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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers on Saturday help clean up a residential area in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, which was flooded by Typhoon Hagibis last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-04T20:41:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bags containing radioactive waste are seen in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo taken Oct. 14 after Typhoon Hagibis struck the region earlier in the month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-04T20:42:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amin Nasser, chief executive officer of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco), speaks during a news conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday. More than three years after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman first raised the idea — and just three weeks after a plan to launch the share sale was abruptly shelved — oil giant Saudi Aramco announced its intention on Sunday to list shares on the local stock exchange in Riyadh.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-05T03:19:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data from the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 have helped further characterize the structure of the heliosphere — the wind sock-shaped region created by the sun's wind as it extends to the boundary of the solar system, as depicted in this image released by NASA.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-05T05:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-05T06:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Easterbrook, then-CEO of McDonald's Corp., attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/national/crime-legal/japanese-man-arrested-australia-airport-alleged-child-porn-possession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T12:51:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from security footage shows a 30-year-old Japanese man (front right), who has been charged with attempting to import child pornography into Australia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/national/south-korean-defense-chief-wants-maintain-info-sharing-pact-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T13:15:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeong Kyeong-doo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/economy-business/kuroda-boj-easing-more-than-rate-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T14:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda delivers a speech in Nagoya on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/national/three-days-crowd-funding-drive-raises-%c2%a5200-million-rebuild-okinawas-shuri-castle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T14:49:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters continue their investigation Saturday in the burned-down Seiden main hall of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, which was destroyed by fire last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/world/u-s-house-democrats-say-boeing-ceos-testimony-prompts-new-questions-culture-concealment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T14:51:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg testifies before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee during a hearing on the grounded 737 Max in the wake of deadly crashes, on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/world/crime-legal-world/impeachment-panels-cant-make-officials-testify-without-lawyers-present-justice-department/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T15:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters after witnesses failed to appear under subpoena before House impeachment investigators following President Donald Trump's orders not to cooperate with the probe, in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/resurgent-boeing-737-max-trigger-jetliner-glut-analyst-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T15:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 Max aircraft sit at Boeing facilities at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/economy-business/china-reviewing-locations-us-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T15:59:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping taste wine as they visit the French pavilion at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Tuesday. Xi reportedly is considering the possibility of visiting the United States soon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/corporate-business/toshiba-iot-consortium-100-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T16:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba will launch a consortium to develop new services using connected devices and ultrafast next-generation networks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/economy-business/whats-rcep-happened-tpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T17:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meet during the Third Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership summit in Bangkok on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/corporate-business/softbank-tighten-governance-standards-firms-invests-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T17:33:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group Corp. chairman and CEO, speaks at a conference in Taipei on June 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-kim-jong-un-donald-trump-summit-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T18:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at the South Korean border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/china-japan-flights-top-1000-a-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T19:07:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A China Southern Airlines plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/koizumi-us-exit-climate-accord-disappointing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T19:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinjiro Koizumi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/60-years-japan-oda-brazil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T19:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police box modeled after Japan's kōban police box in Sao Paulo]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/national/abe-modi-agree-boost-defense-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T19:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian leader Narendra Modi meet Monday on the outskirts of Bangkok.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/filipino-typhoon-survivor-tells-brush-climate-crisis-urges-japanese-act-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T19:30:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ubaldo-a-20191106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marinel Ubaldo, a 22-year-old climate activist, says Japan could do much to mitigate climate change, including changing business practices to reduce carbon emissions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pyongyang-warns-us-closing-door-to-dialogue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T19:39:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV broadcast in Seoul on Oct. 31 showing file footage of a news report about North Korea firing two projectiles, possibly missiles, into the Sea of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-moon-jae-in-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T20:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the ASEAN Plus Three Summit in Bangkok on Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-make-fuji-xerox-wholly-owned-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-05T20:56:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Fuji Xerox Co., a joint venture by Fujifilm Holdings Corp. and Xerox Corp., is displayed outside the building housing the company's headquarters in January 2018. Fujifilm plans to turn the firm into a wholly owned subsidiary.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/24/national/search-continues-7-year-old-girl-missing-yamanashi-camp-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T01:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers and a rescue dog search a river near a camp site in Doshi, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Tuesday, after a 7-year-old girl went missing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/26/national/no-grants-art-festival-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T01:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura speaks at a news conference in Nagoya on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/26/national/crime-legal/ibaraki-boy-parents-killer-acted-alone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T01:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsunori and Miwa Kobayashi were stabbed to death by an assailant at their home in Sakai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Monday, but their children survived the attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/27/national/top-executives-kepco-allegedly-received-%c2%a5180-million-payoffs-ex-deputy-mayor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T01:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansai Electric Power Co. President Shigeki Iwane (right) bows at a news conference held in Osaka on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/world/crime-legal-world/jury-selection-underway-trial-longtime-trump-adviser-roger-stone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T03:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone arrives for the first day of his criminal trial at the U.S. District Court in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/world/social-issues-world/iraqi-forces-shoot-dead-13-protesters-renewed-crackdown-unrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T08:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young demonstrator flashes the victory sign during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/business/microsoft-japan-says-four-day-workweek-boosted-productivity-40/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T10:43:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Microsoft logo is seen in 2016 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/yokohama-legal-firm-keeps-filipinos-passport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T12:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yokohama-a-20191106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building in Yokohama housing the Advanceconsul Immigration Lawyer Office]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/04/national/huts-burn-near-world-heritage-thatched-farmhouses-shirakawa-go/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T13:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by a local shop shows a hut engulfed in flames in a parking lot near the historic Shirakawa-go village in Gifu Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/corporate-business/asahi-forecast-beer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T13:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-asahi-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. has lowered its annual sales and profit forecast for the second time in four months, citing currency fluctuations and domestic headwinds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/economy-business/labor-shortage-japan-construction-economic-boost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T14:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-labor-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimizu Corp.'s　Robo-Buddy carries out the final stage of finishing ceilings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/world/science-health-world/new-method-used-forecast-80-chance-el-nino-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T14:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-shuts-singapore-unit-after-trader-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T16:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/corporate-business/descente-slashes-profit-outlook-south-korea-boycott/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T16:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a Descente Ltd. advertisement in the city of Osaka. The sportswear-maker downgraded its business outlook as South Korean customers shunned its products amid soured ties between Japan and South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/methane-satellite-mission-new-zealand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T16:58:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/politics-diplomacy/disabled-diet-lawmaker-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T17:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-disabilities-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disabilities-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmaker Eiko Kimura (center) attends the Upper House land and transport committee Tuesday as her aide raises a hand on her behalf to ask a question.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/corporate-business/japans-konoike-philippines-macroasia-tie-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/corporate-business/panasonic-housing-elderly-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:11:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-pana-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pana-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. is reportedly planning to start a business developing housing for the elderly in China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/japanese-students-disaster-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-disasters-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disasters-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shizuho Ido (left) and Wataru Kirikoshi attend a panel discussion held at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/corporate-business/japan-agf-coffee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:15:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/damage-japanese-farm-industry-faxai-hagibis-reaches-%c2%a5253-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-typhoon-a-20191106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-typhoon-a-20191106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers in Nagano on Tuesday dispose of apples from trees that were submerged in mud after Typhoon Hagibis caused the rupture of a levee on the Chikuma River.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/dog-dingo-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-backed-kentucky-governor-loses-election-democrats-seize-virginia-legislature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-statevotes-z-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-statevotes-z-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, along with lieutenant governor candidate Jacqueline Coleman, acknowledge supporters at the Kentucky Democratic Party election night watch event Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/trump-arctic-alaska-oil-gas-lease-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-arctic-z-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-arctic-z-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Trump administration said on Tuesday it will be auctioning off nearly 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of land in Arctic Alaska for oil development next month, and it is promising much more territory will be open to development in the future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/world/social-issues-world/nigerian-police-free-259-apparent-captives-islamic-institution-bringing-recent-rescues-nearly-1500/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:29:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-nigeria-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nigeria-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer talks to people who sit on the ground after being freed from an Islamic rehabilitation center in Ibadan, Nigeria, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/china-resume-imports-canadian-beef-pork-trudeau/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-chitrade-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chitrade-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pigs are seen at the Meloporc farm in Saint-Thomas de Joliette, Quebec, in June. China has agreed to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday, signaling a breakthrough in their tense relations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/tech/twitter-political-ads-ban-no-sure-fix-voter-manipulation-ex-cambridge-analytica-director/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-twitads-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-twitads-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brittany Kaiser, co-founder of Digital Asset Trade Association, reacts during a panel session at the Lisbon Web Summit in Lisbon on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/u-s-supreme-court-justices-navigate-video-piracy-case-blackbeards-ship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-blackbeard-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-blackbeard-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christina Burnham holds pirate-themed flags in front of the Supreme Court in Washington NTuesday in support of her uncle, Frederick Allen, a filmmaker whose appeal in a copyright lawsuit over the use of his footage of Blackbeard's shipwreck is being heard by the justices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/world/crime-legal-world/trump-accuser-summer-zervos-says-phone-records-bolster-assault-claim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-zervos-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-zervos-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Summer Zervos leaves New York state appellate court in New York last fall. Records filed in Zervos' defamation suit and obtained Monday by The Associated Press indicate that Zervos, a former "Apprentice" contestant, got a call from Trump's phone on Dec. 21, 2007, when she says he rang to invite her to dinner. She says she went for career advice and was sexually assaulted.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-says-will-fully-respect-taiwans-way-life-peaceful-reunification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T18:40:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-chiwan-a-20191106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chiwan-a-20191106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) and Politburo Standing Commitee members attend the fourth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/tech/fcc-wants-know-huawei-gear-near-u-s-military-bases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T19:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-huawei-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-huawei-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York on Tuesday. Pai discussed security concerns surrounding Chinese network vendors, the potential merger of T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp., and political advertising on social media.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/business/elderly-cashless-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T19:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cashless-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper pays using her mobile phone at an unmanned cash register at a Lawson Inc. convenience store in Tokyo on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/vienna-art-exhibition-fukushima-wwii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T21:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-vienna-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vienna-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artworks based on the theme of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis are displayed Tuesday at the "Japan Unlimited" exhibition held in Vienna.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/power-line-fire-okinawa-shuri-castle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-06T21:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shuri-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters conduct an investigation in the remains of Shuri Castle's Seiden main hall in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Tuesday. Buildings located together with the UNESCO World Heritage site were destroyed by a major fire last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/world/crime-legal-world/prosecutors-paint-longtime-trump-adviser-roger-stone-liar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T03:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-stone-a-20191108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-stone-a-20191108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Stone, former campaign adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for his criminal trial on charges of lying to Congress, obstructing justice and witness tampering at the U.S. District Court in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/world/crime-legal-world/republicans-mull-adding-trump-defender-gop-rep-jim-jordan-impeachment-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T04:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jordan-a-20191108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep.Jim Jordan speaks to reporters during a break in a closed-door deposition as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump led by the House Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs and House Oversight and Reform Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/world/crime-legal-world/trump-tax-return-case-teed-hinge-chief-justice-john-roberts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T04:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-troberts-a-20191108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-troberts-a-20191108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Capitol and U.S. Supreme Court (right) are seen in this aerial photograph taken above Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-impeachment-probe-enter-high-stakes-phase-public-hearings-next-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T04:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-trimpeach-a-20191108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trimpeach-a-20191108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks with members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday. House Democrats are opening the public phase of their impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump next week with some of their central witnesses to detail the president's pressure on Ukraine to investigate a political rival.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/world/apparent-mending-u-s-ties-syrian-kurds-seen-resuming-fight-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T09:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-syrkurds-a-20191108.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (left) stands guard as U.S. military armored vehicles and soldiers patrol near an oil well in Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/business/corporate-business/softbank-6-5-billion-loss-uber-wework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T13:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-softbank-a-20191107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. boss Masayoshi Son discusses the company's latest financial results during a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo. SoftBank suffered its first quarterly operating loss in 14 years, taking a hit from investments in startups such as WeWork and Uber.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/water-off-at-tokyo-haneda-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T13:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-haneda-a-20191107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water bottles are placed on washstands in a restroom at Haneda Airport on Wednesday morning after the water supply was cut off at its domestic terminals.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/crime-legal/olympic-snowboarder-kazuhiro-kokubo-arrested-cannabis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T14:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-kokubo-a-20191108.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Kokubo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-english-tests-university-entrance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T14:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Sudanese stand next to makeshift structures in the town of Pibor on Wednesday after heavy rains and floods forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masashi Tashiro]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T14:57:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe adjusts his tie as he arrives at the Lower House for an extraordinary Diet session on Oct. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T16:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[HP and Xerox are struggling as waning use of home and office printing and copying blunts their most profitable businesses.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T17:39:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists Pasi Vainikka (left), Sami Holmstrom (center) and Juha-Pekka Pitkanen at Finnish company Solar Foods, which has developed protein powder Solein]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T17:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba aims to nearly triple its stock of AI engineers to 2,000 by March 2023 from 750 to boost research and development in the field.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor takes a photo with characters from the popular Japanese anime "My Neighbor Totoro" in September in Jakarta. Netflix Inc. is now introducing more Japanese anime works to lure fans from outside Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T18:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, flanked by Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaks during a news conference in Sacramento, California, in September. The California attorney general says he has been investigating Facebook's privacy practices since 2018. Becerra offered few details about the probe and said he was disclosing it only because his office was making a public court filing to force Facebook to answer its subpoenas, which Becerra said Facebook has failed to respond adequately to.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T18:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All 10 Hokuriku bullet trains flooded by Typhoon Hagibis last month in Nagano will be scrapped because of severe damage, railway operators said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/lawyers-south-korean-wartime-laborers-oppose-compensation-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T18:53:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Hee-sang]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/10-detainees-go-hunger-strike-japanese-immigration-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T18:54:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau is seen in this undated file photo taken in Osaka city's Suminoe Ward. About 10 long-term detainees here are reportedly on a hunger strike, and are calling for their release.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/02/national/media-national/questions-raised-disaster-preparedness-wake-typhoon-hagibis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At the mercy of nature: Ground Self-Defense Force members inspect the extent of damage caused by Typhoon Hagibis in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:12:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quarter of the plastic in bottles of Procter &amp; Gamble Japan's Joy Ocean Plastic dishwashing detergent will be made of recycled marine waste.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/science-health/takedas-dengue-vaccine-said-effective-overall-study-major-limitation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yu Haibin, deputy director of China National Narcotics Control Commission, shakes hands with Austin Moore, an attache for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during a briefing in Xingtai, China, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/universities-japan-lgbt-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:51:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pride Bridge and the Center for Gender Research and Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University announce an agreement on Sept. 18 to cooperate on creating an environment where sexual minorities can study without discrimination.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-07T19:56:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/business/corporate-business/softbanks-son-business-as-usual-shares-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T20:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son answers questions during a news conference on the company's financial results in Tokyo on Wednesday, announcing that the firm suffered an operating loss of $6.4 billion in the second quarter, the worst in its history.