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		<lastmod>2019-08-22T21:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon Inc. is now attempting to crack Australia, one of the biggest and most sparsely populated nations, where bricks-and-mortar retailers are king.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) walk along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T08:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T10:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers from Japan Customs and WWF Japan urge travelers at Haneda airport not to leave the country with souvenirs made of ivory.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T13:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japanese economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi pose in Washington on Wednesday before holding talks on a bilateral trade deal.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pass by the Hotel du Palais where Group of Seven delegates will be hosted in Biarritz, southwestern France, ahead of the annual G7 summit from Saturday through Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unpainted Boeing 737 Max aircraft are seen parked in an aerial photo at Renton Municipal Airport near the Boeing Renton facility in Renton, Washington, July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T14:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp.-affiliated company plant is seen in 2014 in Bangalore, India.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T15:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Simexco Dak Lak manager Thai Anh Tuan (left) samples coffee in Di An, Vietnam.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T15:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Professional Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama shows off a putting shot during a lesson for amateur golfers in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T16:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-23T16:08:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's baby food market is expanding despite the country's low birthrate as more working parents rely on precooked food to wean their babies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and North Korean university students talk inside a tour bus in Pyongyang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/23/business/japan-u-s-trade-talks-extra-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-23T16:36:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan's economic revitalization minister, speaks with reporters in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/23/world/science-health-world/international-giraffe-trade-regulated-first-time/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-24T07:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, wave before leaving Tokyo International Airport on Friday for France.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A traveller pulls his luggage past a U.S. Embassy car outside a hotel in Shanghai on July 30. China has announced it will raise tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's planned Sept. 1 duty increase in a war over trade and technology policy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein on July 8 as he announces charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors against the financier in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Several Chinese manufacturers are reportedly interested in tying up with struggling Japan Display Inc. on mass production of next-generation organic electroluminescent panels for smartphones.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron deliver statements in the courtyard of Elysee Palace in Paris after holding talks on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jacques-Louis David's "The Death of Marat"]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ōgui eaters are ordinary people who have the extraordinary ability to consume vast amounts of food.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/23/business/financial-markets/japans-first-negative-yield-agency-bond/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-24T16:07:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-24T16:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past the Olympic rings in Tokyo last Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea test-fires a new weapon, presumed to be a short-range ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/23/business/economy-business/japan-korea-feud-means-companies-markets-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-24T17:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jskmarkets-a-20190824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean victims of Japan's forced wartime labor raise hands with family members in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2018, after the Supreme Court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate them. Seoul has accused Tokyo of weaponizing trade to retaliate against similar court rulings calling for Japanese companies to offer reparations to Koreans who were forced into slave labor during World War II. The two nations, however, settled war-related compensation in the 1965 pact that normalized bilateral relations. The signs says: "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries apologizes and compensates to victims."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/24/world/tanzania-says-south-africa-impounded-one-airbus-planes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-24T18:57:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antonio Guterres]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-25T13:13:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Kids' zone" is written on a road near a child care facility in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, in July, following a traffic accident that killed two nursery school children and left several others injured.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko are seen Sunday during their visit to a tennis court in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, while staying in the town for their summer vacation. The court is where the retired emperor and empress met for the first time in August 1957.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Egyptian Ambassador to Japan Ayman Aly Kamel speaks to The Japan Times during a recent interview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teachers, community leaders and parents work together to improve education in African countries under the School for All program.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-27T12:29:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fisheries workers process a whale at Kushiro port in eastern Hokkaido on July 1 after Japan resumed commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recruit Career Co. President Daizo Kobayashi (left) apologizes Monday over the Rikunabi browser data scandal, in which the company sold data on nearly 8,000 graduates to third parties without their consent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/tech/sports-tech-startups-gaining-pace-less-year-go-tokyo-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T17:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-27T17:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past illuminated stores at the Myeongdong shopping district at night in Seoul on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/world/science-health-world/u-s-opioid-ruling-gives-green-light-lawsuits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T17:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judge Thad Balkman arrives to give his decision in an opioid lawsuit in Norman, Oklahoma, on Monday. Balkman found that Johnson &amp; Johnson and its subsidiaries had helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis, and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/international-drone-race-held-japan-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T17:54:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Drone Impact Challenge 2016 Asia Cup is held in Akita Prefecture in July of that year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/economy-business/american-farmers-hail-u-s-japan-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T18:18:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer and pork producer in eastern Iowa in May]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-doubts-emerge-g7s-influence-east-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T18:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a Group of Seven summit session in Biarritz, France, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/26/national/politics-diplomacy/state-department-spokeswoman-says-seouls-scrapping-intel-pact-japan-threatens-u-s-troops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T19:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gsomia-a-20190826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk by a banner near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday. The letters read "Immediately abolish the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/trump-shifts-tone-china-not-tactics-deal-grows-distant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T20:16:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-trumptone-a-20190828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumptone-a-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/world/spring-frosts-hail-heat-wave-put-dent-french-wine-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T20:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-frwine-a-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bottles of French red wine are displayed at the Chateau du Pavillon in Sainte-Croix-Du-Mont, France.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/jointly-developed-yamato-drone-delivers-success-texas-test-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T20:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-drone-a-20190828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-drone-a-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unmanned delivery drone loaded with cargo is seen during a demonstration by Yamato Holdings Co. in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/trump-rejects-japan-tariffs-this-moment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-27T20:34:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. Rush vehicles bound for shipment sit at the Nagoya Port in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/fearing-invasion-erdogans-forces-syrian-kurdish-ypg-withdraw-strip-along-turkish-border/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T07:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-ypg-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ypg-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Police Force of Asayish stands guard as Syrian Kurds demonstrate against Turkish threats to invade the Kurdish region, in the northeastern city of Qamishli on Tuesday. The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Tuesday their forces had started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after a U.S.-Turkish deal for a buffer zone there.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/business/japan-south-korea-trade-downgrade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T07:41:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-whitelist-a-20190828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-whitelist-a-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshige Seko speaks at a news conference Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/syrian-rebels-push-back-russia-backed-regime-forces-advances-idlib/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T08:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-idlib-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo provided by the Ibaa News Agency, the media arm of al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militant group in Syria, purports to show a missile fired by the militant group against Syrian government forces position in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday,]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/social-issues-world/burundi-plans-repatriate-200000-refugees-tanzania-sparking-fears-forced-returns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T08:58:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-burundi-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burundian refugee children pose for a photograph at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma, western Tanzania, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-kono-says-hopes-reduce-middle-east-tension-meeting-iran-counterpart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T11:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-kono-a-20190828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-a-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shakes hands with Foreign Minister Taro Kono during their meeting at a hotel in Yokohama on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/national/trial-japan-anti-groping-uv-stamp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T12:32:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-stamp-a-20190828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stamp-a-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seal-maker Shachihata Inc. has started selling a stamp that can be used to leave a mark on a groper’s hand.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/27/national/politics-diplomacy/china-africa-ticad-development-conference-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T12:47:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-ticad-b-20190828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ticad-b-20190828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Girls wearing T-shirts with African national flags hold and raise their hands Tuesday during a summer dance festival in Yokohama to mark the kickoff of the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development, which opens Wednesday. Dozens of top African leaders will come to the port city hosting the three-day summit meeting.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/thailand-may-become-first-southeast-asia-allow-sex-unions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T14:50:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Thailand_Daily_Life_74415-1f653.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Thailand_Daily_Life_74415-1f653.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If passed, Thailand would be the first in Southeast Asia to allow same-sex unions, and the second in Asia after Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/crime-legal-world/deutsche-bank-says-records-sought-trump-congressional-probe-include-tax-returns-doesnt-elaborate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T16:54:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-taxreturns-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taxreturns-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures Aug. 23 as he speaks to the press while departing the White House in Washington for the G7 Summit in France.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/corporate-business/purdue-pharma-discussing-12-billion-offer-settle-2000-opioid-claims-filing-chapter-11-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T16:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-purdue-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-purdue-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This June photo shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazils-neighbors-call-meeting-amazon-pact-fires-rage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T16:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-amazonpact-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-amazonpact-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fire consumes the Amazon rainforest in Altamira, Brazil, Tuesday. Fires across the Brazilian Amazon have sparked an international outcry for preservation of the world's largest rainforest.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/us-south-korea-japan-rock-bottom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T17:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-usjpsk-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usjpsk-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the South Korean Navy's special forces conduct a military drill Sunday on the islets called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-must-take-back-insults-brazil-accept-g7-amazon-fire-aid-bolsonaro/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T17:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-macronaro-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-macronaro-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Tuesday photo combo shows French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro said Tuesday he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if Macron "withdraws insults" made against him.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/japan-credit-card-firms-tax-rebate-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-creditfirms-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The credit card companies considering the move are JCB Co., Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co., Credit Saison Co., UC Card Co. and Aeon Financial Service Co.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/25/national/admission-fee-for-mount-fuji-in-works-yamanashi-shizuoka-governors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nn20130225d3a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130225d3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freeloaders?: A horde of visitors trudges up Mount Fuji last August. The local governments of Yamanashi and Shizuoka may start charging an admission fee to climb Japan's highest peak, to raise funds for the preservation of its environment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/uber-eats-deliver-convenience-stores-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-lawson-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lawson-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber Eats has teamed up with convenience store operator Lawson Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/national/unesco-head-welcomes-fuji-heritage-proposal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:17:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/10/national/second-mt-fuji-route-opens-climbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:17:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/n-fuji-a-20140711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fuji-a-20140711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials removed signs barring entry at the Subashiri 5th Station, as an eastern approach to the top of Mount Fuji opened to trekkers on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/13/national/environmental-protection-key-to-proposed-railway-up-mount-fuji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/n-fujitrain-a-20140814.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fujitrain-a-20140814.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated PR photo shows a Fuji Kyuko Co. train with Mount Fuji in the background.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/financial-markets/japan-top-shareholder-shinsei-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T18:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-shinseibank-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shinseibank-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shinsei Bank Ltd. headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/nothing-in-constitution-forbids-females-from-ascending-chrysanthemum-throne/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-argueyokota-a-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-argueyokota-a-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Crown Prince Naruhito, Princess Aiko and then-Crown Princess Masako wave as they head to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in July 2018.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/imperial-institution-thrives-due-to-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-yokota-z-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokota-z-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Naruhito, Princess Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, wave to well-wishers at JR Utsunomiya Station in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/tradition-imperial-succession-follows-male-bloodline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-argueyagi-a-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-argueyagi-a-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guards lead people to one of the imperial family's New Year's greetings sessions at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/national/japan-allow-females-ascend-throne/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:31:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito waves beside Empress Masako (center right) as they stand with other members of the imperial family during a greeting ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/u-s-startups-japans-graying-population/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A smartphone app by Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. and Neurotrack Technologies Inc. analyzes a patient's cognitive functions by tracking eye movements.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italy-inches-closer-new-government-amid-party-haggling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italy's President Sergio Mattarella is seen inside his office shortly before consultations on the political crisis in Rome on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/science-health-world/climate-shifts-central-america-confronts-deadly-dengue-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T20:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives sit with patients infected with dengue fever in the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli, Nicaragua, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/trump-blesses-north-korea-tests-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T21:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A report on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un overseeing a missile launch Saturday is seen on a giant television screen in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/corporate-business/toyota-suzuki-capital-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T21:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of Toyota Motor Corp. (left) in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, and that of Suzuki Motor Corp. in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/asia-pacific/maritime-rows-resurface-duterte-readies-raise-south-china-sea-ruling-xi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T21:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he addresses land reform beneficiaries on the 31st year of the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program on Tuesday in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-pledges-private-investment-africa-ticad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-28T22:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles along with attendees Wednesday during an event on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/smartphone-japan-apple-rules-unfair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T01:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-apple-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple is apparently concerned that its iPhones will lose its competitive edge with changes to the discounts mobile carriers can offer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/japan-pension-drop-by-fifth-overhaul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T01:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Pension Service headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-quits-democratic-presidential-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T08:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-gillibrand-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand speaks during the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-vice-labor-minister-quits-visa-graft-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T12:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-resign-a-20190829-e1567002291640.