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		<lastmod>2019-12-12T20:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Counterprotesters denounce a rally by right-wing nationalists in Kawasaki in May. The city has passed an ordinance against hate speech that can lead to criminal penalties for violators.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-12T20:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi makes a speech at a U.N. climate conference in Madrid on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T08:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T14:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shikoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will remove spent mixed-oxide fuel from the No. 3 reactor of the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T15:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers are stacked up at an automatic dock in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province Nov. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T15:55:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T16:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T16:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T17:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-13T17:14:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junior high school students in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, who cycle to school are required to wear helmets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/corporate-business/japans-hoya-1-4bn-counterbid-for-toshibas-nuflare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-13T17:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba, which owns 52.4 percent of NuFlare Technology Inc., had said last month it would launch a tender offer to buy the rest of the firm as part of efforts to overhaul its vast asset portfolio.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/corporate-business/new-nissan-ceo-corporate-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-13T17:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Uchida]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/aichi-city-non-japanese-school-assistants-for-foreign-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-13T18:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kamila Tamy Tida Miyamoto, a Brazilian school assistant, helps out foreign students at Nisshin Elementary School in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-not-thinking-fourth-term-liberal-democratic-party-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-13T19:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks Friday during a lecture in Tokyo organized by a Jiji Press affiliate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/financial-markets/nikkei-hits-14-month-high-value-stocks-jump-trade-deal-bets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-13T19:36:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 225-issue Nikkei average surged 2.55 percent Friday to close at 24,023.10, hitting its highest levels since October last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/crime-legal/amid-thin-evidence-ex-fukuoka-cop-gets-death-sentence-2017-murder-wife-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A court illustration shows Mitsuru Nakata listening as he is given the death penalty for choking his wife and two children to death at their home in Fukuoka Prefecture in June 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:12:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jo Swinson]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Schabas]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/u-s-digital-publisher-boosts-reach-japanese-light-novels-english-speaking-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukika Minamino]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/autonomous-taxi-experience-offered-foreign-visitors-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:34:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An autonomous taxi travels through Tokyo's Roppongi district last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/world/science-health-world/eu-leaves-poland-2050-climate-deal-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:34:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European summit participants (from left) European Council President Charles Michel, Austrian Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:35:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scottish National Party leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives at the counting center in Glasgow early on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/crime-legal/ex-fishermens-appeal-hydrogen-bomb-testing-bikini-atoll-rejected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the plaintiffs denounce a high court decision to uphold a lower court ruling that rejected a claim by former tuna fishermen and bereaved relatives for state compensation over the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passenger aircraft taxies on a runway at the Kansai International Airport in the city of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/world/social-issues-world/israel-bars-gazas-christians-visiting-bethlehem-jerusalem-christmas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian boys pose for a photo in front of a section of the Israeli barrier in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/world/science-health-world/island-states-threatened-disasters-demand-urgent-action-u-n-climate-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-islands-a-20191214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[John Kerry, the former U.S. Secretary of State under the Barack Obama administration, sits during the COP25 summit in Madrid Thursday. Kerry praised young activists who he said are "committed to hold adults accountable" on the issue of climate change, and criticized what he called Donald Trump's "unpresidential" mockery of one of the movement's most prominent figures, Swedish teen Greta Thunberg.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/boeing-drops-2019-timing-737-max-return-ceo-meets-faa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T00:53:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg testifies at a hearing in front of congressional lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-demand-8-year-prison-term-ex-farm-bureaucrat-hideaki-kumazawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T08:09:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A courtroom sketch shows former top farm bureaucrat Hideaki Kumazawa, who is accused of killing his reclusive son, at his trial in the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/united-states-envoy-visit-seoul-tokyo-north-korea-nuclear-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T10:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Biegun]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-postpones-talks-modi-due-unrest-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T11:18:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, greet each other at a summit last year in Japan. Tokyo has canceled Abe's planned visit to India due to social unrest in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/asia-pacific/south-korea-protest-united-states-ambassador-harry-harris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T13:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harry Harris]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/world/nigeria-terrorism-hostages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T13:42:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T13:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of the Amazon jungle is burned in Porto Velho, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, on Aug. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/history/poetic-escapism-end-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Text from the Manshuin edition of the "Kokinshu"]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/media-national/laughing-lifes-trials-tribulations-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The best medicine: A monument to celebrated journalist Norman Cousins sits in Hiroshima. Kinki University professor Ryo Sakamoto uses Cousins as an example of laughter being therapeutic. 	       Josephus37 / CC BY-SA 4.0]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T16:08:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo showing a North Korean missile launch is displayed at the Unification Observation Post in Paju, South Korea, near the border with the North, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/media-national/examining-humorous-side-online-shopping-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-christian-online-sales-a-20191215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For sale: A member of Mercari is attempting to sell the planet Earth on the flea market app for ¥10 million. The post has attracted more than 6,000 "likes."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/photo-exhibition-1964-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T16:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-photoshow-a-20191215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshinori Sakai lights the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics on Oct. 10, 1964.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/tech/post-chemical-world-takes-shape-agribusiness-goes-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T16:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Combines harvest wheat in a field owned by the "Siberia" farming company outside the village of Ogur in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Region on Sept. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/business/economy-business/united-states-china-phase-one-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T17:30:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/business/trump-approves-u-s-china-trade-deal-halt-dec-15-tariffs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T17:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Long Beach in California. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first phase of a trade deal with China, averting the Dec. 15 introduction of a new wave of U.S. tariffs on about $160 billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/national/politics-diplomacy/extraordinary-diet-session/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T18:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference Monday after the close of the extraordinary Diet session that began Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/atomic-bomb-buildings-hiroshima-demolished/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T19:51:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two buildings that used to host the Hiroshima Army Clothing Depot and survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing are expected to be torn down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-political-business-heartened-conservatives-election-win/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T19:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British leader Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are pictured ahead of their talks on the sidelines of a Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, southwestern France, on Aug. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/business/corporate-business/fsa-punish-japan-post-group-year-end-inappropriate-sales-practices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-14T19:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-14T22:21:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters shout in canoes off Okinawa Saturday near the site of the new home for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a year after landfill work for the transfer began.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/major-issues-loom-kansai-looks-ahead-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T13:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Intex Osaka, the venue of this year's Group of 20 Leaders Summit]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/60-japanese-eat-something-special-christmas-poll-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T13:58:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christmas decorations are displayed in a luxury brand store in the Marunouchi area of Tokyo in December 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-15T14:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeff Van Drew]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-15T15:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Future Forward leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit talks to his supporters during rally in Bangkok on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/annual-japan-china-lawmaker-meeting-nixed-last-month-beijings-bid-one-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T16:33:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A meeting of Japanese and Chinese lawmakers was reportedly canceled last month after Beijing demanded that more lawmakers attend than those who visited Taiwan in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/nobel-winner-akira-yoshino-says-time-sweden-passed-flash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T17:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientist Akira Yoshino, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, attends a news conference with his wife, Kumiko, at the Narita Airport on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-15T19:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water in hotel pool splashes in General Santos City, the Philippines, during an earthquake on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/politics-diplomacy/henoko-dispute-okinawa-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T23:14:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Offshore landfill work takes place Friday at the planned relocation site in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air base.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/japan-sees-local-government-sign-ups-evacuation-insurance-triple-18-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T23:15:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Marumori town office in Miyagi Prefecture is flooded after Typhoon Hagibis hit the region in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/crown-prince-akishino-crown-princess-kiko-visit-war-dead-memorial-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T23:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino and his wife, Crown Princess Kiko, lay flowers at Peace Memorial Park in the city of Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/national/japan-moves-tighten-rules-handling-browsing-history-data-third-parties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-15T23:17:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-15T23:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-15T23:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luca de Meo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/business/tech/telenor-says-huawei-will-still-play-role-5g-roll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T04:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Telenor's logo is seen in central Belgrade last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/world/science-health-world/botswana-bans-pro-hunting-pair-killing-research-elephant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T08:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Male elephants are seen in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/world/u-s-expelled-two-chinese-officials-including-intel-officer-posing-diplomat-drove-onto-military-base-nyt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T08:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-expel-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. and Chinese flags fly displayed outside a hotel in Beijing in May. The United States secretly expelled two Chinese Embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia, The New York Times reported Sunday. The newspaper, which cited people with knowledge of the episode, said it appeared to be the first time in more than 30 years that the U.S. has expelled Chinese diplomats on suspicion of espionage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/asia-pacific/sydneys-smoke-public-health-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T14:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haze from wildfires obscures the sun setting above the Sydney Opera House on Dec. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/national/nagano-lake-suwa-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T15:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suwa-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For nearly 600 years, priests at Yatsurugi Shrine, such as Kiyoshi Miyasaka (pictured), have observed ice cover on Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture, diligently recording it by hand, representing one of the world's oldest continuous measurements of climate change.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/business/activist-shareholders-hostile-bids-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T16:19:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-activism-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange has created a committee to examine conflicts of interest regarding parent-child listings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/business/economy-business/bank-of-japan-no-change-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T17:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economists say the Bank of Japan is likely to leave monetary policy unchanged at its Policy Board meeting this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/asia-pacific/investigation-new-zealand-volcano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T17:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-whiteisland-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters stand with cabinet ministers as they observe a minute's silence in respect for victims of the Dec. 9 White Island volcanic eruption, at Parliament in Wellington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/asia-pacific/student-protests-indias-citizenship-law-spread-clashes-campuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T17:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man runs past a burning bus that was set on fire by demonstrators during a protest against a new citizenship law in New Delhi on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/business/financial-markets/dollar-falls-around-109-40-tokyo-trading-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T18:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/23/business/tech/the-digital-pioneer-who-became-a-web-rebel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T18:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130323x1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Geek: Jaron Lanier is critical of the online dominance of "siren servers" such as Facebook, which hold billions of Internet users in thrall without sharing the wealth that they generate with the people who create that wealth in the first place.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/bizarre-ideology-of-fringe-republican-convention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-16T18:58:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130323x2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On message: Reality TV mogul Donald Trump speaks at CPAC on March 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-2012-comfort-women-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T10:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-comfort-b-20191217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-b-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (left) and then-President Lee Myung-bak (right) of South Korea hold talks at the Kyoto State Guesthouse in December 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/15/reference/merger-talks-diet-highlight-prospect-organized-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T10:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-merger-a-20191217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-merger-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid rumors that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may dissolve the Lower House for a snap election early next year, opposition parties are discussing a merger that could help them at the polls.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/crime-legal/akihiro-hatsushika-cdp-sexual-assault-suspect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T14:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hatsushika-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akihiro Hatsushika]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/media-national/news-outlets-miss-pivotal-factor-decision-shift-2020-olympic-events/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T15:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-brasor-media-olympics-a-20191215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shifting the goalposts: The Tokyo Olympics' organizing committee is planning to start and end the marathon and race walking events in Sapporo's Odori Park, after the International Olympic Committee decided to move them from Tokyo to Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/corporate-business/boeings-737-production-stops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-boeing-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing 737 Max airplanes belonging to American Airlines sit near a maintenance hangar at Tulsa International Airport in Oklahoma in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/business/bank-japans-kuroda-offers-endorsement-fiscal-spending-warns-climate-change-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:35:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/empress-emeritus-michiko-stricken-vomiting-weight-loss-imperial-household-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-michiko-a-20191214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-michiko-a-20191214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Emerita Michiko, who underwent breast cancer surgery in September, has since been in poor health and is being closely monitored, according to the Imperial Household Agency.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/police-bureaucrat-new-imperial-household-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-nishimura-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nishimura-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Nishimura (right) receives an attestation from Emperor Naruhito for his new position as the head of the Imperial Household Agency at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/economy-business/bank-of-japan-to-dial-back-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-boj-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/financial-markets/regional-banks-japan-riskier-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-banks-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-banks-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsutenkaku Tower rises above the Shinsekai shopping district in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/corporate-business/honda-japans-first-level-3-autonomous-car/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T16:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-honda-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-honda-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda's Legend luxury sedan]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/corporate-business/nippon-steel-arcelormittal-772bn-india-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel Corp.'s Nagoya Works]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/open-ended-questions-scrapped-university-entry-exams-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:03:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-exam-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-exam-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education minister Koichi Hagiuda speaks at the ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/corporate-business/japans-smbc-nikko-3day-workweek/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:17:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-smbc-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihiko Shimizu]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/corporate-business/apa-913-room-hotel-osaka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/death-penalty-japan-australia-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-australia-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-australia-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is visiting Japan next month for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/asia-pacific/australia-fire-uncontrollable-blazes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ozfires-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wallaby hops across a road to flee a fire near Mangrove Mountain, north of Sydney, on Dec. 10. With bushland tinder-box dry, authorities warned they would not be able to contain some of the 100 fires still ablaze in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/asia-pacific/australia-court-sentence-airline-bombers-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T17:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/world/crime-legal-world/burglars-jewelry-british-model-tamara-ecclestone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-jewelraid-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jewelraid-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tamara Ecclestone]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/ishinomaki-olive-oil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olives-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoetsu Chiba, representative director of the agricultural production corporation Minori in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, started growing olives after his rice paddies were washed away by the 2011 tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/crime-legal/court-tokyo-riot-police-okinawa-united-states-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/japan-foreign-minister-territorial-talks-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:12:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-motegi-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, meet in Nagoya last month on the sidelines of a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-supreme-court-leaves-place-ruling-barring-prosecution-homeless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-homeless-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-homeless-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Supreme Court in Washington is seen in June. The Supreme Court will not review an appellate decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the streets. The justices on Monday did not comment as they left in place a ruling that struck down a Boise, Idaho, ordinance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/cobalt-fallout-tesla-apple-among-firms-accused-aiding-child-labor-congo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-says-u-s-watching-north-korea-closely-upset-something-works/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usnk-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A military vehicle passes by the Unification Bridge, which leads to Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Monday. U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said Monday that Washington won't accept a yearend deadline set by North Korea to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks and urged Pyongyang to return to a negotiating table immediately.