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/japan-fukushima-reconstruction-agency-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T20:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-gubernatorial-election-july-5-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-07T20:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike attends a meeting related to the 2020 Games on Nov. 1 in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/12/national/powerful-typhoon-hagibis-lashes-japan/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/past-calamities-revisited-regional-collaborations/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T07:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/international-forum-aims-spread-disaster-relief-awareness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T07:55:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The result of recovery efforts in the Onagawa Central District, Miyagi Prefecture, as of September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/resolute-pledge-universal-disaster-preparedness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T07:55:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Advance preparation for natural disasters is key to minimizing damage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/world/crime-legal-world/prosecutors-roger-stone-trial-point-dozens-calls-trump-campaign-despite-denial/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Stone arrives at Federal Court for his federal trial in Washington Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/03/national/crime-legal/hokkaido-association-sues-university-tokyo-ainu-remains-returned/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masaki Sashima, head of the Urahoro branch of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, attends a news conference in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/national/japan-survey-third-year-university-students/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[College students attend a job fair in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in January 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/life-post-3-11-sendais-recovery-global-lens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T13:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The opening ceremony of the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai in March 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/india-court-to-rule-on-ayodhya-land/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Devotees on Oct. 22 look at a model of the Ram temple that Hindu groups want to build on a disputed religious site in Ayodhya, India.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T14:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers attend a session to discuss constitutional amendments at the Diet on Thursday in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/wasted-japanese-taxpayer-money-fiscal-2018-second-lowest-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T15:19:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Board of Audit chief Yuji Morita submits to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an annual report on wasteful spending at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T16:20:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Funago, a lawmaker with ALS, asks a question during a House of Councilors committee session in Tokyo on Thursday using a computerized speech synthesizer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/economy-business/household-spending-rose-record-year-year-pace-japans-october-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T16:24:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The biggest contributor to September's record increase in spending was transportation and telecommunication expenditures, including commuter passes and mobile phones.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuma Sakuragi leaves a courthouse in Guangzhou, China, in August 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/world/mass-surveillance-fears-india-readies-facial-recognition-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T16:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T17:13:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T18:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T18:51:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso listens to a question during a Group of 20 news conference on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Washington on Oct. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/japanese-businesses-say-impact-octobers-sales-tax-hike-less-painful-2014-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T18:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign about the Oct. 1 consumption tax increase is seen as a customer and employee look at washing machines at a Bic Camera Inc. electronics store in Tokyo on Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/tech/indonesia-device-internet-addicted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T18:53:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nettox wristband is tested at a university in Depok near Jakarta.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T18:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue announces charges against Aventura Technologies Thursday in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The New York company has been charged with illegally importing and selling Chinese-made surveillance and security equipment to U.S. government agencies and private customers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/exxon-calls-ny-climate-case-joke-last-day-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T19:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ted Wells, Jr., the lead attorney for Exxon, leaves Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday in New York. New York's attorney general is accusing Exxon Mobil of misleading investors about how profitable the company will remain as governments impose stricter regulations to combat global warming.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/economy-business/index-signals-japan-in-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T19:06:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/answer-renewable-powers-top-problem-emerges-australian-outback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T19:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wind turbines stand at Kennedy Energy Park in the Australian state of Queensland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/abe-economic-package-typhoon-hit-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T20:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen before the start of a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/crime-legal/japan-may-change-law-allow-revoking-drivers-licenses-road-rage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T20:47:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T20:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers on Thursday search for suspicious objects in Tokyo's Minato Ward ahead of a parade for Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T21:39:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T22:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ash plume from Mount Sakurajima towers over the clouds Friday in this photo by a weather observatory in Kyushu after the volcano had its biggest eruption in more than three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/corporate-business/facebook-staffers-gripes-unethical-anti-competitive-practices-rejected-execs-2012-leaked-chats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T23:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk by a Facebook sign at the second China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/financial-markets/global-bond-sell-off-persuades-investors-buy-dip-u-s-china-talks-whipsaw-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-08T23:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trader Peter Tuchman (center) works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-08T23:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A third-party committee investigating the Leoplace21 construction scandal holds a news conference in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/michael-bloomberg-2020-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T10:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg, addresses the NAACP's 110th National Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-09T10:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Bangkok on Monday in this photo released by the South Korean presidential office.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-09T11:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reviews Self-Defense Forces troops at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Asaka in October last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean diplomat Jo Chol Su attends the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference in the Russian capital on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-09T12:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at his Black Voices for Trump rally Friday in Atlanta.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/asia-pacific/australian-wildfires-leave-two-dead-100-homes-destroyed/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bush fire burns in Old Bar, New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/crime-legal/former-top-japanese-bureaucrat-set-referred-prosecutors-car-crash-killed-mom-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T13:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The new National Stadium is shown in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in September. Officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government revealed Friday that the remains of at least 187 people dating back to the early 1900s or before were retrieved from the Olympic site before construction began.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/business/corporate-business/communications-chief-takaichi-tells-nhk-review-cost-internet-distribution-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T13:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Communications minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference Friday in Tokyo. She said she has called on NHK to review the costs of its envisaged plan for real-time distribution of all television programs via the internet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/crime-legal/group-educators-nabbed-taking-photos-university-entrance-exams-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T13:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five Chinese have been arrested on suspicion of photographing university entrance exams designed for foreign students, investigative sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/social-issues/japan-university-entrance-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T13:41:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/business/tech/tokyo-metropolitan-government-5g/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T13:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/business/economy-business/japan-defense-report-highlights-chinas-growing-energy-ties-central-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T13:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-09T14:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vitamin E acetate sample at the Medical Marijuana Laboratory of Organic and Analytical Chemistry at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/japan-freedom-of-expression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T14:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artwork themed on Emperor Hirohito and U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander during the Allied Occupation of Japan, is on show last week at an exhibition in Vienna.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/world/science-health-world/nasa-first-electric-plane-x57/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T14:22:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Technicians work on the X-57 Maxwell all-electric plane in a hangar at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/asia-pacific/taiwan-china-slowdown-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T15:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joseph Wu]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/crime-legal/body-newborn-baby-girl-found-buried-central-tokyo-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T15:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate a park in the Higashishimbashi district of Tokyo's Minato Ward Friday after the body of a newborn was found buried there.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/media-national/time-brave-blossoms-level-financial-playing-field/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T22:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Cup hero: Japan's Kenki Fukuoka runs with the ball on his way to scoring a try during a Rugby World Cup Pool A match against Scotland on Oct. 13 in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/media-national/exploring-artistic-subtleties-play-behind-controversial-aichi-triennale-exhibition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T22:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-emperor-taboo-a-20191110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Case closed: Visitors at the closed "After 'Freedom of Expression?'" exhibition at the Aichi Triennale learn about the experiences of past discrimination or oppression as described by other visitors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/world/science-health-world/climate-change-hits-crops-debate-heats-use-plant-gene-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T16:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer harvests wheat on the Qalyub farm in the Egyptian governorate of el-Kalubia, northeast of Cairo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/japan-schools-draconian-black-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T16:27:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chiki Ogiue (right), a well-known critic who covers social issues including school education, speaks about the draconian school rules dubbed "black kōsoku" during a news conference in August at the education ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/media-national/2020-races-move-north-sapporo-cooler-heads-prevail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T22:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-schreiber-marathon-a-20191110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cool runnings: Runners compete in a marathon in Sapporo in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/emperor-enthronement-parade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T18:05:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emptour-b-20191110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models show off formal bridal dresses as part of a wedding plan offered by Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto. Emperor Naruhito's enthronement parade on Sunday is said to have inspired a number of products and services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/politics-diplomacy/south-korea-japan-gsomia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T19:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters stage a rally against the U.S. in front of the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/crime-legal/man-fatally-stabbed-apparent-robbery-suburban-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T19:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/idol-group-arashi-sing-festival-held-mark-emperors-enthronement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T21:39:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a national festival Saturday outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The event was held to celebrate his enthronement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/crime-legal/man-indicted-drug-charges-escapes-transferred-police-custody-osaka-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T22:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-escape-a-20191110.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-escape-a-20191110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryotaro Oue]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/world/social-issues-world/georgian-police-arrest-25-clashes-gay-movie-premiere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-09T22:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators gather to protest the film "And Then We Danced" in Tbilisi on Friday. Hundreds of demonstrators assembled outside a movie theater in the capital to protest against the showing of  the film, which is about two young male Georgian ballet dancers falling in love.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/cambodian-opposition-leader-kem-sokha-freed-house-arrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-10T22:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kem Sokha]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-diplomats-public-impeachment-hearings-catharsis-maybe-circus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T04:45:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sits in an armored vehicle as he talks to U.S. soldiers based in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/nra-turmoil-creates-rift-among-big-donors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T04:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nra-a-20191112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Dell'Aquila is seen last month in his home in Nashville, Tennessee. Dell'Aquila is a donor to the NRA who is now suing the gun lobby, alleging misspent funds and donations.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/world/crime-legal-world/democrats-say-gop-impeachment-witnesses-may-testify-not-hunter-biden-whistleblower/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T11:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Nov. 6 rally at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/murder-indonesia-palm-oil-activists-shows-growing-threat-rights-groups-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T12:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-palmoil-a-20191112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief of Indonesian Local Police Agus Andrianto talks during a news conference about the assassination of two Indonesian activists, 42-year-old Martua Parasian Siregar and 55-year-old Maraden Sianipar, in Medan, South Sumatra province, Indonesia, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/amazon-seattle-city-council-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T13:19:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-amazon-a-20191112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon poured a record $1.5 million into a super PAC run by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce to back a slate of candidates,  viewed as pro-business, in the Nov. 5 council elections.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/resignation-bolivias-evo-morales-last-pink-tide-polarizes-latin-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T13:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A broken portrait of former Bolivian President Evo Morales lies on the floor of his private home in Cochabamba, Bolivia, after hooded opponents broke into the residence Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/independent-mayor-okuma-fukushima-nuclear-plant-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T13:48:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Yoshida, who was elected Sunday as mayor of the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks to reporters on the day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/corporate-business/less-new-zealand-firm-sees-huge-productivity-boost-four-day-workweek/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T14:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-lawmakers-eye-increased-security-cooperation-u-s-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T14:54:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-ustaiwan-a-20191111.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ustaiwan-a-20191111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (right) waves during a parade in Taipei on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/economy-business/japan-machinery-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T16:40:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-machinery-a-20191112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Core private-sector machinery orders fell 2.9 percent in September from August, government data showed Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/economy-business/japan-current-account-surplus-down-first-half-fiscal-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T17:18:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-surplus-a-20191112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles for export await shipment at a port in Kawasaki in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/economy-business/ldp-digital-economy-taxes-akira-amari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T17:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-amari-a-20191112.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amari-a-20191112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari makes a speech at a meeting hosted by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/crime-legal/police-question-suspected-kyoto-anime-studio-arsonist-first-time-since-deadly-july-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T17:53:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-kyoani-a-20191110.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kyoani-a-20191110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait to see "Violet Evergarden Story: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll" ("Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jido Shuki Ningyo"), the first film released by Kyoto Animation Co. since July's deadly arson attack, at a movie theater in the city of Kyoto on Sept. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/09/national/social-issues/women-glasses-japan-twitter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T18:41:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many Japanese women are fighting for the right to wear eyeglasses to work, a new front in the growing movement that demands an end to the prescriptive beauty standards faced by female employees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-11T18:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government might end a special tax break on wining and dining expenses enjoyed by large companies when fiscal 2020 begins on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/national/exhibition-japanese-american-bomb-victims-opens-los-angeles-museum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T19:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junji Sarashina, a second-generation Japanese American who was in Hiroshima at the time of the 1945 atomic bombing, speaks in Los Angeles on Sunday about his experiences.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/alibaba-says-singles-day-sales-hit-13-billion-first-hour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T19:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shows the gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 1 minute and 36 seconds of Singles' Day sales, as it reaches over $1.4 billion, in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province early on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-11T21:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers on Nov. 2 help clean up mud at a house in the city of Nagano that was flooded after Typhoon Hagibis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-11T21:00:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers conduct an investigation at a crossing in Hachioji, in western Tokyo, on Monday morning after a vehicle crashed into a group of nursery school children and teachers. Six of them were injured, as well as the driver.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/business/economy-business/bank-japan-possible-inflation-slowdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-11T21:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/national/october-typhoon-members-300-households-fukushima-evacuated-3-11-disaster-endured-double-suffering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T00:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reconstruction work is carried out near the Adatara River in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday. The area was flooded after Typhoon Hagibis hit last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-12T07:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold banners reading "Spain sit and talk" as they block the AP-7 highway at the Spanish-French border in La Jonquera, northern Spain, on Monday during an action called by Tsunami Democratic movement for civil disobedience actions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/maduros-military-stands-way-bolivia-playbook-repeat-venezuela/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T08:43:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-maduro-a-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (right) and Bolivian President Evo Morales gesture during the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) summit at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas in 2017. Morales resigned on Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/11/national/crime-legal/kyoani-arson-suspect-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T12:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Messages and paper cranes left by fans are seen at a memorial held on Nov. 2 in the city of Kyoto for victims of July's deadly arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/corporate-business/toshiba-listed-subsidiaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T15:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toshiba Corp. logo at its headquarters in Tokyo in January 2017]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-impeachment-2020-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T16:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump departs for a trip from the South Lawn of the White House on Nov. 8. Less than a year before the 2020 election, impeachment proceedings are taking Democrats and Republicans into uncharted waters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/corporate-business/sony-1st-southeast-asian-game-studio-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T17:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees walk past the Sony PlayStation booth at the Tokyo Game Show 2019 in Chiba in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/hiroshima-bombing-nuclear-weapons-setsuko-thurlow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T17:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsuko Thurlow speaks at a peace event in Hiroshima on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/science-health/akira-yoshino-nobel-prize-lithium-ion-batteries-environment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T17:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chemist Akira Yoshino, a winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and his wife Kumiko speak to the media in Tokyo on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/crime-legal/man-osaka-indicted-drug-charges-arrested-two-days-run/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T17:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters gather Saturday near the site where Ryotaro Oue, who has been indicted for using illegal stimulants and possessing marijuana, escaped in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture. He was re-apprehended on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/sharing-economy-conference/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T18:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sharing-a-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Satoshi Amanuma (center left), president and CEO of clothing rental company airCloset Inc., and Shoji Kodama (center right), CEO of high-end handbag rental company Laxus Technologies Inc., pose for photos at Share Summit 2019 in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/us-joint-chiefs-chairman-japan-south-korea-gsomia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T18:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold talks in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/faa-official-sought-grounding-pre-owned-southwest-boeing-jets-amid-concerns-repairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T18:45:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Southwest Airlines jet moves on the runway as a person eats at a terminal restaurant at LaGuardia Airport in New York in January. Federal regulators have threatened to ground dozens of Southwest Airlines jets if the airline can't confirm that the planes, which it bought used from foreign operators, meet all safety standards.