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-resign-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Ueno]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/crime-legal/japan-court-no-damages-pyongyang-tuition-waiver/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T13:56:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-koreanschool-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koreanschool-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Toshimitsu Yamasaki turned down an appeal filed by 61 alumni of a Korean junior and senior high school in Tokyo's Kita Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/jr-east-tokyo-metro-tourist-ic-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T13:58:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-suica-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suica-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "Welcome Suica" card will encourage foreign visitors to go cashless while traveling in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/italian-president-summons-conte-expected-give-new-mandate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T14:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-conte-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-conte-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luigi di Maio, Italy's deputy prime minister, speaks during a news conference following a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace in Rome on Wednesday. Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party are headed for a deal on a new government led by Giuseppe Conte after days of stop-and-go negotiations and bickering over Cabinet posts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/u-s-trade-agency-affirms-trumps-extra-5-tariff-hike-chinese-goods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T14:07:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-tariffs-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China Shipping and other containers are stacked at the Virginia International's terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia, in May. A coalition of 161 manufacturers, farmers, retailers, natural gas and oil companies as well as other business groups signed a letter asking President Donald Trump to postpone all tariff increases on Chinese goods slated for this year. The Wednesday letter organized by Americans for Free Trade Coalition,comes as tariff increases take effect Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/top-k-pop-producer-yang-hyun-suk-questioned-police-gambling-prostitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T14:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-yanghyunsuk-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yanghyunsuk-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Hyun-suk arrives at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/u-s-not-told-south-korea-intel-pact-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T16:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-gsomia-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gsomia-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper holds his first news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/spacexs-mars-rocket-prototype-rattles-nearby-residents-texas-test-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T16:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-spacex-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-spacex-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SpaceX's Mars Starship prototype Starhopper hovers over its launchpad during a test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-slams-corrupt-puerto-rico-storm-dorian-looms-looks-pack-hurricane-punch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T16:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-trumprico-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumprico-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to the press while departing the White House in Washington Aug. 23. PresidentTrump branded Puerto Rico "one of the most corrupt places on earth" Wednesday as the island braced for its first major storm since being ravaged by Hurricane Maria two years ago.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-brexit-showdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T16:50:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-bnextit-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bnextit-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brexit opponents protest outside of Downing Street in London on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/japan-2020-budget-requests-105-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T16:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/corporate-business/facebook-japan-failed-to-report-500-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T17:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-facebook-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebook-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.'s Japan unit failed to report about ¥500 million in taxable income over the two years through 2017 and is believed to have paid additional levies of over ¥100 million.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/tech/zmps-food-delivery-robot-old-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T18:14:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-robots-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-robots-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ZMP CEO Hisashi Taniguchi speaks about CarriRo Deli, the company's autonomous delivery robot, at a gathering in Tokyo on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/japan-ownership-rules-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/science-health/insurance-council-gives-green-light-patients-covered-gene-therapy-drug-combat-clogged-arteries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:17:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-genetherapy-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-genetherapy-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council are seen during a meeting in May in central Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/boj-policymaker-dangers-of-easing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-boj-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan building stands in Tokyo's Chuo Ward in June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/21/business/tech/ntt-docomo-reopens-reservations-huawei-smartphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-docomo-a-20190822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The P30 Pro (left) and P30 smartphone models made by Huawei Technology Co.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/06/business/ntt-docomo-kddi-log-lower-profits-april-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:32:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/business/ministry-plan-will-see-japans-mobile-phone-carriers-slash-cancellation-fees-fall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-mobile-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mobile-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SoftBank Corp. shop in central Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/11/business/japan-plans-cut-mobile-phone-contract-penalties-%c2%a51000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-contract-a-20190612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-contract-a-20190612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer looks at a smartphone at a store run by SoftBank Corp. in Tokyo last November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/05/business/corporate-business/view-procurement-risks-rakuten-spurns-foreign-providers-opts-nec-tech-build-5g-base-stations-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/b-rakuten-a-20190606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rakuten-a-20190606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten, which plans to invest ¥194.6 billion in its 5G system, aims to install around 16,000 cost-effective base stations nationwide.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/30/business/corporate-business/latest-snub-huawei-japans-softbank-chooses-nokia-ericsson-5g-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-huawei-a-20190531.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190531.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei Technologies Co.'s headquarters in Guangdong province, China]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/10/business/corporate-business/japan-enacts-bill-aimed-lowering-mobile-phone-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-mobile-a-20190511.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mobile-a-20190511.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has suggested Japan's three major mobile phone carriers — NTT Docomo Inc., SoftBank Corp. and KDDI Corp. — could reduce their fees by around 40 percent.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/27/business/tech/sony-conduct-tests-remotely-driven-cars-ntt-docomo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:35:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-cart-a-20190328.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cart-a-20190328.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s remotely controlled New Concept Cart SC-1 can carry three passengers and doesn't have a steering wheel.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/13/business/drones-retain-buzz-japanese-trade-show-industrial-uses-expected-bolster-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-drone-a-20190314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone hovers during a demonstration Wednesday at the Japan Drone 2019 exhibition at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/26/business/corporate-business/japans-top-three-mobile-carriers-rakuten-apply-5g-band-allocation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:36:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-5g-a-20190227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-5g-a-20190227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three major mobile carriers and e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc. have applied for the allocation of a mobile phone frequency band to introduce next-generation 5G wireless services in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/07/business/corporate-business/ntt-invest-%c2%a53-trillion-research-5g-mobile-network-systems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/b-ntt-a-20181108-e1541577195553.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ntt-a-20181108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada speaks during a news conference on Tuesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/01/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-lower-mobile-phone-fees-amid-calls-charges-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:37:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-docomo-a-20181101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20181101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo President Kazuhiro Yoshizawa announces a plan to cut mobile phone charges at a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/business/tech/ntt-docomo-launch-worlds-thinnest-lightest-phone-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-docomo-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo Inc.'s business card-sized phone is scheduled to debut in November and will target consumers who prefer simple handsets.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/23/business/40-cut-phone-bills-mean-japans-mobile-carriers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:37:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-phone-a-20180824.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-phone-a-20180824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman uses a smartphone next to a display advertising products for KDDI Corp.'s au brand, NTT Docomo Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp. outside an electronics store in Tokyo in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/21/business/mobile-phone-operators-take-1-trillion-blow-suga-says-bills-cut-40/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-sugaphone-a-20180822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sugaphone-a-20180822.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks during a regular news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in this photo taken in August. On Tuesday Suga said mobile phone operators could cut phone bills by about 40 percent, pushing down the stock prices of those firms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/01/reference/urban-japan-trying-hand-bicycle-sharing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/n-fyi-a-20170502.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20170502.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bicycles used for Minato Ward and NTT Docomo's bike-sharing service are parked at a designated port near JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/01/national/tokyo-olympic-medals-made-recycled-cellphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:41:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/n-medal-a-20170202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medal-a-20170202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be made from recycled smartphones to be donated by people in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/18/national/student-hopes-2020-green-medal-campaign-gives-recycling-olympic-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/n-medals-a-20161219.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medals-a-20161219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hironao Ito, a sophomore at Waseda University, shows off a sample gold medal made of metals recycled from old appliances.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/business/corporate-business/iphone-7-boasting-felica-friendly-payment-tech-attracts-lines-and-pre-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/b-iphone-a-20160917.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-iphone-a-20160917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man in Osaka dunks his new iPhone 7 to test its water resistance on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/24/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-claims-1-17-billion-ruling-stake-dispute-tata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:43:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/25/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-app-update-will-allow-police-to-track-phones-location/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/business/corporate-business/new-docomo-smartphone-models-will-covertly-trackable-japanese-authorities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:43:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/b-docomo-a-20160518.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20160518.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New NTT Docomo Inc. smartphone models are unveiled in Tokyo last week. Police will be able to extract GPS data.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/17/business/japan-government-press-mobile-carriers-prices-profits-soar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:44:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/03/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-to-tap-vp-yoshizawa-as-new-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:44:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/22/reference/cellphone-cease-fire-signals-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/n-fyi-a-20160223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20160223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mobile phone companies no longer boast big posters advertising large discounts and cash-back offers like they did in this photo taken in January 2011, because of government pressure to refrain.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/16/business/corporate-business/ntt-docomo-planning-to-increase-handset-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/b-docomo-a-20160117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20160117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo will raise prices by revising discounts for customers switching from rivals.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/16/business/government-panel-urges-carriers-cut-mobile-phone-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:45:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/b-mobile-a-20151217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mobile-a-20151217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a panel meeting on Wednesday at the ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/rain-southwestern-japan-three-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-heavyrain-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heavyrain-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Juntendo hospital (far center) in Omachi, Saga Prefecture, is isolated due to flooding on Thursday, following torrential rain that hit southwestern Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/kazuo-wada-former-chairman-collapsed-retailer-yaohan-dies-90/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-wada-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wada-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Wada]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/japan-report-us-destroyer-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T19:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-collision-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-collision-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The damaged bow section of the Philippine container vessel ACX Crystal, which was involved in a collision with the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald off the Izu Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture in the early hours of June 17, 2017]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-leaders-chaotic-diplomacy-offers-chance-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:01:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-trumpkim-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpkim-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands over the military demarcation line at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/alibabas-jack-ma-says-12-hour-work-week-become-norm-thanks-ai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:16:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-ma-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ma-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is interviewed at the Viva Technology conference in Paris in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/science-health/osaka-world-first-ips-corneal-transplant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-ips-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ips-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Nishida, who heads the Osaka University team that conducted the world's first iPS transplant of corneal tissues, speaks at a news conference Thursday at the university.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/japanese-african-business-leaders-hold-first-investment-dialogue-ticad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is projected on a screen as he speaks during the second day of the three-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/17-japan-government-miss-disability-hiring-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:18:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiring-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Test-takers for the national civil service exam arrive at the test site in central Tokyo in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/trade-impact-japans-tightened-export-controls-early-assess-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:20:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/world/north-korea-may-building-new-ballistic-missile-submarine-u-s-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-29T20:57:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-nkmissiles-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmissiles-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satellite imagery of Sinpo South Shipyard in North Korea on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/23/national/unesco-japan-cultural-cachet-vs-urban-bustle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T10:11:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-regional-a-20190824.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daisen Kofun, Japan’s largest ancient burial mound, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, is one of the sites collectively called the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/06/national/ancient-osaka-prefecture-tomb-clusters-added-unesco-world-heritage-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T10:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unesco-a-20190707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's largest keyhole-shaped mound named after Emperor Nintoku is part of the Mozu-Furuichi tumulus clusters in Osaka Prefecture. UNESCO on Saturday officially designated them as World Heritage sites.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/japan-train-drone-specialists-disaster-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T12:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drones-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A water rescue drill using a drone is conducted at a swimming pool of the Tokyo Fire Department's fire academy in October 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/narita-electronic-customs-opens-to-foreigners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T12:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-customs-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign visitors form a long line at the immigration counter for passport checks at Narita International Airport in February 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/us-helicopter-window-sea-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T13:10:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-uschopper-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A CH-53E helicopter, the same type from which a window fell off and dropped into the sea, is seen at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in December 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/business/corporate-business/japan-biotech-venture-sell-jacket-made-synthetic-protein-textile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T13:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-jacket-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jacket-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spiber Inc. Representative Executive Officer Kazuhide Sekiyama (right) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday alongside Goldwin Inc. Director Takao Watanabe as they announce the launch of a jacket made with protein material produced via microbial fermentation.