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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Wagyu" cattle graze in the Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture. The connections linking local seafood dealers with the wider world are also being used by ranchers to sell Oki beef.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-coastal-city-host-pacific-islands-summit-next-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:53:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Samoan counterpart, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi, pose for photos with their wives during the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/13/national/male-ama-part-shimas-free-diving-tradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-maleama-a-20160714.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Free diver Yushi Ikeda dives into the sea to gather abalone in the Azena district of Shima, Mie Prefecture, on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/16/national/social-issues/g-7-summit-may-put-japans-depopulation-woes-limelight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shima-a-20160517.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident of the Funakoshi area of Shima, Mie Prefecture, sits at the harbor in the depopulated, aging district.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/18/national/shima-pet-sector-jumps-on-summit-bandwagon-with-pet-related-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:55:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/n-chubu-a-20160419.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20160419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A facility in Shima, Mie Prefecture, employing disabled people produces dog cookies that contain local seaweed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/18/national/politics-diplomacy/anti-terrorism-other-safety-measures-paramount-ahead-of-g-7-summit-says-mie-governor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/06/national/city-withdraws-controversial-ama-divers-mascot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/n-ama-a-20151107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ama-a-20151107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aoshima Megu, a controversial mascot slammed by some locals as overly sexual and demeaning to local ama divers, has been withdrawn by the city of Shima, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/11/national/ama-divers-denounce-obscene-city-mascot-demand-withdrawal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:55:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/n-shima-a-20150812.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shima-a-20150812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This ama diver character, adopted by Shima, Mie Prefecture, has been denounced as sexist and demeaning. Named Aoshima Megu, she is described as 17 years old and in search of a boyfriend.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/23/national/politics-diplomacy/g-7-summit-shima-fixed-may-26-27/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/05/national/politics-diplomacy/shima-capital-pearl-cultivation-host-g-7-summit-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-summit-a-20150606.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kashikojima Island, a scenic island in Ago Bay within the city of Shima, Mie Prefecture, on Friday was named as the venue for next year's Group of Seven summit.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/17/national/traditional-ama-diving-at-risk-as-numbers-plunge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ama-b-20150318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean female diver Kim Mi-jin, who trained in Japan, holds a sea cucumber harvested from the sea off the Goza district of Shima, Mie Prefecture, on Dec. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/24/national/skin-divers-turn-tourism-stem-tide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:56:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-tourism-a-20140425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Professional diver Machiyo Yamashita dries "wakame" (seaweed) she gathered off Shima, Mie Prefecture, last month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/26/national/prefectures-unite-on-ama-diving-campaign-for-unesco-culture-listing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/15/national/aging-ama-female-divers-strive-to-revive-ranks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T01:57:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nn20130716a4a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130716a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hand-picked: Nayomi Oi, an "ama" female diver, spreads out some "wakame" (seaweed) she harvested in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, in May 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/national/crime-legal/kansai-mother-son-hotels-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T12:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-1158347569.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n hotelcancel-a 20200213]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sources say a mother and son stayed in hotels around Kansai using around ¥2.5 million worth of T-Points they had obtained illegally.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/robot-analysts-outwit-humans-investment-picks-study-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T16:06:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-robostocks-a-20200214-scaled.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-robostocks-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/corporate-business/cyberattack-mitsubishi-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:06:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-hacking-a-20200214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-hacking-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cyberattack on Mitsubishi Electric Corp. began in March 2019 when hackers broke into a company server in China, it said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/world/science-health-world/plant-trillion-trees-u-s-lawmakers-offer-fossil-fuel-friendly-climate-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-ttrees-a-20200214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ttrees-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Measures for natural carbon removal such as tree planting have gained traction globally.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/crime-legal/police-crackdown-tailgating-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-tailgate-a-20200214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tailgate-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle is towed after a couple died and their two daughters were injured on the Tomei Expressway in a high-profile road-rage case in June 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/world/science-health-world/fossils-1-ton-fighting-turtle-found-south-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:21:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-turtle-a-20200214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-turtle-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration of the extinct freshwater turtle Stupendemys geographicus]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/japan-drugs-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-smuggling-a-20200214.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smuggling-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cannabis and stimulant drugs were seized in Nagoya on Oct. 23 following a police bust of a smuggling group.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/crime-legal/canadian-charged-smuggling-record-haul-stimulant-drugs-japan-worth-%c2%a51-8-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:28:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-drugs-a-20190313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drugs-a-20190313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bags of smuggled stimulant drugs are shown at Narita airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/19/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-democratic-party-donor-ed-buck-charged-running-drug-den-home-pair-died-overdose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:32:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f-buck-a-20190920.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-buck-a-20190920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ed Buck makes a 2010 campaign appearance for Meg Whitman (not shown), then a Republican candidate for governor of California, in Los Angeles. The prominent California Democratic donor, Buck, was charged Tuesday with running a drug house where two men died of overdoses.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/10/national/social-issues/japan-starting-to-view-drug-abuse-as-disease-needing-long-term-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/n-drug-a-20160711.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-drug-a-20160711.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsuneo Kondo, the founder of the first Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Center, gives an interview at Nihon DARC in Tokyo on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/25/national/crime-legal/japanese-man-arrested-in-indonesia-for-carrying-2-kg-of-shabu-shabu-methamphetamine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:33:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/23/national/crime-legal/couple-arrested-tokyos-haneda-airport-attempting-smuggle-meth-worth-%c2%a51-8-billion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-smuggling-a-20180424.