jiji Press survey showed Monday that 15.7 percent of people nationwide subscribe to online video streaming services.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign students take a conversation lesson at a Japanese-language school in Nagoya in April. The percentage of successful visa applications by foreign nationals to study at such schools dropped sharply this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kidney sellers show their scars from kidney removal operations in Lahore, Pakistan, in August 2004. At least four Japanese nationals have undergone kidney transplant surgery in Pakistan this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen makes a comment about the U.S. president's cancellation of his scheduled state visit in front of the State Department in Copenhagen on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T14:34:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T14:51:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new outdoor smoking area set up at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo is seen on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/world/trump-says-nations-will-need-fight-resurgent-islamic-state-threatens-set-prisoners-free-home-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T15:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump points to the crowd after arriving on Air Force One at Louisville International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/business/trump-says-hes-not-looking-payroll-capital-gains-tax-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T15:16:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T15:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men watch the cruise ship MS Empress of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean International, as it leaves the bay of Havana June 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/world/social-issues-world/trump-imposes-rule-allowing-u-s-detain-migrant-families-indefinitely-scrapping-20-day-limit-holding-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T15:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrant children, whose faces cannot be shown, are seen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Facility in Tucson, Arizona, during a visit by first lady Melania Trump last summer. President Donald Trump's administration announced Wednesday it would remove tough legal limits on how long migrant kids can be detained as part of its broader crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security said it was ending the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T15:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office for travel to the AMVETS convention in Kentucky from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/world/crime-legal-world/trump-says-seriously-looking-ending-birthright-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T15:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T16:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-China activist participates in a march against the Hong Kong protests in Sydney on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/world/iran-shows-off-first-domestically-built-mobile-surface-air-missile-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T16:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bavar-373 air-defense missile system is seen after being unveiled by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/business/corporate-business/jsr-wins-permit-resume-exports-south-korea-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T17:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers stand near a truck hauling a Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. "K" Line shipping container at a shipping terminal in Yokohama on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/business/corporate-business/tokyo-fm-fiddled-books/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T17:29:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The head office building of radio station Tokyo FM]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/business/south-korean-tourists-shun-japan-trade-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T18:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nakamise shopping street in the Asakusa district of Tokyo is crowded with tourists on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/business/corporate-business/designer-thomas-heatherwick-injects-green-relief-tokyos-concrete-jungle-new-mori-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T18:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British designer Thomas Heatherwick speaks alongside a miniaturized model of the Mori Building Co.'s new integrated development in the Toranomon-Azabudai area of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/22/business/mori-project-brings-record-skyscraper-greenery-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T18:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rendering of the Toranomon-Azabudai redevelopment project by Mori Building Co. shows the east side of the complex, which is scheduled to be finished in 2023.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sfotax-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man stands outside his tent on Division Street in San Francisco in 2016. San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to tax large businesses to pay for homeless and housing services in a city struggling with income inequality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/business/netflix-shares-tank-subscriber-growth-falls-short-india-foray-faces-rivals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Netflix logo is seen on its office in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/02/business/trump-spouse-visa-shift-looks-set-hurt-workers-push-100000-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are greeted on the tarmac by Andrews Air Force Base 89th Airlift Wing Commander Col. Rebecca Sonkiss and Catherine Helms, spouse of Sonkiss, upon disembarking Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Sunday, returning from a weekend trip to Bedminster, New Jersey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Amazon logo is displayed on a screen and reflected on a tablet in Paris in April. Amazon set its sights on the pharmacy market Thursday with the acquisition of tech-focused retailer PillPack, sending shock waves throug.h the sector over prospects of disruption by the U.S online colossus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/29/world/science-health-world/satellite-tech-offers-near-real-time-view-deforestation-gives-peru-fast-track-fight-wildcat-mining/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-deforestation-a-20180630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gold mining deforestation is seen from a satellite image in the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios, Peru.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/19/business/google-invest-550-million-china-e-commerce-giant-jd-com-battles-rivals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-google-a-20180620.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20180620.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child stands near the mascot for Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com and the words for "Be Number One" at the headquarters in Beijing last November. Google said Monday it will invest $550 million in Alibaba's main rival, JD.com, as the U.S. tech giant seeks to expand in fast-growing Asian e-commerce markets.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/04/business/corporate-business/amazon-japan-hikes-shipping-rates-amid-rising-logistic-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-amazon-z-20180405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-z-20180405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon last raised shipping rates in the spring of 2016 when it stopped offering free deliveries for all its products.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/business/trump-escalates-attack-amazon-focusing-tax-shipping-offering-no-evidence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Thursday. Trump on Thursday said his concerns with Amazon.com Inc. predate his election, a day after a report that he's obsessed with regulating it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/29/business/amazon-shares-skid-tune-50-billion-report-trump-wants-curb-clout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/08/business/tech/amazon-join-rivals-japans-emerging-ai-speaker-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20171109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Karen Rubin, Amazon Japan senior manager overseeing the Alexa AI voice agent, demonstrates Amazon's Echo Plus smart speaker in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/25/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-wont-sell-amazon-seeks-tie-ups-companies-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadashi Yanai]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/05/business/financial-markets/amazon-will-serve-wine-beer-cocktails-pop-bar-tokyos-ginza-district/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:26:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/nuclear-watchdog-orders-amazon-halt-sales-product-containing-radioactive-materials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:27:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20170921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nation's nuclear watchdog has ordered the Japanese arm of Amazon.com Inc. and two other companies to suspend sales of products containing radioactive tritium in excess of the legally allowable limit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/business/grocery-wars-seen-heating-amazon-gets-u-s-ftc-shareholder-nods-acquire-whole-foods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b-amazon-a-20170825.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20170825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Whole Foods Market is seen in June in San Antonio, Texas. Whole Foods shareholders voted Wednesday, to bless a $13.7 billion union with Amazon that the organic grocery chain's CEO had called "love at first sight." By buying Whole Foods, Amazon will get more than 460 stores and potentially very lucrative data about how shoppers behave offline.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/21/business/stress-mounts-fees-fall-japan-home-deliveries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-yen4living-a-20170122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Time is money: Package delivery is a high-stress, low-pay job, and labor shortages are endemic in the industry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/19/business/amazon-launch-new-manga-e-book-reader-japanese-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:30:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kindle-a-20161020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon Japan's Kindle Paperwhite 32GB Manga Model will be shipped from Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/15/national/science-health/space-exploration-human-evolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:31:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New frontier: NASA's Space Launch System rockets use the same model of engine that was used on space shuttles.                               ISTOCK]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/05/business/tech/hardware-push-google-debuts-pixel-smartphone-challenge-apple/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-22T20:31:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20161006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google hardware team head Rick Osterloh introduces a new Pixel smartphone fielded in a direct challenge to Apple iPhone at a press event in San Francisco Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/10/business/pricing-system-offers-scant-protection-amazon-japan-hacks-away-bookstores-benefits/</loc>
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