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/tokyo-ranked-worlds-safest-city-third-consecutive-year-economist-intelligence-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T13:55:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-safest-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-safest-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo came first in a report released Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit ranking safe cities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/violent-protest-erupts-capital-indonesias-papua/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T13:59:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-papua-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security officers stand guard as a building burns during a protest in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/eu-extends-tariffs-chinese-bicycles-fearing-import-flood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T14:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on tax policy with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington in 2017. At center is Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO, Small Business &amp; Entrepreneurship Council. At right is Tom Donohue, president and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/huawei-probe-u-s-prosecutors-new-allegations-tech-theft-wsj/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees visit a Huawei exhibition stand during the Consumer Electronics Expo in Beijing Aug. 2.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Excavation work by scientists at the Cooper's Ferry archaeological site located along the Salmon River in western Idaho is shown in this image released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington Aug. 12. The Trump administration has unveiled new rules that will make it harder for children of some immigrants serving in the military to obtain citizenship.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-30T14:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo shows a part of an advertisement for the Korea Cup International Yacht Race that was printed in the Wall Street Journal in April 2011, and which prompted Japan to lodge a protest. The advertisement refers to the Takeshima group of islets, claimed by both Japan and South Korea, as Dokdo, and the Sea of Japan as the East Sea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akiko Aoki, who launched a crowdfunding campaign to build an evacuation center for people with disabilities, poses with her son Koji in Abira, Hokkaido, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work on the production line of the Kohara Gear Industry Co. stock gear factory in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-30T16:36:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization's regional director for Africa, is interviewed at a hotel in Yokohama on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/20/business/tech/obscure-rubber-company-became-linchpin-tech-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T17:01:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Semiconductor production requires key materials made by a handful of Japanese companies that few people have ever heard of.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smoking-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hanazono Rugby Stadium in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, one of the venues for the Rugby World Cup, has a new outside smoking area in which ashtrays have been placed in a rugby formation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stock-exchange-saudi-aramco-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T17:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Aramco oil field complex facility at Shaybah, Saudi Arabia]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-30T17:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke belches from a coal-fired power station near Datong in China's northern Shanxi province.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/ehime-governor-reveals-bundle-decaying-bills-received-anonymously-january-worth-%c2%a5106-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T17:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-donation-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damaged bills that were delivered to the Ehime Prefectural Government in January]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/north-korean-spy-crew-remains-wwii-victims-kagoshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T18:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimi Shiratake speaks during an interview in July in Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/volvo-autonomous-truck-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T18:23:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the driver keeping his hands off the steering wheel, an autonomous truck developed by UD Trucks Co. navigates by itself at a sugar beet factory in Shari, Hokkaido, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/japans-emergency-advisories-complex-hard-understand-even-fluent-japanese-speakers-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T18:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitotsubashi University professor Isao Iori (center) speaks about difficulties foreign nationals face in receiving information about disasters at an event Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/japans-curbs-high-tech-exports-south-korea-backfire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T19:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Samsung Electronics Co. semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/chief-u-n-agricultural-fund-warns-africa-face-food-shortages-populations-grow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T19:27:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b-un-a-20190831.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gilbert Houngbo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/us-marines-relocate-guam-2024-okinawa-tamaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T19:53:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero (left) and Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki pose during a meeting Friday in Guam.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/japan-exports-hydrogen-fluoride-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T19:55:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/politics-diplomacy/ticad-closes-effort-japan-differentiate-african-investment-projects-chinas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T20:34:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a joint news conference Friday in Yokohama to wrap up the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/japan-record-defense-budget-space-cyberspace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T20:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ground Self-Defense Force conducts a live-ammunition drill at training grounds at the foot of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/economy-business/japans-july-jobless-26-year-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T20:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students queue up for job interviews at Mitsubishi Corp. in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/peach-aviation-becomes-first-japanese-carrier-scale-back-services-south-korea-amid-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T20:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-peach-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peach Aviation Ltd. said Friday it will reduce its services to South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/protect-customers-japan-introduce-tougher-rules-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T20:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-techgiants-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fair Trade Commission plans to introduce tougher regulations on technology giants to strengthen protection of customers' personal data.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/japan-names-yomiuri-chairman-kojiro-shiraishi-ambassador-switzerland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T21:45:32+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/2019/08/30/business/late-night-arrivals-japan-narita-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T22:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Airlines Co. passenger jet prepares to land at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/corporate-business/fire-breaks-toyotas-hq-aichi-no-one-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T22:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The technological facility where a fire broke out on the top floor is shown at Toyota Motor Corp.'s headquarters in Aichi Prefecture on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/business/corporate-business/restaurants-in-japans-chubu-long-view-foreigners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-30T23:31:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xia Gang, a Chinese manager of a Bronco Billy restaurant in Nagoya's Moriyama Ward, grills a Hamburg steak at the restaurant.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-tweet-iran-launch-surveillance-secrets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-31T09:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-irantweet-a-20190901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screen shot of a Friday tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump apparently shows an image of a failed rocket-launch attempt at the Safir SLV launch site in northern Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-foreign-minister-visit-north-korea-three-days-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-31T10:56:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkchina-a-20190901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Yi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/national/politics-diplomacy/putin-abe-discuss-peace-treaty-talks-next-week-moscow-unlikely-make-concessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-31T11:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin during a news conference ahead of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, in September last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akinwumi Adesina]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T15:12:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choe Son Hui]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T22:44:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unity in action: Leaders attending the Tokyo International Conference on African Development pose for a group photo in Yokohama on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/national/unhcr-calls-japan-improve-quite-low-refugee-approval-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-08-31T18:13:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T19:33:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi, of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and television presenter Christel Takigawa announce their marriage plans at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Aug. 7. Many are speculating that Koizumi will be given a post when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffles his Cabinet in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T19:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's financial watchdog reportedly plans to inspect two units of postal and financial behemoth Japan Post Holdings Co. over an insurance sales scandal involving hundreds of thousands of policies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T20:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A seagull flies near Takeshima, known as Dokdo in South Korea, in the Sea of Japan. On Saturday, a group of South Korean lawmakers made a controversial visit to the islets in a move likely to further worsen Tokyo-Seoul ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T22:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firebombs thrown toward riot police during a protest in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on Saturday burn after exploding. Police used water cannons to spray blue-dyed water at defiant protesters, who lobbed the projectiles at them as tensions between demonstrators and authorities escalated on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-08-31T22:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-01T12:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-01T14:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir smiles inside a courthouse cage in Khartoum on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/29/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-iran-rouhani-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T15:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the start of their bilateral meeting in Yokohama on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/national/new-ordinance-tokyo-restaurants-must-show-patrons-smoking-allowed-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T15:23:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo restaurant owner Kiyoaki Tezuka puts a "No smoking" sticker on the entrance of his eatery in the capital's Chuo Ward on Saturday, the day before a local ordinance on new smoking regulations kicks in.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/business/economy-business/u-s-china-trump-xi-tariff-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T15:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka on June 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/japanese-swimmer-kosuke-hagino-plans-marry-singer-songwriter-miwa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T15:48:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swimmer Kosuke Hagino and singer-songwriter miwa may get married sometime this autumn.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/business/trump-moving-ahead-new-tariffs-chinese-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T16:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tariffs-a-20190902.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A butcher works at her stall at a market in Beijing. Washington is moving ahead on September 1, 2019, with new tariffs on Chinese imports, including butchered meat, fruit and vegetables.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-01T16:34:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds anti-Japanese banners during a rally in Seoul on Aug. 3 against Tokyo's decision to remove South Korea from a so-called white list of favored export partners.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-01T17:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anna Amato poses in Bristol, England, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/business/tax-rebate-small-retailers-cashless-payments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T20:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banners for Merpay's cashless campaign are displayed on a shopping street in Tokyo's Koenji district on July 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/fleet-boats-return-empty-first-day-taijis-dolphin-hunting-season/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T20:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boats leave a port in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, early Sunday after the "drive-hunting" season for dolphins began.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/oil-leak-ironworks-complicates-disastrous-flooding-saga-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-01T23:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents and Self-Defense Force members place absorption sheets on a street in Omachi, Saga Prefecture, to remove oil washed away from a flooded ironworks after torrential rain on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/kashmiri-militant-calls-pakistan-military-intervention-disputed-region-u-n-doesnt-send-peacekeepers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T08:48:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syed Salahuddin, head of the United Jihad Council (UJC), addresses a gathering in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/world/social-issues-world/trump-says-background-checks-not-prevented-recent-gun-carnage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T08:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon arrival at the White House in Washington on Sunday after spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/eyes-ldp-factions-abe-plots-cabinet-shake-final-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T11:42:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-factions-a-20190902.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the media in Biarritz, France, on Aug. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/national/media-national/road-rage-coverage-reveals-gulf-awareness-traffic-rules-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T11:54:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car carrying a man suspected of instigating a road rage incident leaves a police station in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/national/crime-legal/ibaraki-road-rage-case-lands-man-nationwide-wanted-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T12:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Miyazaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/despite-frosty-bilateral-ties-japan-south-korea-festival-held-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and South Korean children perform during the annual cultural exchange festival held in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/stage-set-brexit-clash-u-k-parliament-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:21:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labour Party Shadow Secretary of State for Brexit Keir Starmer appears on BBC TV's "The Andrew Marr Show" in London on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/national/crime-legal/courts-allow-online-submissions-documents-evidence-civil-lawsuits-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-courts-a-20190903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court plans to allow courts to accept submissions of documents and evidence for civil lawsuits online from 2021.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-stumped-category-5-hurricane-crawling-toward-east-coast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stumped-a-20190903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Federal Emergency Management Agency briefing on Hurricane Dorian at FEMA Headquarters in Washington Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/business/economy-business/argentina-imposes-capital-controls-debt-crisis-escalates-gives-exporters-five-days-repatriate-foreign-currencies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:45:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Argentina's Central Bank in Buenos Aires is seen Friday. The government of President Mauricio Macri on Sunday imposed foreign-exchange controls on Argentine exporters at the end of a week of financial uncertainty that saw a sharp drop in the value of the peso. Exporters were ordered to seek permission from the Central Bank of Argentina before purchasing foreign currency, according to a decree published in the Official Bulletin.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The interior of Mitiga airport terminal is empty after an airstrike in Tripoli in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T13:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Max 8, being built for American Airlines, makes a turn on the runway as it's readied for takeoff on a test flight in Renton, Washington, in May. American Airlines says it is delaying the expected return date for its Boeing 737 Max jets. The airline said Sunday that while it "remains confident" that coming software updates and training will mean recertification of the aircraft this year, it is extending cancellations for Max flights through Dec. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T14:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers remove textile roofing from a structure before the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in the Great Abaco island town of Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caritas Elementary School students board a bus from Noborito Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Monday, their first day of school after summer break.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T16:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of the Chinese app Zao, which allows users to swap their faces with celebrities and anyone else, is seen on a mobile phone screen in front of an ad for the app.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asylum seekers sit in front of their tent in a temporary camp Tuesday near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec. The camp was set up to cope with the crush of asylum seekers crossing into Canada from the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/business/corporate-business/toshiba-sale-lng-total/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T17:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters gather at a news conference at Toshiba's headquarters in Tokyo last November. On Monday, the electronics and energy conglomerate said it completed the sale of its liquefied natural gas operation in the United States to French oil giant Total SA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/national/ehime-g20-labor-ministers-urge-elderly-friendly-working-environment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T17:13:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Group of 20 labor ministers' meeting, held at this hotel in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, adopted a joint statement at the end of the two-day meeting on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A whaling vessel departs from a port in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Monday to catch minke whales.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A senior police officer gives an English language lesson to other officers at a police station in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T18:43:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andreas Kalbitz, top candidate of the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party for state elections in Brandenburg, gets makeup prior the start of the TV show at the German channel ARD following the results of the exit polls during the state elections in Brandenburg on Sunday in Potsdam, eastern Germany. The far-right party surged strongly in elections in two eastern states, public television exit polls said, reflecting anger with Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/business/economy-business/government-launch-smartphone-based-rewards-program-using-number-id-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T18:47:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mynumber-a-20190902.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to launch a smartphone-based rewards program in 2020 using My Number cards.