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smuggling-a-20180424.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Packs of confiscated methamphetamine are shown to the media at Yokohama Customs on Monday. A couple has been arrested for attempting to smuggle the drugs, which are thought to be worth about ¥1.8 billion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/28/business/olympus-denies-bribery-says-china-units-wining-dining-of-customs-official-an-internal-control-matter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/04/business/japan-blocked-record-number-of-imported-fakes-in-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:38:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/b-fake-a-20150305.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fake-a-20150305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customs officer displays fake products confiscated at Sakaiminato port in Tottori Prefecture last August.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/05/national/taiwan-to-check-waste-shipments-from-japan-for-radiation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/24/national/training-drug-sniffing-dogs-narita-customs-officers-window-on-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p3-dog-a-20131225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-dog-a-20131225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Manato Kimura kyodo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/social-issues/paternity-leave-workaholic-dads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-paternity-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With no precedents to follow, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi admits he was somewhat confused about how to go about taking paternity leave.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/crime-legal/japanese-lawmaker-indicted-casino-bribery-released-bail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T17:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-akimoto-a-20200213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsukasa Akimoto, a House of Representative member indicted on charges of taking bribes from a Chinese firm in relation to casino matters, gets ready to enter a car after being released from the Tokyo Detention House.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/social-issues/elderly-seniors-chiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T18:20:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly resident at assisted living facility Ginmokusei Funabashi Natsumi serves customers at a public restaurant on its ground floor in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/crime-legal/pop-singer-noriyuki-makihara-arrested-illegal-stimulant-possession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T18:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriyuki Makihara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/corporate-business/softbank-founder-masayoshi-son-says-hes-open-working-elliott-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T19:16:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20200214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., listens at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. In a sign it is still struggling with its startup investments, SoftBank lost money again in its Vision Fund, one quarter after it posted a record quarterly loss driven by the meltdown at WeWork.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/corporate-business/softbanks-masayoshi-son-considers-new-type-fund-startup-investing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T19:19:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/asia-pacific/taiwan-us-b52-bombers-chinese-drills/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese H-6 bomber (left) flies near a Taiwan F-16 fighter jet on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/national/112-year-old-japanese-recognized-worlds-oldest-living-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T19:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chitetsu Watanabe, 112, celebrates after receiving a certificate stating he is the world's oldest living man from the Guinness World Records on Wednesday in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sens. Tim Kaine (center left) and Mike Lee, flanked by Dick Durbin (left) and Susan Collins, meet prior to a news conference just after the Senate advanced a bipartisan resolution asserting that President Donald Trump must seek approval from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran, at the Capitol in Washington Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-13T19:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-13T19:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Construction, Housing and Utilities Minister Vladimir Yakushev during a meeting in Moscow Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-13T19:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-13T20:22:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday during a hearing on the Monetary Policy Report.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ABN AMRO logo is seen at the headquarters in Amsterdam last May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/business/corporate-business/dentsu-post-loss-china-australia-operations-worsen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-13T20:24:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu's headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-13T20:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, prepares to speak to the media at the Lebanese Press Syndicate in Beirut, Lebanon, in January.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police investigate after a vehicle drove into pedestrians near a grocery store in Osaka last year, leaving four injured. The 80-year-old driver, who said he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal, was arrested.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-14T16:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plane flies over central Tokyo on Feb. 3 in a test of new flight paths bound for Haneda Airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/national/japan-flag-tsunami-warning/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Meteorological Agency panel proposed Thursday that a red and white checkered flag be used to warn people of tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-14T16:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/business/corporate-business/mgms-longtime-ceo-jim-murren-quit-contract-ends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-14T17:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jim Murren, chairman and chief executive officer of MGM Resorts International, poses for a photo at the Tokyo Dome following an interview in March 2019. Murren plans to step down at a time when the casino company is trying to cope with fallout from the coronavirus scare.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-14T17:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attorney General William Barr speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Legislative and Technology Conference in Washington Monday. Barr took a public swipe Thursday at President Donald Trump, saying that the president's tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases "make it impossible for me to do my job." Barr made the comment Thursday during an interview with ABC News.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-14T17:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Myanmar police officer poses for a photograph in Maungdaw, Rakhine state, in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-14T17:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This 2019 image from NASA shows Arrokoth, the farthest, most primitive object in the solar system ever to be visited by a spacecraft. Astronomers reported Thursday this pristine, primordial cosmic body photographed by the New Horizons probe is relatively smooth with far fewer craters than expected. It's also entirely ultrared, or highly reflective, which is commonplace in the faraway Twilight Zone of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/business/japan-not-exempted-us-investment-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-14T18:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/business/corporate-business/toshiba-logs-145-billion-net-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-14T18:32:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sluggish semiconductor sales have forced Toshiba Corp. to report a group net loss of ¥145.63 billion for the April-December period.