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/world/crime-legal-world/rudy-giuliani-associate-denies-hiding-russian-payment-asks-stay-free-bail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:19:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-parnas-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas leaves after a status hearing at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York Dec. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/japan-automatic-brakes-new-cars-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trucks line up on a highway in Frankfurt, Germany, last year. Germany's parliament is poised to more than double the starting price for carbon dioxide emissions from the transport and heating industries when the charge is introduced in 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is working on a law designed to draw more tourists to cultural facilities like the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo's Ueno Park.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[KDDI Corp. and Lawson Inc. will tie up on smartphone payments and point programs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/national/ferry-okayama-kagawa-seto-inland-sea/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Matsui]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/business/japan-post-insurance-irregularities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T18:42:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Post group is set to release on Wednesday its final report on improper insurance sales.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-17T19:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-17T19:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CGT union leader Olivier Mateu gives a speech to union members at a petrochemical factory where workers have been striking, Saturday in Martigues, southern France. French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Thursday he was ready to make changes to his plans to overhaul the pension system as a major union warned that nationwide strikes and protests could continue unabated until Christmas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/japanese-artists-reiwa-sydney-opera-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T19:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Musicians play three-stringed instruments from Okinawa Prefecture known as sanshin during a Japanese traditional arts show at the Sydney Opera House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-17T19:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-17T20:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/financial-markets/japan-post-units-face-partial-suspension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T21:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Post Co. branch in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/corporate-business/panasonic-build-electrical-equipment-plant-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-17T21:19:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-17T22:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. special representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun arrives for a meeting with South Korea's "special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs" Lee Do-hoon (not pictured) at the foreign ministry in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/22/national/crime-legal/journalists-appeal-2016-rape-case-decision-rejected-inquest-panel/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T13:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiori speaks to The Japan Times during a recent interview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/crime-legal/former-tbs-reporter-close-abe-ties-accused-rape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T14:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T14:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang in this undated photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T14:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-eu-trade-deal-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T14:49:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his boldest move since winning a majority in Thursday's election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson Johnson will use his control of parliament to outlaw any extension of the Brexit transition period beyond 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[James Kuffner, chief technology officer at Toyota Research Institute, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, in  2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/world/science-health-world/16th-century-anchors-mexico-coast-spanish-conquest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T15:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-anchortes-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This anchor found off Mexico may have been part of the ground tackle used during the scuttling of Hernan Cortes' fleet in 1519.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/asia-pacific/rules-mount-everest-deaths-climbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T15:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-everules-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Everest has increasingly drawn packs of inexperienced climbers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/national/2020-tokyo-olympic-torchbearers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T16:08:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-torch-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriyuki Suzuki, who lost his 12-year-old daughter in the massive tsunami of March 2011, says he hopes to share with the world lessons learned from the Okawa Elementary School tragedy in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-heavy-and-hitachi-settle-south-africa-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T16:39:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-subsidy-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to ease its rules on who can receive subsidies when moving to places outside the Tokyo area for work. The measure is aimed at easing the high concentration of people in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/19/national/japan-shrugs-off-aircraft-carrier-constitutional-concerns-question-remains-warships-necessary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-a-20181220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Izumo helicopter carrier at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/28/asia-pacific/chinese-carrier-joins-massive-navy-show-force-south-china-sea-satellite-images-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:13:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/f-chinavy-a-20180329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinavy-a-20180329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Monday satellite photo shows Chinese ships south of Hainan, China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/05/asia-pacific/china-says-carrier-testing-weapons-engaged-scientific-research-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/f-liaoning-a-20170106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-liaoning-a-20170106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image taken from video run by China's CCTV via AP Video, a J-15 fighter jet takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Liaoning during a drill in the South China Sea. China confirmed that its aircraft carrier has for the first time conducted drills in the South China Sea with a formation of other warships and fighter jets, a move that could raise concerns among its neighbors.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/03/asia-pacific/china-confirms-sole-carrier-conducted-drills-complex-conditions-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-china-a-20170104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Liaoning, China's only aircraft carrier, sails Dec. 24 during military drills in the Pacific. Taiwan's defense minister warned on Dec. 27 that enemy threats were growing daily after China's aircraft carrier and a flotilla of other warships passed south of the island in an exercise as tensions rise.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/25/national/msdf-commissions-biggest-helicopter-carrier-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:15:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-izumo-a-20150326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The helicopter carrier Izumo is seen from the air Wednesday in Yokohama. The ship's flight deck has fueled speculation it could be a prototype conventional aircraft carrier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-to-get-hitachis-diagnostic-imaging-equipment-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T17:45:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-z-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boat and a kayaker cross Amsterdam's "bubble barrier" on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T18:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-joban-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A train runs Wednesday on a closed section of the Joban Line in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, for a trial prior to the planned full resumption of the line in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T19:18:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cocoa-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman passes near a big barnner of the Coffee-Cocoa Council (CCC), in a street in Abidjan Dec. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/national/russia-seizes-five-japan-fishing-boats-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T19:28:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ships-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mountain on Kunashiri, one of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, is seen in January. Russian authorities seized five Japanese vessels on Tuesday that were fishing near islands and took them to Kunashiri.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/tech/web-training-german-railway-offers-express-internet-lets-telecom-firms-use-fiber-optic-network/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T19:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T19:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo released by the opposition Syrian Civil Civil Defense workers evacuate the bodies of six members of the same family who were killed in shelling of the village of Bdama, in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/business/economy-business/fiscal-policy-must-play-key-role-supporting-japans-economy-ex-boj-executive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T19:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-18T19:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/asia-pacific/work-chinas-third-largest-carrier-underway-images-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T20:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/f-chinacarrier-b-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinacarrier-b-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image from April 17 shows what appears to be the construction of a third Chinese aircraft carrier at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/asia-pacific/india-supreme-court-citizenship-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T20:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indians protest against the new citizenship law outside the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/economy-business/japan-y82bn-november-trade-deficit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T20:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-jtrade-a-20191219.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jtrade-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan logged an ¥82 billion trade deficit last month due to weak exports to China, according to trade data released by the government on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-iran-summit-breakthrough-unlikely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T21:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iran-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shake hands ahead of talks in New York in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/asia-pacific/shandong-china-homegrown-aircraft-carrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-18T21:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-carrieranalysis-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping tours the newly commissioned Shandong, the country's first domestically built aircraft carrier, on Hainan Island on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-19T09:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[League party leader Matteo Salvini speaks during an anti-government demonstration in Rome in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/corporate-business/asahi-breweries-sales-volume-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T09:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-asahi-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asahi Breweries Ltd. says it will switch to disclosing the value of its sales from January, instead of volume sold.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/economy-business/japan-record-y102tr-budget-for-fiscal-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T09:23:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-budget-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a meeting Wednesday at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo over the internal affairs ministry's budget requests for the next fiscal year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/asia-pacific/south-korea-us-troop-cost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T10:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers are seen during a military exercise in Pocheon, South Korea, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/business/tech/japan-robots-to-plug-labor-gaps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T13:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robots-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Serving robots are displayed at Pangolin Robot Japan Co.'s booth during the  International Robot Exhibition 2019 at Tokyo Big Sight on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-may-approve-sdf-information-gathering-mission-middle-east-year-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T14:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sdf-b-20191202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Izumo is seen docked during the IMDEX Asia Pacific Flagship Maritime Defense Show in Singapore in May 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/19/world/science-health-world/not-winter-moscow-temperatures-hit-133-year-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T14:27:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moscow-a-20191220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers blossom in the Apothecary Garden at Moscow State University on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/19/asia-pacific/washington-seoul-fail-agree-payments-u-s-troops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T15:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-19T15:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-usenvoy-a-20191220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Biegun (left) and Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba meet in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/18/national/aichi-triennale-many-faults-says-review-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T15:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aichi-a-20191219.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue symbolizing “comfort women” goes on display at a controversial art exhibition in Nagoya in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-impeachment-democrats-werent-convinced/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T15:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-impdemnos-a-20191220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hawaiian Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic presidential candidate, neither supported nor opposed the articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/19/business/wakanda-off-us-trade-list/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-19T16:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wakanda, a fictional country from the movie "Black Panther," is seen on a list of free trade partners with the U.S., in this screenshot taken from the USDA website on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sannai-Maruyama site, a large Jomon Period archaeological site in Aomori Prefecture, will be recommended by the government as a candidate for the World Cultural Heritage list.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar government officials meet with Rohingya refugees (right) at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on Wednesday. Myanmar government officials are currently visiting the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar in a bid to persuade the refugees to return to Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Ltd. is accelerating the reorganization of its group businesses by selling subsidiary Hitachi Chemical Co. to Showa Denko K.K.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A planned bill by the National Police Agency would require elderly drivers with a history of traffic violations to take a driving test in order to stay on the road.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/19/business/bank-of-japan-no-change-after-fiscal-package/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy unchanged on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-19T20:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An earthquake drill is held at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, a venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-20T01:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this image released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility on DWednesday to the launchpad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Friday Orbital Flight Test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jikei Hospital, known for its "baby hatch," which allows people to abandon babies anonymously, has started a program that lets women give birth without revealing their identities.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-20T10:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate an accident in April in which a car driven by an elderly man struck pedestrians and a garbage truck in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, killing two people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks at a news conference Monday at the Foreign Corespondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/22/national/france-drops-bid-paris-host-2025-world-expo-citing-budgetary-reasons/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron speaks during the 2015 presentation of the economic project within France's bid to host the 2025 World Expo, at the Louis Vuitton Arts Foundation in Paris. France on Sunday withdrew its bid for holding the World Expo 2025, citing financial reasons.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talk to each other before a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Streamers fall after Osakans hear the news that their city won the honor of hosting the 2025 World Expo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People celebrate in Osaka's Dotonbori area, following the good news that Osaka will host the World Expo again.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura answer reporters' questions in Paris on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Osaka delegation presents its 2025 Expo bid at the general assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris on June 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui speaks with The Japan Times in an exclusive interview at his office on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The provisional logo for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. The government is considering bringing forward the start of the event by two to three weeks so it will not coincide with the annual Golden Week holidays.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yumeshima, an artificial island in Osaka Bay, will be used as a venue for the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This artist's rendering shows a futuristic Umeda Station, a major train hub in the northern part of the city of Osaka. Osaka Metro Co. plans to refurbish several stations ahead of the 2025 World Expo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look out at the view from the Umeda Sky Building observation deck in Osaka last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui speaks in Paris after submitting Osaka's bid for the 2025 World Expo to the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions  in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/11/national/cabinet-gives-greenlight-osakas-2025-world-expo-bid-proposal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:11:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Tsutenkaku Tower landmark of  osaka japan]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The governor of Osaka is expected to submit the World Expo bid application to the Bureau International des Expositions, the Paris-based governing body, by April 24.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/25/national/train-casino-reactor-woes-grab-kansai-headlines-17/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:11:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Hokuriku Shinkansen Line train arrives at JR Toyama Station on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/02/national/history/japan-times-1992-students-get-a-taste-of-five-day-school-weeks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:12:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/26/national/think-tank-says-2025-osaka-expo-will-draw-3-million-visitors-abroad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-expo-a-20181127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Tower of the Sun," a 70-meter-tall structure designed by the late renowned artist Taro Okamoto as a centerpiece of the 1970 Osaka Expo, in Suita, Osaka Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/08/business/economy-business/kansai-execs-big-dreams-transport-projects-ahead-g20-osaka-expo-possible-casino/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The annual two-day Kansai Economic Seminar kicks off Thursday in Kyoto to discuss a range of regional business issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/26/reference/osaka-sets-sights-2025-world-expo-formidable-challenges-remain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Close to 64.2 million people visited the 1970 World Expo in Osaka between March and September of 1970.