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-12T18:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beth Schlachter, Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) executive director, speaks on the latest data and analysis on global progress in family planning ahead of the 25th International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Summit in Nairobi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/boeing-says-737-max-resume-commercial-flights-january-sending-shares-skyward/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T18:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dozens of grounded Boeing 737 Max jetliners crowd a parking area adjacent to Boeing Field in Seattle in June. Boeing hopes to resume deliveries of its 737 Max jet to airlines in December and win regulatory approval to restart commercial service with the plane in January. Boeing shares rose in midday trading Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-12T19:03:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers crowd Incheon International Airport near Seoul. Budget carrier Air Seoul Inc. reportedly plans to close half of its 12 offices in Japan amid frayed Japan-South Korea ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-12T19:18:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/corporate-business/tepco-expand-services-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T19:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With its expanded services, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. hopes to acquire customers in new regional markets while keeping users who leave the greater Tokyo area from switching to other utilities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/corporate-business/wework-tmobile-john-legere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T19:31:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US Inc., waits to begin a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/corporate-business/apple-credit-card-unequal-treatment-of-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T19:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, introduces the Apple Card during a product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/japan-one-month-typhoon-hagibis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T20:11:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple pray for the victims of Typhoon Hagibis near their flooded house in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday, a month after the town was devastated by the powerful typhoon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/japan-immigration-stricter-measures-foreign-trainees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T20:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese trainee works at a factory in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/asia-pacific/nuclear-weapons-cost-sharing-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T20:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea's then-foreign minister, Song Min-soon, speaks during an interview in Seoul in October 2007.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/business/corporate-business/nissan-profit-slump-second-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T20:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Ma, incoming chief financial officer of Nissan Motor Co., attends a news conference at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/month-after-typhoon-hagibis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-12T20:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers help remove mud from a flooded house in the city of Nagano on Nov. 5, three weeks after Tyhoon Hagibis caused extensive damage in the area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/trump-says-phase-one-china-trade-deal-happen-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T04:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the Economic Club of New York at the New York Hilton Midtown Tuesday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-13T13:49:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather in front of the 'Goddess of Democracy' statue on campus after clashes with police at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in Hong Kong early Wednesday. Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters clashed with riot police in the city's upmarket business district and on university campuses Tuesday, extending one of the most violent stretches of unrest seen in more than five months of political chaos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/asia-pacific/us-military-taiwan-strait/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T13:58:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville sails in waters off the coast of Japan during a routine deployment in May last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/world/europe-sanctions-iran-nuclear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T13:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction takes place Sunday at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant during a ceremony to kick-start work on a second reactor at the facility.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/tech/new-york-city-beats-tokyo-become-worlds-top-innovative-metropolis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T14:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk on the waterfront that overlooks the skyline of lower Manhattan in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-13T15:48:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-13T15:53:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he meets supporters at the Lynch Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton, Britain, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/u-s-pork-prices-rise-fatal-pig-disease-cuts-global-meat-supply-tyson-foods-ceo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T15:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tyson foods Inc. and Hillshire Brands Jimmy Dean sausages are shown in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California, in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-invests-taiwan-electric-bus-maker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T16:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past the Sumitomo Corp. headquarters in Tokyo. The trading house will spend some ¥500 million by February to acquire a 6.7 percent stake in Taiwan's top electric bus-maker, RAC Electric Vehicles Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/rare-1770-portrait-teenage-mozart-auctioned-paris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers install a portrait due to be sold at auction by Christie's that depicts composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a teenager, painted in January 1770, and attributed to Veronese master Gaimbettino Cignaroli, in Paris Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/boeing-max-orders-fall-key-customer-swaps-737-dreamliner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:22:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Boeing logo is seen during the 70th annual International Astronautical Congress at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington last month. Boeing on Monday said it expected the 737 Max airplane, which was grounded after two crashes killed 346 people, to resume flying in January. "In parallel, we are working towards final validation of the updated training requirements, which must occur before the MAX returns to commercial service, and which we now expect to begin in January," Boeing said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-alleges-russian-operatives-sought-undermine-u-s-election-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:22:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/spains-socialists-podemos-reach-preliminary-coalition-deal-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during an election campaign event in Blackpool, England, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/science-health/mitsubishi-heavy-h3-rocket-space-moon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rocket-a-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows an upgraded version of the mainstay next-generation H3 rocket.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/taro-kono-south-korea-japan-asean-gsomia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T17:35:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-a-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono may meet his South Korean counterpart in Thailand later this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/corporate-business/toshiba-posts-%c2%a5145-billion-net-loss-first-half-fiscal-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T18:35:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20191114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp., which is continuing its reform efforts following the bankruptcy of its U.S. nuclear power subsidiary in 2017, reported a net loss Wednesday of ¥145.15 billion for the April-September period.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-gubernatorial-election-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T19:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters Wednesday at the metropolitan government building.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/12/national/yamanote-keihin-tohoku-train-suspended-saturday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T21:32:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-a-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. plans to partially suspend train operations on the Yamanote Line, seen here, and the Keihin-Tohoku Line in central Tokyo on Saturday due to construction work. The suspension is expected to affect millions of passengers in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/national/crime-legal/man-slashes-schoolgirls-throat-northeastern-japan-random-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-13T23:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-slasher-a-20191113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters stand on a road in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, where a girl was assaulted by an attacker with a knife on Tuesday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/facebook-removes-3-2-billion-fake-accounts-millions-child-abuse-posts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T04:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-facetagram-a-20191115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facetagram-a-20191115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook logo is seen on a computer in this photo illustration in Washington in July. Facebook on Wednesday said it has nixed 5.4 billion fake accounts already this year, many within moments of being created at the leading social network."We have improved our ability to detect and block attempts to create fake, abusive accounts," the internet firm said in its latest transparency report.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/tech/amid-privacy-backlash-chinas-dji-unveils-phone-app-track-nearby-drones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T06:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drone operator flies his drone as Chinese drone maker DJI holds a demonstration to display an app that tracks a drone's registration and owner, in Montreal, Quebec, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/biohaven-braces-david-versus-goliath-battle-allergan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T07:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-14T07:35:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives on stage between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the BRICS summit in Brasilia Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/evo-morales-flees-mexico-crisis-torn-bolivia-deadly-clashes-leaving-political-vacuum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T09:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard (left) receives Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales and Bolivian ex-Vice-President Alvaro Garcia (right) Linera upon their arrival Tuesday in Mexico City, where they were granted exile after their resignation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/economy-business/asias-mini-chinas-struggle-capitalize-u-s-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T14:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Factory workers change shifts at the Thang Long industrial park outside of Hanoi in June 2011. The U.S.-China trade war has reignited a debate over which developing countries in Asia could take over the mantle of the world's workshop, with Vietnam being one of the contenders.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/business/tech/softbank-line-enter-talks-form-new-tie/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T14:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-gsomia-controversy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T15:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by South Korea's presidential Blue House shows Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talking with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, on the outskirts of Bangkok on Nov. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/tech/people-paid-sharing-personal-data-online-one-microsoft-employee-says-people-fooled-handing-data-free/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-weyl-a-20191115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Glen Weyl discusses his book "Radical Markets" in July 2018 at the Microsoft New England Research &amp; Development Center (NERD).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/national/crime-legal/36-japanese-men-detained-manila-alleged-phone-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes questions Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire during his testimony before a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the handling of the whistleblower complaint in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:36:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol says critics of the agency misunderstand what it does or have been "misled."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/corporate-business/4-major-japanese-brewers-incur-lower-sales-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South African rugby fans enjoy beer at a bar in Yokohama in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/world/social-issues-world/venezuelan-migrants-will-cost-host-nations-1-35-billion-2020-u-n-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the security forces stand guard outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Brasilia Wednesday. The placards read "Latin America free," "Women against fascism" and "Jail for the militiamen."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/corporate-business/japan-display-1st-half-net-loss-tops-%c2%a5100-billion-revamp-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-14T16:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. CEO Minoru Kikuoka, left, speaks at a news conference to announce the company's first-half earnings in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/business/brazil-antitrust-regulator-reassess-disney-fox-deal-divestiture-yet-happen/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Preparations are made at the Suki Hall at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the Daijosai ceremony, which will take place on Thursday and Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-14T18:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hospitals in Japan faced continuing financial difficulties in fiscal 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-14T19:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-14T21:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan-China policy forum that was scheduled for Nov. 2 in Beijing has been suspended.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kurdish asylum-seeker launched a hunger strike in July to end his detention at Higashi-Nihon Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior members of the ruling and opposition parties attend a meeting of the Lower House's Commission on the Constitution held Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Triathletes dive into the water at a world triathlon mixed relay event at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/japan-cut-fiscal-2019-tax-revenue-estimate-weak-corporate-earnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20191115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government now expects to receive less tax revenue than it had anticipated in fiscal 2019, as a slowdown in the global economy dents corporate earnings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/wework-woes-co-working-space-leases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wework-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Rechler, RXR Realty chairman and CEO, is interviewed in New York in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/university-entrance-exam-focus-english-reading-listening-skills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education minister Koichi Hagiuda speaks at a news conference held at the ministry on Nov. 1 about postponing the launch of private-sector English proficiency tests for the standardized university entrance exam.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/nagoya-foreign-students-shun-visas-illegal-overwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese man studying in Nagoya says he is refraining from applying for a working visa, fearing the application might be rejected as he has worked over the legal limit for students in his part-time job.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/world/crime-legal-world/student-guns-two-wounds-three-california-high-school-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students are comforted as they wait to be reunited with their parents following a shooting at Saugus High School that injured several people, Thursday in Santa Clarita, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/mount-hakone-tourist-site-reopens-volcano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists take pictures at the Owakudani area in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Friday after it was reopened to the public following the lowering of the volcanic alert level for Mount Hakone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/major-japan-firms-pay-record-winter-bonuses-second-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/despite-frosty-ties-japan-south-korea-business-lobbies-agree-boost-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi (left), and Federation of Korean Industries Chairman Chang Soo-huh, attend a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-urges-south-korea-act-prudently-gsomia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Ministry official Kim Jung-han is surrounded by reporters Friday as he leaves the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/asia-pacific/big-chunk-worlds-scallops-dies-mysterious-circumstances-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-scallops-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-scallops-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 100,000 tons of scallops were traded globally in 2018, with Zhangzidao supplying half.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/crime-legal/158-kg-meth-bound-japan-seized-thailand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-drugs-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drugs-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai police officers check treadmills where packets of methamphetamine were concealed, in Bangkok on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/asia-pacific/north-korea-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un walk toward each other at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-vote-generational-change-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-taivote-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taivote-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, pictured on July 15, is the presidential candidate for the opposition Kuomintang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/corporate-business/japan-post-drop-april-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanpost-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a sign showing logos of Japan Post Group companies in Tokyo in July. Japan Post Holdings Co. said Thursday its group revenue in the April-September half dropped 4.8 percent from a year earlier to ¥5.96 trillion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/bolivian-deal-to-end-chaos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-bolivia-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bolivia-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bolivians walk alongside a highway that has been blocked by supporters of former President Evo Morales, in El Alto on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/asia-pacific/north-korea-aircraft-fleet-east-coast-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this satellite image, North Korean military aircraft are seen lined up at Wonsan-Kalma International Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/crime-legal/kagawa-man-arrested-incinerating-fathers-body/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-arrest-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-arrest-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Hayashida was arrested Thursday for allegedly incinerating and disposing of his father's body at his home in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/south-african-airways-cancels-flights-union-ranks-ready-strike-wages-job-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-saa-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-saa-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wait to check in at South African Airways (SAA) counters at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/hong-kongs-special-economic-status-frozen-china-uses-forces-quell-protests-u-s-congressional-commission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-uscc-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uscc-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester wearing helmet and tear gas mask holds a yellow umbrella outside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus in Hong Kong on Thursday. Hong Kong police warned protesters on Thursday that they were moving "one step closer to terrorism" by sinking the city into chaos, as riot squads skirmished with militant students at major universities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/world/russia-sets-chopper-base-northern-syria-u-s-exit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands on the side of a road as U.S. military vehicles pass east of the Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Tuesday;]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/business/tech/google-restricts-data-sharing-ads-eu-privacy-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T21:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-google-a-20191116.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-google-a-20191116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/16/national/media-national/celebrities-using-youtube-new-ways-connect-fans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-16T22:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/p16-stmichel-celebrity-a-20191117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-celebrity-a-20191117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the spotlight: Social media personality Ryuchell launched a channel on YouTube earlier this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/16/national/takanawa-gateway-station-yamanote-lines-newest-station-shown-off-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T15:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamanote-a-20191117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Platforms and other facilities at Takanawa Gateway Station, a new station under construction on JR East's Yamanote Line in central Tokyo, are shown to the media on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/world/yellow-vest-protesters-anniversary-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T15:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-yellow-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester dressed as a monk attends a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the yellow vest movement in Nantes, France, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/asia-pacific/protests-india-evict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T15:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/business/corporate-business/softbank-vision-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T17:05:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-visionfund-a-20191118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-visionfund-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp.'s second Vision Fund is getting off to a much smaller start than its giant predecessor.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/asia-pacific/australia-120-bush-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T17:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bushfires-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A burned home near Colo Heights, northwest of Sydney, is pictured Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/asia-pacific/us-south-korea-military-drills-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T18:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and his South Korean counterpart, Jeong Kyeong-doo, give a news conference in Bangkok on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/national/health-care-filipinos-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T18:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-filipinos-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino nurses and caregivers show off their Japanese visas while attending a send-off meeting in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/national/jr-west-train-2005-amagasaki-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T19:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jrwest-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue personnel search wrecked train cars after a derailment that killed 106 people in April 2005 on JR West's Fukuchiyama Line in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwans-president-tsai-chooses-running-mate-beijing-loathes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T19:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/333674821_v0.1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f tsaiwan-z 20191118]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsai Ing-Wen]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/business/corporate-business/nissan-recalls-400000-vehicles-braking-system-defect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-17T20:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-nissan-a-20191118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nissan Motor Co. Murano SUV is displayed during AutoMobility LA ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/17/reference/outsourcing-english-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-18T00:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-test-a-20191118.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-test-a-20191118.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Critics are questioning how and why the government introduced a plan for private English testing, and whether the system, whose rollout is now being delayed, is transparent and fair to all.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-tweets-north-koreas-kim-tells-get-deal-done/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-18T04:08:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/business/air-senegal-nears-tentative-730-million-deal-airbus-a220s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-18T07:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-senegal-a-20191119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Air Senegal SA is pictured on the tail of an airplane parked at the aircraft builder's headquarters of Airbus in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/business/trump-tour-apples-austin-manufacturing-plant-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-18T09:03:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/business/corporate-business/hp-says-open-exploring-bid-xerox/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upbeat: Nigerian music producer and film director Udyfrank sits in his Tokyo office Monday. Udyfrank directed, produced and starred in his debut film "Entangled in Tokyo."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters Monday at his office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies, speaks at The New York Times DealBook conference in New York last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/u-s-agencies-lax-china-recruited-researchers-stole-intellectual-property-senate-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T08:38:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/wework-says-job-cuts-begin-warnest-week-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T08:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A WeWork office space is seen Nov. 5 in New York. WeWork says it racked up $1.25 billion in losses in the third quarter as it geared up for an ultimately scuttled stock market debut. WeWork's losses more than doubled between June-September, compared to the same period the previous year, as the office-sharing company spent heavily in pursuit of aggressive growth.