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/national/kawasaki-gentrification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-14T20:01:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After successfully luring factories of big-name companies, Kawasaki morphed into a booming manufacturing hub, and ultimately a linchpin of the Keihin industrial region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/national/crime-legal/knife-man-prince-hisahito-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-14T21:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/05/national/nuclear-operator-seeks-restart-despite-active-fault-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-14T23:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 2 reactor at Fukui's Tsuruga nuclear plant]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-15T13:16:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrew McCabe, then the acting FBI director, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on May 11, 2017]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-15T13:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranians at Tehran's Grand Mosalla mosque on Thursday during the 40-day memorial for Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/15/national/nra-accuses-japan-atomic-power-altering-data-used-evaluate-fault-tsuruga-plants-no-2-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-15T19:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 2 reactor building of the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/national/tokyo-olympics-south-korean-hazmat-posters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-15T21:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Posters of torch relay runners in protective suits near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in January]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/16/business/corporate-business/softbank-invest-billion-latin-america-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-16T14:45:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Latin America continues to be SoftBank Group Corp.'s investment target this year, according to the head of SoftBank's Southern Cone region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/business/nissan-slashes-full-year-outlook-87-drop-net-profit-april-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-16T14:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-16T15:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei's first global flagship store in Shenzhen, China. The U.S. has accused Huawei of stealing from six U.S. technology companies and violating economic sanctions against Iran.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-17T15:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floodwater surrounds abandoned cars in Tenbury Wells in western England after the River Teme burst its banks on Sunday, as Storm Dennis caused flooding across large swaths of Britain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony's biggest headache is ensuring a reliable supply of DRAM and NAND flash memory for its next PlayStation, with both in high demand as smartphone makers gear up for fifth-generation devices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/khamenei-loyalists-election-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-17T17:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Allies of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have ensured hardliners dominate the field, removing moderates and leading conservatives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/17/business/sustainability-european-companies-poor/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frans Timmermans, EU executive vice president in charge of the European Green Deal, speaks at an event with young people during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Madrid on Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/17/business/corporate-business/sharp-japan-first-5g-smartphone/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp. unveils its first 5G smartphone model, the Aquos R5G, in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/17/world/pipeline-protests-derail-trudeau-barbados/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Due to climate change, some farmers around the world have changed the crops they grow or livestock they keep to cope with rising temperatures and erratic weather.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (left) holds talks Monday in Tokyo with Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, shake hands at a meeting in Munich on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a rally Sunday in Las Vegas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump ride in the presidential limousine as they take a pace lap ahead of the start of the Daytona 500 Nascar race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The economy contracted by the most in more than five years in the October-December quarter.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-17T20:51:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan-Philippine relations have grown substantially over the past few years, with agreements covering not only defense equipment and transfers, but also critical capacity-building and broader regional cooperation ranging from cybersecurity to maritime security.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iron lady: LDP lawmaker Tomomi Inada is championing a bill to expand the "widow's deduction" covering single parents who have never been married.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rogue SoftBank employee allegedly sold some of the company's proprietary secrets to a Russian official who fled Japan on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto holds a news conference in Tokyo on Friday in which he denied taking bribes from a Chinese company interested in Japan's nascent casino market.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideya Kaburaki, 84, former head of Kefir Inc., was arrested Tuesday and transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An activist wearing a mask depicting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes part in a protest to demand Japan stop supporting coal, outside the venue of the U.N. climate change conference (COP25) in Madrid in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawson Inc.'s "grab and go" shop will not need humans to staff checkout counters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T20:32:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor will take over vehicle development functions from its Honda R&amp;D unit and absorb another unit involved in the development of machine tools.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/18/business/fujitsu-gets-japans-first-preliminary-local-5g-license/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son concedes there have been "some conflicts with hotel owners" over Oyo, a fast-growing hotel operator startup, but says that's normal in such businesses.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and wife Jane O'Meara Sanders read to the crowd during a campaign stop in Richmond, California, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Airlines jet flies over the Shinjuku area in Tokyo to test a new low-altitude flight path to Haneda Airport on Feb. 2.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (right) discusses paternity leave issues with ministry officials Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers walk through the Ginza district in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping gestures near a sign that says "Race against time, Fight the Virus" during an inspection of the center for disease control and prevention of Chaoyang District in Beijing on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man who has recovered from the COVID-19 coronavirus infection donates plasma Sunday in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province, aimed at curing infected patients in severe and critical conditions. The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 1,770 after 105 more people died, the National Health Commission said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A factory operated by Changan Mazda Automobile Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. in Nanjing, China, partially resumed operations Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/17/business/corporate-business/nintendo-switch-us-europe-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:47:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. is likely to suffer a shortage of Switch game consoles for the U.S. and European markets as soon as April due to supply chain disruptions in China caused by the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:47:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple walk in Shanghai on Friday. Broad policy direction for the world's central banks will hinge on how the Chinese government responds to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/16/business/economy-business/tourism-coronavirus-covid19-2021-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:48:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wearing masks for protection arrive at the airport in Beijing on Feb. 9. China's death toll from the virus has soared to above 1,600 as other nations step up efforts to block the disease.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Koreans visit the statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on Sunday to commemorate the 78th birthday of Kim Jong Il.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:56:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping, wearing a protective face mask, receives a temperature check at a community health center in Beijing on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker gestures to a driver outside a tumor hospital newly designated to treat COVID-19 patients in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/16/business/economy-business/japan-lose-billion-tourism-revenue-covid19-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese tourist holds a selfie stick at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2017. Japan could lose $1.29 billion in tourism revenue in the January-March period due to international flight restrictions stemming from the new coronavirus outbreak, according to an estimate by a U.N. agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:57:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers disembark from the five-times-rejected cruise ship MS Westerdam in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:57:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NIAID Director Anthony Fauci speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar (second, left), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert R. Redfield (left) and Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun (right) look on during a press conference on the coordinated public health response to the 2019 coronavirus on Feb. 7 in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers assemble cars at Honda Motor Co.'s plant in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, China, in April last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T22:58:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/business/economy-business/japans-economy-set-biggest-hit-since-2014-ahead-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jecon-a-20200215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Growth prospects for the economy have been overshadowed by the fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to economists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/wuhan-student-surviving-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Tiger Ye" at home in Wuhan on Feb. 13 after being discharged from quarantine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/asia-pacific/china-two-fronts-anger-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A traveler stands near a display showing government propaganda in the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers cheer and clink wine glasses as the MS Westerdam cruise ship docks at port in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Thursday in this still image obtained from social media video.