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/14/national/can-japan-land-of-lifetime-employment-handle-the-rise-of-freelancers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freelancers have the advantage of working at their convenience, but Japan's rigid labor environment makes it difficult for them to attain the same benefits as corporate workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/20/national/politics-diplomacy/female-ldp-male-dominated-oita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T19:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Liberal Democratic Party's Maiko Takahashi waves to voters while campaigning in Oita in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/20/business/corporate-business/toshiba-digs-heels-hoyas-unsolicited-bid-tech-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T20:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuaki Kurumatani, chief executive officer and chairman of Toshiba Corp., gestures as reporters raise their hands for questions during a group interview in Tokyo in April 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-20T20:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A climate protest in Sydney on Thursday. Protesters marched on Prime Minister Scott Morrison's official residence to demand curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and highlight his absence on an overseas holiday as bush fires burned across the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-20T20:24:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has issued a ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act's requirement that people have health insurance, leaving key questions about what happens to other provisions of the law, like coverage for pre-existing conditions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/20/business/economy-business/cabinet-approves-japans-record-y102tr-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T20:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet attend a meeting Friday morning to adopt a record ¥102.66 trillion general account budget for the next fiscal year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/20/national/japan-ups-support-for-foreign-student-job-seekers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-20T20:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign students attend a job fair in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-20T20:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in attend a photo session in Thailand last month. The two leaders are set to hold their first summit in 15 months next week in China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/20/national/science-health/japanese-schoolchildrens-eyesight-worst-record-health-ministry-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T14:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Record numbers of Japanese schoolchildren have bad eyesight, a government survey showed Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/21/world/science-health-world/boeings-starliner-astronaut-capsule-fails-key-test-reach-space-station/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T15:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-21T22:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of the furniture: Guests staying at a dormitory-style inn in Osaka called Neco Hatago can observe cats as they go about their daily routines in an adjacent building operated by Neco Republic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-21T16:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just 7.5 percent of Japanese view relations with South Korea as "good" or "somewhat good," down 22.9 percentage points from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/21/business/tech/alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-awarded-242-million-pay-package/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-21T16:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-21T19:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-21T21:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-21T21:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Nagato, president and chief executive officer of Japan Post Holdings Co., reacts during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-22T10:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during an enlarged meeting of the ruling party's Central Military Commission in this undated photo released Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/japan-sdf-dispatch-to-mideast-dec-23/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-22T11:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft based in Djibouti is seen training over a tanker in the Gulf of Aden in August 2015. A P-3C plane is due to take part in a planned SDF mission to the Middle East.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-22T12:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The tsunami-devastated city of Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, on Jan. 28, 2005]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-22T15:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Independent operators: Uber Eats delivery personnel are their own bosses in that they possess their own vehicles and only work when they want to.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-22T15:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitoshi Matsumoto, owner of a Seven-Eleven outlet in Osaka, received a warning from his franchise operator that his contract will be scrapped at the end of December if improvements aren't made.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bushfire burns behind a property in Balmoral, 150 km southwest of Sydney, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-23T08:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian women shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in the city of Guwahati on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-23T08:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large bushfire burns near houses in Bargo, southwest of Sydney, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-23T08:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-23T09:56:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kurdish man, who has sued Japan's government for leaving him untreated for cancer during his detention in Ibaraki Prefecture, wipes his eye during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-23T10:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives for an extraordinary session at the Lower House of the Diet in Tokyo on Oct. 4. He travels to China on Monday where he will take part in a trilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Chengdu on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/22/national/politics-diplomacy/irans-rouhani-welcomes-japan-opt-u-s-led-naval-mission-gulf/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meet in Tokyo, Japan on Friday. Speaking on state TV on Saturday, Rouhani said the two discussed ways of "breaking" U.S. sanctions against Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/20/national/irans-hassan-rouhani-urges-abe-strengthen-bilateral-economic-ties-outset-tokyo-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T10:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rouhani-a-20191221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is escorted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/22/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-briefs-trump-outcome-talks-irans-president-phone-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T10:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abetrump-a-20191223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to reporters after having a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump Saturday at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/21/national/crime-legal/footage-immigration-centers-unjustifiable-conduct-restraining-kurdish-man-submitted-tokyo-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T12:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-immigration-a-20191222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Footage showing a Kurdish man being restrained at an immigration center in Ibaraki Prefecture in January. The clip has been submitted to the Tokyo District Court.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/corporate-business/tesco-xmas-card-maker-china-forced-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T13:54:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tesco-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Florence Widdicombe, 6, poses with a Tesco Christmas card from the same pack as the one containing a message from a Chinese prisoner, in London on Sunday. The U.K.-based grocery chain has halted production at a factory in China after a British newspaper said it used forced labor to produce charity Christmas cards.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/world/crime-legal-world/trump-administrations-climate-actions-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T15:19:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kelsey Juliana, a lead plaintiff in Juliana v. United States, speaks during a news conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/corporate-business/fidelity-equity-5g-stocks-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T15:36:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees look at Xiaomi Inc.'s Mi MIX Alpha smartphone after a news conference in Tokyo earlier this month. Fidelity International's biggest equity fund in Japan is betting technology companies will help boost the nation's stock market in 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/china-to-cut-tariffs-jan-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T17:07:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man sits on a motorcycle at a pork wholesale market on the outskirts of Shanghai. China has cut import tariffs on a wide range of goods including pork, consumer and technology items.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/former-emperor-akihito-birthday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T17:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Emeritus Akihito is seen with Empress Emerita Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/emperor-empress-typhoon-hagibis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T18:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents receive keys to temporary housing units in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday. Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are set to visit Marumori and other typhoon-devastated areas on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/corporate-business/japan-electronics-makers-ai-engineers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T18:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-engineers-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujitsu will adopt a system to offer preferential treatment to employees with advanced expertise in artificial intelligence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/politics-diplomacy/us-japan-south-korea-meeting-north-korea-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T18:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-nkorea-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkorea-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea carries out a test of its "super-large multiple rocket launcher" on Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/asia-pacific/china-pig-farm-jams-drones-dropping-swine-fever-laced-products-onto-site-also-gps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T18:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-pigdrone-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pigdrone-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Criminal gangs in China have been faking outbreaks of swine fever on farms and forcing farmers to sell their healthy pigs at sharply lower prices.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/corporate-business/lone-star-unizo-workers-takeover-bid-blackstone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T18:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-unizo-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real estate operator Unizo Holdings Co. has found itself caught up in a rare battle among global investing behemoths.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/corporate-business/new-set-amazon-paid-almost-%c2%a530-billion-corporate-taxes-japan-last-two-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T19:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-amazon-a-20191223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Amazon logo adorns the side of the company's facility at Bretigny-sur-Orge, about 50 km south of Paris, in November 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/world/crime-legal-world/white-house-not-want-prolonged-impeachment-trial-witnesses-senior-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T19:34:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-trimpeach-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trimpeach-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan, Dec. 18. Using stark "Us versus Them" language, Trump and his campaign are trying to frame impeachment not as judgment on his conduct but as a culture war referendum on him and his supporters, aiming to motivate his base heading into an election year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/world/social-issues-world/israel-reverses-ban-lets-gaza-christians-visit-christmas-sites/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T19:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-isban-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-isban-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Christian tourists visit the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem on Saturday. The city where Christians believe Jesus was born is teeming with tourists — but the Christmas spirit is dampened by complaints that Israeli tour operators don't allow the city to truly benefit from the influx.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/22/national/fire-tokyo-condominium-leaves-one-person-dead-two-critically-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T19:43:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-fire-a-20191223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fire-a-20191223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo, taken by a local resident early Sunday morning, shows a fire engine outside a condominium in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a fire broke out in the building. One person was killed in the blaze and two others remain in critical condition.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/public-school-teacher-quota/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T19:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-teachers-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-teachers-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to increase the number of teachers at public elementary and junior high schools in fiscal 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/gay-marriage-law-passes-taiwan-emerges-new-market-lgbt-surrogacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T20:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-surrogacy-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-surrogacy-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage supporters take part in a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride parade in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, at the end of November last year after losing in a marriage equality referendum.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/wakayama-fruity-campaign-for-shelter-cats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T20:08:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-cat-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cat-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nakata Chicken, a store selling chicken meat in Wakayama Prefecture, has launched a social media campaign to raise funds for a network of shelter cat cafes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/indias-bjp-trails-jharkhand-modi-woe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T20:09:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-modipoll-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-modipoll-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/business/corporate-business/west-japan-railway-new-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T20:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-railway-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-railway-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nankai Electric Railway's latest tourist draw, the Hyde Southern express train, made its debut at Nanba Station in Osaka on Monday. The train, produced by rock musician Hyde of the popular band L'Arc-en-Ciel, tourism ambassador for the city of Wakayama, will make up to six round trips a day between Nanba and Wakayama stations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/politics-diplomacy/beijing-meet-china-japan-south-korea-trade-ministers-vow-accelerate-free-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T20:16:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-trade-a-20191223.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trade-a-20191223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade officials from China, South Korea and Japan meet Sunday in Beijing to discuss free trade issues ahead of Tuesday's trilateral summit in the southwestern city of Chengdu.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/japan-fire-protection-cultural-properties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T21:11:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shuri-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers and firefighters inspect Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 1, a day after the castle burned down in a fire.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/japan-child-support-payments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-23T23:21:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A single mother conducts a class for parents with young children.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/irans-hassan-rouhani-calls-japan-help-save-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T14:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-rouhani-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rouhani-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepare to hold talks at Abe's office in Tokyo last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/bank-of-japan-monetary-fiscal-policy-mix-ultralow-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T16:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/japan-children-physical-shape-nosedive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T16:38:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-children-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students run at a sports day event at an elementary school in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/crime-legal/chinese-guilty-ink-tokyo-yasukuni-shrine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T17:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yasukuni-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate in front of a worship hall at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 19, after a Chinese man threw black ink on a curtain.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/police-reconstruct-fatal-yokohama-collision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T17:16:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-accident-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-accident-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigators stage a reconstruction Tuesday of a fatal collision in September at a crossing on the Keikyu Line in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/japan-pakistan-skilled-laborers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T17:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/asia-pacific/north-korea-mass-producing-missile-launchers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T17:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-nkmissiles-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkmissiles-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Dec. 15 satellite image from Planet Lab Inc., which has been analyzed by experts at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows the Sohae Engine Test Stand in Tongchang-ri, North Korea. The new satellite image of the North Korean missile-related site shows the construction of a new building this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/science-health/human-organs-pigs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T17:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-pigs-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pigs-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A research program to grow human organs in pigs has been approved by the government.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/business/corporate-business/panasonic-lands-battery-order-from-indian-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:06:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nn20131014a6a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20131014a6a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Picking up speed: A man rides past Panasonic's headquarters in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/asias-richest-man-mukesh-ambani-18bn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ambani-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd., and his wife, Nita Ambani, arrive for the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai in August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/corporate-business/boeing-ceo-737-max-just-first-hurdle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-calhoun-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grounded Boeing Co. 737 Max airplanes are seen parked in a lot near Boeing Field in Seattle last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/japan-keidanren-urges-more-than-cutting-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi speaks at a news conference Monday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/rare-earth-australian-mining/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:24:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rareearth-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker picks up a handful of rare earth concentrate at Mount Weld, Australia, in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/flexible-convenience-store-hours-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:52:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-convenience-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 7-Eleven store in Tokyo's Adachi Ward is experimenting with shorter business hours.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/world/social-issues-world/no-christmas-mass-notre-dame-first-time-since-napoleon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T18:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-notremass-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-notremass-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Repair work continues Monday on Notre Dame Cathedral to stabilise the cathedral's structure nine months after a fire caused significant damage, in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/moon-xi-u-s-north-korea-talks-important-anything/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-moonxi-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-moonxi-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left)and Chinese President Xi Jinping appear Monday ahead of their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/world/science-health-world/ecuador-concerned-recovery-sunken-barge-galapagos-fuel-spill-environment-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-galapagos-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-galapagos-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crane falls on a barge carrying 600 gallons of diesel in a port on San Cristobal Island, in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, onSunday. Ecuador officials announced Sunday that a fuel spill caused when the barge sank was "under control."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pinera-inks-law-vote-new-chile-constitution-replace-dictator-era-charter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:02:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-chile-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chile-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chilean President Sebastian Pinera speaks at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago on Monday during a ceremony to enact a law that enables a constitucional plebiscite.