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T19:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Montgomery littoral combat ship, expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Millinocket and Royal Malaysian Navy Kasturi-class corvette Gagah Samudera sail together with other participating ships during a joint exercise in the Strait of Malacca on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T19:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A family dines at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T19:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Winston Lee]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/national/history/american-pacifists-little-known-legacy-lives-bombed-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T19:54:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floyd Schmoe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/national/social-issues/women-fight-for-voice-and-choice-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T19:55:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chung Woohi (left), Amy Tiffany Loo (center) and Yuka Hamanaka often have deep discussions about Japan, the country of their birth, in light of their varied ancestral backgrounds.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T20:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corporate profits and capital spending both fell in the April-June quarter, government data showed Monday. The drop was attributed to worries about fallout from the U.S.-China trade war.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T20:43:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-senpolice-a-20190903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some of the Senkaku Islands, controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, are seen in September 2012. Japan plans to set up a new police unit with jurisdiction over the islands, public broadcaster NHK reported Monday, in a move that could step up pressure in a flash point with China.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T20:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-intro-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally in Seoul on July 27, calling for a boycott of Japan-made products in response to Tokyo's tighter export controls.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T22:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-02T22:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohammad Javad Zarif]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/national/first-japan-grants-long-term-resident-status-transgender-foreign-national/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-02T23:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-03T08:41:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-03T10:32:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lawyer (center) representing a woman who sued her employer over gender issues speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-03T10:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials of Izumi Municipal Government bow at the start of a news conference in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/national/japan-learn-overseas-planning-nuclear-plant-decommissioning-government-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-03T13:13:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will face numerous challenges during its decommissioning process.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-03T13:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in is welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon his arrival for a photo session at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-03T13:53:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during their bilateral meeting in Yokohama on Aug. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-india-defense-chiefs-seek-boost-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-03T14:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh, greet each other at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/world/crime-legal-world/white-house-propose-expedited-death-penalty-perpetrators-mass-shootings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-03T15:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ireland's minister of foreign affair,s Simon Coveney (right), speaks during his meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence after he arrived at Shannon airport for the start of an official visit to Ireland Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/business/benghazi-port-bustling-despite-libyas-divisions-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-03T15:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wheat is unloaded from a ship in the seaport of Benghazi, Libya, Aug. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/02/business/seven-countries-land-haneda-airport-slots-ahead-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Haneda Airport]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/scandal-hit-japanese-lawmaker-says-war-way-take-back-takeshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-03T15:58:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower House lawmaker Hodaka Maruyama (left) joins members of a nonpartisan group led by Hidehisa Otsuji (second from right) during a visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, the 74th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to launch a smartphone-based rewards program in 2020 using the national My Number cards. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Encore Boston Harbor, run by Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts Ltd., is a luxury hotel resort including a casino in Everett, Massachusetts.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's listed firms held a record ¥506.4 trillion in cash as of their latest filings.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T04:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Texas state police cars block the access to the Walmart store in the aftermath of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 3. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based discounter said Tuesday it will be discontinuing the sale of short-barrel and handgun ammunition.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T12:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard in June 2015 near the national flags of Japan and South Korea at a Tokyo hotel, where the South Korean embassy in Japan was holding a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the normalization of ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/national/fixing-wartime-labor-japan-south-korea-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T13:48:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-names-new-top-diplomat-asian-affairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T13:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeki Takizaki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/business/corporate-business/pro-wrestling-japan-next-big-thing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T14:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/national/empress-emerita-michiko-breast-cancer-surgery-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T14:07:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Emerita Michiko]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T14:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) is greeted at Pyongyang Airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T14:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T14:38:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiyuki Takahashi(left), the head of an agriculture promotion association in Fukuoka Prefecture, examines vegetables produced in the prefecture at a grocery in Tokyo's Minato Ward in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T14:52:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin pills, made by Purdue Pharma LP, sit on a counter at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T15:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-conte-a-20190905.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Head of the M5S Five start political movement, outgoing Italian Labor and Industry Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, speaks during a news conference in Rome's Deputy chamber on Tuesday ahead of the M5S decision to put its new government deal to a vote among its members through its online platform "Rousseau."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/business/economy-business/u-s-manufacturing-gauge-contracts-first-time-three-years-fueling-recession-fears-amid-trumps-china-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T15:05:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-output-a-20190905.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Material used to assemble cars at the newly renovated Ford assembly plant in Chicago is seen in June. Bogged down in the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S. manufacturing sector stumbled and fell into contraction in August for the first time in three years. The Institute for Supply Management's nationwide manufacturing index fell unexpectedly to 49.1, ending 35 months of expansion and hitting the lowest level since January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/world/u-k-high-speed-rail-link-20-billion-budget-five-years-behind-schedule-government-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T15:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-04T16:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at Ferray Corp. are allowed to bring their cats to the office.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/business/sukiya-keep-price-regular-beef-rice-bowls-tax-hike-eat-takeout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T16:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shop clerk at a Sukiya gyūdon beef-bowl chain hands over a to-go item Tuesday in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/national/crime-legal/illegal-fish-yakuza-nagasaki-sashimi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T16:45:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diving gear used by a yakuza group for a poaching operation]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-koreans-turn-spy-gadgets-fight-workplace-bullying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T17:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Various types of voice recorders have become popular in South Korea as a way to fight workplace bullying.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/business/corporate-business/japans-small-banks-risky-fight-to-survive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T17:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Suruga Bank Ltd. headquarters in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/03/national/russia-plans-beef-missile-defense-northern-kurils-close-islands-claimed-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T18:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian land-to-ship missile system called Bastion is planned to be deployed on two islands in the Kuril Islands chain off Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/business/japan-south-korea-trade-status-rationale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T18:37:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshige Seko attends a news conference Tuesday at the ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/business/south-korean-imports-japanese-beer-nose-dive-97-amid-diplomatic-dispute/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-04T18:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-beer-a-20190904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean imports of beer from Japan plunged 97 percent in August from a year earlier, a local newspaper reported.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/national/high-temperatures-may-delay-appearance-autumn-foliage-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Saikawa, president and chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., speaks at a news conference at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T12:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks with dogs in front of the Navya Technologies SAS Arma autonomous shuttle bus during a media preview of a test drive in Tokyo in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T13:48:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple Inc. is set to open its largest directly run Japanese outlet in the Marunouchi business district of Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T14:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nessie-b-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shadowy shape shows what some people call the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. On Thursday scientist Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand says a project found a surprisingly high amount of eel DNA in the water. He cautioned that it's not clear whether that indicates a gigantic eel or just a lot of little ones.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T14:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Cong Peiwu is seen with then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at Beijing International Airport jn May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/prince-hisahito-13th-birthday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T14:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito, who turned 13 on Friday, is seen with his father, Crown Prince Akishino, in Bhutan on Aug. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T14:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi shake hands before talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) react during the U-18 Judo tournament on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T14:53:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T15:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People carry flowers during a tribute to the victims of a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A helicopter takes off outside Marsh Harbour Healthcare Center after hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This undated product image provide by Facebook shows screenshots of Facebook Dating, a mobile-only matchmaking service. On Thursday,  the service will launch in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/regulatory-problems-choked-chinas-p2p-lending-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T15:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Yonghui, chairman of Fincera, which once was Hebei province's largest peer-to-peer lender, speaks to reporters following a promotional event in Beijing on Aug. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T16:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice minister nominee Cho Kuk attends a hearing at the National Assembly in Seoul on Friday, when he expressed his "deepest apologies to the younger generation."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/hokkaido-anniversary-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T16:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People on Friday mourn victims of an earthquake that hit the town of Atsuma, Hokkaido, and surrounding areas on Sept. 6 last year. The area where the quake triggered landslides is seen in the background.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/struggling-yokohama-casino-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T18:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist rendering shows Yokohama's plan for an "integrated resort" that includes casinos.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T18:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T18:15:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/u-s-japan-trade-deal-trump-deadline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T18:28:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/japanese-family-names-first/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T19:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masahiko Shibayama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/corporate-business/ministry-says-recruit-career-acted-illegally-rikunabi-data-scandal-demands-corrective-steps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T19:46:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recruit Career Co. offices in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/corporate-business/softbank-to-abolish-2-year-binding-contracts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T19:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SoftBank Group Corp. store in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/rent-hikes-3-11-residents-exodus-sendai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T20:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Oyama (center), a member of a group that keeps an eye on elderly families, visits a house with another group member in Sendai. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/busan-japan-war-crimes-companies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T20:39:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A city assembly session is held Friday in Busan, South Korea. The assembly adopted an ordinance labeling some Japanese firms as "war crimes companies."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/corporate-business/rakuten-delay-mobile-service-six-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T20:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rakuten Mobile Inc. shop is seen in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/keikyu-train-services-yokohama-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T20:39:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers on Friday prepare to remove train cars from a site in Yokohama where a Keikyu Line train collided with a truck the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/japan-day-care-waiting-record-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T20:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-waitinglist-a-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A citizens group urging authorities to reduce the number of children waiting to enter day care facilities holds a meeting in Tokyo last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/esg-excellence-award-winner-fp-corp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers with disabilities sort food trays at one of FP Corp.'s plants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/esg-excellence-award-winner-marui-group-co/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Individuals who gave input on Hakata Marui in Fukuoka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/esg-grand-prize-winner-government-pension-investment-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p5-awards-GPIF-b-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People can learn about the Government Pension Investment Fund, including its performance, at its website (www.gpif.go.jp/en/)]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/satoyama-special-award-winner-tottori-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ties with Fujiya Co. saw the launch of Tottori Wagyu Daisen Fujiya Shinsaibashi Honten.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/satoyama-excellence-award-winner-urushi-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People sow urushi (lacquer tree) seeds as part of Urushi Next's efforts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/satoyama-excellence-award-winner-chika-tsubouchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chika Tsubouchi (front, center) leads groups of fishing fleets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/satoyama-grand-prize-winner-kenya-katayama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T21:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenya Katayama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/financial-markets/bank-russia-cuts-rate-third-time-inflation-slows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T22:37:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sberbank of Russia PJSC logo sits displayed above a corporate stand during the opening day of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/world/crime-legal-world/deadly-california-dive-boat-fire-may-put-spotlight-titanics-successful-legal-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T23:34:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diana Ademic (left), Berenice Felipa, Steve Salika and Tia Salika (right) enjoy a dive during their November 2018 Thanksgiving trip at a Kids Sea Camp week at Buddy Dive Resort off Bonaire, a Netherlands-administered island in the Leeward Antilles off the coast of Venezuela. All four were aboard the dive boat Conception and all died in the fire that swept the vessel on Sept. 2 off Southern California. The photo was provided by Margo Peyton.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-06T23:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers line up inside a Bank of China branch at the financial Central district in Hong Kong in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/economy-business/crazy-rich-asian-beaches-go-quiet-amid-chinese-tourism-u-turn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-06T23:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Ofo Bicycle Co. bicycle stands at a beach in the Jimei district of Xiamen, China, on Aug. 28. Economists are downgrading their forecasts for economic growth in China again, to below a level seen as necessary for the Communist Party to meet its own goals in time for its centenary in 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T09:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. National Economic Council chief Larry Kudlow pauses while speaking to members of the media outside the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T11:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artificial intelligence succeeds in automatically recognizing the faces of wild chimpanzees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T12:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pence]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s Walkman MDR-3 headphones (left), its first Walkman TPS-L2 portable stereo cassette player (second from left) and a TCM-100 cassette recorder (center) are displayed at the "It's a Sony" exhibition in Tokyo in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T12:26:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/corporate-business/nissan-overpaid-ghosn-whistle-blower-hari-nada-along-ceo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-07T12:39:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T12:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T13:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Uighur man sits in a restaurant in Hotan, in China's northwest Xinjiang region, on May 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/asia-pacific/100-bush-fires-rage-eastern-australia-least-21-homes-destroyed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-07T13:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T13:11:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-putin-a-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin watch a judo match Thursday in Vladivostok, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/japans-household-income-gap-remains-near-record-level-2017-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-07T14:41:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T14:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference in New York City on  June 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/corporate-business/nissan-mulls-exit-south-korea-trade-tensions-rise-newspaper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-07T15:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is reportedly considering pulling out of the South Korean market, where the carmaker's sales are falling due to political and trade tensions between Japan and South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/media-national/uncovering-japans-involvement-korean-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-07T22:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-WWII-anniversary-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abandoned: A soldier inspects a tank that was destroyed by U.S. forces at the battle of Taejon in 1950.