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/business/labcorp-begins-work-developing-coronavirus-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/vietnam-quarantines-rural-community-10000-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese health worker stands guard at a disease checkpoint of Son Loi commune in Vinh Phuc province, Vietnam, Wednesday. The sign at the checkpoint reads: "Disease checkpoint of acute respiratory infection caused by the new coronavirus."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-mulls-delaying-annual-legislative-meeting-amid-virus-spread-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures near a heart shape sign and the slogan "Race against time, Fight the Virus" during an inspection of the center for disease control and prevention of Chaoyang District in Beijing Monday. Xi said Wednesday he is promising tax cuts and other aid to industries hurt by a virus outbreak in a renewed effort to rein in the rising damage to the economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/cdc-confirms-15th-case-coronavirus-united-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:11:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empty lodging facilities are seen Feb. 2 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The Department of Defense says it is providing temporary lodging support for up to 1,000 passengers being evacuated from China to the U.S. in response to the coronavirus outbreak there.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/asia-pacific/virus-shuts-north-koreas-best-route-around-trump-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:12:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People boil eggs at the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/economy-business/imf-chief-expects-quick-recovery-virus-hit-chinese-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva listens during an event at the World Bank on Feb. 10 in Washington. She has said China is likely to see a V-shaped recovery once the COVID-19 crisis ends, while acknowledging many uncertain factors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/japan-china-challenges-manufacturing-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker waves near a propaganda poster as patients arrive at a temporary hospital converted from the Wuhan Sports Center in central China's Hubei Province on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/results-chinese-drug-trials-coronavirus-due-weeks-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (third left) and other members of the WHO panel, including Marie-Paule Kieny (left) discuss the response to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/13/business/tech/organisers-cancel-barcelonas-mobile-world-congress-coronavirus-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers clean the windows in one of the entrances at the Mobile World Congress 2020 venue in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday. Organizers of the world's biggest mobile technology fair are pulling the plug over worries about the viral outbreak from China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/turned-away-coronavirus-fear-cruise-ship-risks-running-low-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Holland America Line cruise ship Westerdam passes through the West Arm of Glacier Bay, Alaska.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/new-coronavirus-cases-lowest-since-january-experts-disagree-peak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer operates a drone near an expressway toll station in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong Province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/asia-pacific/taiwan-chinas-who-permission-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in Taiwan wear protective face masks as they view lanterns on display for the Lunar New Year in Taipei on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/second-plane-carrying-canadian-evacuees-chinas-wuhan-arrives-canada-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers step off a plane carrying Canadians back from the Wuhan province in China, after it arrived at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Trenton, Ontario, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/virus-outbreak-may-china-april-says-doctor-battled-sars-epidemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-virusover-a-20200212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zhong Nanshan, head of the National Health Commission's team investigating the novel coronavirus outbreak, speaks during an interview in Guangzhou on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/business/nissan-first-japanese-carmaker-halt-domestic-plant-operations-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles move on the assembly line at Nissan Motor Co.'s Kyushu plant in the town of Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture, in July 2015. The carmaker plans to halt operations at the plant for two days this month amid the new coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/business/economy-business/china-xi-jinping-warned-contain-coronavirus-hurt-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-xivirus-a-20200212.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping, wearing a protective face mask, receives a temperature check as he visits a community health center in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/business/japanese-manufacturers-restart-operations-china-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinaplants-a-20200212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Honda Motor Co. headquarters in Tokyo. Some Japanese manufacturers including Honda are resuming operations in China after suspensions caused by the new coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/asia-coronavirus-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-viruspore-a-20200212.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office workers have their body temperatures screened in Singapore on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/advance-team-experts-arrives-china-probe-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:49:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/countries-rush-build-diagnostic-capacity-coronavirus-spreads-live-samples-elude/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:49:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-diagnostic-a-20200212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-diagnostic-a-20200212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks next to Michael J. Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations, in Geneva Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/coronavirus-cases-outside-china-spark-bigger-fire-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-spark-a-20200212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (right), and Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's Health Emergencies program, address the media during a press conference at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva Monday on the situation regarding to the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/10/business/economy-business/outlook-japan-dimming-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-economy-watchers-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ecowatcher-a-20200211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coronavirus outbreak has dampened the business outlook for companies sensitive to economic trends, government data showed Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/10/business/coronavirus-measure-economy-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:50:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Starbucks Corp. coffee shop is closed in Shanghai on Friday amid China's efforts to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/10/asia-pacific/coronavirus-china-surveillance-state-privacy-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:51:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveillance cameras in the Lujiazui financial district of Pudong, Shanghai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/10/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/advance-team-coronavirus-finally-way-china-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-tweets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/10/business/amazon-pulls-major-barcelona-telecom-conference-coronavirus-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/10/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/briton-french-alps-may-spread-coronavirus-others-across-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:52:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two