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/crime-legal/hokkaido-university-professor-held-spying-released-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T11:56:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/business/yahoo-japan-operator-line-eye-merger-2020-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T12:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The icons for the Z Holdings Corp. Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. Line applications are displayed on a smartphone in this arranged photograph taken in Kawasaki on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/15/national/five-years-super-global-university-recognition-hiroshima-university-top-100/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T12:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students of Hiroshima University's Department of Integrated Global Studies hold a discussion in English.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-revise-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T13:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech to the Liberal Democratic Party during the LDP's annual convention in Tokyo in March 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/national/survey-11-percent-japanese-firms-pump-heel-height-rule/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T13:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an apparently discriminatory practice, 11.1 percent of companies in Japan have in-house rules on the height of the heel of pumps worn by female employees at the workplace, a new survey has revealed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/roaming-beauty-services-japans-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T13:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masueko Imai, 86, a resident of a nursing home in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, gets a haircut and set from a beautician visiting the facility.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/history/author-hibakusha-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T14:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abomb-a-20191120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kathleen Burkinshaw, author of "The Last Cherry Blossom," holds up a copy of her book at the U.N. on Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/national/science-health/yamagata-university-ancient-geoglyphs-peru-nazca/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T14:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A research team at Yamagata University used artificial intelligence to analyze an aerial photograph (left) taken at the Nazca Pampa in Peru. The image to the right shows the shape of a geoglyph that was discovered based on the study.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/business/nissan-carlos-ghosn-scandal-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T15:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ghosn-a-20191119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The November 2018 arrest of Carlos Ghosn, then head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, made headlines around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/23/business/toyota-unveil-ultra-compact-bev-latest-mirai-hydrogen-model/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T16:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mirai concept car is a fuel cell electric vehicle powered by hydrogen.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/corporate-business/toyota-suicide-workplace-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T16:44:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/activists-iran-internet-blackout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T17:13:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NetBlocks, which monitors digital rights, said that by Saturday Iran's internet connectivity was 5 percent of what it was earlier in the week. A clampdown by the government began Friday, coinciding with demonstrations and protests throughout Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/corporate-business/kirin-recalls-green-tea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T17:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Beverage Co. is recalling green tea because some bottles may not be properly sealed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/asia-pacific/us-south-korea-defense-cost-talks-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T17:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James DeHart, the top U.S. negotiator in talks with South Korea on a new cost-sharing agreement for hosting the U.S. military, speaks at the American Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday after meeting with his South Korean counterpart.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/japans-lower-house-approves-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T17:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradepact-a-20191120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lower House votes Tuesday afternoon on the trade pact agreed to Sept. 25 by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/conspiracy-carlos-ghosn-court-year-after-arrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T17:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video of Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., is shown during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/corporate-business/yamato-transport-evs-parcel-delivery-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T18:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Yamato Transport Co. driver charges a new electric truck Tuesday in Tokyo. The 2.85-ton vehicle is designed to be more driver-friendly in order to attract more workers amid the acute labor shortage in the transport industry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/corporate-business/nissan-renault-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. shareholders arrive for a meeting in Tokyo on June 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/corporate-business/japanese-supercomputer-fugaku-power-efficiency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:06:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is a central processing unit used for the Fugaku supercomputer developed by Fujitsu Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/extreme-storms-wreck-power-grids-japan-turns-home-battery-networks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:11:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fence around a driving range that collapsed on a house and cars due to Typhoon Faxai is seen on Sept. 9 in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/politics-diplomacy/civic-group-complaint-shinzo-abe-election-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a civic group that will soon file a complaint with prosecutors against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over alleged election law violations at an annual cherry blossom-viewing party hold a news conference Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/crime-legal/actress-erika-sawajiri-allegedly-admits-taking-illegal-drugs-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-drug-a-20191119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drug-a-20191119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Erika Sawajiri, under arrest on suspicion of drug possession, has admitted to using illegal drugs for more than 10 years, police sources say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/national/crime-legal/suspect-arrested-slaying-20-year-old-niigata-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:31:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryosuke Saito is escorted to a police station Monday in the city of Niigata. He is suspected of fatally stabbing 20-year-old Yuzuki Ishizawa on Friday evening.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/police-question-kobe-teachers-bullying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-19T19:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Executives from the Kobe Board of Education apologize on Oct. 31 over schoolteachers' involvement in the bullying of a 25-year-old male colleague.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-considering-visit-india-december-bid-draw-modi-back-rcep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T02:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, are pictured during a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership summit on the outskirts of Bangkok on Nov. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/world/burkina-faso-accuses-mali-unauthorized-military-incursion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T03:54:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zore Yusef sits with his family at an IDP camp in Pissila, Burkina Faso, Nov. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/business/philippine-leader-looks-ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-arrest-users/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T05:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a press conference at the Malacanang Palace in Manila on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/business/economy-business/canadas-largest-railroad-hit-strike-putting-trudeau-hot-seat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T06:24:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian National Railway Co. employees picket during a strike in front of the Intermodal Terminals in Brampton, Ontario, on Tuesday. About 3,200 workers at CN Rail went on strike at midnight Monday, threatening to crimp shipments of oil, potash and grain across the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/world/chile-foresees-difficult-wildfire-season-ahead-fears-arson/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T06:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chilfires-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A DC-10 Air Tanker firefighting plane drops water to prevent a wildfire from spreading to homes near Concepcion, Chile, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/world/science-health-world/fishing-vessels-pushing-vaquita-porpoise-off-mexico-extinction-u-n-treaty-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T07:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mexican patrol boat (right) checks the boat of a fisherman as they stand guard over California Gulf porpoises, also known as vaquitas, in San Felipe in Mexico's state of Baja California in 2008. The vaquita, a tiny stubby-nosed porpoise found only in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, is on the brink of extinction as more die each year in fishing nets than are being born, biologists say.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/jeremy-corbyn-catches-johnson-dramatic-u-k-election-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T07:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-corbyn-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures at Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as they debate on the set of "Johnson v Corbyn: The ITV Debate" in Salford, northwest England, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/world/u-s-aircraft-carrier-strike-group-sails-strait-hormuz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T08:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[F/A-18F aircraft are seen on the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/world/social-issues-world/bolivian-military-deploys-armored-vehicles-end-blockade-key-gas-plant-amid-deadly-street-clashes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-20T08:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of former President Evo Morales burn tires in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, Tuesday. At least one person was killed Tuesday in clashes between Bolivian security forces and Morales' backers at the Senkata filling plant in El Alto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police detain protesters and students after they tried to flee outside the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus in the Hung Hom district of Hong Kong on Tuesday. A dwindling number of exhausted pro-democracy protesters barricaded inside the Hong Kong university defied warnings to surrender, as a police siege of the campus stretched through a third day and China sent fresh signals that its patience with nearly six months of unrest was running out.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles with kimomo-clad attendees at a cherry blossom-viewing event on April 13 at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture released by the official website of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Iran sanctions in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (left) and Vice President Mike Pence look on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugee Mohammed Imran gives an interview with in Penang, Malaysia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo made from a video released by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Jan. 15 shows at least 14 of the schoolgirls abducted from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This May 12, 2014, file image, taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/business/corporate-business/japan-jfe-steel-china-baowu-steel/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmakers vote for a bill to promote Japan's agricultural exports during the Upper House plenary session Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The NTT Group is offering record pay to lure information technology wizards from Silicon Valley to help boost basic research prowess.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kochi gubernatorial candidate Kenji Matsumoto of the Japanese Communist Party makes a stump speech in the city of Kochi on Nov. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-20T19:31:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Geneva headquarters of the World Trade Organization is seen Tuesday. Japan and South Korea came empty-handed from their talks on Tokyo's export control of high-tech chemicals, which has dealt a blow to Soul's mainstay manufacturing industries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teamsters Canada union workers picket at the Canadian National Railway at the CN Rail Brampton Intermodal Terminal after both parties failed to resolve contract issues, in Brampton, Ontario, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The General Motors headquarters in the Renaissance Center is seen in Detroit in 2014. GM is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging its rival benefitted from bribes to auto union officials that gave FCA an unfair benefit in labor talks, GM announced Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mandy Tang, 19, an exchange student from Hong Kong, holds a poster reading "Protect the Freedom of Hong Kong" on Thursday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward during a rally against the semiautonomous region's controversial extradition bill.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/national/japan-marks-largest-drop-foreign-visitors-7-years-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T12:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-tourist-a-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourist-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists wearing yukata stroll through Tokyo's Asakusa district on July 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/national/australian-army-officer-stationed-japans-sdf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T12:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-aussiepact-a-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aussiepact-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono speaks during a meeting with his Australian counterpart, Linda Reynolds, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/19/business/japan-needs-extra-budget-%c2%a510-trillion-ldp-no-2-toshihiro-nikai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T12:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-budget-a-20191120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-budget-a-20191120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/tech/google-wont-give-election-advertisers-data-political-leanings-voting-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T13:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/japan-indonesia-help-new-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T13:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-indonesia-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-indonesia-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo shake hands at a meeting on the outskirts of Bangkok on Nov. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/japan-subsidies-to-elderly-drivers-for-safer-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T14:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-subsidy-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-subsidy-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles equipped with safety functions for elderly drivers will likely be subject to a government subsidy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/science-health-world/green-cities-lower-rates-of-premature-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T14:19:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-treesoflife-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-treesoflife-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trees line a street in the Kanda area of Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/japan-allow-tax-free-shopping-vending-machines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T14:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-dutyfree-a-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dutyfree-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sales clerk arranges products at a duty-free shop in the arrival area at Chubu Airport near Nagoya in April 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-japan-longest-serving-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T15:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-abe-a-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Returning Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds his inaugural news conference on Dec. 26, 2012, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trudeau-reshuffles-canada-cabinet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T15:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-trudeau-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trudeau-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chrystia Freeland, Canada's deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs, greets Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/corporate-business/japan-display-exec-embezzled-578m/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T16:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-jdi-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jdi-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc's headquarters in central Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/softbank-seeks-loans-for-wework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T16:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-softbank-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son holds a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/financial-markets/japans-fsa-revamp-tokyo-stock-exchange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T16:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-tokyostock-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tokyostock-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Financial Services Agency has proposed realigning the Tokyo Stock Exchange, seen here, into three trading markets, down from the current four.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/japan-firms-ban-power-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T18:51:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-harassment-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-harassment-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a panel discuss new guidelines for preventing power harassment in the workplace at the labor ministry in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-aso-invited-100-200-supporters-to-cherry-blossom-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T18:51:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-diet-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso attends a Diet session Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/corporate-business/panasonic-ends-lcd-panel-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T18:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-panasonic-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-panasonic-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic says it has "determined that continuation of the business would be unviable, faced with a tougher environment in the global market, so the decision was made to stop production" of liquid crystal display panels.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/emperor-ise-shrine-end-of-enthronement-rites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T19:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-emperor-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit the Daijokyu Halls at the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo on Thursday after they opened for a public viewing that will run daily through Dec. 8. Emperor Naruhito performed the Daijosai offering ceremony last week at the specially built halls.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/mike-pompeos-deputy-john-sullivan-attend-g20-foreign-ministers-meeting-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T19:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-usdeputy-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usdeputy-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Sullivan, U.S. deputy secretary of state (left) and Patrick Shanahan, then the U.S. deputy secretary of defense, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/japans-economy-worst-boycott-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T19:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-boycott-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boycott-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast Retailing Co.'s Uniqlo casual clothing chain became one of the biggest targets of the boycott in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/los-angeles-auto-shows-emphasis-going-green-no-coincidence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T19:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-autoshow-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autoshow-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid is introduced during a reveal event at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/japans-beef-exports-china-likely-resume-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T19:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-beef-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-beef-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A meat dealer examines cattle carcasses at an auction of Kobe beef at the Western Kobe Wholesale market.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/corporate-business/japan-post-resume-marketing-savings-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T19:43:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-jppost-a-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jppost-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer receives assistance at a post office in central Tokyo on Nov. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/beaujolais-nouveau-sales-start/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-wine-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-wine-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People celebrate at an event in central Tokyo early Thursday after Beaujolais Nouveau wine went on sale in Japan the same day.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/irans-president-rouhani-claims-victory-unrest-amnesty-says-left-least-106-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-iranwin-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-iranwin-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the Cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/national/history/christianity-history-nagasaki-pope-francis-japan-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-pope-z-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-z-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A priority for Pope Francis when he visits Japan from Saturday will be to express his sorrow over Christian martyrs in Nagasaki who were killed because of their faith.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/asia-pacific/australian-bush-fires-spread-victoria-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-ausfires-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausfires-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sky is orange from dust storms caused by bushfires in Mildura in Victoria state on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/social-issues-world/trump-camp-prepares-send-asylum-seekers-stopped-mexico-border-guatemala/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-asylum-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-asylum-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Central American migrants are seen in an encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, at the end of the Gateway International Bridge, where migrants sent back under the "Remain in Mexico" program, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), await their U.S. asylum hearings in September.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/pope-visit-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:27:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-pope-a-20191122-e1574334382385.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis had wanted to be a missionary to Japan when he was young but gave up the idea after a nearly fatal bout of pneumonia.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/crime-legal-world/trump-debuts-aggressive-impeachment-response-new-hires-allies-fear-will-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-teamtrump-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-teamtrump-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally with African-American supporters in Atlanta Nov. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/israel-launches-retaliatory-airstrikes-syria-damascus-says-two-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-isstrikes-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-isstrikes-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People inspecting damaged buildings following a reported Israeli airstrike on the Syrian village of Beit Saber, southwest of Damascus, Wednesday. The Israeli army confirmed that it carried out strikes against military sites in Damascus, in response to rocket fire from Syria the previous day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/hitlers-top-hat-evan-braun-cocktail-dress-auction-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-hitlerhat-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hitlerhat-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cylinder hat of Adolf Hitler is seen on a table at the auction house Hermann Historica in Munich, Germany, Wednesday. Several hundred Nazi objects were up for auction.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/business/japanese-company-makes-board-game-pure-gold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-goldgame-b-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-goldgame-b-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. on Wednesday unveiled a board game made using pure gold in collaboration with Tomy Co. The game is valued at some ¥150 million.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/national/cats-endangered-species-tokunoshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-cats-a-20191121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cats-a-20191121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cat captures a Ryukyu long-haired rat, a rare species, on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in June 2018.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-constitution-hits-roadblock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T20:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-constitution-a-20191122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-constitution-a-20191122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Lower House special Diet committee on constitutional affairs meet in Tokyo on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/business/corporate-business/sony-talks-buy-stake-indian-tv-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T22:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-21T22:53:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The town of Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, is flooded on Oct. 13 after levees burst along the Abukuma River due to Typhoon Hagibis, which brought record-breaking rainfall and killed more than 90 people in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/teacher-ochanomizu-university-junior-high-school-incident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-21T22:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ochanomizu University Junior High School]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/hibakusha-cardinal-pins-high-hopes-papal-visit-hiroshima/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manyo Maeda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/social-issues-world/colombians-march-keep-wages-pensions-intact-government-warns-violence/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police disperse anti-government protesters during a nationwide strike, at Bolivar square in downtown Bogota Thursday. Colombia's main union groups and student activists called for a strike to protest the economic policies of Colombian President Ivan Duque and a long list of grievances.