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/world/magnitude-6-0-quake-hits-off-british-columbia-usgs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/russia-releases-japan-boats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-boats-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-boats-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese fishing boats are seen at a port on the Russian-held, Japan-claimed Kunashiri Island last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/former-emperor-empress-likely-celebrate-new-year-public/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:18:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-newyear-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko, then emperor and empress, greet New Year well-wishers along with other members of the imperial family at the Imperial Palace on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/japanese-newborns-below-900000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-babies-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-babies-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of babies born in Japan fell an estimated 5.9 percent this year, to fewer than 900,000 for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/nut-rage-heiress-heather-cho-criticizes-brother-atop-family-biz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/landfill-work-site-proposed-u-s-base-okinawa-take-five-years-longer-expected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T19:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-futenma-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-futenma-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Henoko coastal area in the city of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 13]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-and-moon-first-talks-japan-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T20:22:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-abemoon-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemoon-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in during their meeting at a hotel in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/china-japan-south-korea-leaders-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T20:22:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-trilateral-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-trilateral-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose before their meeting in Chengdu, China, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/tech/japan-open-for-local-5g-licenses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T20:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-5g-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-5g-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (front, right) submits an application for a local 5G license at the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/business/corporate-business/google-facebook-start-locally-booking-ad-revenue-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T20:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-fbgoogle-a-20191224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fbgoogle-a-20191224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corporate finance experts have said the amount of taxes paid by Google LLC and Facebook Inc. in Japan has been too small given the size of their operations in the country.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/exhibition-china-reflects-loss-anonymity-recognition-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T21:37:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-facialrec-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-facialrec-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past the "Eyes of the City" exhibition, part of the joint Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, at Futian Station in Shenzhen, China, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/24/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/disney-cuts-lesbian-kiss-star-wars-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-24T23:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-singstarwars-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-singstarwars-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[R2-D2 and C-3PO arrive for the world premiere of Disney's "Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker" at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-calls-troops-ahead-christmas-holiday-plugs-economy-reminded-get-melania-gift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T03:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-trumpmass-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpmass-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump pauses during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/trump-says-xi-will-sign-china-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T04:19:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trumpxi-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach for a round of golf on Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/brash-uber-co-founder-travis-kalanick-leaves-board-focus-industrial-ghost-kitchens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T04:22:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-kalanick-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Uber Technologies Inc. CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick stands on a balcony above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company's IPO in New York in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-calls-u-s-take-immediate-action-north-korea-accords/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T05:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/new-boeing-737-max-documents-show-disturbing-employee-concerns-u-s-house-aide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T05:41:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-boeing-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Boeing logo is seen in March at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington. Newly disclosed documents "appear to point to a very disturbing picture" about Boeing's response to safety issues regarding the 737 Max, a U.S. congressional aide told AFP on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/world/two-strong-quakes-shake-central-colombia-no-damage-reported/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T07:10:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-quakes-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-quakes-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People react after an earthquake in Bogota Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/corporate-business/new-boeing-ceo-david-calhoun-hardened-corporate-crisis-manager/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T07:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-calhoun-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-calhoun-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Nielsen CEO David Calhoun (center) is congratulated after his company's IPO opened, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/national/tokyo-metropolitan-university-professor-fired/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T14:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-leak-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-leak-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan University President Jun Ueno (second from right) bows along with other officials at a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/corporate-business/ana-pilot-flies-without-license/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T15:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-pilot-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-pilot-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One ANA flight was canceled and another delayed after a pilot forgot to bring his license on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-eager-invite-xi-state-guest-despite-opposition-conservative-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T16:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-abexi-a-20191225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abexi-a-20191225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a question during a news conference in Chengdu, China, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/national/record-282-teachers-japan-punished-sexual-offenses-2018-school-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T17:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/world/offbeat-world/santa-robs-colorado-bank-throws-money-passersby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T18:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-santabank-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-santabank-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Wayne Oliver]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/asia-pacific/missing-indias-citizenship-law-100000-refugees-fled-sri-lankas-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T18:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/national/japan-south-korea-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T19:54:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-abemoon-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abemoon-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from right) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (second from left) hold talks in Chengdu in China's Sichuan province on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/corporate-business/japan-post-resignations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-25T21:16:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-jpost-a-20191226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Nagato, president and chief executive officer of Japan Post Holdings Co., reacts during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/25/business/corporate-business/jun-seki-nissan/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T18:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T18:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ruling party members believe that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is unlikely to call a general election early in 2020 following the arrest of a former state minister for alleged bribery.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:20:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. is considering selling its major plant in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradeimpact-a-20190520.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo-based Japan Diplay Inc. is one of many Japanese manufacturers being buffeted by trade friction between the U.S. and China.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:25:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Display liquid-crystal display is seen on a wearable device. Facing stiff competition from South Korean and Chinese rivals, the company is reportedly considering drastic restructuring, including asking for a capital injection from an outside investor.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-27T19:25:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc.'s thin-plastic film display, Full Active Flex, is part of the next wave of display technology.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this video released Thursday by the Nuclear Regulation Authority, inspectors can be seen checking the inside of the No. 3 reactor building at Fukushima's No. 1 plant earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/world/notre-dame-restoration-enters-risky-phase-removal-mangled-scaffolding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T20:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-notre-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work continues at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Monday to stabilize the structure nine months after a fire caused significant damage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/world/social-issues-world/british-authorities-pick-49-suspected-migrants-trying-cross-channel-small-boats-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T20:54:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/business/turkeys-halkbank-fails-halt-u-s-prosecution-allegedly-aiding-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T20:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-halkbank-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street vendor sells roasted chestnuts in front of a branch of Halkbank in central Istanbul last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/26/world/crime-legal-world/turkeys-block-wikipedia-violates-rights-court-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T20:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/26/business/corporate-business/former-minister-hiroya-masuda-lead-japan-post-insurance-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-japanpost-a-20191227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-japanpost-a-20191227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatsugu Nagato, president and CEO of Japan Post Holdings Co., pauses during a news conference in Tokyo on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/business/jal-free-domestic-flights-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:16:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-jal-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jal-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. will launch a campaign to offer free round-trip domestic flight tickets to up to 50,000 foreign tourists who visit Japan next summer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/fukushima-residents-chosen-run-olympic-torch-relay-hope-event-showcases-prefectures-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:22:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukminpo-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takayuki Ueno, a representative of the volunteer group Fukkou Hamadan, which supports recovery efforts in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, hopes people from Japan and elsewhere will take the opportunity to come and see how the region is recovering.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/nhk-north-korea-missile-false-alarm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-falsealarm-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-falsealarm-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NHK posted an erroneous report early Friday on its website saying that a North Korean missile had fallen in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km east of Cape Erimo in southern Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-panel-backs-second-metropolis-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-osaka-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osaka-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A joint panel set up by Osaka's prefectural and municipal governments on Thursday gave the green light to reorganizing the city into four special wards directly under the prefecture in 2025. Existing facilities, such as the Osaka Municipal Government building in Chuo Ward, will be used for the time being.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/crime-legal/arrested-akimoto-hokkaido-trip-sapporo-casino-tourism-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hokkaido-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hokkaido village of Rusutsu has surfaced as the center of high-profile casino bribery allegations that have prompted the arrest of former state minister Tsukasa Akimoto.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/world/turkey-send-troops-libya-tripolis-request-erdogan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T21:31:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-turklib-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turklib-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting of his ruling AK Party in Ankara Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/crime-legal/south-korean-court-no-ruling-japan-comfort-women-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-27T23:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-comfort-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-comfort-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue representing the "comfort women"  is seen near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in 2917. Japan's army during World War II asked the government to provide one sex slave for every 70 soldiers, according to historical documents reviewed by Kyodo News service that highlight the state role in the "comfort women" system. The letters read "Nullity."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/vr-builds-bridge-staff-young-detainees-developmental-disorders-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T12:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-chubu-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Instructors of the Miyagawa medical reformatory in Ise, Mie Prefecture, wear virtual reality goggles to experience how people with developmental disorders perceive the world.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/business/corporate-business/softbank-loses-board-member-uniqlo-founder-tadashi-yanai-exits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T12:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-yanai-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yanai-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadashi Yanai, chairman and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., speaks at the 21st Nikkei Global Management Forum in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-plans-visit-mideast-next-month-ahead-sdfs-deployment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T12:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-abe-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference after holding talks with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts in Chengdu, China, last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/national/science-health/zero-emission-tokyo-strategy-spells-capitals-plan-take-global-climate-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T12:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-tokyo-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tokyo-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government aims to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, according to a blueprint of its strategy unveiled on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/world/crime-legal-world/fbi-investigates-socialite-ghislaine-maxwell-others-facilitated-jeffrey-epstein/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T13:13:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-epstein-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-epstein-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ghislaine Maxwell in 2013]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/world/crime-legal-world/mexican-police-chief-arrested-massacre-mormons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T13:18:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-mormonmassacre-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-mormonmassacre-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mormons attend a service in LeBaron, Mexico, on Dec. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/crime-legal/japan-court-rejects-lawsuit-seeking-damages-suspension-number-id-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T14:51:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-mynumber-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mynumber-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plaintiff holds a banner that reads "unfair ruling" outside the Nagoya District Court on Friday, after losing a case against the state over the My Number identification system.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/world/chilean-president-pinera-claims-videos-police-abuse-demonstrators-fake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T14:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-pinera-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pinera-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chilean demonstrators and riot police clash in Santiago on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/business/ex-ustr-official-wendy-cutler-calls-japan-lead-wto-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T15:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-trade-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wendy Cutler]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/media-national/evolving-debate-cultural-differences-worldwide-leads-greater-social-media-insight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T22:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p16-stmichel-foreign-perspectives-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-foreign-perspectives-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mass of plastic:  A Twitter user highlighted Japan's overuse of plastic compared to the volume used in his adopted home in Finland, sparking debate on social media.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-woos-taiwan-ahead-january-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T16:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-chaiwan-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chaiwan-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Dec. 8 rally for Kuomintang presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu in New Taipei City]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/asia-pacific/despite-announcement-north-korea-fails-deliver-christmas-gift-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T17:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-nkhristmas-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkhristmas-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students mark the 28th anniversary of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of military command and the 102nd anniversary of the birth of the anti-Japanese revolutionary icon Kim Jong Suk in Pyongyang on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/crime-legal/fujisawa-man-fined-%c2%a5300000-using-online-hate-speech-kawasaki-resident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T19:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-hate-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hate-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators attend an anti-hate speech rally in Kawasaki in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/world/truck-bomb-explosion-rush-hour-somali-capital-kills-least-61-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-28T22:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-somalibomb-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-somalibomb-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical personnel carry a civilian who was wounded during a suicide car bomb attack at a check point in Mogadishu on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-says-testify-impeachment-trial-subpoenaed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T13:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-biden-a-20191230.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-biden-a-20191230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Williamsburg High School in Williamsburg, Iowa, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/business/protesters-shut-iraqs-nassiriya-oil-field/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T13:33:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/media-national/childhood-japan-certainly-not-getting-easier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T14:07:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p16-hoffman-childhood-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-childhood-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Growing pains: Children are frighteningly vulnerable and virtually defenseless against abusive parents.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/01/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/amid-tight-security-hundreds-couples-ring-new-year-mass-jakarta-wedding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T16:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/f-jakarta-a-20180102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-jakarta-a-20180102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A groom kisses his bride during a mass wedding held in celebration of the New Year in Jakarta Sunday. Hundreds of couples took part in the mass marriage held by the city government to help the poor who were unable to afford a proper wedding.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/07/world/crime-legal-world/german-cops-seek-three-new-years-attacks-women-counsel-blanket-suspicion-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T16:35:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/f-germanassaults-a-20160108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-germanassaults-a-20160108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers survey the area in front of the main train station and the Cathedral in Cologne, western Germany, on Wednesday, where dozens of apparently coordinated sexual assaults were perpetred against women on New Year's Eve.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/31/world/new-years-see-less-bright-city-light-terror-wary-paris-scrubs-fireworks-abstains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T16:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/f-paris-a-20160101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-paris-a-20160101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A soldier patrols at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Wednesday. France's defense minister has visited troops on duty ahead of unusually tense New Year's Eve celebrations in Paris after November attacks that left 130 dead and hundreds injured.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/12/07/business/real-new-years-greetings-to-virtual-addresses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T16:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jpulse-20101207-nengajo.