men ready an ambulance outside the Son Espases University Hospital in Palma de Mallorca where a British man has been diagnosed with coronavirus, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/09/world/coronavirus-sars-diamond-princess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-china-a-20200210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers make protective clothing at a factory in Wuxi in China's Jiangsu province on Saturday. The factory, which previously produced suits and sportswear, switched to production of protective clothing as demand increases due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The death toll in China surged past 800 on Sunday, overtaking the global fatality total from the 2002-03 SARS epidemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/09/world/coronavirus-cases-wuhan-may-nearing-peak-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman wearing a protective face mask sits in a park in Hong Kong on Sunday as a preventative measure after the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China. The previously unknown virus has caused alarm because of its similarity to SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed hundreds across mainland China and Hong Kong from 2002 to 2003.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/08/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/passengers-trapped-hong-kong-cruise-fear-coronavirus-exposure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Dream cruise ship at the Kai Tak terminal in Hong Kong]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/08/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/coronavirus-death-toll-sars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:53:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers outside an almost-deserted luxury mall in Beijing on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/08/business/corporate-business/half-uniqlo-muji-stores-closing-virus-hit-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/business/corporate-business/toyota-delay-restart-china-plants-another-10-days-light-wuhan-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors walk at the Toyota gallery in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday that it was extending a production stoppage at its plants in China to sometime after Feb. 17 because of the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/business/corporate-business/coronavirus-china-shiseido-nintendo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-18T23:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co. President Masahiko Uotani speaks during a news conference Thursday in Tokyo about the impact of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak on the major cosmetics maker, which has seen its sales halved in the Chinese market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/wuhan-doctor-asia-fake-news-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:25:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Li Wenliang  Source: Weibo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/business/tech/coronavirus-robots-china-hospitals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/when-will-coronavirus-peak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Koreans are wed in a mass ceremony organized by the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong on Friday. South Korea has confirmed 24 cases of the SARS-like virus so far and placed nearly 260 people in quarantine for detailed checks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/us-vs-china-taiwan-who-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vaiwan-a-20200208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese pray at the Taoist Baoan Temple in Taipei on Tuesday. Taiwan has uncovered 16 cases of the new coronavirus so far.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/07/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinese-rage-death-doctor-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-liwenliang-a-20200208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff members set up beds for patients displaying mild symptoms of the novel coronavirus infection at an exhibition center that has been converted into a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/drugmakers-long-road-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-virvacc-a-20200207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers set up medical equipment at the Leishenshan Hospital, a facility for treating patients of the new coronavirus that is under construction, in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/business/corporate-business/japanese-companies-look-teleworking-avoid-coronavirus-infection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/death-toll-china-coronavirus-jumps-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:27:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-viruswrap-a-20200207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man stands at a window of a staff accommodation block where Britons recently flown back from China and at risk from the new virus are being quarantined at Arrowe Park Hospital in Liverpool, England, on Wednesday. Britain on Tuesday urged all of its citizens in China to leave the country because of the outbreak of a respiratory illness from a new virus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/350-u-s-evacuees-virus-hit-chinese-city-land-california-air-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usevac-a-20200207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plane carrying evacuees from the virus zone in China lands at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Wednesday in San Diego, California. One of two jets carrying Americans fleeing the virus zone in China landed Wednesday morning at Miramar after first landing at an Air Force base in Northern California.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/business/phase-1-trade-deal-ambiguity-gives-china-ample-room-coronavirus-delays-funding-u-s-export-boom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, speaks during a television interview in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington Jan. 29. The new coronavirus outbreak in China will delay Beijing's plans to purchase goods from the United States under the terms of a trade deal, the top U.S. trade official said Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/canadian-military-town-prepares-coronavirus-evacuees-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trenton-a-20200207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Quinte West Mayor Jim Harrison is photographed in front of the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton 8 Wing Headquarters as CFB Trenton prepare for the arrival and quarantine of Canadians evacuated from China due to the outbreak of coronavirus, in Trenton, Ontario, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/three-businessmen-contract-coronavirus-singapore-business-conference-asian-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:28:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/cathay-pacific-asks-employees-take-unpaid-leave-virus-hits-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/corporate-business/watami-to-close-china-restaurants-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/corporate-business/nomura-china-hiring-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-nomura-a-20200206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nomura-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite the coronavirus outbreak, Nomura Holdings Inc. is moving forward with plans to hire wealth managers for its new China operation.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/corporate-business/air-cargo-carriers-china-demand-weak-despite-flight-cuts-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:29:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cargo-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers sort packages at an air cargo terminal at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/asia-pacific/passengers-crew-held-cruise-ship-hong-kong-authorities-check-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-hkcruise-a-20200206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hkcruise-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Dream cruise ship at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/corporate-business/major-japanese-firms-profit-fall-2019-fiscal-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:29:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-jpfirms-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpfirms-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major Japanese companies are expected to log a 9.6 percent fall in combined net profit for fiscal 2019 through March, according to data recently compiled by SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/coronavirus-outbreak-likely-began-bats-omen-next-epidemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-virusbats-a-20200206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-virusbats-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers in protective suits disinfect a railway station in Changsha, Hunan province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/russia-sets-siberia-quarantine-prepare-potential-china-virus-spread/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-siberia-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sanatorium in Bogandinsky in the Tyumen region, western Siberiia, about 2,150 km east of Moscow, is seen Tuesday. Evacuees from virus-hit China will be quarantined for 14 days in the facility.