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T16:41:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tuna-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A massive 308-kg (680-pound) bluefin tuna (front) is seen at a wholesale market in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-07T19:37:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rejection-a-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in walks past Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the Group of 20 summit meeting in Osaka in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/business/corporate-business/chief-nissan-investigator-ceos-excess-pay-set-quit-carmaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-08T17:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-murray-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa pauses during a news conference at the firm's global headquarters in Yokohama on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/study-says-north-korean-base-hosts-nuclear-capable-missiles-put-japan-crosshairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-08T17:22:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkbases-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un uses a pair of binoculars to look at the South's territory from an observation post at the military unit on Jangjae, an islet in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of the North's border with the South, in March 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/world/turkish-military-enters-syria-begin-joint-u-s-safe-zone-patrol-irking-damascus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T03:04:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turkus-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish and U.S. troops return from a joint U.S.-Turkey patrol in northern Syria, as it is pictured from near the Turkish town of Akcakale Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/world/crime-legal-world/search-warrants-served-california-dive-boat-fire-investigation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T07:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warrants-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal agents walk past a memorial for the victims of the Conception dive boat fire on the Santa Barbara Harbor in Santa Barbara, California. Sunday. Authorities served search warrants Sunday at the Southern California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire and killed dozens of people last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/tehran-says-iranian-tanker-unloaded-cargo-mediterranean-coast-satellite-spots-syrian-port/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T08:35:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout image obtained Saturday courtesy of Satellite image ©2019 Maxar Technologies, reportedly shows the oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 near the port city of Tartus, Syria, on Friday. The U.S. blacklisted the tanker following repeated warnings over its valuable oil cargo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/08/national/joi-ito-mit-media-lab-resigns-jeffrey-epstein/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T12:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joichi Ito]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/national/former-empress-undergoes-breast-cancer-surgery-university-tokyo-hospital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Emerita Michiko]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/national/convict-turned-writer-joji-abe-dies-82/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joji Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/world/iaea-found-uranium-traces-iran-secret-atomic-warehouse-diplomats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi (left) and Acting Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Cornel Feruta hold a joint press conference in Tehran Sunday. The IAEA official's visit comes a day after Iran announced its latest step in reducing its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/embattled-johnson-proceeds-brexit-plan-despite-tory-turmoil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:43:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Work and Pensions Secretary and Women's minister Amber Rudd arrives to attend a meeting of the Cabinet at 10 Downing Street in central London Sept. 4. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received a fresh blow Saturday when Rudd quit her work and pensions post in protest of his handling of the Brexit crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/u-s-will-slap-sanctions-whoever-purchases-irans-oil-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sigal P. Mandelker, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Treasury, listens to questions at a press briefing in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2018. Speaking to journalists Sunday, Mandelker said that "there's ... no question that Iranian oil sales have taken a serious nosedive" after the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Tehran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-hopes-north-korea-talks-days-weeks-mike-pompeo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un meet at the start of their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore, in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/russia-says-facebook-google-distributed-political-ads-election-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T13:55:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is seen in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/corporate-business/british-airways-first-strilke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T14:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Airways faced its first global strike by pilots on Monday and the possibility of almost all its flights being grounded for two days.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brexit-talks-slipping-backward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T14:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Darnford Farm in Banchory near Aberdeen, Scotland, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/economy-business/japans-economy-grows-slower-pace-capital-expense-proves-less-strong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T15:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdp-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The economy expanded at a slower pace in the April-June quarter than initially reported.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/economy-business/diplomatic-row-south-korea-hurts-japans-services-account/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T15:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-surplus-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka's Dotonbori district is popular among foreign tourists, but a sharp decline in visitors to Japan from South Korea pushed the current account surplus down in July from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/progress-elusive-rcep-free-trade-pact-meeting-bangkok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in the RCEP Ministerial Meeting join hands in Bangkok on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/world/as-forests-burn-bolivia-big-farming-under-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:05:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters make a firebreak in Santa Rosa de Tucabaca near Robore, Bolivia, on Aug. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/financial-markets/regulators-boost-scrutiny-clos-banks-buy-billions-worth-risky-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:09:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-assets-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-assets-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan and the Financial Services Agency want a more detailed picture of domestic banks' and insurers' investments in collateralized loan obligations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/three-children-elderly-man-drown-japanese-rivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 7-year-old boy and his grandfather drowned in the Akuta River in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/08/national/politics-diplomacy/backing-opposition-parties-takuya-tasso-wins-fourth-term-iwate-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:35:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-iwate-a-20190909.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iwate-a-20190909.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuya Tasso]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/08/national/crime-legal/driver-ibaraki-prefecture-road-rage-case-handed-new-arrest-warrant-charges-intimidation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-roadrage-a-20190909.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-roadrage-a-20190909.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Miyazaki]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/social-issues/new-jra-system-let-addicts-families-block-online-gambling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T16:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-gambling-a-20171226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-gambling-a-20171226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Racing Association plans to introduce a new measure to ban gambling addicts from placing horse-racing bets online at the request of their families.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/media-national/speed-bumps-potholes-road-2020-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:17:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hot to trot: Junpei Furuya pours water onto himself during a triathlon at Tokyo's Odaiba Marine Park on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/media-national/youtuber-koichi-kuwabara-offers-free-hugs-bid-bridge-divide-asian-neighbors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-hugger-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Give this man a hug: Koichi Kuwabara poses for a photo holding a sign offering free hugs in Tokyo in spring.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/05/national/yokohama-train-truck-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:33:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-c-20190906_v0.1.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police, railway and emergency personnel inspect a Keikyu express train that derailed after hitting a truck loaded with boxes of citrus in Yokohama on Thursday, killing one and injuring more than 30 others.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/typhoon-faxai-moving-closer-eastern-japan-may-make-landfall-sunday-night-kanto-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/keikyu-line-train-services-back-normal-two-days-fatal-accident-yokohama-crossing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:48:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-keikyu-a-20190908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-keikyu-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keikyu Line's train services returned to normal on Saturday after an accident at a crossing in Yokohama on Thursday disrupted operations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/world/first-sign-better-ties-russia-ukraine-begin-long-awaited-prisoner-swap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-ukrainerussia-a-20190908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukrainerussia-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomes former prisoners as they disembark from a plane on Saturday at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv (formerly Kiev) after a long-awaited exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/business/corporate-business/nissan-concludes-internal-probe-alleged-financial-misconduct-former-chairman-carlos-ghosn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:53:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-ghosn-a-20190908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn (left) heads to the Tokyo District Court in June to attend pretrial proceedings being held to narrow down points of dispute ahead of a trial over the former auto tycoon's alleged financial misconduct.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/empress-emerita-michiko-enters-hospital-ahead-surgery-breast-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-empress-a-20190908.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-empress-a-20190908.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Emrita Michiko arrives at the University of Tokyo Hospital on Saturday ahead of surgery on Sunday for breast cancer.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-expected-replace-komeito-land-minister-woman-cabinet-reshuffle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T17:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/08/business/corporate-business/nissan-ceo-hiroto-sakiawa-step-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T18:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-saikawa-a-20190909.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-saikawa-a-20190909.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa has reportedly decided to step down amid revelations that he received excess compensation through stock appreciation rights.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/financial-markets/dollar-flat-around-106-95-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T18:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/national/meeting-kyoto-global-body-debates-define-protect-museums/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T18:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-icom-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-icom-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ICOM Kyoto assembly meeting last week featured exhibits of the latest technology designed to preserve and protect cultural properties from damage during natural disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-reshuffle-taro-kono-may-given-defense-portfolio-komeitos-kazuyoshi-akaba-may-get-land-minister-post/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T19:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-cabreshuffle-a-20190909.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cabreshuffle-a-20190909.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/national/live-blog-updates-typhoon-faxai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T19:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Japan_Asia_Typhoon_89689-4ac4b.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan_Asia_Typhoon_89689-4ac4b.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Station attendants guide commuters shortly after train platforms re-opened following delays on Monday morning due to a powerful typhoon that passed over Tokyo, halting major train lines.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/national/commuters-travelers-face-grueling-monday-morning-typhoon-hit-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T21:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-trains-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trains-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters wait for platforms to open at Shinjuku Station on Monday, Typhoon Faxai's assault on the Kanto region earlier in the day left train services suspended.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/business/corporate-business/hiroto-saikawas-departure-adds-nissans-uncertainty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-09T23:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-nissan-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. CEO Hiroto Saikawa speaks to reporters outside his home in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/business/corporate-business/activist-investor-elliott-questions-att-takeover-time-warner-trump-calls-changes-cnn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T05:28:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-elliott-a-20190911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-elliott-a-20190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An AT&amp;T retail store in Miami is seen in July. Activist hedge fund manager Elliott Management is making a new $3.2 billion investment in AT&amp;T, saying the company could be valued at more than $60 a share by 2021's end. AT&amp;T stock jumped nearly 6 percent to $38.31 in Monday premarket trading.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/world/social-issues-world/moroccan-activists-denounce-arrest-journalist-abortion-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T08:32:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-morocco-a-20190911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-morocco-a-20190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moroccan activists hold posters of Hajar Raissouni, a journalist charged with fornication and abortion, during a protest outside the Rabat tribunal Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/08/national/crime-legal/man-apparently-fatally-stabs-two-women-tokyo-shrine-kills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T11:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-stabbings-a-20171209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stabbings-a-20171209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagako Tomioka, the chief priest of the Tomioka Hachimangu shrine in Tokyo's Koto Ward, was stabbed to death Thursday at the shrine. Her brother, Shigenaga Tomioka, who apparently committed suicide, is suspected of killing her and another woman believed to be his girlfriend, according to police.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/national/crime-legal/11-year-sentence-sought-mother-tokyo-child-abuse-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T13:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-abuse-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abuse-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man mourns Yua Funato, who died at age 5 after abuse and neglect, on March 2 in front of the apartment in Tokyo where she lived.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/world/science-health-world/failure-adapt-climate-impacts-will-hike-inequality-commission-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T13:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-climate-a-20190911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-climate-a-20190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Homes lay in ruins Monday one week after Hurricane Dorian hit The Mudd neighborhood, in the Marsh Harbor area of Abaco, Bahamas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/business/mike-pompeo-looking-forward-completed-u-s-japan-trade-deal-u-n-general-assembly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T14:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-pompeo-a-20190911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pompeo-a-20190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes his seat next to U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty (right) as they arrive for a news conference by President Donald Trump in Osaka June 29. Hagerty has officially filed to run for Tennessee's open U.S. Senate seat.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/world/social-issues-world/california-judge-restores-nationwide-block-trump-administrations-asylum-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T14:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-asylum-a-20190911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-asylum-a-20190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican officials and U.S. Border Patrol officers return a group of migrants back to the Mexico side of the border as Mexican immigration officials check the list, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in July. A federal judge in California has reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration's plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-house-panel-calls-former-top-trump-aide-michael-flynn-testify-sept-25-june-subpoena-snub/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T14:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi arrives for a news conference in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Tachibana, head of a political party trying to "crush" NHK, speaks to reporters in front of Tsukishima Police Station in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Kawaguchi Board of Education hold a news conference Monday at Kawaguchi City Hall in Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The entrance of the WeWork Cos Inc. 85 Broad Street offices in Manhattan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/13/national/science-health/japan-rebuts-new-york-times-editorial-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T17:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A captured mink whale is measured on the deck of the Japanese whaling ship the Nisshin Maru in Antarctica's Ross Sea in February 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-10T17:35:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-10T17:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former professional soccer player Hidetoshi Nakata (second from right) attends a meeting Monday in Tokyo on a National Tax Agency initiative to promote sake exports.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/ldps-shinjiro-koizumi-says-use-dual-surname-system/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinjiro Koizumi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/national/science-health/former-empress-michiko-leaves-hospital-breast-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T18:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Emerita Michiko leaves hospital Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/national/new-iaea-laboratories-near-vienna-named-late-chief-yukiya-amano/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo of International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano is seen beside a condolences book at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/national/japan-needs-improve-medical-care-detainees-new-immigration-chief-says-spate-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-10T20:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoko Sasaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A burger made with black beans and canola protein powder at Burcon's alternative meats protein lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A liquid nicotine solution is poured into a vaping device at a store in New York kn 2014. U.S. health officials are investigating what might be causing hundreds of serious breathing illnesses in people who use e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. They have identified about 450 possible cases in 33 states, including six deaths.