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20101207-nengajo.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real New Year's greetings to virtual addresses]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/26/world/indonesian-police-say-backed-militants-planned-carry-new-years-eve-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:01:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/12/world/social-issues-world/merkel-facing-pressure-german-gangs-target-foreigners-dec-31-assaults-blamed-migrants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/f-germany-a-20160113.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-germany-a-20160113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of LEGIDA, the Leipzig arm of the anti-Islam movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA), hold a poster depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a rally in Leipzig, Germany, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/business/corporate-business/nintendos-tokyo-store-isnt-large-enough-fan-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:04:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nintendo-a-20191230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People browse at Nintendo's flagship store in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/02/world/nyc-rang-new-year-heightened-security-times-square/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:05:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nyc-a-20150103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer checks a man entering a cordoned off area on New Year's Eve in Times Square in New York. Security was especially tight this year in the wake of anti-police sentiment that resulted in the slaying of two New York city police officers last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/01/national/imperial-couple-release-waka-poems-mark-new-years-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito (front, third at left) and Empress Michiko (front, center) pose with their family during a photo session for the new year at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 18. Seen with them are Crown Princess Masako (front left), Crown Prince Naruhito (front, second left), Prince Akishino (front, third at right), Prince Hisahito (front, second at right), Princess Kiko (front right), Princess Aiko (back left) and Princess Kako (back right).]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/01/national/best-wishes-and-prayers-for-the-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nn20140101a1e.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[Yushima Tenjin ema]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Ema" (traditional Shinto plaques) displaying the hand-written messages and wishes of visitors are hung outside Yushima Tenjin Shrine in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward. In the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is a year associated with the horse.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/02/world/social-issues-world/pope-bemoans-profit-hungry-disjointed-world-praises-unity-diversity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-pope-a-20190103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pope-a-20190103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis celebrates Mass to mark the World Day of Peace in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/12/world/social-issues-world/germany-barring-migrants-austria-border-berlins-iraqi-embassy-issuing-returnee-passports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/f-passports-a-20160113.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-passports-a-20160113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian-born refugee aid worker Behshid Najafi (left) sits next to her colleague, Denise Klein, in the office of Cologne's Agisra Information and Counselling Centre for Female Migrants and Refugees, which she runs, on Sunday. Najafi argues that Germany can handle its record migrant influx if it learns from past mistakes and quickly gets migrants affordable housing, legal certainty on asylum status, education and jobs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/national/social-issues/japans-immigration-chief-optimistic-asylum-visa-woes-will-improve-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:22:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-sasaki-b-20191230.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sasaki-b-20191230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A technical intern from Vietnam harvests a cabbage in Ibaraki Prefecture in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/04/business/china-new-year-shopping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:31:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/b-chinashoppers-a-20190205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinashoppers-a-20190205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers exit a Louis Vuitton store in Hong Kong on Saturday. The weeklong Lunar New Year holiday will provide the next litmus test of the resilience of the Chinese shopper.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-china-democracy-new-year-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/04/asia-pacific/ahead-lunar-new-year-chinese-advised-stop-pigging-help-save-planet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/f-cnyfood-a-20190205.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cook places freshly-made xiaolongbao dumplings into a bamboo steamer basket in the kitchen at the Guyi Garden Restaurant in Shanghai on Jan. 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/27/national/tourists-flood-japan-kick-off-chinese-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-tourists-a-20170128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tourists-a-20170128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists from Taiwan pose for a photo with kimono-clad women at Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Friday. Chinese New Year is Saturday, and many Taiwanese and Chinese will be spending the holidays in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/business/worlds-richest-gain-1-2-trillion-2019-jeff-bezos-retains-crown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T17:51:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-richester-a-20191230.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-richester-a-20191230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Even after a $9 billion divorce settlement, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is ending the year as the world's richest person.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/01/national/how-japan-greeted-dawn-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-newyear-a-20180102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-newyear-a-20180102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soon after 6.50 a.m. on Monday, revelers view the first sunrise of 2018 from the observation deck of Tokyo Tower.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/02/asia-pacific/shanghai-cancels-new-years-celebrations-deadly-crush-money-scramble-alleged/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:15:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/f-shanghai-a-20150103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-shanghai-a-20150103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People hold memorial ceremony Thursday for those killed in a fatal crush during a New Year's Eve celebration on the Bund, in Shanghai. The stampede killed at least 36 people, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/08/national/media-national/enthusiasm-new-year-cards-wanes-online-options-grow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:17:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-nengajo-a-20181209.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman puts new year cards in a post box at Tokyo's Marunouchi district in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/29/world/big-apples-finest-pull-stops-thwart-new-years-eve-suicide-bombers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:24:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/f-nypd-a-20171230.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nypd-a-20171230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A New York Police Department Counterterrorism Bureau member stands in Times Square to provide security ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations in Manhattan, New York, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/japanese-heading-home-new-years-holidays-crowd-trains-airports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-holidays-a-20191229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-holidays-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Year's holidaymakers returning to their hometowns crowd the shinkansen platform at Kanazawa Station on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/27/business/corporate-business/lawson-allow-new-years-store-closures-trial-basis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-lawson-a-20191228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-lawson-a-20191228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson Inc. plans to allow some outlets to close on a trial basis between Tuesday and Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/22/national/japan-10-unlikely-take-year-end-new-years-holidays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/national/tokyos-shibuya-ward-bans-drinking-areas-halloween-new-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-shibuya-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shibuya-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in costumes celebrate Halloween on Shibuya crossing on Oct. 31 as a police officer tries to help control the crowd.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/01/national/2017-rings-across-japan-shrine-temple-throngs-pray-good-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:30:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-hatsumode-a-20170102.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hatsumode-a-20170102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People flood the stairs up  to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday morning as part of  their "hatsumode" New Year's pilgrimage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/27/national/japan-poll-finds-people-dream-long-yearend-holiday-settle-five-days-sleep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:31:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-holiday-a-20161228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most workers in Japan will take only up to five days off and likely stay at home during the upcoming New Year holiday, according to a private-sector survey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/22/national/new-years-salted-herring-roe-sells-record-%c2%a5100000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kazunoko-a-20161123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Herring roe, or kazunoko, symbolizes a wish to be blessed with many children in the new year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/04/national/holiday-first-workweek-2016-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:32:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/01/national/spirits-turnout-high-new-years-crowds-throng-shrines-temples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hatsumode-a-20160102.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take photos of the first sunrise on New Year's Day from the observation deck of Tokyo Tower.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/01/national/emperor-speaks-pain-tohoku-evacuees-still-living-temporary-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-a-20160101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/01/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-says-japan-will-play-leading-global-role-challenging-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/n-abe-a-20160101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abe-a-20160101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/06/national/staying-night-get-lucky-bags/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[JAPAN-NEW YEAR-SALES]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Competition is fierce as shopper ransack a Tokyo department store on Jan. 2]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/30/national/new-years-exodus-reaches-peak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-exodus-a-20141231.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People board a bullet train at Shin-Osaka Station on Tuesday, leaving for their hometowns for the New Year's holidays.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/27/national/train-stations-airports-jammed-new-years-exodus-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-exodus-a-20141228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-exodus-a-20141228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and her daughters wave as they leave JR Shin-Osaka Station aboard a bullet train Saturday, the first day of the yearend holidays.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/26/business/tech/digital-tack-taken-to-revive-interest-in-new-years-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/b-greetingcards-a-20141227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-greetingcards-a-20141227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A smartphone is used to show the augmented-reality content of a New Year's greeting card.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/19/national/tokyo-department-stores-target-foreign-tourists-lucky-bags-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/n-luckybags-a-20141120.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-luckybags-a-20141120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mitsukoshi store in Tokyo’s Ginza neighborhood will offer a gold sake jug and cup in a lucky bag priced at ¥20.15 million. The set, aimed at foreign shoppers, will go on sale Jan. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/12/national/shibuya-revelers-face-new-years-curbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T18:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-shibuya-a-20131213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cooperative convergence: Pedestrians cross the main intersection in front of JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/national/okinawas-shuri-castle-rise-ashes-virtual-resurrection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T19:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shuri-a-20191230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The burned-out remains of buildings at Shuri Castle, the main symbol of Okinawa Prefecture, are shown in Naha after a fire destroyed part of the UNESCO World Heritage site in October.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/national/japans-princess-kako-turns-25/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-29T19:34:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Kako]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Temple maidens sell talismans (o-mamori) at Naritasan Shinshoji temple in Narita.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T20:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monk of Honsen-ji Temple in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward overlooks an annual rite in which talismans from the previous year are incinerated in a bonfire.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long wait: People line up to offer their prayers for the new year at Meiji Shrine in January 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T20:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA['Tis the season for shrines and temples to rake it in]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T23:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito President Natsuo Yamaguchi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose in this file photo. Two decades after forming a coalition, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and junior partner Komeito say their partnership has brought stability to politics.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T23:54:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker stands on a scaffolding platform near one of the four clock faces on the Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben, at the Houses of Parliament in London in April. The bell in the landmark tower, whose restoration work is due to be completed in 2021, will ring at midnight on New Year's Eve.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T23:54:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-29T23:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T00:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsukasa Akimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/national/funeral-preparations-emperor-hirohito-began-seven-years-death-ministry-documents-show/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Hirohito]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T05:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka June 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/business/airport-strike-prompts-cancellation-flights-portugals-capital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-30T05:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Easyjet plane is seen at Lisbon's airport in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T08:39:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly recruited soldiers are pictured before a blast struck their parade in the town of al-Dhalea, Yemen, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-naval-dispatch-middle-east-product-compromise-iran-u-s-experts-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-30T11:19:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sdf-a-20191229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Takanami will be deployed to the Middle East under a plan approved by the Cabinet on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/26/national/work-relocate-futenma-base-seen-costing-nearly-triple-initial-estimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-30T11:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-henoko-a-20191226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction work is underway in the Henoko coastal district in the Okinawa city of Nago where the replacement facility for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station will be located.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-democratic-rep-civil-rights-hero-john-lewis-pancreatic-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-30T14:12:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/f-lewis-a-20191231.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. John Lewis speaks ahead of a vote on two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington in a still image from video Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T14:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, speaks during a Dec. 19 hearing on the impact of wildfires on electric grid reliability, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Murkowski says she was "disturbed" to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be "total coordination" between the White House and the Senate over the presidential impeachment trial. In an interview with KTUU, Murkowski said she remains undecided on how she would vote when the trial takes place.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T14:17:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T14:27:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. pose for a photo with the Momo-5 rocket last week in the town of Taiki, Hokkaido. Due to technical reasons the firm postponed Sunday's scheduled launch until at least Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/national/science-health/team-including-japanese-researchers-use-sea-turtles-predict-ocean-temperature-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-30T14:36:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T14:48:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-01T13:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sprinter Shunsuke Itani trains at Shin-toyosu Brillia Running Stadium in Tokyo’s Toyosu neighborhood in December. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2019-12-30T16:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers who are fatigued will start making little errors, slowing down and failing to take the initiative to fix problems and exploit new opportunities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/national/students-death-reveals-dark-side-bhutan-japan-exchange-program/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jaganath Koirala (front row, center) poses at the inaugural meeting of the International Labor Union of Bhutan alongside other organizing members in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mars 2020 Rover is seen in the spacecraft assembly area clean room Friday during a media tour at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Mars 2020 rover, which will take off in a few months to the Red Planet, will not only search for possible traces of past life, it will also serve as a "precursor to a human mission to Mars," NASA scientists said when presenting the spacecraft to the press.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People climb atop and celebrate on the Berlin Wall on Nov. 10, 1989, embracing the demise of the Iron Curtain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/business/roaring-20s-world-markets/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon and its rivals are increasingly requiring warehouse employees to get used to working with robots. The company now has more than 200,000 robotic vehicles it calls "drives" that are moving goods through its delivery-fulfillment centers around the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Faith leaders place their hands on the shoulders of U.S. President Donald Trump as he takes part in a prayer for those affected by Hurricane Harvey in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/national/japan-low-altitude-satellite-tsubame/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tsubame satellite]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/national/crime-legal/chinese-exec-japan-casino-scandal-asked-head-office-bribe-money-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2019-12-31T10:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/national/china-planned-sending-patrol-ships-near-senkakus-2006/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yu Zhirong, who was an officer on the vessel when it entered Japanese waters on Dec. 8, 2008, speaks in an interview in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo taken from undated footage, an intercontinental ballistic missile lifts off from a silo somewhere in Russia. The Russian military said the Avangard hypersonic weapon entered combat duty on Friday. The Kremlin has made modernization of Russia's strategic nuclear forces one of its priorities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by army soldiers to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, after he was recaptured from breaking out of a maximum security prison in Mexico in 2016. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador closed out 2019 with a Tuesday video message that included a shot at his predecessors, saying imprisoned drug kingpin "El Chapo" had had the same power as the country's president.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A frame grab taken from video made available by Vatican Media on Wednesday shows a woman grabbing at Pope Francis' hands as he greets Catholic faithful as he arrives to celebrate New Year's Eve Mass in Vatican City Thursday. Francis apologized for his widely viewed slap on the hands of the woman.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A policeman leaves the residence of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Tuesday in Beirut. A close friend says Ghosn, who was awaiting trial in Japan, has arrived in Beirut. It was not clear how Ghosn, who is of Lebanese origins, left Japan where he is under surveillance and is expected to face trial in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts is seen during a group portrait session for the new full court at the Supreme Court in Washington in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An international media representative films outside the property of Carlos Ghosn, former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, in Beirut on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman takes her daughter to a day care facility in Tokyo. A recent government survey showed that a record 61 percent believe women should continue working after having a child.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of Tanggerang wade through their flooded neighborhood outside Jakarta on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Troops patrol the Badiraguato community in Sinaloa State, Mexico, the homtown of escaped drug lord Joaquin Guzman.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Niisato, head of the defense team for two women who filed a damages claim over their forced sterilization, speaks to reporters Friday in Sendai after appealing the Sendai District Court's ruling denying them damages.