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/brazil-gets-china-ok-send-two-planes-evacuate-citizens-virus-hit-wuhan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo attends a press conference at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/world/science-health-world/jamaica-bound-jetliner-returns-toronto-passenger-falsely-claims-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-hoax-a-20200206.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hoax-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Westjet plane lands at La Guardia International Airport in New York in 2018. A passenger jet taking winter-weary Canadians to Jamaica was forced to turn back after a passenger falsely claimed to have the coronavirus, the airline said Tuesday. The Westjet flight to Montego Bay was diverted to Toronto on Monday "due to an unruly guest," spokesman Morgan Bell told AFP.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/working-recommendations-resuming-flights-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-flights-a-20200206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sylvie Briand, director of global infectious hazard preparedness at the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a news conference on the new coronavirus outbreak, in Geneva Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/05/business/hyundai-halt-south-korea-output-china-virus-disrupts-parts-supply/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past the logo of Hyundai Motor during the 2019 Seoul Motor Show in Goyang, South Korea, last March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/business/400000-chinese-travelers-cancel-trips-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-chinesetravel-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists wear masks in Tokyo on Jan. 26 amid the spread of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus from the central Chinese city of Wuhan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/taiwan-bars-entry-foreign-nationals-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:37:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-taiwanvirus-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwanvirus-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing protective masks pray beside their clothes laid out on a table at a Taoist Baoan temple in Taipei on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/philippine-leader-duterte-says-xenophobia-chinese-must-stop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:37:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wearing a protective mask reads a Chinese language newspaper that says "Philippines bans travelers from China, Hong Kong and Macau" as he walks at Manila's Chinatown on Monday. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a temporary ban on all travelers, except Filipinos, from China and its autonomous regions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/business/china-plant-closing-automakers-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-chinacars-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chinacars-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla vehicles sit at a shipping depot after being delivered in Shanghai last February. Amid an unprecedented two-year slump, and now the coronavirus outbreak, hopes are dwindling that China, the world's largest car market, will be able to recover anytime soon.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/russia-may-deport-foreigners-coronavirus-halts-trains-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:38:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin attends a meeting with his deputies in Moscow Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinese-woman-detained-hiding-virus-contact-history-xinhua/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-liu-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-liu-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military medical staff stand in formation after arriving at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/world/science-health-world/brazil-declare-emergency-quarantine-nationals-returning-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-brazil-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-brazil-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta arrives for a press conference on the evacuation of Brazilian citizens from the region affected by the coronavirus in China, at the Ministry of Health building in Brasilia on Monday. A group of Brazilians sent a video from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, asking President Jair Bolsonaro for help to return home.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/business/air-transit-hub-uae-suspend-flights-china-flights-excluding-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-uae-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-uae-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists pose for a photo under the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency after the number of cases spiked tenfold in a week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/virus-team-may-go-china-week-include-u-s-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-who-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-who-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), adresses his statement during the 146th session of the World Health Organization Executive Board at WHO headquarters in Geneva Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evacuees gather on the steps of the New World Trade Tower Hotel before an evacuation flight Saturday for EU nationals in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Lunar New Year holiday period has been disappointing for Japanese department stores that have grown reliant on Chinese tourists.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local medical workers hold a strike near Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong on Monday as they demand the city close its border with China to reduce the chance of a SARS-like virus from spreading.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects a disposable protective mask at the Clever Co. factory in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stocks in Shanghai opened almost 9 percent lower Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 28.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only a few people in Shanghai are using the normally bustling Nanjing Road last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese citizens wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as they check in to their Air China flight to Beijin.g, at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) meets Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Akorda presidential residence in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Twitter logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken in November.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[State Commission of Quality Management staff armed with protective gear and disinfectant prepare to check the health of travelers arriving from abroad at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign announces that masks are sold out at a grocery store following the outbreak of a new coronavirus, in Hong Kong Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:57:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Face masks may be of less benefit if the new coronavirus is additionally being transmitted via the gastrointestinal system.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing face masks pray near posters warning about the coronavirus at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing face masks pray at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul on Sunday. South Korea will bar entry by foreigners who have visited China's Hubei province, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak, the country's prime minister said Sunday, a media report said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wearing a face mask, South Korean President Moon Jae-in visits a hospital in Seoul last week where people infected with the coronavirus are hospitalized.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/01/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-virus-cases-undercounted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker checks the temperature of tourist from Wuhan, China, as he waits for a charter flight back to the Chinese city at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipinos buy protective face masks at a medical supply store in Manila on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Community health workers in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, check the temperature of a person who recently returned from Hubei province on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:59:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T00:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors at Sensoji temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police man a checkpoint at the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge from Hubei province to Jiujiang, in Jiangxi province, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A masked Hong Konger uses his phone on a pier on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The flight crew of a chartered Scoot airline flight that flew to Wuhan, China, to evacuate Singaporean nationals arrives at Changi international airport on Singapore on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists wearing protective masks pray at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is seen outside Downing Street in London Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs in a Home Depot store in Tacoma, Washington, Wednesday limit purchases of protective masks to a limit of 10 per customer. People around the world are buying up protective face masks in hopes of keeping the new virus from China at bay, leading to shortages in some areas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff in protective suits treat a patient with pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Hubei province of China on Monday. Many Japanese firms operating in Wuhan have decided to postpone plans to resume factory operations in the city after the Lunar New Year holiday period.