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T09:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ground Self-Defense Force holds a live-fire exercise in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 22 amid numerous missile tests by North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stranded passengers at Narita International Airport try to settle in for the night on Tuesday in the wake of Typhoon Faxai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 2019 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Washington on Tuesday. Trump said he fired his hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, after disagreeing "strongly" with many of his positions, ending a tumultuous tenure marked by multiple setbacks in U.S. foreign policy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Lion Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft is seen Sept. 3 at the airport in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/11/business/facebook-bans-self-harm-images-fight-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-11T13:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T13:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The house in Stafford, Virginia, of alleged spy Oleg Smolenkov is seen Tuesday. American media reported that U.S. agents extracted in 2017 a high-level mole in the Russian government who had confirmed Vladimir Putin's direct role in interfering in the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, Russian media named the alleged spy reporting that he had worked at the Russian Embassy in Washington before moving to Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T13:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clariss Moore (left), mother of Danielle, and Joana Vincent ,mother of Angela Rehhorn, cry as they hold the pictures of their daughters during a vigil on the six-month anniversary of the March 10 crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8, killing 157 people, in Ethiopia that resulted in the grounding of hundreds of the planes worldwide, outside of the Department of Transportation Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/10/national/u-s-recognized-takeshima-part-japans-territory-1950-japanese-government-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-11T13:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takeshima-a-20190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United States recognized the South Korean-controlled Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan as Japanese territory as of 1950, a research report released by the Japanese government showed Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T13:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T14:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T14:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teammates Shota Horie (left), Michael Leitch (center) and Kenki Fukuoka show off Japan's new national team uniform for the Rugby World Cup, which gets underway Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Otaru city, near Sapporo. JNTO hopes that sports fans will travel around Japan during the Rugby World Cup.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Shimazu (left), CEO of the organizing committee for 2019 Rugby World Cup, and his Tokyo 2020 counterpart Toshiro Muto show off their collaboration agreement signed Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker carries out survey work at the construction site of the new National Stadium in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All Nippon Airways Holdings Inc.'s incoming President Shinya Katanozaka speaks behind a model of an ANA Boeing 777 aircraft during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the testing of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher" on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks at the Future of Asia Conference in Tokyo on May 31.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party executives Hakubun Shimomura (left to right), Shunichi Suzuki, Shinzo Abe, Toshihiro Nikai and Fumio Kishida hold hands while posing for a photo at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T17:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T17:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear workers stand outside the No. 3 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T18:15:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryang Yong-song, a representative of the Anti Racism Information Center, speaks at a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo about the results of a survey of foreign nationals in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Saikawa, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., holds a news conference at the automaker's headquarters in Yokohama on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T18:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, arrives at Trump Tower in New York in January 2017 for meetings with President-elect Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T18:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receives a standing ovation while addressing Liberal Party candidates in Ottawa on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T19:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi and TV personality Christel Takigawa at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T20:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinjiro Koizumi, who was named environment minister in Wednesday's Cabinet reshuffle, walks into the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-11T20:56:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tanks storing tainted water are seen at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/11/national/typhoon-faxai-450000-chiba-homes-no-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-11T22:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to get water at Ichihara City Hall in Chiba Prefecture on Wednesday. About 450,000 homes in the prefecture were still without power the same day, two days after supplies were severed by Typhoon Faxai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House national security adviser John Bolton (left) sits at a table together with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T04:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The house in Stafford, Virginia, of alleged spy Oleg Smolenkov is seen Tuesday. American media reported that U.S. agents extracted in 2017 a high-level mole in the Russian government who had confirmed Vladimir Putin's direct role in interfering in the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, Russian media named the alleged spy reporting that he had worked at the Russian embassy in Washington before moving to Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T05:45:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hurricane Dorian refugees, many of them from Great Abaco, pass the time at a shelter set up at the Kendal G.L. Isaacs National Gymnasium in Nassau Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T09:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and members of his new Cabinet attend a photo session at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday evening after Abe reshuffled his team.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/11/business/south-korea-file-complaint-wto-japans-export-curbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T09:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee speaks during a briefing in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/11/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-parties-slam-abes-cabinet-reshuffle-favoring-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T12:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presents his new Cabinet on Wednesday. Opposition parties have accused him of favoring allies rather than making merit-based appointments.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T13:07:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-japan-ease-up-itsunori-onodera/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T13:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says Japan's souring ties with South Korea will hamper longer-term analysis and damage regional security.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-environment-minister-shinjiro-koizumi-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T13:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly appointed Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a news conference on Wednesday at his ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T14:17:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narcotics detective Ben Hill, with the Barberton Police Department, shows two bags of medications that are stored in their headquarters and slated for destruction, Wednesday in Barberton, Ohio. Attorneys representing some 2,000 local governments said Wednesday they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T14:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Villarrica volcano is seen Wednesday from Pucon, some 800 km south of Santiago, showing signs of activity. Villarrica Volcano is among the most active in South America.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T16:11:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paintings of the Japanese superhero Ultraman with Thai-style Buddha heads are seen in Bangkok on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/japan-olympic-museum-to-open/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T16:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Hashimoto (center, right), the minister in charge of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and Japan Olympic Committee chief Yasuhiro Yamashita (center) cut the tape with other officials at the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo on Thursday to mark its opening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/politics-diplomacy/us-must-help-tokyo-and-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T17:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in attend an event on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea in November 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T17:09:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BMW's logo is displayed at the Tokyo Motor Show 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-12T17:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SVEN autonomous electric compact automobile, developed by FEV Group GmbH and Microsoft Corp., sits on display on day two of the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/corporate-business/toyota-tests-solar-prius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T17:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Prius plug-in hybrid vehicle]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/child-car-accidents-booster-seats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T17:49:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n childseat-a 20190913]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drivers are legally obliged to use a child seat for any passenger under 6, but only 70.5 percent of drivers with small children use them, a new survey shows.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/crime-legal/police-obtain-warrant-driver-suspected-firing-airgun-tomei-expressway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T18:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/social-issues/social-security-reforms-tough-mission-abes-new-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T18:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/china-removes-several-u-s-products-tariffs-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T18:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinatariffs-a-20190912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. flag flies over a container ship unloading cargo from Asia at the Port of Long Beach, California, on Aug. 1. China on Wednesday said it would spare a number of U.S. products from punitive tariffs in what is seen as an olive branch by Beijing in the protracted trade war ahead of high-level talks next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/tech/high-speed-5g-game-integration-spotlight-tokyo-game-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T19:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gameshow-b-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. character Mario and Sega Games Co.'s Sonic the Hedgehog are displayed in a promotional booth for the video game Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 at the Tokyo Game Show in Makuhari, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/much-done-cyberterrorism-budget-reduction-tokyo-2020-new-olympics-minister-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T19:18:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hashimoto-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Hashimoto, the new minister in charge of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday, one day after her appointment in a Cabinet reshuffle.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/crime-legal/gay-american-married-japanese-national-sues-visa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T19:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/couple-z-02190911.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[couple-z-02190911.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A same-sex couple who lives together in Tokyo and are also seeking ¥11 million ($102,000) in damages in the suit filed with the Tokyo District Court.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/corporate-business/japan-investors-softbank-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T20:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-softbank-a-20190913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo-based Monex started selling bonds for SoftBank Group Corp. at 9 a.m. Monday and ran out two minutes and 26 seconds later.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/wto-dispute-looms-japans-new-trade-minister-says-wont-budge-export-control-dispute-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T21:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-meti-a-20190913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-meti-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isshu Sugawara]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/corporate-business/japan-new-iphones-sept-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T22:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-iphone-a-20190913.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during a product launch event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/national/japan-failing-elite-universities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T22:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-universities-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather before an entrance test at the University of Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/01/business/collected-enough-data-online-retailer-zozo-ditches-namesake-body-measuring-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T23:20:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zozo-a-20181102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zozo CEO Yusaku Maezawa introduces the Zozosuit at an event in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/12/national/media-national/maezawas-offer-prize-money-retweets-sets-twitter-abuzz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T23:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-zozomoneytweet-a-20190113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusaku Maezawa]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/reference/yusaku-maezawa-japans-corporate-enfant-terrible-worlds-first-ticket-moon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T23:23:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-maezawa-a-20180921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa speaks after SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced in Hawthorne, California, on Monday that Maezawa will be the first private passenger to take a trip around the moon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/05/business/japans-online-fashion-revolution-gathers-speed-brands-bid-catch-industry-leader-zozotown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T23:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/03/business/corporate-business/japans-zozo-expands-made-order-clothing-service-using-measurement-taking-bodysuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-12T23:24:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/b-zozo-a-20180704.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-zozo-a-20180704.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zozo Chief Executive Officer Yusaku Maezawa gives a presentation about the company's measurement-taking Zozosuit at an event in Tokyo on Tuesday launching the debut of its formal apparel items.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/social-issues-world/thousands-rally-demand-justice-protesters-killed-sudan-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T05:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-sudan-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sudan-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this frame grab from video, thousands of Sudanese rally on the streets of Khartoum Thursday. The protesters demanded the sacking of the judiciary chief and the general prosecutor over their alleged ties to ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir's government. The protesters waved Sudanese flags and marched to the presidential palace on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/12/business/corporate-business/zozos-yusaku-maezawa-leaves-top-post-company-forms-capital-alliance-yahoo-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T06:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-maezawa-a-20190913.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-maezawa-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zozo CEO Yusaku Maezawa attends a news conference a the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan last October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/crime-legal-world/grand-jury-indicts-man-accused-gunning-22-people-el-paso-walmart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T07:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-elpaso-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-elpaso-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patrick Crusius, 21, who authorities have identified as the gunman who killed multiple people at an El Paso, Texas, shopping area on Aug. 3, was indicted Thursday for capital murder in connection with the mass shooting that left 22 dead. He is jailed without bond.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/national/renovated-okura-tokyo-hotel-unveiled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T12:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-okura-b-20190907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-okura-b-20190907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Okura Tokyo, the reincarnation of the Hotel Okura Tokyo, opened its doors to the media on Friday ahead of its public opening next week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/new-zealand-gun-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T13:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-nzguns-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nzguns-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks to reporters on Wednesday in Wellington.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/27/national/science-health/research-reverse-sex-genitalia-deserved-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/p3-hooper-insect-ig-nobel-a-20171028.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-hooper-insect-ig-nobel-a-20171028.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female insect from the genus Neotrogla (top) mates with a male in this undated photo by Hokkaido University associate professor Kazunori Yoshizawa.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/07/national/science-health/kiss-tell-ig-nobel-winning-doctor-gives-inside-dish-smooching-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/n-ignobel-z-20151207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ignobel-z-20151207]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Allergist Hajime Kimata says his research proves that 30 minutes of kissing can reduce allergic reactions among atopic and allergic patients . . . or more specifically, kissing a lover or spouse behind closed doors while listening to soft music.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/18/national/huh-kissing-nothing-sneeze-osaka-doctors-allergy-relief-study-bags-ig-nobel-award/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/n-ignobel-a-20150919.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ignobel-a-20150919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Nakamatsu, a 2005 Ig Nobel award recipient for nutrition, rises from his wheelchair after singing a song he wrote about being diagnosed with a fatal form of cancer at the Ig Nobel Prizes awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thursday. The annual prizes, meant to entertain and encourage global research and innovation, are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes. Dr. Hajime Kimata of Osaka won the award for his study into how kissing can alleviate allergic symptoms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/13/national/studies-on-mouse-rehab-music-onion-tears-win-ig-nobels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/california-dive-boat-crew-sleeping-fatal-fire-broke-despite-rule-someone-stand-watch-ntsb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-conception-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-conception-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo from video provided by KABC-TV shows divers resuming their search Wednesday for the final missing victim who perished in a boat fire off the Southern California coast. The victim is one of 34 who died at sea near Santa Cruz Island when the dive boat Conception burned and sank on Sept. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/american-airlines-mechanic-stripped-faa-certificate-ordered-held-sabotage-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-aasabo-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-aasabo-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An American Airlines plane takes off from Philadelphia International Airport in May. An American Airlines mechanic allegedly tampered with an aircraft over stalled union negotiations that he said harmed him financially. U.S. prosecutors have charged Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani with interfering with part of an aircraft flight data system, causing the grounding of a July flight from Miami to the Bahamas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/assad-regime-allied-warplanes-strike-syrias-idlib-despite-latest-cease-fire-monitor-rebel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T14:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-idlib-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Syrian boys look at a destroyed sheep pen following a reported Russian airstrike in the village of al-Daher in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Wednesday. Russia carried out airstrikes on jihadi targets in northwestern Syria the previous day for the first time since it declared a truce on Aug. 31, a war monitor said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/tech/u-s-flags-huawei-5g-network-security-concerns-gulf-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T15:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Huawei Mate 20 X (5G) is pictured at the IFA consumer tech fair in Berlin Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/crime-legal-world/israel-denies-report-planted-cellphone-eavesdropping-devices-near-white-house-key-washington-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T15:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-ispy-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ispy-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person walks past the White House in Washington in May. Israel set up scanners to intercept cellphone communications in the area around the White House, according to a report Thursday was denied by the Jewish state. Politico reported that U.S. officials believe Israelis were most likely the ones who set up several so-called stingray scanners, which mimic cellphone towers to intercept nearby calls and text messages, that were discovered in downtown Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/fukushima-flying-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T15:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/corporate-business/japan-post-bank-investment-trust-sales-seniors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T16:04:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanpost-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scandal over inappropriate sales of financial products at the Japan Post group has deepened this week after sources revealed Japan Post Bank improperly sold investment trusts to elderly customers in violation of its rules.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/economy-business/limited-impact-october-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T16:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsumaru Kumagai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/german-auto-lobby-chief-quits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T16:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bernhard Mattes, head of Germany's auto lobby group VDA, speaks during the opening of the IAA 2019 Frankfurt Auto Show on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/science-health-world/scientists-say-newly-discovered-comet-likely-interstellar-visitor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T16:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-c2019q4-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Comet C/2019 Q4 is imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Big Island on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/01/national/history/religious-reflections-pope-john-paul-iis-enduring-legacy-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T17:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p14-jarnes-pope-a-20161002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People welcome Pope John Paul II at a rally in Nagasaki Municipal Athletic Stadium in February 1981.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/national/crime-legal/japan-supreme-court-dike-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T17:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker rides past a factory in the Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki. Most Japanese companies have put capital investment plans on hold as a result of the U.S.-China trade war and other global risks, according to a Reuters survey.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuga Arisawa shows off his book on origami at the washi-making studio Corsoyard in Mino, Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Engineers work on restoring power in the city of Futtsu in Chiba Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-13T18:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naokazu Takemoto ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poll-a-20190913.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday after reshuffling his Cabinet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Noritake mourns his son in October 2017 at the spot in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, where the 9-year-old was hit by a truck a year earlier. The truck driver admitted to police that he was playing the Pokemon Go game when he struck the boy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis holds a photo of child victims of the Nagasaki A-bombing, in January 2018. The Vatican said Friday that the pontiff will visit Japan in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/u-s-investor-rogers-issues-stark-warning-japans-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T20:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Rogers]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/national/science-health/koizumi-japan-lead-plastic-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T20:21:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during an interview with media outlets Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-13T20:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple address the media on Sept. 5 in Fukuoka regarding a lawsuit filed with Fukuoka District Court seeking to overturn the Constitution's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/business/china-exempt-u-s-pork-soybeans-additional-tariffs-xinhua/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-13T23:14:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection stamp is seen on a package of baby back pork ribs in a supermarket in Princeton, Illinois.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-13T23:38:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nissan Rogue SUV is displayed at the 2017 New York International Auto Show.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/business/japan-display-extend-ishikawa-plant-closure-soft-iphone-sales-mulls-next-gen-oled-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T07:16:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. says it will extend the closure of the Hakusan plant in Ishikawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-14T10:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tayyip Recep Erdogan]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-14T11:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-14T11:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese banks could begin imposing maintenance fees for retail deposit account holders if the Bank of Japan deepens negative interest rates from minus 0.1 percent, according to a JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. analyst.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/ex-pentagon-official-sees-signs-turbulence-u-s-south-korea-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T12:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-14T12:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/national/japan-centenarians-top-70000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T12:32:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-centenarians-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kane Tanaka (second from left) is presented with a cake shaped like a board game on Wednesday in the city of Fukuoka. The cake was presented to her by Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima (left) ahead of Respect for the Aged Day on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/national/shrinking-yamanashi-village-hotel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T12:47:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hotel-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nipponia Kosuge Genryu no Mura, a renovated 150-year-old traditional Japanese house, opened on Aug. 21 in the Yamanashi Prefecture village of Kosuge.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-14T12:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-14T12:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Performers hold up cards to form a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a mass games performance titled "The Land of the People" at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/new-farm-minister-taku-eto-determined-stamp-swine-fever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T17:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-eto-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taku Eto, who was appointed farm minister in last week's Cabinet reshuffle, walks into the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/sizzling-summer-threatens-tokyo-2020-osaka-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T17:48:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Triathletes arrive at the finish line during a competition held last month in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront district. The scorching summer in the capital has become a headache for the organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and Osaka will likely experience the same problems when it hosts the 2025 World Expo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/national/crime-legal/boy-hit-tokyo-police-car-yotsuya-station-dies-turning-5/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T18:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The crosswalk in front of JR Yotsuya Station in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is shown on Aug. 18 after a Metropolitan Police Department patrol car hit and seriously injured a then-4-year-old boy the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/poll-finds-majority-people-oppose-pardoning-certain-criminals-mark-emperors-enthronement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T19:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrive at Akita Airport on Sept. 8 on their way back to Tokyo after attending a meeting to promote the use of marine resources and protect the marine environment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/chiba-prefecture-zoo-affected-typhoon-reopens-members-public-offer-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T19:41:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-zoo-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at Ichihara Elephant Kingdom in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, feed apples to baby elephants on Friday. The zoo, affected by a powerful typhoon earlier this week, reopened Saturday after members of the public came to the rescue by offering food and water for the animals and also emergency power generators to pump water up from a well.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/japanese-cities-kobe-sendai-compete-host-panda-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T20:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-panda-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Giant Panda Yongming eats next to ice blocks placed in his enclosure to celebrate his 27th birthday on Saturday at Adventure World theme park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture. Many cities across the country are vying to host a panda from China amid improved Sino-Japanese ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/japan-south-korea-feud-starts-cast-shadow-2020-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T20:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout slogans as they hold signs during a rally denouncing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in downtown Seoul on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/pope-may-meet-japanese-man-seeking-retrial-death-sentence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T20:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iwao Hakamada, who is seeking a retrial over his death sentence, may meet Pope Francis when he visits Japan in late November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/world/clashes-rival-groups-protesters-hong-kong-shouting-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-14T20:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police deploy after fights broke out between pro-China supporters and anti-government protesters at Amoy Plaza in the Kowloon Bay district in Hong Kong, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T13:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa speaks at a news conference at the automaker's headquarters in Yokohama on Sept. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T14:04:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[West African leaders gather in Ouagadougou on Saturday. From left: Presidents Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali, Alassane Ouattara of Cote d'Ivoire, Idriss Deby of Chad, Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso, Faure Gnassigbe of Togo, Macky Sall of Senegal and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T14:08:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman and her children wait for a bus at a stop on Mirae Scientist Street in Pyongyang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T14:14:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T14:58:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T15:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raoni Metuktire attends a news conference after the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, on Aug. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/business/oil-price-hikes-likely-attacks-saudi-facilities-threaten-ability-handle-supply-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-15T15:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke fills the sky at the Abqaiq oil processing facility on Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Drones claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked the world's largest oil processing facility in and a major oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco, sparking a huge fire at a processor crucial to global energy supplies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T16:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Road to nowhere: Passengers are stranded at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture after rail operators suspended their services due to Typhoon Faxai on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/princess-kako-leaves-11-day-visit-austria-hungary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-15T18:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako greets an official before leaving Haneda Airport on Sunday for an 11-day visit to Austria and Hungary.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-exclude-japan-trade-whitelist-week-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-15T18:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean people chant slogans during an anti-Japan rally in Seoul on Aug. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/tensho-leading-candidate-japans-new-era-name-selection-reiwa-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-15T19:54:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds up a placard showing the kanji for Reiwa, the name of the new imperial era, at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-15T20:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officials investigate an accident Saturday in which a taxi (right) veered onto a sidewalk near Kanayama Station in Nagoya, injuring seven people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/business/bahamas-tourist-industry-hopes-quick-comeback-category-hell-hurricane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T04:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-abaco-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Destroyed boats are pushed up against the pier in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in Treasure Cay on Abaco island, Bahamas, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/business/economy-business/fed-trades-remarkably-positive-no-precedents-volatile-year-slump-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T05:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fed-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress" on Capitol Hill in Washington in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/world/crime-legal-world/democratic-rep-ilhan-omar-says-shes-confident-trump-will-impeached/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T08:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-omar-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Ilhan Omar, flanked by Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Deb Haaland,  introduces the Zero Waste Act that would create a federal grant program to help local governments invest in waste reduction initiatives, at the Capitol in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/business/corporate-business/nissan-ceo-hiroto-saikawa-resigns-new-chief-face-challenge-reviving-profit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T08:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroto Saikawa, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Sept. 9. Saikawa stepped down Monday. He'll be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Yasuhiro Yamauchi until a permanent replacement is named by the end of October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/world/syrian-government-artillery-pounds-south-idlib-amid-truce-rescuers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T08:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-idlib-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abu Ahmad, a displaced Syrian from Termala, sits with his family inside a cave he dug for shelter in the village of Kafr Lusin near the Syria-Turkey border, on Sept. 9. The 49-year-old father of three has dug a cave for his family in the village of Kafr Lusin, three months after fleeing bombardment of his hometown of Termala, south of Idlib.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/asia-pacific/indonesian-forest-fires-push-singapores-smog-worst-three-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T11:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smog shrouds the Singapore skyline on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-k-s-johnson-comparing-incredible-hulk-vows-exit-eu-oct-31/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T12:22:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/business/china-industrial-output-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T12:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works on a medical glove production line at a factory in Huaibei in China's eastern Anhui province on Aug. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/media-national/can-japans-families-remain-relevant-contemporary-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T12:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p16-hoffman-families-a-20190915.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-families-a-20190915.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Family ties: Recent economic opportunties have created a brave new world to which the family has yet to adapt.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-offer-medical-aid-tehran-abe-meets-iranian-president-new-york/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T14:06:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shake hands after a joint news conference in Tehran on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/elderly-citizens-accounted-record-28-4-japans-population-2018-data-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T14:56:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 65-year-old man works as a traffic guard in the city of Nagano in this file photo. People aged 65 years or older accounted for nearly 13 percent of Japan's labor force in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/world/science-health-world/scientists-warn-world-must-transform-food-production-face-possible-unrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T15:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-food-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Global overdependence on a relatively small variety of staple foods leaves populations vulnerable to crop failures, with climate change adding to the strain, a report by the Food and Land Use Coalition has said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/business/u-s-agrees-expand-low-tariff-quota-japanese-beef-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T15:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer takes care of beef cattle at his farm in Hoki, Tottori Prefecture, in August. According to sources, the United States has agreed to increase its low-tariff quota for Japanese beef.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/business/deluge-lawsuits-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-files-bankruptcy-protection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T15:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin, made by Purdue Pharma LP, are seen on a counter at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/concern-climate-carry-greens-breakthrough-canadian-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T16:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Green Party leader Elizabeth May mimes shaking hands with an absent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who chose not to attend the Maclean's/Citytv National Leaders Debate last Thursday in Toronto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/business/high-speed-5g-network-online-gaming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T16:15:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman plays Sony Corp.'s virtual reality game at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/world/u-s-locked-loaded-ready-respond-saudi-oil-attack-trump-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T17:43:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lockload-b-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This annotated image released Sunday shows damage to the infrastructure at Saudi Aramco's Abaqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/science-health/teams-japan-overseas-show-off-ideas-future-space-elevator-fukushima-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T18:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot attached to a parachute descends during a test as part of a project to create a space elevator, conducted in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/15/national/defense-ministry-set-electronic-warfare-unit-kumamoto-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T19:03:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force and U.S. soldiers take part in a counterinvasion exercise at Camp Kengun, in the city of Kumamoto.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/national/history/legacy-pioneering-japanese-doctor-lives-communities-disabled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T20:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-doctor-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yutaka Nakamura (left), an orthopedic surgeon who headed the Japanese team at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics, watches an athlete take the oath at the opening ceremony in 1964.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/national/kawasaki-children-foreign-workers-language-barrier-japan-visa-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T22:34:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-education-a-20190917.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-education-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junior high school students who came to Japan recently attend a summer school class in Kawasaki last Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/16/national/japanese-food-producers-target-health-focused-aussies-sydney-expo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-16T22:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-foodexpo-a-20190917.