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/16/national/media-national/public-divided-treatment-homeless-typhoon-hagibis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T11:45:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last respects: A man prays on Oct. 18 at a place where a homeless man whose body was discovered in the Tama River in Hino, Tokyo, used to live before Typhoon Hagibis struck the capital four days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T14:31:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shanghai Waigaoqiao Power Generator Co.'s coal-power plant emits smoke in Shanghai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/asia-pacific/sydney-bush-fires-record-levels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T14:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke from bush fires shrouds the Sydney Opera House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/extra-diet-session-unlikely-extended/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T14:43:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party executives hold a meeting in the Diet on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/jeremy-corbyn-radical-labour-message-can-sell-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T15:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launches the party's election manifesto in Birmingham, England, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/justice-minister-masako-mori-vows-reforms-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T16:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Masako Mori speaks during a group interview Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/venice-risks-loss-of-heritage-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T17:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water rises in Venice on Sunday. This season is setting new records for exceptional tides.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T17:39:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guests at the state-funded cherry blossom-viewing event held at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo in April take photos of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/social-issues-world/strike-chord-study-reveals-musics-universal-patterns-across-societies-worldwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T17:47:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Villagers play traditional musical instruments during an event celebrating National Paddy Day, also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in Dhading, Nepal, in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters inspect Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 2 after a fire engulfed it two days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waste washed up on Nasanohama beach on Toshi Island in Toba, Mie Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/world/pentagon-denies-report-u-s-mulls-pulling-4000-troops-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean Vietnam War veteran takes part in a rally against the U.S. demand for higher payments over its troops outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/25-of-kyushu-municipalities-have-current-flood-risk-maps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:26:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/corporate-business/huawei-parts-procured-japan-firms-worth-10-billion-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:38:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei Technologies Co. Chairman Liang Hua speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/offbeat-world/9-year-old-belgian-boy-set-become-worlds-youngest-university-graduate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laurent Simons works in a laboratory at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/japan-public-private-farm-fund-may-be-dissolved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:42:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/crime-legal/catholic-priest-nagasaki-accused-sexual-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/hopes-dim-japan-south-korea-intel-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:48:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters against South Korean President Moon Jae-in stage a rally demanding the government keep the General Security of Military Information Agreement in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/hokkaido-scholarship-program-foreign-care-workers-alleviate-labor-shortage-draws-nationwide-attention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:50:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nguyen Van Nam (left) and his classmates attend a nursing care training session Oct. 31 at Asahikawa Welfare Vocational School in the town of Higashikawa, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/ruling-camp-begins-tax-reform-discussions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T18:53:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/asia-pacific/us-warships-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T19:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords is seen in the Pacific Ocean in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/show-resilience-arson-hit-kyoto-animation-continue-training-programs-aspiring-animators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T19:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Messages and illustrations from fans are displayed in the city of Kyoto on Nov. 2 during a ceremony to mourn the victims of an arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/dropping-car-sales-affecting-employment-japans-auto-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T19:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A production line at Mazda Motor Corp.'s plant in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is seen in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/end-of-japan-enthronement-ceremonies-ise-shrine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T19:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A horse-drawn carriage takes Emperor Naruhito through the precincts of the Grand Shrines of Ise in Mie Prefecture on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/reborn-shibuya-parco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T19:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The refurbished Shibuya Parco shopping complex is seen in the Shibuya area of Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/crime-legal-world/domestic-violence-kills-three-quarters-u-s-child-victims-mass-shootings-study-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-massshootings-a-20191123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This "wall of demand" mural and video message in New York City were created by Manuel Oliver, the father of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/national/109-fukui-officials-received-money-kansai-electric-gift-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyer Takeo Fujii, head of an investigation panel on potential shady ties between Fukui prefectural government officials and a former Takahama deputy mayor, attends a news conference at the prefecture office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/crime-legal-world/house-panel-urges-u-s-supreme-court-not-protect-trump-financial-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/world/crime-legal-world/serbias-president-accuses-russia-massive-spying-feels-putin-not-loop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:39:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) decorates Serbian President Alexandar Vucic with an order of Alexander Nevsky after their meeting in Belgrade in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/propane-shortage-looms-strike-canadas-biggest-railroad-enters-third-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cnstrike-a-20191123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trains are seen in the yard at the CN Rail Brampton Intermodal Terminal after Teamsters Canada union workers and Canadian National Railway Co. failed to resolve contract issues, in Brampton, Ontario, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/smart-cities-urged-look-beyond-rich-white-men-target-need/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nicola Villa of Mastercard participates in the "Co-Cities: The Strength of Collective Intelligence" plenary at #SCEWC19 Wednesday in Barcelona, Spain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/corporate-business/bumble-bee-files-bankruptcy-amid-antitrust-fines-lawsuits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:42:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/boeing-settled-half-lion-air-crash-lawsuits-lawyer-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:43:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:48:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:51:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/22/business/economy-business/u-s-labor-market-manufacturing-data-point-slowing-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:52:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T20:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T21:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet passed a bill Friday that tightens regulations on foreign investments in Japanese companies related to national security.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-22T21:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The suicide in 2017 of an employee at a unit of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was work-related, a labor standards office has concluded. The office recognized that the employee did more than 100 hours of overtime per month while in a supervisory position. The headquarters of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is seen here in central Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at public schools nationwide will no longer have to share computers in class under the government's upcoming economic stimulus measures.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/world/donald-trump-navy-seal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Edward Gallagher]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-23T11:05:00+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/2019/11/23/national/crime-legal/possible-suicide-pact-leaves-three-dead-niigata/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pence]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A clergyman holds a cross during Christmas celebrations at Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the West Bank, on Dec. 24 last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-23T14:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-23T14:21:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with delegates from the 2019 New Economy Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/business/economy-business/gsomia-japanese-business-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T15:08:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pactbiz-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters tear signs reading "General Security of Military Intelligence Agreement between South Korea and Japan" during a rally demanding end of the pact, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/business/corporate-business/panasonic-ceo-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T15:16:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-23T15:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/business/tesla-cybertruck-questions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T15:27:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Tesla Cybertruck in Hawthorne, California, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/business/economy-business/japan-funding-cashless-payment-reward-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T15:37:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/business/japan-local-power-providers-blackouts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T15:45:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-23T22:40:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Basement blues: Flooding in the Musashikosugi area of Kawasaki caused high-rise residential condominiums to suffer electricity and water outages in the wake of Typhoon Hagibis in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/national/media-national/social-media-became-part-mainstream-conversation-2010s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T22:38:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-internet-decade-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Youtube video in which Hyogo assemblyman Ryutaro Nonomura wails uncontrollably at news conference has reached a broader audience on the web.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/national/kepco-donated-least-%c2%a54-3-billion-nuclear-plant-host-town-takahama-since-1970s-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T21:22:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kepco-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Financial records kept by Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, in fiscal 1980 show that the town received donations from Kansai Electric Power Co..]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/nuclear-non-proliferation-group-vows-work-achieve-north-koreas-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T22:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-nuke-a-20191124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuke-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (third from right) speaks in a meeting of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative in Nagoya on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/national/media-national/overuse-japans-medical-system-may-complicating-treatment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-23T22:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-unuseddrugs-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drug cocktail: According to a survey cited by NHK, 24 percent of people in Japan age 75 or older regularly take seven or more medications.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/business/economy-business/g20-foreign-ministers-talks-japan-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T11:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-g20-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi gestures as delegates wait in position during a family photo session at the G20 meeting of foreign ministers in Nagoya on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/full-text-of-pope-francis-nagasaki/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis greets well-wishers at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-24T13:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-24T13:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Canada's Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Nagoya on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/business/tesla-cybertruck-150000-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T14:24:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cybertruck-a-20191125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck in Hawthorne, California, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/gsomia-lives-whats-next-japan-south-korea-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T15:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi greets his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, after a G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Nagoya on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/income-tax-relief-unmarried-single-parents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T18:57:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese national flag flies outside the Diet building in Tokyo recently.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises after a small aircraft carrying about 17 passengers crashed in a densely populated area of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/business/tech/electric-cars-speed-test-suv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T20:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A DS X E-Tense concept vehicle is displayed at the Shanghai Auto Show on April 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/business/corporate-business/india-slowdown-japan-automakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T20:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's slowing economy is taking a heavy toll on Suzuki Motor Corp., which has a foothold in the world's fourth-largest auto market via subsidiary Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/business/boj-haruhiko-kuroda-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T20:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-boj-a-20191125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Bank of Japan Policy Board have been reticent to follow their peers in easing monetary policy this year, which for some is a hint that the days of shock and awe from Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's BOJ are over.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/hokusai-collection-in-washington-for-first-time-in-13-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-24T21:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An exhibition of Katsushika Hokusai's works is shown to the media at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington on Wednesday prior to the show's official opening on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/politics-diplomacy/ruling-bloc-backed-candidate-wins-kochi-gubernatorial-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T02:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiji Hamada]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-25T04:38:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tiffany &amp; Co. logo is seen outside a store in Paris Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-25T04:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Assoumanou Abdel Azize and his son, Ibrahim, wait for their transfer to the port of Augusta on the island of Sicily onboard the NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat in the central Mediterranean Sea Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-25T06:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Swiss drugmaker Novartis is seen in the northern Swiss town of Stein in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/world/social-issues-world/thousands-belgium-march-demand-end-violence-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T06:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-femicide-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Red shoes are placed on the ground during a demonstration against all kinds of violence toward women, in central Brussels Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/world/crime-legal-world/gop-rep-devin-nunes-defiant-associate-rudy-giuliani-connects-bid-dig-joe-biden-dirt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T07:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nunes-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, makes a closing statement as ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican from California, listens during an impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/world/crime-legal-world/rudy-giuliani-says-dirt-joe-biden-will-released-disappear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T07:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani arrives for a State Dinner for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House in Washington Sept. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-meddling-allegations-roil-taiwan-election-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T08:50:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Premier William Lai (from left) Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and new Premier Su Tseng-chang join hands after a news conference in Taipei in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/softbank-go-ahead-wework-stock-tender-offer-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T11:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A WeWork logo is seen at a WeWork office in San Francisco in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-25T12:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-girl-a-20191124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reporter speaks into the camera in front of a police box in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, on Saturday after a 12-year-old girl from Osaka, who had been missing for a week, turned up there. The man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a minor. The two met through social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/survey-more-young-japanese-watching-less-tv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T13:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-tv-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tv-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey by Jiji Press found that youngsters have less interest in watching television amid the rising popularity of various online video platforms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/politics-diplomacy/top-south-korean-official-accuses-japan-distorting-facts-intel-pact-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T13:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official from the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry speaks to reporters about the ministry's export control measures regarding South Korea on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/asia-pacific/australia-chinese-political-interference-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T13:59:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on Sept. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/shinzo-abe-cabinet-cherry-blossom-scandal-south-korea-gsomia-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T15:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-poll-z-20191125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-rich-climate-neutral-2050-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T15:10:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chimate-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man passes by the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Power Generator Co. coal-fired power plant in Shanghai in March 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/britain-election-japanese-firms-hard-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T16:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-focus-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-focus-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-Brexit protesters take part in rally titled "Together for the Final Say" in Parliament Square, London, on Oct. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/corporate-business/china-dairy-giant-mengniu-buying-kirin-australia-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T16:35:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kirin-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Holdings Co. is selling its Australian beverage unit Lion Dairy &amp; Drinks to China's Mengniu Dairy Co.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/kochi-election-shinzo-abe-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T17:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With his wife and supporters, Seiji Hamada celebrates victory Sunday evening in the city of Kochi after winning the Kochi gubernatorial election earlier the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/economy-business/imf-japan-gdp-forecast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T17:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steam rises from stacks in the Keihin industrial area of Kawasaki in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/new-zealand-global-impact-visa-japan-foreign-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T17:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-ayele-a-20191126.png</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ayele-a-20191126.png]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoseph Ayele]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/corporate-business/wework-escape-plan-tokyo-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T18:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk through a WeWork shared office space in Tokyo last December. Japan is one of just two markets where the company is generating a profit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/world/social-issues-world/survey-tolerance-lgbt-rising-globally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T18:34:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold a rainbow flag as they take part in an annual pride parade organized by the Coalition of Sex Workers', Sexual and Sexuality Minorities' Rights in Bangalore, India, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/pope-francis-victims-japan-311-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T18:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukpope-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis meets with victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami on Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/24/national/pope-francis-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T19:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-a-20191125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis speaks at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/business/corporate-business/toshiba-test-cancer-blood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T20:32:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba says this device can detect 13 types of cancer from a single drop of blood with 99 percent accuracy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/fresh-headache-china-hong-kong-pro-democracy-residents-rout-pro-beijing-candidates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-25T20:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-hkana-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkana-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of pro-democracy candidate Angus Wong celebrate after he won in district council elections in Hong Kong on Monday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/unfit-uber-loses-london-license-safety-lapses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T03:32:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-uber-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uber-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A commuter uses the Uber Technologies Inc. app on a smartphone in view of a line of black cabs waiting to pick up passengers in London on Monday. Uber lost its license in London for the second time in less than three years, putting one of its biggest markets outside of the U.S. at risk after the transport regulator said it failed to address safety concerns.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/financial-markets/wall-street-sets-records-trade-truce-optimism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T07:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nystocks-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[FILE — In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo specialist Anthony Rinaldi (left) and trader Michael Urkonis work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-prosecutors-seek-information-payments-trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-subpoena-indicates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T08:29:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-rudy-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rudy-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani smiles as he arrives to President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, in August. Federal prosecutors are planning to interview an executive with Ukraine's state-owned gas company as part of an ongoing probe into the business dealings of Giuliani and two of his Soviet-born business associates.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/economy-business/strike-canadas-largest-railway-hits-exports-ripples-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T08:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-canstrike-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-canstrike-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teamsters Canada union workers picket at the Canadian National Railway at the CN Rail Brampton Intermodal Terminal after both parties failed to resolve contract issues, in Brampton, Ontario, Nov. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-judge-backs-house-subpoena-ex-white-house-counsel-don-mcgahns-testimony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T08:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mcgahn-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-White House counsel Don Mcgahn listens to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in September 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/world/science-health-world/suction-cups-lots-luck-scientists-measure-blue-whales-heart-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T08:40:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-blues-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-blues-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researchers from Stanford University's Goldbogen Lab, Cascadia Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California Santa Cruz place a suction-cup tag on a blue whale as part of research to measure the animal's heart rate, in an undated photo taken in Monterey Bay, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/national/crime-legal/illicit-trade-southeast-asian-otters-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T13:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-otters-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-otters-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asian small-clawed otters]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/national/evacuated-japanese-volunteer-bougainville-independence-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T13:56:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-papua-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man prepares to cast his vote in Buka, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday in a historic referendum to decide whether the Bougainville region should gain independence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-hong-kong-protests-center-mainland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T14:37:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-chinabauhinia-b-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinabauhinia-b-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police detain a protester at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Nov. 18. As violent protests have roiled the city in recent months, Beijing has been managing its response from a villa on the outskirts of Shenzhen set up as a crisis command center, bypassing the formal bureaucracy through which it has supervised the financial hub for two decades.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/landslide-democratic-win-puts-pressure-leader-chinese-ruled-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T14:43:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-lambaste-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-lambaste-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ip Kin Yuen (center), legislative councilor, leaves Polytechnic University after meeting protesters in Hong Kong Monday. Hong Kong's pro-democracy opposition won a stunning landslide victory in weekend local elections in a clear rebuke to city leader Carrie Lam over her handling of violent protests that have divided the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/funding-crunch-china-small-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T15:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-chinabank-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinabank-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elderly depositors seeking information about the safety of their savings gather at a branch of Yingkou Coastal Bank in Yingkou, Liaoning province, China, on Nov. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/banksy-artwork-display-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T16:11:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-banksy-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-banksy-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Hinode Pier in Tokyo on Monday morning view an artwork possibly by anonymous street artist Banksy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/national/crime-legal/smuggling-exotic-lizards-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T16:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-lizards-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lizards-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two men have been referred to prosecutors in Japan over alleged smuggling of perentie lizards, which are native to Australia and protected under the Washington Convention.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/corporate-business/hitachi-negotiations-chemical-showa-denko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T17:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-hitachi-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hitachi-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Ltd. is reportedly looking to shift some of its focus from chemicals to information technology.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/national/crime-legal/tokyo-police-officer-fatal-car-crash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T17:09:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-police-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-police-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crossing in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward where a police car hit a 4-year-old boy in August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/01/national/social-issues/cleanup-crew-hand-spruce-japans-lonely-death-apartments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T17:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/n-lonelydeath-a-20150402.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lonelydeath-a-20150402.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirotsugu Masuda, leader of a special cleanup crew, prays in front of a stain on the floor of a Tokyo apartment, where the body of an 85-year-old man was left for over a month, on March 20. The crews are on hand to cleanse "lonely death" apartments once their passing is spotted, including placing incense and flowers in the flats.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/pope-francis-nuclear-energy-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T18:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-tokyopope-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokyopope-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Tokyo Dome on Monday during the third of a four-day trip to Japan, the first papal visit to Japan in 38 years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/crime-legal/suspect-kidnapping-12-year-old-osaka-girl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T18:11:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-kidnap-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kidnap-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Prefectural Police investigators enter the house in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sunday where a 12-year-old girl had been confined by Hitoshi Ito, 35, who was arrested the day before.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-bickering-gsomia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T18:12:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-bickering-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bickering-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean newspapers report the survival of the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) in their Saturday editions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/25/national/manga-uighur-womans-testimony-torture-china-goes-viral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T18:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-manga-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-manga-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This manga by Japanese artist Tomomi Shimizu is based on the account of a Uighur woman who says she was tortured by the Chinese government.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/corporate-business/asahi-kasei-acquire-u-s-drugmaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T18:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-veloxis-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-veloxis-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asahi Kasei plans to purchase Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Inc. of the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/tech/kddi-facebook-5g-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T18:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-kddi-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kddi-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[KDDI and Facebook are joining hands to take advantage of faster mobile data transfers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/sony-sharp-supply-parts-u-s-blacklisted-china-security-video-firm-hikvision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T19:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-hikvision-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hikvision-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/poison-anti-semitism-taken-root-u-k-s-labour-chief-rabbi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T19:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-antisemitism-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-antisemitism-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech during a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Central Hall Westminster in London in January 2015. Britain's most senior rabbi on Tuesday said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's handling of anti-Semitism allegations made him "unfit for high office," in an unprecedented intervention ahead of next month's election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/corporate-business/softbank-tender-offer-wework-shares/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T20:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-softbank-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[WeWork parent We Co. agreed to a tender offer from SoftBank Group Corp. last month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/world/science-health-world/greenhouse-emissions-hit-new-record-bring-destructive-effects-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T21:43:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-co2-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-co2-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emissions rise from cooling towers at the Jaenschwalde lignite-fired power plant, operated by Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG, in Germany.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/national/tokyo-shinjuku-gyoen-national-park-sell-tickets-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T21:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-park-b-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-park-b-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo will start selling entrance tickets online later this week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/anti-semitism-vile-wrong-u-k-labour-leader-says-accusation-top-rabbi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-26T22:53:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-ukrabbi-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ukrabbi-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Britain's chief rabbi, has criticized Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying he has failed to eliminate anti-Semitism from the party.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/business/canadas-biggest-rail-strike-decade-ends-deal-cn-union/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T03:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cnstrike-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A CN rail worker holds up a sign outside CN headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Tuesday. The union says normal operations at CN will resume Wednesday at 6 a.m. local time across Canada.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/business/babe-poised-hit-another-park-historic-sultan-swat-500-th-homer-bat-goes-block/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T07:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-babebat-a-20191128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-babebat-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Babe Ruth's 500th home run bat is shown before it goes up for auction by SCP Auctions in Laguna Niguel, California, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-jokes-impeachment-probe-annual-turkey-pardon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T07:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-tpardon-a-20191128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tpardon-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump pardons one of the 72nd National Thanksgiving Turkeys as Wellie Jackson, who raised the turkey, holds onto it and first lady Melania Trump looks on during ceremonies in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-first-lady-booed-youth-event-baltimore-city-trump-called-disgusting-rodent-infested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T07:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-melania-a-20191128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-melania-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. first lady Melania Trump addresses the B'More Youth Summit in BaltimoreTuesday. The purpose of the summit is to promote healthy choices and educate students about the dangers of opioid use.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/asia-pacific/china-united-states-diplomatic-network-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T07:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-diplomacy-a-20191127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-diplomacy-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping waves from a vehicle as he reviews the troops at a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Oct. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/japan-reportedly-floated-one-month-time-frame-retracting-export-curbs-south-korea-said-stay-gsomia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T07:41:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-skcontrol-a-20191126.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-skcontrol-a-20191126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denies at a news conference Monday that Japan apologized to South Korea after Seoul accused Tokyo of deliberately distorting the details of its decision to maintain a key military intelligence-sharing pact.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/national/crime-legal/employee-japanese-trading-house-itochu-sentenced-three-years-prison-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T07:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/brazils-economic-minister-causes-uproar-mentioning-dictatorship-decree-leftists-chile-style-unrest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T08:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-brazil-a-20191128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brazil-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes speaks during a press conference at the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/britain-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-anti-semitic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T13:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-corbyn-a-20191128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-corbyn-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/national/politics-diplomacy/giving-old-dog-new-friends-japanese-organization-pairs-older-shelter-dogs-senior-citizens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-27T16:08:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-dogs-a-20191128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dogs-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinobu Takahashi, a representative of nonprofit Dog Duca, plays with shelter dogs in Nagoya on Nov. 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) holds a joint news conference with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, following their talks in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jae-hoon drinks water as he sits in his cubicle, called a goshi-won, where he lives in Suwon, South Korea, on Nov.7.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The inside of the Hiyoshi tunnel under construction in Gifu Prefecture is unveiled to the media on Tuesday. It will be used for Central Japan Railway Co.'s ultrafast maglev train line, which is scheduled to go into service in 2027.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[KDDI Corp.'s logo is projected onto a screen before a news conference in April 2018 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T17:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T17:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Cultural Affairs Agency panel meet in Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss measures against illegal downloads of copyrighted works.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T17:53:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito visits the Mausoleum of Emperor Jinmu, who is considered to be the first emperor of Japan, in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, on Wednesday to report his enthronement.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carole Ghosn, wife of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, has been active in speaking to the media to draw attention to Japan's legislation that allows authorities to detain suspects for lengthy periods.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T18:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is reportedly considering incorporating more part-timers into the employee pension program.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T20:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T20:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female rock ptarmigan, an endangered species of grouse known as raichō, and its chick are seen in the northern Japanese Alps in July 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinji Aoba is moved to a hospital in Kyoto on Nov. 14 after undergoing a series of surgeries in Osaka to treat his burns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson launches the Scottish Conservative's manifesto whilst on the general election campaign trail, in North Queensferry Fife, Scotland, on Tuesday. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-27T23:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in a burasagari interview with reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/business/apple-shows-annexed-crimea-part-russia-russian-users/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T03:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T04:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T05:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani endorses then-Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg (left) on the steps of City Hall in New York in 2001.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T06:53:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesting farmers Seamus McCaul, Mary Cooney and Frankie McCaul from Cavan hold a sign outside the Shelbourne Hotel as they block St. Stephen's Green with their tractors, in Dublin Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T11:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the press view the inside of the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Koto Ward on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T11:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions during an Upper House plenary session on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T12:58:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Federation of Bar Associations claimed Wednesday that there are an increasing number of human rights violations at immigration centers in the country, including the Omura Immigration Center in Nagasaki Prefecture, which is seen in this undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T13:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haze obscures the Seoul skyline in this file photo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T13:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is surrounded by guests during a cherry blossom-viewing event in April in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-guest-selection-cherry-blossom-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T13:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/national/12-young-japanese-people-play-video-games-6-hours-days-off/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T13:15:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-videogame-a-20191128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a survey of Japanese age 10 to 29, those who said they played video games for six hours or more per day stood at 2.8 percent for weekdays and 12 percent for holidays.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/national/science-health/kyoto-university-seeks-approval-use-stem-cells-treatment-damaged-knees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T13:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cartilage tissue created from human iPS cells]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T14:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T16:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T16:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T17:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suspects in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack are seen inside prison van as they are taken out of the court after hearing a verdict in Dhaka Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-28T17:48:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers prepare orders for customers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Tracy, California, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/national/car-used-imperial-enthronement-parade-goes-display-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T18:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/national/crime-legal/man-pleads-guilty-last-years-deadly-knife-rampage-shinkansen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T18:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shinkansen-a-20191129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Kojima]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/tibetans-say-dalai-lama-choose-successor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-28T19:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dalai Lama]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was arrested in connection with an investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, leaves the Courts of Justice in Valletta Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T10:09:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T10:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Murasame leaves its home port of Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture, in 2008.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration is deploying more Self-Defense Forces elements to the Middle East to protect oil tankers and other vessels on its own instead of being part of the multinational naval coalition pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees read a ransomware notice demanding payment in bitcoin on company computers infected by the 'Petya' software virus inside a retail store in Kyiv.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20110702a9a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honors: Ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (second from left) poses Thursday with Nakasone Yasuhiro Awards recipients (from right) Yasuhiro Matsuda, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo; Shamshad Ahmad Khan, from the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in India; and Liu Jie, a professor at Waseda University, during a ceremony in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:50:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T12:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T13:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T13:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T13:13:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T14:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T14:11:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/world/science-health-world/vancouver-ban-plastic-straws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-29T14:21:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/business/japan-south-korea-trade-officials-discuss-export-controls-next-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-29T16:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-industry-donations-liberal-democratic-party-2018-hit-%c2%a52-46-billion-seventh-straight-year/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-donations-a-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ruling Liberal Democratic Party raised ¥2.46 billion in political donations last year from industry groups and large companies, according to government data released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/business/japan-eyes-big-fiscal-stimulus-little-concern-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-29T16:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stimulus-a-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In less than a month, expectations in Japan for a modest stimulus package with a face value of ¥5 trillion have ballooned to ¥20 trillion, despite Japan having the developed world's largest public debt load.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and other BJP leaders attend a news conference at party  headquarters in New Delhi on May 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Serbian police perform during a joint anti-terrorist drill in the Zelezara Smederevo steel mill, in the city of Smederevo, 45 km east of Belgrade, Thursday. Serbian and Chinese security forces are holding joint anti-terrorist drills in the Balkan country in a sign of Beijing's increasing influence in the volatile region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street in Sendai is flooded on Oct. 13 after Typhoon Hagibis caused heavy rain in the area.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat addresses a news conference after an urgent Cabinet meeting at the Auberge de Castille in Valletta on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T18:23:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work-style reforms at Aisen Seiki Co. include a casual dress code and using tablets to cut down on printed documents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/aomori-lowest-life-expectancy-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-29T18:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aomori-a-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aomori Prefecture consistently ranks at the bottom for average life expectancy in Japan for both men and women.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/hokkaido-officially-pulls-casino-resort-bidding-environmental-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-29T20:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki on Friday announces the decision to pass on bidding for an integrated casino resort during a prefectural assembly session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/business/economy-business/japan-industrial-output-drop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-29T20:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T20:45:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Daimaru Umeda department store in Osaka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T21:26:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo is considering creating funds that will focus providing support to private hospitals in reducing the number of beds to stem a rise in medical costs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/doraemon-clock-debuts-odaiba-mark-mangas-50th-anniverary/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A marionette clock featuring Doraemon is revealed at a ceremony for the popular cartoon character's 50th anniversary since it was serialized in a magazine, in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront area on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T23:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-29T23:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dollar banknotes featuring American founding father Benjamin Franklin and Chinese yuan banknotes featuring late Chairman Mao Zedong are seen among U.S. and Chinese flags on May 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/26/business/economy-business/americans-not-chinese-pay-trump-tariffs-ny-fed-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T07:21:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tariffs-a-20191127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Werner, chairman and chief executive officer of SunPower Corp., stands for a photograph at a facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, Aug. 7. Over the past two years, SunPower was hit with duties on panels it makes overseas; won an exemption; was threatened with tariffs on equipment it makes in Mexico; and watched rivals gain access to a tariff loophole.