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hayabusa2 project manager Yuichi Tsuda (front) and his colleagues celebrate at the mission control room in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday after giving Hayabusa2 the order to return to Earth.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Red circles show changes in landforms, including craters, on the Ryugu asteroid that were produced with projectiles released from Japanese space probe Hayabusa2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/06/national/selection-hayabusa2s-landing-site-asteroid-ryugu-final-stages/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The rocky surface of asteroid Ryugu is seen in this photo taken in September by a robot launched from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-03T18:25:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hayabusa-a-20181012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration provided by JAXA shows space probe Hayabusa2 approaching the Ryugu asteroid. JAXA said it has postponed the planned touchdown of Hayabusa2 to January from October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/03/national/science-health/hayabusa2-probe-set-to-swing-by-earth-at-start-of-asteroid-odyssey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-03T18:26:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speedmobile: The new E6 series Super Komachi bullet train, with a top speed of 300 kph, arrives at Akita Station after debuting Saturday on the Akita Shinkansen Line.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami delivers a news conference in Tokyo in this file image from June 2006.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On vacation: A sign reading "Closed for business today" is posted at MRI International's office Friday in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-03T18:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron conclude their joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this 2015 file photo, steam billows from the chimney or a coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire. The Paris Agreement on climate change came into force Friday after a year of remarkable success in international efforts to slash man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian protestors attend an unauthorized rally against the government's proposed reform hiking the pension age, called by the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in central Moscow on Sunday. Plans to hike the retirement age have led to a rare outburst of public anger and seen President Vladimir Putin's approval ratings take a hit, despite some efforts to water down the changes. But discontent is unlikely to translate into upsets at the ballot box, with serious opposition candidates in the highest-profile Moscow mayoral vote barred from standing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kang Jong-ho holds a memorial service on May 18 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, for his father, who was brought from Korea to the city by force during the war to work.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy protester sits inside barricades in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong early Tuesday. Pro-democracy leaders Monday angrily denied claims by the city's chief executive that "external forces" are orchestrating their mass rallies, ahead of talks intended to end three weeks of political stalemate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/03/national/300-years-majestic-mount-fuji-standby-next-eruption/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[If Mount Fuji were to erupt, it could cause up to ¥2.5 trillion in damage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/03/national/awareness-issue-plastic-garbage-japan-slowly-gaining-steam/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[2019 may be remembered as the year that the central and local governments began to expend more time and effort to reduce the amount of plastic waste.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force, attends an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, in February 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber will start its first taxi-hailing service in Japan this summer on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Transport Minister Meegan Fitzharris unveil the plaque for a new light rail system on Thursday in central Canberra.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-04T19:20:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The plan by the labor union at MUFJ Bank to request a hike in base pay this year makes it the only union from the nation's three major banks to do so.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/20/business/japans-financial-services-agency-check-financial-institutions-readiness-emerging-market-swings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-04T19:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ employee helps a customer at a branch in the headquarters of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is looking to build a capital-markets platform in Canada.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/business/corporate-business/mufg-arms-%c2%a51-trillion-war-chest-acquisitions/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.'s trust banking arm is seeking overseas acquisitions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/13/business/corporate-business/mufg-plans-take-wall-street-banking-rivals-lending-push/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is displayed outside of its headquarters in Tokyo. The firm is planning to expand its U.S. investment banking unit to look more like its bigger Wall Street rivals.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group are competing to become the biggest lead arrangers of lending to the renewable energy industry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sebastien Cagnon, behavior architect at Aldebaran Robotics SA (right), holds a demonstration with the firm's NAO robot at the International Robot Exhibition 2013 in Tokyo in November 2013. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will trial the device in two branches in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For customers of Japan's biggest bank, it's about to become harder to avoid fees]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are collectively known as GAFA.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/09/national/yahoo-japan-rolls-deep-fried-tax-employees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:48:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/n-yahoo-a-20191010.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yahoo-a-20191010.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chicken nanban (fried chicken with tartar sauce) set meal served at Yahoo Japan Corp.'s cafeteria]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/29/business/corporate-business/escalating-clash-independent-directors-askul-slam-shareholder-yahoo-japan-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:48:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-askul-a-20190729.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-askul-a-20190729.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Toda, an independent director of Askul Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/business/corporate-business/external-logins-blocked-apps-major-japanese-retail-group-seven-7pay-security-breach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-7pay-a-20190713.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-7pay-a-20190713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Fumihiko Nagamatsu uses the 7pay smartphone payment service at a convenience store in central Tokyo on July 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/18/business/tech/japans-ruling-ldp-calls-law-tighten-regulation-tech-giants-protect-vendors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:49:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-monopoly-a-20190419.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-monopoly-a-20190419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Concerns have been raised that tech groups are abusing their dominant position with regards to smaller companies using their platforms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/28/business/japan-regulator-launches-survey-assess-giants-sway-vendors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-antitrust-a-20190228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The country's antitrust watchdog launched a survey Wednesday to investigate if Amazon.com Inc. and other IT giants are harming fair competition by using their market dominance to apply unjust pressure on individual sellers and smaller vendors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/17/business/corporate-business/japans-paypay-update-app-wrongful-charge-complaints/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/b-paypay-a-20181218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-paypay-a-20181218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[PayPay is updating its app after multiple complaints of erroneous charges.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/29/national/bad-news-for-students-completed-homework-assignments-are-no-longer-for-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:51:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-homework-a-20180830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-homework-a-20180830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mercari flea-market app is seen on a smartphone screen. Homework-by-proxy is said to be rampant on the internet, with services aimed at busy parents of school students desperate for help completing their assignments at the end of summer recess.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/05/national/yahoo-analysis-finds-traffic-jams-nearly-doubled-osaka-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:51:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-yahoo-a-20180706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yahoo-a-20180706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chugoku Expressway is shut down after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit Osaka Prefecture on June 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/spain-pedro-sanchez-government-catalan-separatists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-sanchez-a-20200106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-sanchez-a-20200106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedro Sanchez, Spain's acting prime minister, speaks on the first day of a parliamentary investiture debate to vote for a premier in Madrid on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/business/japans-line-multiple-firms-plan-new-disaster-drill-incorporates-gaming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:52:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/09/business/softbank-aeon-yahoo-japan-mull-joint-online-shopping-business-son-works-ride-hailing-app-chinas-didi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:52:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b-onlinebiz-a-20180210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-onlinebiz-a-20180210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯SoftBank Group Corp., Aeon Co. and Yahoo Japan Corp. are talking about setting up a joint venture to sell food, clothing and other products by sharing their products and customer﷯ data.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/31/national/science-health/research-group-focus-hair-shape-components-bid-analyze-peoples-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:52:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-hairalysis-a-20180101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hairalysis-a-20180101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Learning more about changes in hair shape and makeup could assist in the early discovery of diseases, including cancer and dementia.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/yahoo-shopping-search-rankings-scrutiny-stealth-marketing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:53:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/20/national/yahoo-japan-defies-calls-halt-ivory-sales-poaching-soars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:56:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/n-ivory-a-20170121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ivory-a-20170121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man prepares to cut a piece of ivory for making hanko (carved personal seals) at his factory in Tokyo on Nov. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/19/business/corporate-business/yahoo-seen-cutting-cost-corners-security-tech-discredited-long-massive-hack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/b-yahoo-a-20161220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoo-a-20161220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo illustration shows a Yahoo logo seen through a magnifying glass in front of a displayed cyber code on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/17/business/corporate-business/yahoo-launches-online-death-planning-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T13:59:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/b-yahoo-b-20140718.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoo-b-20140718.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yahoo Japan Corp. this week launched the service Yahoo Ending, a portal on its search-engine page that addresses the inevitable.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/28/national/yahoo-japan-dentsu-launch-auction-based-fundraising-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/08/business/corporate-business/verizon-said-plan-bid-yahoo-google-weighs-offer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:01:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/b-yahoo-a-20160409.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-yahoo-a-20160409.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale, California, is shown in this aerial photo taken Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/16/business/corporate-business/yahoo-japan-agrees-buy-travel-site-ikyu-%c2%a5100-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/07/national/yahoo-japan-eyes-new-standard-removing-personal-search-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:05:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/27/business/dena-yahoo-japan-turn-dna-analysis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/b-dna-a-20140828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-dna-a-20140828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Families at an informational workshop on DNA hosted by DeNA Co. at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science try an experiment on Wednesday to see their own DNA.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/24/business/tech/yamato-dena-test-autonomous-delivery-system-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/b-selfdrive-a-20180425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-selfdrive-a-20180425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A self-driving delivery vehicle moves down a closed-off street during an experiment by Yamato Transport Co. and DeNA Co. in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/04/national/hiroshima-students-working-re-create-yamato-virtual-battleship-tour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-yamato-a-20170605.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamato-a-20170605.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Using virtual reality technology, Fukuyama Technical High School in Hiroshima Prefecture is developing a 3-D tour of the battleship Yamato that lets visitors walk around the inside of the sunken warship.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/20/business/corporate-business/parcel-delivery-service-yamato-set-hike-delivery-rates-oct-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/business/population-ages-convenience-stores-find-future-funerals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-regional-b-20190817.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-regional-b-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirohiko Ishii, a marketing director of Life &amp; Design Group, which owns the operator of Davius Living Yamato, speaks during an interview on Aug. 5 in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/24/national/japanese-city-dance-pop-band-criticized-ruling-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/national/memorial-service-honors-70th-anniversary-yamato-sinking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/n-yamato-a-20150408.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yamato-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazushi Hiro, a 91-year old survivor, gives an address during a memorial service on the 70th anniversary of the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato's sinking during World War II.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/reference/floating-fortress-musashi-symbol-japans-naval-ambitions-now-war-grave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-fyi-a-20150317.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20150317.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This frame grab taken from a video streamed live Friday by Paul Allen shows part of the apparent wreck of the battleship Musashi on the bottom of the Sibuyan Sea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/29/business/corporate-business/parcels-not-kept-cool-at-yamato-hubs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/14/national/japan-permit-antidote-injections-nondoctors-cases-bioterrorism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:22:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-injection-a-20191115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-injection-a-20191115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering whether to allow antidote autoinjections by nondoctors, such as rescue workers, should toxic agents be dispersed in a terrorist attack.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/20/national/north-korean-ships-suspected-smuggling-made-repeated-port-calls-japan-data-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:22:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/n-nkships-z-20191021.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkships-z-20191021.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rises a white horse in the first snow at Mouth Paektu in this undated picture released last week. Vessels involved in the North's export of coal, which is banned under U.N. resolutions, have made repeated port calls in Japan, a report said Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/02/national/north-korea-launches-apparent-missile-japan-coast-guard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/f-nklaunch-a-20191003.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nklaunch-a-20191003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo carried by North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper in August 2016 shows an underwater launch test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/national/north-korea-threat-japan-coast-guard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-nkvessel-a-20190914.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkvessel-a-20190914.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga gives a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-team-taps-fema-coast-guard-cybersecurity-funds-cover-immigration-crackdown-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:22:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-icefunds-a-20190829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-icefunds-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three migrants who had managed to evade the Mexican National Guard and cross the Rio Grande onto U.S. territory walk along a border wall set back from the geographical border, in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in July. The Department of Homeland Security is moving $271 million from other agencies such as FEMA and the U.S. Coast Guard to fund immigration detention beds and support its policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/04/national/coast-guard-personnel-japan-indonesia-philippines-take-part-oil-spill-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:23:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/n-drill-a-20190705.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drill-a-20190705.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coast guard personnel from Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines hold a drill to respond to a "ship collision incident" in southern Philippine waters on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/03/national/woman-unknown-nationality-rescued-sailboat-drifting-sea-off-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/tokyo-tightening-waterfront-security-ahead-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-waterfront-a-20180808.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-waterfront-a-20180808.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard boat (left) confronts a suspicious vessel during a security exercise in Tokyo Bay on July 24.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/world/social-issues-world/libyas-coast-guard-picks-574-illegal-migrants-takes-naval-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:24:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-libya-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-libya-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrants carry one of them off a boat as they arrive at a naval base in Tripoli, after being rescued off the coast of Zawia, about 45 km west of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday. Some 290 illegal immigrants from different African nationalities were rescued.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-coast-guard-reinforces-sea-japan-fleet-ward-off-north-korean-poachers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/28/national/missing-boat-brought-north-korean-fishermen-akita-coast-found-seabed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:26:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-boat-a-20171129.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-boat-a-20171129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fishing boat that washed ashore with eight North Korean men aboard is seen Friday in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture. The boat, which disappeared on Saturday, has been found on the seabed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/27/national/eight-bodies-found-suspected-north-korean-boat-washes-ashore-akita-prefecture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-nkboat-a-20171128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nkboat-a-20171128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wooden boat that might have originated in North Korea sits on the beach Monday in Oga, Akita Prefecture. The remains of eight people were found in the boat, which washed ashore Sunday, according to officials at the local branch of the Japan Coast Guard.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/national/tuna-new-years-auction-tokyo-toyosu-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:27:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tuna-z-20200106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyomura Corp. President Kiyoshi Kimura faces the media after buying a bluefin tuna for ¥193.2 million at the New Year's auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market on Sunday. Kiyomura runs the Sushizanmai chain of sushi outlets.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/world/libya-military-academy-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-libya-a-20200106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-libya-a-20200106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Libyans protest the Turkish decision to send forces on Friday in Benghazi.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/27/world/social-issues-world/libya-migrant-trade-survivors-talk-fake-rescuers-cabbies-rape-high-seas-murder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/f-libya-a-20171128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-libya-a-20171128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Libyan Red Crescent worker awaits the arrival of a ship carrying African migrants at a naval base in Tripoli on Saturday after their rubber boat was rescued off the coast of Garabulli. More than 30 migrants died and 200 others were rescued when their boats foundered off Libya's western coast, the Libyan navy said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/20/national/philippines-commissions-three-japan-made-coast-guard-ships/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/18/national/philippines-accepts-first-10-japan-funded-patrol-vessels-beef-coast-guard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-vessels-a-20160819.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vessels-a-20160819.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The BRP Tubbataha, the first of 10 patrol vessels provided by Japan, arrives at Manila port on Thursday to be assigned to the Philippine coast guard.