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cooking workshop coordinator Pamela Woods (center) samples some of the products at the Premium Japanese Food Showcase in Sydney on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cranes to unload containerships are shown at PortMiami in Miami in July. The Trump administration is seeking to tax up to $25 billion in European Union imports in a rift over the EU's subsidies to aircraft giant Airbus. It's also threatening to impose tariffs to punish France for a digital services tax that targets U.S. internet giants Google, Amazon and Facebook.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-17T18:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo held telephone talks on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Asakawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/17/business/wto-south-korea-complaint-japan/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-17T18:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-17T19:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this court sketch, Yuri Funato hears that she has been given an eight-year prison term in a high-profile child abuse case at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-09-18T11:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft votes during her first Security Council meeting on Sept. 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish activist Greta Thunberg (center), who has called on world leaders to step up their efforts against global warming, stands with indigenous people of the Americas and others during remarks by Sen. Ed Markey, chairman of the Senate Climate Change Task Force, at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/18/business/rice-excluded-trade-accord-u-s-japan-aim-ink-soon/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks are seen at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks during a group interview Wednesday at his ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Song Il Ho (left), North Korea's ambassador for normalizing relations with Japan, meets with a visiting Japanese delegation on Wednesday in Pyongyang.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Odakyu Electric Railway Co.'s Romancecar EXE Alpha is shown to the media Thursday at the operator's Karakida train yard in Tama, western Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This computer-generated image shows the envisioned design for Odakyu Electric Railway Co.'s 70000 series Romancecar.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert O'Brien, just named as the new national security adviser, listens as President Donald Trump speaks before they board Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mother Farm in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, aims to restart operations on Saturday after suffering damage due to Typhoon Faxai.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A planned festival to celebrate the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito may include a performance by popular all-male idol group Arashi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon Japan G.K. employees in Tokyo launch their delivery locker service on Wednesday at around 200 locations, including convenience stores and train stations, in the capital and Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose fields reporters' questions in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crane removes a huge panel used to cover the reactor 1 building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant Friday, a first step toward removing spent fuel rods inside the reactor.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nidec Corp. executive Yasuhiro Miyaji is set to become the president of Akebono Brake Industry Co. later this month as part of restructuring efforts.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano (third from left) and Yuichiro Tamaki (third from right), who heads the Democratic Party for the People, agreed on Thursday to join forces in both houses of the Diet in their bid to counterbalance the ruling bloc during an upcoming extraordinary Diet session.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tatsuya Murakami]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern prior to their meeting on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mihama nuclear power plant is seen from the air last May in Fukui. Kansai-area governments have their hands tied when it comes to developing a nuclear evacuation plan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plug me: An arrow points to a storage tank at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant that accidentally leaked 430 liters of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, according to a disclosure this week by Tokyo Electric Power Co.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Worrisome undercurrents: Masumi Shiota, 22, and Izumi Seya, 21, relax on Nakoso Beach near Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houses with damaged roofs are seen covered with waterproof sheeting in Kyonan, Chiba Prefecture, on Monday after Typhoon Faxai hit the area.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters chant slogans against the regime in Cairo early Saturday. Dozens of people held a rare protest during which they called on Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to quit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United States is unlikely to remove tariffs on Japanese car parts in a trade agreement expected to be signed by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York next week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a meeting on the future of Japan's social security at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/20/national/japanese-activists-join-global-climate-strike-ahead-u-n-summit-global-warming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T15:20:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-march-a-20190921.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People march through Shibuya Ward in Tokyo on Friday during the Fridays For Future Tokyo event staged ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit, which begins in New York on Monday. People attended similar events in 117 countries worldwide the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/business/corporate-business/japan-works-keep-beer-demand-rugby-world-cup-kicks-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T15:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker checks on stocks of Heineken beer with special Rugby World Cup labels at a Kirin factory in Yokohama on Sept. 12. Kirin is licensed to produce Heineken in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/national/media-national/getting-bottom-civilization-means-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T22:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p16-hoffman-civilization-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-civilization-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Civilized: Author Yukichi Fukuzawa was a prominent modernizer who eventually founded Keio University.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/national/princess-kako-meets-hungarian-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T15:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kako-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako meets Japanese citizens living in Hungary at the Hotel Four Seasons in Budapest on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/national/private-womens-university-miyagi-accept-transgender-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T16:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-transgender-z-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-transgender-z-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyagi Gakuin Women's University in Sendai said it will not require students to submit medical certification to prove their gender identity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/asia-pacific/north-korean-chief-negotiator-welcomes-trumps-call-new-method-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T16:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-nktalks-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nktalks-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Myong Gil leaves a meeting in the border village of Panmunjom in August 2007. Now North Korea's new chief nuclear negotiator, he then was a representative to the U.N. Mission in New York and had attended the six-party talks in Beijing in December 2006.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/asia-pacific/north-korea-rattled-natural-earthquake-souths-weather-agency-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T16:42:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/business/british-travel-agency-thomas-cook-seeks-u-k-governments-help-secure-bailout-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T18:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-thomastravel-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-thomastravel-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a Thomas Cook travel agent's shop in London in mid-July. The tour operator has confirmed it is seeking £200 million in extra funding as it attempts to prevent its collapse.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/business/corporate-business/tokyo-court-plans-hold-hearing-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-next-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T19:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-ghosn-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/solomon-islands-minister-signs-pact-establish-diplomatic-ties-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T20:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-Chinasolomon-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-Chinasolomon-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands during a ceremony to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Solomon Islands and China at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/world/crime-legal-world/greek-police-arrest-lebanese-suspect-1985-hijacking-trans-world-airlines-plane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T22:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/national/media-national/confusion-reigns-scope-forthcoming-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-21T23:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p17-brasor-sales-tax-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-sales-tax-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping it simple: McDonald's is setting the same prices for eating in and eating out that incorporate the upcoming tax increase.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-democratic-presidential-candidate-elizabeth-warren-overtakes-joe-biden-lead-latest-iowa-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T10:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-warren-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-warren-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/world/u-s-military-unit-apologizes-tweet-threatening-kill-civilians-near-area-51-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T12:54:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-tweetthreat-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tweetthreat-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot of a tweet by the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Visual Information Distribution Service on Friday appears to threaten to kill civilians venturing near a secretive military base in Nevada known colloquially as Area 51.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-rival-taro-yamamoto-says-japans-sales-tax-hike-crazy-abolished/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T16:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-tax-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tax-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Yamamoto poses for a photograph in Tokyo. Yamamoto says the effect of hiking the sales tax to an easily calculated round number will be to prompt consumers to hold back spending.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/business/tech/toyota-tests-car-covered-solar-panels-make-charging-stations-redundant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T16:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-toyota-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-toyota-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Prius equipped with a solar charging system]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/australia-increase-investment-u-s-moon-missions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T15:13:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-ausmoon-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausmoon-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife, Jenny Morrison (behind Trump) to a state dinner at the White House on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-appoint-liberal-ldp-members-key-posts-bid-spur-talks-constitutional-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T19:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-abe-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/world/science-health-world/young-climate-activists-seek-step-street-protests-political-table/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:09:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-clikids-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-clikids-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shakes hands with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg at the Youth Climate Summit in New York on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/business/saudi-arabia-informs-japans-biggest-refiner-possible-shipment-changes-following-attacks-facilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:12:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/business/motegi-says-u-s-japan-trade-talks-will-bring-peace-mind-farmers-automakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:12:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/business/global-tax-authorities-discuss-targeting-multinationals-profit-margins-10/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-taxrules-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-taxrules-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Finance Ministry in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/business/biotech-firms-eye-big-profits-owners-seek-cures-sick-pets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:12:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-biopets-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-biopets-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jessica Lescault waits for her dog Moose to receive trial treatment for B-cell lymphoma at the Tufts Veterinary Medical School in North Grafton, Massachusetts, on Sept. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/transportation-boat-visitors-attending-2025-world-expo-osaka-considered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:13:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-expo-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expo-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The organizing body for the 2025 World Expo says water transportation is being considered to take visitors to the event's site on Yumeshima Island, in Osaka Bay.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/young-conductor-nodoka-okisawa-wins-prestigious-competition-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-conductor-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-conductor-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nodoka Okisawa takes part in the 56th Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon, France, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/princess-kako-praises-guests-contributions-japan-hungary-relations-intimate-budapest-dinner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-22T23:13:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-kako-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kako-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako delivers a speech at a dinner in Budapest on Saturday to mark the 150th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Japan and Hungary.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/national/media-national/student-succeeds-failing-start-work-summer-homework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T11:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p16-osaki-homework-a-20190922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-osaki-homework-a-20190922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mad: A student in Iwate Prefecture earned the wrath of his mother by deliberately failing to keep up with his homework over the summer. "She was so furious she smashed a plate," the student wrote in a journal that documented his parents' response.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/national/japanese-municipalities-consumers-slowly-coming-around-liquid-baby-formula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T13:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-formula-a-20190924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-formula-a-20190924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman feeds liquid formula to her baby during an event in Tokyo's Sumida Ward in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/business/storied-british-travel-group-thomas-cook-battles-survival-final-creditor-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T13:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/business/banks-u-n-backed-climate-principles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T13:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bankclimate-a-20190924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire burns in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, on Sept. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/national/museum-311-tsunami-opens-iwate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T15:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsunami-a-20190924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman becomes tearful on Sunday as she looks at exhibits at a museum in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. The facility is designed to preserve memories and records about the tsunami disaster that devastated parts of the Tohoku region in March 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/arab-voters-influence-israeli-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T15:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-israel-a-20190924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-israel-a-20190924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Joint List party arrive at the residence of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on Sunday to begin talks about who should form a new government.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/high-waves-landslides-feared-western-japan-powerful-typhoon-tapah-approaches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T15:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-typhoon-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign shows ferry services to and from Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, are canceled on Saturday afternoon due to the approach of powerful Typhoon Tapah, which continued to move near Kyushu on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/asia-expert-matt-pottinger-trump-deputy-national-security-adviser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T15:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/business/financial-markets/army-japanese-eager-make-extra-money-rocking-global-currency-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T16:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-army-a-20190924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-army-a-20190924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasushi Takagi, a financial writer]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/22/national/japan-expected-repeat-little-past-promises-u-n-climate-action-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-09-23T16:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-climate-a-20190923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climate-a-20190923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People rally in Kyoto on Friday as part of the global climate strike.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/world/worlds-poorest-people-getting-less-cent-per-day-international-aid-battle-climate-change/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Express says its Singapore subsidiary will obtain a stake in Future Supply Chain Solutions for about ¥9.9 billion.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government hopes the use of electronic customs declarations at airports will shorten waiting times at the nation's international airports.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The consumption tax hike on Oct. 1 and the spread of cashless payments may further shrink the presence of ¥1 coins.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/24/business/japan-clean-coal-climate-change-pollution/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at the Prime Minister's Office on Sept. 11, the day he was named a new minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Twitter post from the official account of Kyoto Animation's new fim, "Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jido Shuki Ningyo," says it will be shown from Sept. 6 to 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans of Kyoto Animation Co.'s works observe a moment of silence Sunday night in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, before they carried a portable shrine on their shoulders decorated with characters from "Lucky Star," a production of Kyoto Animation studios.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators seize belongings of Kyoto Animation arson attack suspect Shinji Aoba after raiding his house in the city of Saitama on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 52-year-old employee of Kyoto Animation Co., who jumped for his life last week from the second floor of the burning building, reveals his injuries on Wednesday in Kyoto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arson-murder suspect Shinji Aoba may have surveilled Kyoto Animation Co.'s studio before setting it ablaze last Thursday, killing 34 people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers and a drawing of anime characters dedicated to the victims of Thursday’s arson attack in Kyoto are seen outside the Kyoto Animation building Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers are laid in front of the Kyoto Animation Co. studio building in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward on Thursday after a suspected arson gutted the structure and killed at least 33 people and injured dozens of others.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For President Donald Trump to be removed from office through impeachment, a majority in the House of Representatives would have to approve bringing charges for trial in the Senate, where Trump's Republicans hold a majority but a two-thirds vote is required for conviction.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of Chinese visitors to Australia increased just over 1 percent in the 12 months through July, matching the weakest rate in nine years.]]></image:caption>
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