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-komeito-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T11:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/peru-keiko-fujimori-free-jail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T11:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Fujimori is embraced by her husband, Mark Vito Villanela, after she was released from the Chorillos prison in Lima late Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-france-emmanuel-macron-nato/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T11:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and French leader Emmanuel Macron attend a conference on the Syrian civil war on Oct. 27 in Istanbul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/politics-diplomacy/diet-deliberations-slow-opposition-hounds-government-cherry-blossom-viewing-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T12:54:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-diet-a-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition lawmakers staged a boycott of Friday’s session of the Lower House Cabinet Committee. The move was meant to protest Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s handling of a scandal over an annual cherry blossom-viewing party. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/japan-prime-minister-yasuhiro-nakasone-obit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T12:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nakasone-d-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone speaks during an interview at his office in Tokyo in November 2005.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/asia-pacific/vietnam-murder-britain-truck-returned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T12:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese officials examine a box with human remains at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/08/national/politics-diplomacy/insult-laden-statement-north-korea-refers-abe-idiot-villain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T13:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapan-a-20191109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Song Il Ho]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/science-health/osaka-university-develops-stem-cell-spray-treat-heart-failure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T13:11:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/world/guatemala-indicts-fourth-former-top-military-official-maya-genocide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T13:30:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Photos of people who were forcibly "disappeared" hang outside the Supreme Court building during a genocide case hearing in Guatemala City on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-sdf-russia-northern-territories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T14:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/business/japan-fake-news-gafa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T14:11:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/business/popularity-wooden-housing-record-low-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T14:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-housing-a-20191201.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-housing-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Interest in wooden housing among Japanese has hit the lowest level since 1989, apparently reflecting high maintenance costs and vulnerability to fires, a Cabinet Office survey has shown.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/business/tech/united-states-new-regulations-huawei-suppliers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T14:59:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f-huawei-a-20191201.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-huawei-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the China Public Security Expo look at Huawei surveillance cameras in Shenzhen on Oct. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/asia-pacific/china-military-science-arctic-denmark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T15:33:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/media-national/world-disarray-japan-appears-sidestep-turmoil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T22:44:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Words of wisdom: Writer Hiroyuki Itsuki believes a balance must be struck between solitude and community ties.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/world/offbeat-world/asbestos-quebec-new-town-name/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T15:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-11-30T19:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino poses with his wife, Crown Princess Kiko, and their children, Princess Mako (left), Princess Kako (right) and Prince Hisahito at their residence in Tokyo on Nov. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/business/corporate-business/jtb-singapore-firm-ink-deal-promote-halal-certification-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T19:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-halal-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists from Singapore enjoy okonomiyaki (savory Japanese pancake) prepared to halal specifications at an eatery in the city of Osaka in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/business/corporate-business/nearly-50-japanese-manufacturers-operating-overseas-predict-revenue-falls-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T20:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jfirms-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dogged by the U.S.-China trade war and China's economic slowdown, half of Japanese manufacturers operating overseas expect to see their revenue fall in fiscal 2019, a recent survey showed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/world/russia-tests-hypersonic-kinjal-missile-arctic-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T22:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/media-national/taro-yamamoto-blurs-popular-line-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T22:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-brasor-yamamoto-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Man of the people: Taro Yamamoto's new political party, Reiwa Shinsengumi, may field as many as 100 candidates in the next general election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/suriname-president-desi-bouterse-convicted-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T23:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suriname's President Desi Bouterse meets with Russia's foreign minister in Paramaribo on July 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/politics-diplomacy/former-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-sends-condolences-death-yasuhiro-nakasone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-11-30T23:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is pictured in his office in Moscow in December 2017. A portrait of his late wife, Raisa, hangs in the background.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/media-national/japans-love-ramen-tempered-mortality-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T08:34:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-ramen-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health warnings: Three Japanese researchers from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine in Tochigi Prefecture found a direct link between the prevalence of ramen restaurants and stroke mortality in certain parts of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-tsai-ing-wen-win-election-2020-presidential-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T08:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen waves during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-sends-condolences-death-ex-japanese-leader-yasuhiro-nakasone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T11:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trumpnaka-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/north-korea-warning-japan-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T13:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkwarn-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A projectile is fired during a North Korean weapons test in this undated picture released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/world/relic-jesus-manger-bethlehem-christmas-gift-pope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T13:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-relic-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The wooden relic reputed to be part of Jesus' manger is carried by worshippers in Bethlehem on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/namibian-president-hage-geingob-wins-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T13:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-geingob-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hage Geingob]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/germany-spd-leadership-angela-merkel-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T13:43:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-spdeutch-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spdeutch-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken stand on the podium after winning the Social Democratic Party chairmanship at the party's headquarters in Berlin on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/business/antitrust-probe-rakuten-free-shipping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T13:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-rakuten-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rakuten-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Inc. unveiled a plan to ship all orders exceeding ¥3,980 with no fee during an event in August in Yokohama. The system is scheduled to start in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/asia-pacific/kim-jong-uns-uncle-returns-north-korea-quitting-post-czech-republic-ambassador-report-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T16:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kuncle-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the test-firing of a "super-large multiple launch rocket system" in this undated photo released Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/social-issues/pope-francis-blind-religion-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T17:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reuters employee Mayuko Baba displays her commemorative photo of Pope John Paul II with her at the Vatican, taken in 1989 during her trip as a Sophia University student, at her office in Tokyo on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/princess-aiko-turns-18-imperial-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T17:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aiko-b-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Aiko talks with her father, Emperor Naruhito, at their residence in Tokyo on Nov. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/japan-india-security-talks-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T19:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-japanindia-b-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono (second from left) greets his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh as they pose with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during their talks in New Delhi on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-australia-defense-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T19:27:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-australia-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-australia-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Royal Australian Air Force officer escorts an Air-Self Defense Force officer during the Bushido Guardian fighter jet exercise in September and October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-taiwan-election-softer-touch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T19:28:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-chaiwan-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chaiwan-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhu Fenglian, the new spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, speaks in two dialects during a Beijing news conference Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/local-governments-japan-ordinances-bicycle-insurance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-01T20:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-focus-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A clerk speaks with a customer about bicycle insurance at a bike shop in Kagoshima last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/u-s-asks-u-k-extradite-ex-autonomy-billionaire-boss-michael-lynch-allegations-securities-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T05:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-autonomy-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-autonomy-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British entrepreneur Mike Lynch leaves the High Court in London last March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-soon-off-london-nato-summit-pressure-johnson-steer-clear-british-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T07:16:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-trumpuk-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpuk-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One en route to Washington after a Thanksgiving vacation, at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/white-house-house-democrats-impeachment-hearing-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T10:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-impeach-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-impeach-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves after disembarking Air Force One upon arriving in Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday after his Thanksgiving vacation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/30/national/media-national/telephone-manufacturers-unveil-perfect-christmas-gift-combat-bank-transfer-scams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T11:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/p4-adelstein-ore-ore-phones-a-20191201.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-adelstein-ore-ore-phones-a-20191201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Police Agency notes that a total of ¥35.6 billion was lost in bank transfer scams in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/business/inspired-3-11-tokyo-based-looop-advances-semifinals-startup-world-cup-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T11:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-startups-a-20191130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-startups-a-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looop President Soichiro Nakamura (center) receives a trophy from Anis Uzzaman, CEO of Pegasus Tech Ventures, at the preliminary round of Startup World Cup 2020 in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/01/national/united-nations-climate-conference-madrid-japan-shinjiro-koizumi-coal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T14:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-climate-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climate-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters take part in a march in the city of Osaka on Friday, during which they urged the government to take steps to mitigate climate change. The event was part of a worldwide climate strike held the same day, a run-up to the COP 25 climate conference which begins in Madrid on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/corporate-business/softbank-startup-bookkeeping-scrutiny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T14:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-son-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-son-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Softbank's investment model is now under fire after Masayoshi Son, its chairman, boosted the equity in office-sharing startup WeWork Cos. Inc. only to see it plummet as investors balked at enormous losses and troublesome governance.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/nintendo-will-prove-switchs-longevity-holiday-season/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T15:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-nintendo-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees play a Nintendo Co. Switch game console at a Toys "R" Us Inc. store in Paramus, New Jersey, Nov. 26.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/economy-business/japan-corporate-sales-drop-china-slowdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T15:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-sales-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sales-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dogged by China's economic slowdown, corporate sales in Japan fell for the first time in three years in the July-September quarter, according to government data released Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/japan-shanghai-flights-to-increase/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T15:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-shanghai-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shanghai-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers walk through Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport. The Japanese and Chinese governments are reportedly discussing an increase in the number of flights linking Shanghai and Japanese cities to alleviate congestion and improve security.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/world/poor-nations-millions-flee-climate-chaos-oxfam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-poorclimate-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-poorclimate-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bamboo hut sits on top of concrete structures in the submerged coastal village of Sitio Pariahan, Bulakan, Bulacan, north of Manila on Nov. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/national/osaka-woman-history-first-captain-aegis-destroyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:33:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-aegis-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aegis-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime Self-Defense Force Capt. Miho Otani, the first woman to take the helm of a Japanese Aegis destroyer, returns the crew's salutes on the Myoko at the MSDF's Maizuru base in Kyoto Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/national/two-japanese-dead-fall-utah-arches-national-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/corporate-business/nissan-renault-mitsubishi-set-new-company-develop-advanced-technology-next-generation-vehicles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-nissan-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Uchida took over as new chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co. on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/japans-asakawa-to-head-adb/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:45:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-adb-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-adb-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Asakawa]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/government-considering-applying-withholding-tax-casino-winnings-non-resident-foreigners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-casinotax-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-casinotax-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government may introduce a withholding tax system on the casino winnings of nonresident foreigners.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korean-lawmakers-cancel-meeting-remark-former-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-jskorea-a-20191202.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jskorea-a-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and South Korean lawmakers will cancel their annual meeting that was scheduled to be held in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/asia-pacific/china-fake-news-deepfakes-new-online-content-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-chinafake-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinafake-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online, including a ban on the publishing and distribution of "fake news" created with technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/national/south-korea-wartime-labor-fund-comfort-women-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-wartimelabor-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-wartimelabor-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a civic group protest a bill proposed by South Korean Speaker Moon Hee-sang that would lead to the creation of a fund to compensate Korean wartime labor victims, in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/world/social-issues-world/protests-colombia-spark-backlash-venezuelan-migrants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-venecos-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-venecos-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anthony Vazquez from Venezuela sits on his motorcycle with a passenger on the outskirts of Bogota Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/black-friday-cyber-monday-pope-condemns-virus-consumerism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:52:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-popegreed-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-popegreed-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis, framed by a St. Peter's Square Christmas tree, waves during the Angelus noon prayer he recited from the window of his studio, at the Vatican Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/china-wants-u-s-tariffs-rolled-back-phase-one-trade-deal-global-times/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/facebook-removes-seven-u-k-conservative-party-ads-bbc-complains-distort-image-impartiality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-facebook-a-20191203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebook-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laptop users are seen next to a screen projection of the Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/business/japan-duty-free-vending-machines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-02T16:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vending-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A duty-free shop at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Aichi Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuela's National Assembly President and self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido arrives for a news conference in Caracas on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-04T14:43:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-04T14:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Winfield House in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-04T18:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the OECD, Japanese students came 15th in reading — down from eighth in the 2015 tests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The system is designed to enable teachers to take some five consecutive days off and add other days, such as Saturdays and Sundays, during school breaks in the summer so that they can have a longer holiday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the nongovernmental Climate Action Network give Japan a satirical "Fossil of the Day" award on Tuesday in Madrid, where the COP25 international conference on climate change is underway.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-04T21:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diet affairs chiefs of the opposition parties discuss their strategy Wednesday at the Diet to press the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the cherry blossom party scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-04T21:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Masako Mori (right) bows after the Upper House passed the revised Companies Act in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T04:38:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders Robert Arciero (left) and Timothy Nick work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. Stocks are opening broadly higher as traders became more hopeful that a trade deal between the U.S. and China was making progress.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/04/business/japan-united-states-trade-deal-bulwark-against-donald-trump-unpredictability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-05T10:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump hold talks in New York on Sept. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/03/national/japanese-students-push-end-sexual-harassment-job-hunters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-05T12:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students hold a news conference Monday in Tokyo to call for the end of sexual harassment during job applications.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T12:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers head to the Tokyo High Court on Wednesday to hear a ruling on vote weight disparity in the July Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T14:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pass French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a family photo Wednesday at the NATO summit in Watford, England.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T14:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Seoul on Nov. 28 watch a TV broadcast about North Korea's firing of an unidentified projectile.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T14:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past the building where the Recruit Holdings Co. headquarters is located, in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/05/world/us-pullback-northeast-syria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-05T15:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T18:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T18:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, hold talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 1986.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/05/national/politics-diplomacy/yasuhiro-nakasone-postwar-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-05T19:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney pose during the World Economic Summit in Bonn, Germany, on May 3, 1985.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Niigata District Court on Wednesday sentenced Haruka Kobayashi, 25, to life in prison for the sexual assault and murder of a 7-year-old schoolgirl in the city of Niigata last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TikTok has taken hold in India like in no other country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuaki Kawabata]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/05/business/japan-south-korea-first-trade-talks-since-curbs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade control talks between Tokyo and Seoul scheduled for Dec. 16 in Tokyo will be the first of their kind since Japan implemented stricter regulations on exports to South Korea of some materials used to manufacture semiconductors and display panels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:32:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A heavy price on carbon dioxide pollution is required before companies would cut emissions, research by an Exxon-owned firm concluded in 1991.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:38:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi and TV personality Christel Takigawa speak to reporters outside the Prime Minister's Office on Aug. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats' leader Jo Swinson poses for a photo during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in London while on the general election campaign trail in London Wednesday. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants rest on board of NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat in the central Mediterranean Sea as they approach the Italian port of Taranto Nov. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives to federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. British caver Vernon Unsworth sued Musk after the chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX referred to him as a "pedo guy" on Twitter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Melvin Theuma, who allegedly acted as a middle man in a plot to murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, is seen in a police car as he leaves the Courts of Justice in Valletta Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T20:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-snap-a-20191206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue testifies during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in February. The Trump administration is tightening work requirements for the federal food stamp program in a move that will slash benefits for hundreds of thousands of people. The finalized rule, announced Wednesday, will restrict states from exempting work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment in order to receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed more than 36 million Americans.