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wear masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday. Many countries across the globe are now wondering how they should deal with Chinese tourists, as fear of the potentially deadly disease spreads.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/30/world/science-health-world/virus-dread-spreads-germany-alert-munich-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:17:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A television crew films outside the Schwabing hospital, where four people are being treated for coronavirus, as snow falls in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday. Governments tightened international travel and border crossings with China to try to stop the spread of a coronavirus outbreak that has sickened thousands, and Germany said it had identified a cluster of local patients infected by a woman from Shanghai who had been visiting Europe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/30/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinas-hubei-says-coronavirus-deaths-risen-162-province/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle flying a Chinese flag drives past a woman wearing a face mask as she rides a bicycle along a street in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province Wednesday. Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/29/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/u-s-nations-prepare-evacuations-virus-spreads-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:18:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A village committee member on Wednesday stops a car in Tianjiaying village, on the outskirts of Beijing, as he guards the entrance of a community to prevent outsiders from entering amid the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/29/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/australia-lab-grown-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Mike Catton (center right) and Dr. Julian Druce speak at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/29/world/coronavirus-stokes-asian-discrimination-fears-canadas-biggest-city/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinatown district of downtown Toronto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/29/business/starbucks-shuts-half-china-stores-amid-virus-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/business/economy-business/china-virus-wuhan-japan-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:21:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economists at SMBC Nikko Securities estimate that if a ban by China on overseas group tours lasts six months, it could hurt Japan's economic growth by 0.05 percent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/global-alarm-grows-beijing-reports-first-coronavirus-death-trump-offers-help-necessary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing protective masks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus that began in Wuhan, China, stand outside the Beijing railway station Monday. China on Monday extended its biggest national holiday to buy time in the fight against a viral epidemic and neighboring Mongolia closed its border.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:21:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker checks the body temperature of a car passenger at a checkpoint outside the city of Yueyang, Hunan Province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/germany-plans-evacuate-citizens-coronavirus-hit-wuhan-der-spiegel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:21:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical workers in protective gear talk with a woman suspected of being ill with a coronavirus at a community health station in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/world/science-health-world/wife-canadas-first-coronavirus-patient-confirmed-countrys-second-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinese-woman-sri-lankas-first-confirmed-case-coronavirus-health-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:21:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese passengers wearing face masks walk past a thermal scanner set up to check the temperature of passengers at Colombo International airport in Colombo Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/27/asia-pacific/bomb-hong-kong-hospital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police wear protective masks while standing guard on Nathan Street in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/27/business/wuhan-virus-impact-business-travel-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:22:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airport employees and a passenger are seen wearing masks in a departure lobby at Beijing international airport Monday amid the outbreak of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus that has spread overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/27/business/financial-markets/stocks-tumble-oil-yen-climbs-treasuries-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:22:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-markets-a-20200128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronic board in Tokyo shows stock prices tumbling Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/26/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/hong-kong-protesters-virus-china-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First aid volunteers try to extinguish a fire set by local residents at a building of the Fai Ming Estate, in Fanling district of Hong Kong, on Sunday after the Hong Kong government announced it would requisition the unoccupied housing project to house quarantined patients of the new viral coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/26/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-hiv-drugs-treatment-wuhan-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staffers wearing protective clothing arrive with a coronavirus patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in the Chinese city on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/26/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/fever-china-virus-detection-harder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An advanced thermo camera scans passengers arriving on one of the last flights from Wuhan, China, at a health screening station at Narita Airport on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/26/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-infection-control-studies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A patient is wheeled into the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in the Chinese city Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/25/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/wuhan-virus-genetic-code-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official wears a protective mask and glasses at the arrivals hall of Suvarnabhumi Airport to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus in Bangkok on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/24/business/face-masks-hand-sanitizers-asia-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer shops for face masks at a pharmacy in the Central district of Hong Kong on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/24/business/wuhan-corona-virus-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security guards patrol outside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/23/asia-pacific/wuhan-coronavirus-quarantine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:27:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-viruscity-a-20200124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese paramilitary police wearing masks stand guard while people wait for their train at Hongqioa station as they head home for the Lunar New Year in Shanghai on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/seattle-area-man-visited-wuhan-first-u-s-case-mysterious-new-chinese-illness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:27:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers are screened with thermal scanners at Hankou railway station in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/taiwan-excluded-calls-china-share-correct-virus-information/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-taiwanvirus-a-20200123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwanvirus-a-20200123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a news conference at the presidential office as Vice President Chen Chien-jen looks on in Taipei on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/business/corporate-business/cathay-pacific-cabin-crew-masks-mainland-china-flights-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cathay-a-20200123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an effort to deal with ongoing coronavirus concerns, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. will allow cabin crew to wear surgical masks while working on mainland China flights.