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/04/national/japan-coast-guard-deploys-12-ships-to-patrol-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-australia-philippines-u-s-coast-guards-huddle-china-activities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/06/national/philippine-japanese-coast-guards-hold-anti-piracy-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:37:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/n-piracy-a-20150507.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-piracy-a-20150507.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Philippine coast guard's anti-terrorist unit apprehend mock pirates who hijacked a vessel during a combined maritime law enforcement exercise at a bay in Manila Wednesday. Philippine and Japanese coast guard teams staged an anti-piracy drill on the same day, featuring the storming of a cargo vessel after a mock hijack, in a show of maritime cooperation between the two nations amid rising tension in Asian waters.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/28/national/one-rescued-from-capsized-ship-search-under-way-for-missing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:39:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/n-rescue-a-20150329.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rescue-a-20150329.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Coast Guard rescue personnel approach the capsized Meiyu No. 18 in the Tsugaru Strait between Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture on Saturday. One crew member was rescued nearly 15 hours after the vessel was found upside down.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/asia-pacific/southeast-australia-new-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T14:53:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-ausfires-a-20200106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausfires-a-20200106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke from Australian fires turns the sky orange in Auckland ahead of the ASB Tennis Classic on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/04/national/crime-legal/acting-lebanese-minister-says-beirut-unlikely-hand-ghosn-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T15:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-lebanon-a-20200105.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-lebanon-a-20200105.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/04/national/politics-diplomacy/morrison-postpones-trips-japan-india-due-bush-fire-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T15:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-aussie-a-20200105.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aussie-a-20200105.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits a farm in Sarsfield, Victoria, on Friday that was burned by a bush fire.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/02/business/british-trade-chief-expresses-strong-interest-joining-tpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T16:31:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/b-britaintpp-a-20180803.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-britaintpp-a-20180803.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox says Wednesday that the country is interested in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement after its planned exit from the European Union.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/13/business/tokyo-washington-finally-set-kick-off-trade-talks-american-farmers-fume-poor-japan-access/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T16:32:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b-tradepreview-a-20190414.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tradepreview-a-20190414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and economic and fiscal policy minister Toshimitsu Motegi hold talks in Washington on Aug. 9. The two will meet again in the U.S. early this week to kick off bilateral trade talks.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/18/business/japan-local-governments-workation-alliance-revitalization-work-style-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T16:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/b-workation-a-20191119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-workation-a-20191119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Bank provides a "workation" office in the town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/business/adb-fund-internet-infrastructure-asia-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T17:39:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/10/national/media-national/bringing-nihonshu-into-the-mix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T17:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jpulse-20110510-450px-Sake_bomb_foamy_single.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[jpulse-20110510-450px-Sake_bomb_foamy_single.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bringing nihonshu into the mix]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/04/national/crime-legal/former-defense-chief-takeshi-iwaya-dismisses-claim-bribed-chinese-casino-hopeful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T19:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-iwaya-a-20200105.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iwaya-a-20200105.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya faces the media during a news conference Saturday in his home electoral district in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, over his suspected involvement in a high-profile casino-bribery case that has rocked the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/business/takeover-amlin-makes-lloyds-insurers-bid-targets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/23/business/corporate-business/mitsui-sumitomo-buy-37-5-stake-chinese-life-insurer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:21:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/05/business/firms-pitch-part-time-work-home-way-ease-leave-takers-return-office-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:21:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/n-childcare-a-20171006.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-childcare-a-20171006.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. employee Michika Kato, 27, checks email at her home in Tokyo in September while she is on child care leave.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/08/business/corporate-business/mitsui-sumitomo-insurance-believed-talks-purchase-lloyds-unit-amlin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b-mitsui-a-20150909.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mitsui-a-20150909.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings Inc. is pictured in Tokyo in this 2008 file image.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/03/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-ngk-win-energy-tender-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:29:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/07/business/can-a-battery-jolt-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nb20130808a2a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130808a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Time and energy: An employee stands in front of concentrator photovoltaic units at Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.'s new power plant in Yokohama in July 2012, when the firm demonstrated its megawatt-class power generation/storage system.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/13/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-forestry-plans-luxury-condo-development-bangkok-local-developer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/05/national/social-issues/japanese-firms-becoming-family-friendly-telecommuting-kids-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/n-kidsatwork-b-20160406.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kidsatwork-b-20160406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female employee of Sumitomo Forestry Co. works from home in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, in March.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/19/national/history/man-survives-train-fall-redistribution-of-resources-japans-mission-gsdf-adopts-local-guns-chandelier-falls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/business/japans-labor-shortage-eats-away-backbreaking-work-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/b-labor-a-20190509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-labor-a-20190509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Human resources experts say shifts in Japan's working culture are not yet the norm, but they are becoming increasingly common and are already affecting economic growth and labor productivity.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/28/business/insurers-eye-foreign-bond-buys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:37:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/26/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-life-eyes-stake-in-bank-negaras-insurance-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:37:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/12/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-life-to-buy-buffett-backed-symetra-for-3-8-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-life-buys-25-stake-fintech-startup-singapore-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:39:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-singlife-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-singlife-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Merlion statue in Singapore]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/25/business/corporate-business/common-moon-rocks-metal-scandium-transform-planes-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-newmetal-a-20181026.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-newmetal-a-20181026.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airplane is silhouetted against a full moon as it approaches the runway to land at Fiumicino Airport in Rome on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/07/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-metal-mining-cuts-profit-target-as-china-demand-slows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/13/business/corporate-business/steelmaker-to-halt-kimitsu-blast-furnace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nb20130313a5a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nb20130313a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Closing time: The Kimitsu Works iron mill, operated by Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp., is seen Tuesday in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/16/business/masayoshi-sons-bankers-worried-favorite-client/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:46:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b-son-a-20191217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-son-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp Chief Executive Masayoshi Son attends a news conference in Tokyo Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/12/national/prime-contractor-for-tilting-yokohama-condo-makes-first-public-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:54:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/n-piling-a-20151113.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-piling-a-20151113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshio Nagamoto]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/11/business/corporate-business/sumitomo-mitsui-construction-says-it-cannot-estimate-earnings-impact-of-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/09/business/japan-grants-certification-first-time-information-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T22:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank is now likely to enter the new year without WeWork financing in place as negotiations on a loan stall with major banks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/10/business/corporate-business/japans-biggest-banks-prepare-massive-downsizing-cost-overhauls/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-deposit boxes are seen in the vault of Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s headquarters in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/02/business/corporate-business/clouds-lifting-japans-banks-negative-rates-stay-put/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a board displaying signage for banks including Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Mizuho Bank Ltd. in Tokyo in May 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/25/business/corporate-business/thanks-negative-rate-japanese-borrower-can-buy-dom-perignon-debt-sale/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to demand compensation for wartime laborers on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-seek-talks-south-korea-assets-seizure-forced-labor-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:31:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lim Jae-sung (right), a lawyer representing South Korean plaintiffs in a court case over labor during World War II, speaks to reporters on Nov. 12 in front of the Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/12/national/south-korean-lawyers-representing-forced-laborers-rebuffed-nippon-steel-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:31:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers for four South Koreans (shown in photographs) who were forced during Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula to work at a steel mill belonging to Japan Iron &amp; Steel Co., later known as Nippon Steel Corp., are seen outside the head office of Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/14/business/corporate-business/nippon-steel-boost-output-automotive-flat-sheets-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal President Kosei Shindo speaks about the firm's name change during a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/business/corporate-business/steel-giant-trying-get-shibuya-woo-young-japanese-talent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:32:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An advertisement for Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. plays on a giant TV screen in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/26/national/vehicle-burns-steel-plant-oita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/24/national/seoul-court-orders-japan-steelmaker-pay-redress-wartime-forced-laborer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:33:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/05/business/corporate-business/steel-king-nssmc-cedes-crown-arcelor-yen-soars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-steel-a-20160806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steam rises from Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Kimitsu works in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/13/national/crime-legal/korean-court-orders-japanese-steel-maker-to-compensate-forced-wartime-laborers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/14/business/corporate-business/nippon-steel-to-halt-furnaces-lines-at-four-iron-mills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-05T23:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-06T00:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at the homepage of the clothing house Barabas, which features a photo of Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera "El Chapo" on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The company's website barabasmen.com features the shirt the Mexican fugitive was wearing at the meeting with U.S. actor Sean Penn, calling it the "El Chapo" shirt. The shirt's official names is Barabas "Fantasy" Men's Button Down Shirt and is priced at $128.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/business/tech/robot-maker-zmp-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T02:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-interview-a-20200106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ZMP founder and CEO Hisashi Taniguchi says his robot start-up plans to kick-start sales of the Robocar Walk, which he billed as Japan's first fully autonomous single-seat electric vehicle, in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/national/crime-legal/lebanon-interpol-carlos-ghosn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T15:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-interpol-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn and his wife, Carole, are photographed in Tokyo on March 9, three days after his release on bail from detention over alleged financial misconduct.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/scott-morrison-australia-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T15:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-morrison-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fire fighting helicopter is seen behind Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his visit to HMAS Albatross in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/05/national/crime-legal/carlos-ghosn-green-beret-beirut-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T15:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., exits the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo on April 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/04/national/swedish-teen-greta-thunberg-will-continue-climate-activism-visit-japan-opportunity-presents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T15:46:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg celebrates her 17th birthday Friday by attending the weekly "Fridays For Future" climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-06T15:48:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-protections-a-20180926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney General Jeff Sessions talks about efforts to combat violent crime during a stop at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas City, Missouri, Sept. 13. The Justice Department says Sessions and other Justice Department officials will speak Monday in Birmingham at the department's National Public Safety Partnership Symposium.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/national/un-chief-antonio-guterres-visit-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T16:34:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres shake hands ahead of talks at the U.N. headquarters in New York in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/national/politics-diplomacy/upper-house-assets-record-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T17:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiharu Furukawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-06T17:41:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the House will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/national/science-health/japan-icebreaker-shirase-showa-station-antarctica/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T18:39:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-antarctica-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Icebreaker Shirase arrives near Japan's Showa Station in the Antarctic on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/22/reference/sdf-tests-public-support-next-mission-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T18:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sdf-a-20191223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime Self-Defense Force officers return to a base in Hiroshima Prefecture on Oct. 30, 1991, after their first dispatch abroad for a mine-sweeping mission in the Persian Gulf.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/tech/boeing-faa-reviewing-wiring-issue-short-circuit-threat-grounded-737-max/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T18:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boeing employees work on the 737 Max 8 assembly line in Renton, Washington, last March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/national/japanese-woman-fukuoka-prefecture-celebrates-117th-year-party-nursing-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T18:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-oldest-a-20200106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest person, who turned 117 on Thursday, is the center of attention at a party to mark the event held Sunday at the nursing home where she lives in Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/asia-pacific/indonesias-floods-climate-wake-up-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-floods-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents ride a motorbike along a flooded street in Jakarta on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-end-brand-license-sales-cooperation-xerox/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fujifilm-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujifilm Holdings Corp. and Xerox Corp. are ending a decadeslong partnership.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/corporate-business/new-japan-post-president-vows-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroya Masuda]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/financial-markets/foreign-exchange-law-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:34:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-intro-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet passed a revision to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act in December that requires foreign investors to notify authorities when acquiring stakes of 1 percent or more in listed Japanese companies whose work is related to national security.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/financial-markets/tightened-rules-foreign-investment-overdue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-Miller-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government says the revision was made to protect businesses, information and technologies vital to national security such as weapons, aviation, nuclear power and manufacturers whose products can be used for military purposes and cybersecurity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/financial-markets/japan-foreign-exchange-law-curbs-overseas-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:37:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign investors assert that Japan's 1 percent notification rule is too strict and will increase operating costs. They also argue it is an attempt to keep activist investors out of the stock market.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to an attendee during a voter canvassing event in Maquoketa, Iowa, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wears the words "powerful revenge" on her hand, ahead of the leader's televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut Sunday following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The placard in her other hand depicts Soleimaini and Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed in the strike. Arabic on placard reads: "On the road to Jerusalem."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-06T19:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This self-driving bus successfully completed a nine-day test in Gunma Prefecture in December by ferrying passengers between Shibukawa and Maebashi while making other stops along the way.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako greet well-wishers at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) visits the Grand Shrines of Ise in Mie Prefecture on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A private security guard stands outside the house of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in Beirut Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukiko Miyake]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian student Reynhard Sinaga is seen in a police photo released Monday. Sinaga, Britain's most prolific rapist, was jailed for life Monday, with a minimum term of 30 years in prison, after being found to have drugged at least 48 men and filming himself sexually violating them while they were unconscious.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T09:13:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car leaves the property of Carlos Ghosn, former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, in Beirut on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T14:23:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi greets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as they meet at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Dec. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T15:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks out toward Mount Fuji from an observation deck in Tokyo last January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T15:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Inc. CEO Hiroshi Mikitani announces a new mobile service in Tokyo in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/asia-pacific/indonesia-mobilizes-fishermen-join-warships-territorial-standoff-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T16:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The commander of region 1 of defense territory joint command, Rear Adm. Yudo Margono (front left), inspects Indonesian troops at the Natuna military base in Riau islands Friday. Indonesia is stepping up sea and aerial patrols of islands near the disputed South China Sea, an official said Saturday following a diplomatic spat over "trespassing" Chinese vessels.