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T21:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Torrential rains flood the residential areas of the Mabicho district in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in July last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-05T21:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This electron microscope image shows MRSA bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/05/business/economy-business/japan-cabinet-ok-stimulus-package/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-05T21:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stimulus-b-20191206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's first stimulus package in three years is aimed at cushioning the negative effects of the Oct. 1 consumption tax increase, from 8 percent to 10 percent, and the U.S.-China trade dispute.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/06/business/trumps-tariff-tweet-forecloses-talks-future-brazil-steel-exports-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T03:28:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks with his Argentinian counterpart, Mauricio Macri, during the family picture of the 55th Mercosur summit in Bento Goncalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-firms-want-abe-to-finish-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T13:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fewer than one in five firms say Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should stay on after his term as president of the Liberal Democratic Party ends in 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T14:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education minister Koichi Hagiuda speaks at a news conference Friday at his ministry after deciding to postpone the use of private-sector English-proficiency tests as part of standardized university entrance exams.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/05/business/corporate-business/japans-dentsu-again-violated-overtime-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T15:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu Inc. headquarters (right) in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T15:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Erika Sawajiri]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T16:12:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, in September 2017 after crossing from Myanmar by boat through the Bay of Bengal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T16:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T16:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T17:09:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Toyota Motor Corp. RAV4 XSE hybrid vehicle is displayed during AutoMobility LA ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 28, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/06/national/japan-environment-ministry-plastic-bags/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T18:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plastic bags are no longer provided at any shop in the Environment Ministry's building in Tokyo, including a Seven-Eleven outlet and other stores selling books, drugs and bento.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T18:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parade featuring the animated movie "Frozen" is held at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/06/business/japan-wont-ease-curbs-in-south-korea-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T18:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T19:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Aichi Prefectural Toyohashi Minami High School cheering club perform at an event in the city of Toyohashi on Nov. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T19:19:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shonai Hotel Suiden Terrasse, operated by Tsuruoka-based venture Yamagata Design, was designed by world-famous architect Shigeru Ban to offer visitors a semblance of an agricultural lifestyle.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T19:51:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court building in seen in Washington last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-06T19:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Honda Motor Co. N-Box minivehicle is displayed during a media preview in Tokyo in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/06/national/nagano-climate-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-06T19:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chikuma River floods part of the city of Nagano in October after Typhoon Hagibis brought heavy rain to the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/06/national/crime-legal/five-related-osaka-school-operator-arrested-alleged-embezzlement/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meijo Gakuin High School in Osaka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-09T12:39:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to see the "Daijokyu" halls at the Imperial Palace on Nov. 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-kim-jong-un-risks-losing-everything-north-korea-claims-major-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T14:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-rocketman-b-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/sanna-marin-finland-youngest-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T14:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-finland-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sanna Marin, a candidate for Finnish prime minister, is seen after the Social Democratic Party's vote on the country's leader in Helsinki on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/corporate-business/line-bank-transfer-service-smartphone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T15:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-line-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-line-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. on Monday launched a bank transfer service on its Line Pay platform.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/economy-business/japan-current-account-surplus-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T16:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-surplus-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-surplus-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The current account surplus came to ¥1.82 trillion in October, marking the 64th straight month of black ink.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/07/national/media-national/news-outlets-take-time-connect-dots-kepco-gift-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T16:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-brasor-kansai-electric-b-20191208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under fire: Kansai Electric Power Co. President Shigeki Iwane (center) has said he will step down when a third-party panel reports the results of its investigation into the scandal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/corporate-business/softbanks-new-tech-fund-fall-shy-target-telegraph/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T17:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks while Jack Ma, former chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., listens at Tokyo Forum 2019 in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/corporate-business/eu-biz-leaders-back-green-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T17:26:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-greenfirm-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-greenfirm-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a climate change protest in Brussels on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/08/national/800-japanese-chinese-take-part-public-private-meet-focusing-saving-energy-environment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T17:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-jpchinaenergy-a-20191209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jpchinaenergy-a-20191209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants attending a public-private forum on energy saving, an event held annually by Japan and China, exchange memorandums of cooperation in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/08/national/politics-diplomacy/new-central-tokyo-apartment-building-lawmakers-comes-low-rental-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T17:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/economy-business/japanification-inflation-debt-easing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T17:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-japanification-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanification-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Japanification" burst into the mainstream this year, leaving behind a record amount of negative-yielding debt.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/national/prestigious-pyongyang-university-teaching-specialist-japanese-language-literature-courses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T18:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-nkjapanese-a-20191209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkjapanese-a-20191209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, seen in this photograph taken in August, opened Japanese language and literature study courses in the spring of 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/national/hospital-equipped-baby-hatch-city-kumamoto-introduce-confidential-birth-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T18:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-babyhatch-a-20191209.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-babyhatch-a-20191209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a news conference held Saturday, Dr. Takeshi Hasuda, deputy head of Jikei Hospital in the city of Kumamoto, speaks about the hospital's new program that will allow women to give birth while keeping their names secret.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/reference/japan-nuclear-power-onagawa-reactor-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T18:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-nuclear-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nuclear-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the government's expert panel inspect Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture in April.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/tech/chinese-smartphone-xiaomi-japanese-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T18:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-smartphone-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-smartphone-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists take photos of Xiaomi Corp.'s Mi Note 10 smartphone during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/corporate-business/climate-policies-2-3-trillion-companies-value/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T19:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-climatevalue-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-climatevalue-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises from chimneys of the Turow power plant located close to the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, Poland, in November.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/world/activists-storm-maltese-prime-ministers-office-building/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T20:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-malta-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-malta-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists continue to protest Monday after barging into the building of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's office in Valletta, Malta, demanding his resignation in the wake of developments over the 2017 murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/business/economy-business/japan-economy-grew-much-faster-third-quarter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-09T21:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-gdp-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-gdp-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revised GDP data show that the economy grew much faster than initially estimated in the July-September quarter.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/business/tech/amazon-cites-trump-bias-enemy-jeff-bezos-pentagon-cloud-deal-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T07:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-amazon-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Pentagon,  located in Arlington County, across the Potomac River from Washington, is seen Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/world/crime-legal-world/serial-rapist-given-33-life-sentences-u-k-rampage-wrongly-jail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T08:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-mccann-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mccann-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout photograph released by the Metropolitan Police on Monday shows Joseph McCann for his custody photograph in London. A multiple rapist described as one of Britain's "most dangerous" criminals was jailed for life on Monday for carrying out dozens of sex attacks in just a two-week period. Judge Andrew Edis branded McCann a "coward, a violent bully and a pedophile" for his campaign of rape, violence and abduction in and around London and northwest England.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/asia-pacific/australian-firefighters-burn-grasslands-minimize-looming-wildfire-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T12:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-wildfires-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-wildfires-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A firefighter controls a backburn near Mangrove Mountain, north of Sydney on Sunday. Hot dry conditions have brought an early start to the fire season.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/crime-legal/japan-trading-uranium-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T13:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-uranium-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-uranium-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toxic substances seized from the homes of suspects who were allegedly involved in trading uranium online are seen at the Metropolitan Police Department's Koiwa Police Station on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/11/national/crime-legal/peruvian-held-kumagaya-slayings-lone-wolf-troubled-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T14:16:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/n-nakada-a-20151112.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nakada-a-20151112.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena is taken in to the Kumagaya Police Station on Oct. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/national/osaka-onsen-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T14:26:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-onsen-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-onsen-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solaniwa Onsen in the city of Osaka is themed after the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1573-1603).]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/29/national/crime-legal/japans-crime-rate-hits-postwar-low-report-shows-rise-child-abuse-domestic-violence-offenses-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T14:31:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-crimes-z-20191130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-crimes-z-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The total number of criminal acts committed in 2018 dropped to 817,338, declining for the 16th consecutive year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/crime-legal/hard-disk-theft-suspect-kanagawa-data-leak-3900-similar-devices-for-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T14:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-hdd-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hdd-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichi Sakaki (center), president of Broadlink Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/business/economy-business/japan-record-fiscal-2020-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T15:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-2020budget-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-2020budget-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ministry of Finance building in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-foreign-minister-to-visit-moscow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T16:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-jprussia-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jprussia-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi shakes hands with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, before a meeting held in Nagoya on Nov. 22 on the sidelines of a Group of 20 foreign ministers gathering.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/business/former-fed-chief-paul-volcker-inflation-slayer-dies-92/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T16:27:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-volcker-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-volcker-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke (right), and former Chairmen Paul Volcker (left) and Alan Greenspan talk after participating in the ceremonial signing of a certificate commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Reserve Act at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington in 2013. Volcker died on Sunday, according to his office. He was 92.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/social-issues/neglect-and-independence-japanese-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T17:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-neglect-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-neglect-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some parents are complaining on social media about children in their neighborhood who spend time at the homes of strangers or acquaintances, or wander the streets unsupervised.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/business/china-car-market-second-annual-drop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T17:18:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-chinacar-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinacar-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Velite 6 is charged in Shanghai. Car sales in China declined in November, extending a historic slump.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/world/crime-legal-world/u-k-ex-spy-fbi-source-christopher-steele-friends-ivanka-trump-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T17:42:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-steele-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-steele-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[House Judiciary Committee Republican member Rep. Matt Gaetz questions Democratic staff attorney Daniel Goldman (not shown) about one of his tweets about the Steele dossier in front of the tweet on an easel behind him as Rep. Martha Roby looks on during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/business/gm-loans-ohio-plant-buyer-40-million-launch-electric-truck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T17:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-lordstown-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lordstown-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chairwoman and CEO of General Motors Mary Barra is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in January. General Motors and Korea's LG Chem have formed a joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery cell factory near Lordstown, Ohio, east of Cleveland.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/asia-pacific/no-signs-life-nz-volcano-island-disaster-waiting-happen-eight-missing-feared-among-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T17:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during a question and answer session, part of a general election campaign visit to Ferguson's Transport in Washington, England, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ticket gate incorporating a facial recognition system is unveiled to the media at an Osaka Metro station Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-10T17:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dennis Shea, U.S. ambassador to the WTO, arrives for the opening of the General Council at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Yoshino, co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry, gives a lecture at Stockholm University on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Seoul watch a TV news program Sunday reporting North Korea's announcement it carried out a "very important test" at its long-range rocket launch site that U.S. and South Korean officials said the North had partially dismantled as part of denuclearization steps.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington in September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A public TV screen Monday in Tokyo shows North Korea's Sohae long-range rocket launch site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/japanese-students-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T18:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of environmental groups stage a protest near the venue of a U.N. climate change conference, known as COP25, in Madrid on Thursday, calling for Japan to abolish coal-fired power generation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-10T19:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-10T19:17:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reconstruction Agency chief Kazunori Tanaka addresses an expert committee meeting held at the agency Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-10T20:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-711-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A long-running error in Seven-Eleven Japan's calculations for part-time workers led to an overtime payment shortfall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/business/corporate-business/japan-regulator-recommends-2-4-billion-ghosn-fine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T20:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., sits in a vehicle after visiting his lawyer's office in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-10T21:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of environmental groups stage a protest near the venue of a U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, in Madrid on Thursday, calling for Japan to abolish coal-fired power generation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/japan-cuts-state-secrets-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-10T23:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Cabinet ministers pose for a photo at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday before a Cabinet meeting.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in a flooded street during a period of seasonal high water in Venice, Italy, in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-11T11:35:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-11T11:35:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture is seen on Feb. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-11T11:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohoku Electric Power Co. President Hiroya Harada explains the decision to scrap the idled No. 1 unit at its Onagawa nuclear power plant during a meeting at the Miyagi Prefectural Government office on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/07/national/media-national/cheaper-deals-japan-sometimes-come-personal-cost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T12:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-discounts-a-20191208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Live and direct: A hotel in Fukuoka is offering a room for ¥100 per night provided its guests agree to be live-streamed on YouTube for the duration of their stay, as in this promotional video uploaded onto its channel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/asia-pacific/china-hints-at-trials-for-canadians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T14:13:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China said Tuesday that its investigative process has wrapped up for two Canadians detained in the communist country over vague espionage-related charges, hinting at the possibility of trials, exactly one year since they were first arrested.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/business/corporate-business/japan-hybrids-beat-slump-in-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T14:19:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hybrids-a-20191212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hybrids by Japanese automakers, such as the Lexus LC500h, are appealing to Chinese consumers keen to heed the government push toward new-energy vehicles, but who aren't ready to shift to purely electric autos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/business/corporate-business/sony-buys-peter-rabbit-production-firm-bolster-children-entertainment-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T14:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "Peter Rabbit" exhibition is seen at a hotel in Nagano Prefecture in October 2018. Sony Corp.'s U.S. unit has acquired Silvergate Media Holdings Ltd., the producer behind the "Peter Rabbit" TV series.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/national/science-health/japanese-scientist-akira-yoshino-accepts-nobel-prize-chemistry-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese chemist Akira Yoshino shakes hands with Sweden's King Carl Gustaf (right) as he receives the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/business/trumps-dec-15-china-tariffs-threaten-long-list-christmas-favorites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work at a pork processing plant owned by Henan Shuanghui Group Ltd., in Luohe, in central China's Henan province, in 2013. China's finance ministry Fridaysaid Beijing is waiving tariff hikes on U.S. soybeans and pork while the two sides negotiate a trade deal.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A signpost showing the directions and distances from Seoul to Washington and Pyongyang is displayed in a park in Seoul on Tuesday. North Korea on Monday accused U.S. President Trump of "bluffing" and called him "an old man bereft of patience" as Pyongyang ramps up pressure on Washington over stalled nuclear talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/business/exxon-mobil-prevails-new-york-climate-change-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ted Wells, Jr., the lead attorney for Exxon, leaves New York Supreme Court in New York, after opening arguments in a lawsuit against Exxon in October. Exxon Mobil prevailed Tuesday in a lawsuit accusing the energy giant of downplaying the toll that climate change regulations could take on its business, with a judge saying the state attorney general's case didn't prove the company deceived investors — but also didn't excuse it of any accountability for global warming.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/business/u-s-supreme-court-justices-lean-toward-insurers-12-billion-obamacare-claims/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators in favor of Obamacare gather at the Supreme Court building in Washington in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/11/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-attorney-general-william-barr-says-fbi-may-acted-bad-faith-baseless-russia-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:16:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:17:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-senate-a-20191212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A copy of the Articles of Impeachment are seen Tuesday in Washington. House Democrats announced they are pushing ahead with two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — charging he corrupted the U.S. election process and endangered national security in his dealings with Ukraine.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-11T15:31:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rick Gates, former campaign aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, departs after a bond hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-12T07:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This drawing by a courtroom sketch artist shows the trial in Tokyo of former top farm bureaucrat Hideaki Kumazawa, who is accused of killing his reclusive son.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whakaari, also known as White Island volcano, in New Zealand on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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