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T17:19:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. presents its Technics AZ70 earbuds during a news conference at the 2020 CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/politics-diplomacy/snap-election-japan-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T17:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/corporate-business/japan-asia-china-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T17:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a country where hostile takeovers are traditionally seen as taboo, a bid for Tokyo-based sportswear company Descente Ltd. by trading house Itochu Corp. made headlines last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T17:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuniko Urano, senior executive officer at Komatsu Ltd., says women on a career path in corporate Japan need to be more proactive and build a wide foundation of experience.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/japans-average-temperature-2019-hits-record-high-nearly-degree-normal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T17:49:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk with parasols amid scorching summer heat in Tokyo on Aug. 7. The weather agency said the average temperature in Japan in 2019 hit the highest on record.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/tech/sony-unveils-electric-car-equipped-autonomous-driving-technology-las-vegas-event/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T17:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony unveiled this prototype autonomous electric vehicle in Las Vegas on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/world/crime-legal-world/key-ex-trump-aide-john-bolton-willing-testify-impeachment-trial-subpoenaed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T18:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former national security adviser John R. Bolton listens while U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington last May. Bolton said Monday that he is willing to testify if subpoenaed in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Binh Minh, shake hands before their talks in Hanoi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-07T18:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives to the final plenary meeting of a nuclear deal at the U.N.'s IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, in July 2015. The deal has been left in tatters after Tehran on Sunday announced a further rollback of its commitments following the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view shows the wreckage of a passenger bus that collided with other vehicles and rolled over, leaving several victims, in Arequipa, Peru, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grounded Boeing 737 Max jets belonging to American Airlines are stored at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last May. American Airlines said Jan. 2 it is negotiating with Boeing over compensation for the airline's grounded planes and will share some of the proceeds with its employees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/jetblue-takes-steps-become-carbon-neutral-airline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T18:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A jetBlue airplane sits on the tarmac waiting for take off at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia, 3 miles (5 km) south of Washington in 2017. The no-frills air carrier will go carbon neutral for all domestic flights starting the summer of this year, the company announced Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs alerting shoppers about the consumption tax hike to 10 percent are put up at the Matsuzakaya department store in the Ueno district in Tokyo last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/media-national/reporter-youtube-japan-newspaper-mainichi-shimbun/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenta Miyahara, a political reporter for the Mainichi Shimbun, celebrates the 1,000-subscriber mark for his nascent YouTube channel during a video shoot in Tokyo on Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is surrounded by reporters after remarks on the floor about the looming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and Trump's order to kill an Iranian general, at the Capitol in Washington Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, joined by fellow Democrats, speaks during a news conference about legislation the House has passed at the Capitol in Washington Dec. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/business/new-car-sales-2019-fell-natural-disasters-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T19:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lexus UX SUVs roll down the production line at a Toyota Motor Corp. plant in Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/national/traffic-deaths-record-low-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T19:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-traffic-a-20200107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan saw 317 fewer traffic-related fatalities last year than in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-reportedly-overhaul-environmental-review-process-dismiss-climate-impacts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T19:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/29/world/bangladesh-cold-wave-leaves-least-50-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T19:43:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/04/national/media-national/importance-defining-organized-crime-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T20:04:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/28/national/crime-legal/hyogo-yakuza-feud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T20:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers stand guard on Wednesday on a street in Kyoto where a gang member was arrested over the fatal shooting of a rival group member in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/40pc-dams-japan-flood-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T21:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dams-a-20200108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kanogawa Dam in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, conducted an emergency discharge of water during torrential rain that fell in the area in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/carlos-ghosn-linked-banks-include-swiss-julius-baer-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T21:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Lebanese security forces stands guard as journalists wait near the underground parking of a house said to belong to former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in a wealthy neighborhood of Beirut on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-develop-app-can-detect-foreign-residence-cards-fake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T21:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cards-a-20200108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to introduce a new smartphone app that can check whether data stored on a card's IC chip matches the information on the card.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/politics-diplomacy/strongly-concerned-japan-urges-iran-abide-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T21:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-iranjapan-a-20200108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout picture provided by the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA) on Tuesday shows Iranian lawmakers raising their hands to vote during a parliamentary session in Tehran. Iran said Sunday it is no longer abiding by uranium enrichment limitations under the 2015 agreement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/world/going-war-bro-fort-braggs-82nd-airborne-deploys-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-07T21:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, walk toward an awaiting aircraft prior to departing for the Middle East from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/corporate-business/mizuho-fund-life-science-startups/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T03:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/asia-pacific/carrie-lam-vows-work-closely-beijings-new-envoy-get-hong-kong-right-path/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T04:23:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker cleans a road sign vandalized by protesters at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong Tuesday. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the city faces multiple challenges in the new year, including "violence, economic tribulation and a health scare" as anti-government protests enter their eighth month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/business/alitalia-bleeds-around-e300-million-year-administrator-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T04:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Alitalia Airbus A321-100 plane carrying Pope Francis is seen at Fiumicino airport in Rome before flying to Sofia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/business/tech/u-turn-boeing-recommends-737-max-simulator-training-pilots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T05:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boeing-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max  takes off in the rain at Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Washington, last month. Boeing said Tuesday it is recommending that pilots receive training in a flight simulator before the grounded 737 Max returns to flying, a reversal of the company's long-held position that computer-based training alone was adequate. The 737 Max has been grounded worldwide since last March after two crashes killed 346 people.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/world/u-s-ready-finish-war-started-iran-pentagon-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T06:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-esper-a-20200109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-esper-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Mark Esper talks to the press on Iran and Iraq Tuesday at the Pentagon in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/world/social-issues-world/americans-increasingly-critical-trumps-record-iran-expect-war-survey-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T08:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpoll-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, stand in the rain as they wait to welcome Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife, Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis, before they arrive on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/india-court-orders-jan-22-hanging-four-men-guilty-deadly-2012-gang-rape-aboard-moving-bus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T08:51:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-delhirape-a-20200109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-delhirape-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asha Devi, mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape on a moving bus, speaks to the media as she leaves a court in New Delhi Tuesday. A death warrant was issued Tuesday for the four men convicted in the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus that galvanized protests across India and brought global attention to the country's sexual violence epidemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/world/science-health-world/largest-study-yet-offers-no-clear-talc-link-ovarian-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T09:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-talc-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baby powder is squeezed from its bottle in Philadelphia in 2010. In a study released on Tuesday, U.S. government researchers found no evidence linking baby powder with ovarian cancer in the largest-ever analysis of an issue that has prompted thousands of lawsuits and a recent product recall.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/national/crime-legal/yakuza-crackdown-crime-gangs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T10:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-yakuza-a-20200108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-yakuza-a-20200108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers put up a notice on the wall of an office of Kodo-kai, a yakuza group belonging to the Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate, on Tuesday in Nagoya. It announces that Kodo-kai has been designated as a yakuza group at war with other crime organizations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/national/creative-director-tokyo-olympics-ceremonies-quits-power-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T13:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-olyplanner-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaoru Sugano, an employee of Dentsu Inc. assigned as creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, has stepped down from the role after being disciplined over a power harassment claim.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/venezuelas-guaido-pushes-past-troops-enter-congress-socialist-takeover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T13:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido gestures on his way to the National Assembly on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/corporate-business/nissan-bolsters-task-force-prepare-onslaught-criticism-carlos-ghosn-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T13:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/b-nissanteam-a-20200108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissanteam-a-20200108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this file photo taken in March last year, former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn, accompanied by his wife, Carole, arrives at his place of residence in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/national/crime-legal/ex-nissan-boss-carlos-ghosns-legal-team-accuses-carmaker-perversion-truth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T13:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-ghosnprobe-a-20200109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ghosnprobe-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reporters and a private security guard stand outside the parking entrance of a house said to belong to former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in a wealthy neighborhood of Beirut Tuesday. Ghosn will give a hotly awaited press conference in Lebanon on Wednesday, his spokesman said, offering clarity on his recent flight from Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/07/business/tech/toyota-woven-city-mount-fuji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T14:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toyota-a-20200108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. chief Akio Toyoda and Danish architect Bjarke Ingel reveal plans to build a prototype "city of the future" on a 710,000-square-meter site at the base of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture during a news conference at the CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/world/tiktok-security-concerns-impersonators/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T14:27:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tiktok-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[TikTok, with more than a billion users, hasn't shown signs of rigorous efforts to police fake or misleading accounts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/world/iran-earthquake-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T16:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/05/national/barriers-climate-activism-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T16:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climate-a-20191106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saori Iwano, a 16-year-old member of Fridays For Future Tokyo, stands before a growing crowd in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 20 as people gather to take part in the Global Climate Strike.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-open-sharply-lower-reports-iran-attack-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T17:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen in the capital shows the Nikkei average after it fell more than 600 points in early trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/business/corporate-business/tesla-china-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T18:04:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tesla-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk dances while walking through the Tesla China-Made Model 3 Delivery Ceremony at the company's Gigafactory in Shanghai on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/business/tech/giants-renew-commitment-privacy-security-amid-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T18:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-techgiants-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Google Assistant booth is set up at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Sunday ahead of the 2020 CES electronics trade show.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/national/crime-legal/carlos-ghosn-japan-justice-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-08T21:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-ghosncharge-a-20200109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ghosncharge-a-20200109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks by a huge screen showing former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/world/science-health-world/italy-slaps-curbs-cars-pollution-chokes-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T08:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ismog-a-20200110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A view from above of downtown Milan, Italy, shows smoke coming from heating systems. The heavy pollution from atmospheric aerosol particles, microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in the air, led to a partial stop of urban traffic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/world/science-health-world/alaska-record-warm-year-2019-lower-48-states-second-wettest-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T13:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-alaska-a-20200110.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-alaska-a-20200110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rain water stands atop Westchester Lagoon, a popular ice-skating and pond-hockey site in Anchorage that is usually frozen at this time of year, on Dec. 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/world/science-health-world/amazon-forest-fires-rose-30-2019/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers cut down burned trees to clear the roads after a bushfire in Batlow, in Australia's New South Wales state, Wednesday. Australian officials issued fresh evacuation warnings ahead of a forecast spike in the intensity of out-of-control bushfires that have devastated vast swaths of countryside and sent smoke clouds as far away as Brazil.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T14:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security personnel check journalists ahead of a news conference by former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn in Beirut on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T15:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T16:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc. said it will focus on negotiations for a new rescue plan with private fund Ichigo Asset Management Ltd.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/world/most-puerto-ricans-without-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T16:25:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T16:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Apple iPhone 11]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/national/japan-defense-chief-observes-mideast-map-exercise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T16:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono speaks to reporters at his ministry in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T16:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T17:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A placard announcing sales of up to 50 percent is displayed in the window of a store Wednesday in Paris. The French national winter sales run from Wednesday until Feb.4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T17:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The City of Chiba decided Tuesday not to bid to host a casino resort that would be constructed under a newly enacted gambling law.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T17:20:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stocks-bounce-back-us-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T17:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A currency trader takes a rest at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/business/japan-retailers-cheaper-us-foods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T17:51:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past an Ito-Yokado supermarket, operated by Seven &amp; I Holdings Co., in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-cancel-trip-middle-east-iran-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T18:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters as he enters his office Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T18:11:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official at the National Botanic Garden of Wales shows a pot containing a ginkgo tree sapling destined for Japan at the garden in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/world/science-health-world/u-s-delays-ban-licenses-bomb-grade-uranium-exports-two-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T18:25:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-09T18:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiho Kozai of Kagawa Prefecture uses the wireless Fetal Monitor iCTG device to send data to her doctor.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/national/crime-legal/nippon-ishin-expels-shimoji-bribery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T21:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower House lawmaker Mikio Shimoji faces reporters in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/world/trump-pulls-back-war-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T23:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This satellite photo taken Wednesday and annotated by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey shows apparent damage to the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq after being hit by rockets from Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/national/south-korea-court-rejects-wartime-labor-claims-mhi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T23:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Seoul court rejected wartime labor compensation claims by dozens of South Koreans on Thursday against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., citing a lack of evidence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/business/japanese-language-firm-surged-1093-eyes-new-biz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-09T23:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-10T08:40:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday during a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Trump likes to boast that he has a talent for coining nicknames. On Thursday he unveiled what he called a "beautiful" acronym for NATO deployments in the Middle East — NATOME.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/03/national/renovated-shibuya-metro-station-m-shaped-roof-begins-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-10T10:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ginza Line's new Shibuya Station is a short distance away from the previous location and is expected to make it easier for passengers to transfer to and from the capital's busy Yamanote Line.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/09/business/world-bank-cuts-2020-global-growtj-japan-0-7/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-01-10T16:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-10T16:49:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lower House member Taro Kono (front) enters the Prime Minister's Office on Sept. 11 last year before being appointed as defense minister. Kono and his Iranian counterpart Amir Hatami held a teleconference Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-10T16:51:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A huge pile of wood chips burns at a mill in Eden, Australia, Thursday as HMAS Adelaide stands by ready to assist as wildfires burn nearby. Wildfires have destroyed 2,000 homes and continue to burn, threatening to flare up again as temperatures rise.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-01-10T17:39:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's home-grown C919 passenger jet taxis after landing on its maiden flight at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai on May 5, 2017.  Delays in achieving final approval for the plane mean it will probably miss the current boom in jet orders and languish for years to come.]]></image:caption>
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