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/north-korea-closes-borders-all-foreign-tourists-coronavirus-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkvirus-a-20200123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists walk on the Broken Bridge over the Yalu River that divides North Korea and China, in Dandong, China, in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/cdc-expects-u-s-cases-china-coronavirus-adds-airports-greater-screening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinese-doctor-investigating-coronavirus-outbreak-says-infected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:28:14+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/21/asia-pacific/coronavirus-china-food-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker in a protective suit is seen at the closed seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei province, China Jan. 10. The seafood market is linked to the outbreak of the pneumonia caused by the new strain of coronavirus, but some patients diagnosed with the new coronavirus deny exposure to this market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/21/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/australia-screen-flights-china-warns-coronavirus-difficult-stop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ozvirus-a-20200122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff carry a box as they walk at the Jinyintan hospital, where the patients with pneumonia caused by the new strain of coronavirus are being treated, in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/19/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/new-coronavirus-outbreak-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-virusfactbox-a-20200120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beijing Station on Friday. The mysterious new SARS-like virus has heightened fears ahead of China's Lunar New Year holiday, when hundreds of millions of people will travel.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/15/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/says-new-china-coronavirus-spread-warns-hospitals-worldwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-virus-a-20200116.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wong Ka-hing, controller of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health, and professor Yuen Kwok-yung (left) leave after a press conference at the Health Department in Hong Kong Saturday. Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported Saturday that seven other people are in critical condition.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/mysterious-virus-china-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T01:51:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taisei Corp. has built a bridge using a 3D printer, marking the first time a prestressed concrete bridge has been built with using the method in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. will cut back flights to South Korea's Busan and Gimpo airports, as well as those connecting Osaka and Taipei.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tohoku Electric Power Co. is looking to fund offshore wind projects by selling its first green bonds.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exports in January declined 2.6 percent from a year earlier to ¥5.43 trillion.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[﷯Nomura Holdings Inc.'s head of investment banking for Asia excluding Japan says the firm's business in Asia is set to return to profit this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nakanishi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renault had its credit rating cut to junk by Moody's Investors Service.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Paris Japan Cultural Center taste sake at an event featuring sake and food from Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers walk by a VIA train in Ottawa in December. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Tuesday against the use of force to resolve a rail blockade sparked by indigenous protesters and now in its second week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron poses with youths during his visit in Mulhouse during a trip on the theme of the republican reconquest and the fight against Islamist separatism, in Mulhouse, eastern France, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets attendees at a cherry blossom-viewing party held at a park in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-19T22:13:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/19/asia-pacific/coronavirus-pandemic-or-new-flu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-19T22:17:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model of a betacoronavirus, a type of virus linked to COVID-19]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:16:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An agriculture ministry expert panel meets Thursday in Tokyo to discuss preventive vaccinations for swine fever to be given to pigs at farms in prefectures with confirmed cases.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagano Prefecture officials plant bait laced with swine fever vaccine at a mountain in Kiso on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:18:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person in protective gear works in an Ebola care facility on June 14 at the Bwera hospital in Bwera, Uganda, near the border with Congo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cancer cells are seen on a large screen connected to a microscope at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, Germany, in March 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby receives the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella at Neath Port Talbot Hospital near Swansea in south Wales.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health workers wearing protective gear check on a patient isolated in a plastic cube at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo, in July. Congo's year-long Ebola outbreak has spread to a new province, with two cases, including one death, confirmed in South Kivu, according to the government health ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cancer-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Cancer Center on Thursday released three-year survival rates for cancers of the kidneys, gallbladder, pharynx, and renal pelvis and ureter. The latest tally showed that those who were diagnosed with cancer at early stages have higher survival rates.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/04/world/science-health-world/dementia-patients-california-mans-best-friend-robot-dog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:29:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A conventional dialysis machine is seen at a hospital in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/29/national/media-national/dementia-cases-rise-nations-character-changes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-20T02:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-biginjapan-a-20190630.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rising concern: Dementia cases in Japan could number 7 million by 2025, up from 6 million now.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/28/national/crime-legal/court-orders-japan-government-pay-%c2%a5370-million-leprosy-patients-kin-discrimination/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a lawsuit demanding the payment of damages to family members of former leprosy patients applaud in front of the Kumamoto District Court on Friday after the court ordered the state to pay about ¥370 million in damages.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/20/world/science-health-world/eroding-trust-vaccines-leaves-populations-vulnerable-global-study-finds/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Community staff members deliver food to residents of Wuhan, China, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/14/national/science-health/swine-fever-spreads-eastern-japan-one-year-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Department of Public Health office for the County of Los Angeles in Los Angeles is seen in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/07/national/japans-former-empress-michiko-undergo-heart-exam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:38:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Empress Michiko]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/07/world/science-health-world/1-4-ebola-cases-go-undetected-caught-late-congo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:39:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Desy Shabani, a psycho-social assistant, talks to suspected Ebola patients at an Ebola treatment center in Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/04/national/hearing-concerns-japan-wont-set-numerical-target-cutting-dementia-patients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:41:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A panel of experts holds a meeting in Tokyo on May 16 to discuss new guidelines to strengthen measures to cope with dementia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Washing machines are displayed at a store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents of schoolchildren in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, express their thoughts after Sunday's referendum on installing air conditioners at public schools.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daikin Industries Ltd. employees produce outdoor air conditioning units at the company's Kusatsu factory in Shiga Prefecture in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/28/business/economy-business/last-summers-heat-wave-japan-helped-push-appliance-shipments-22-year-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T01:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-appliances-a-20190129.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strong sales of air conditioners to cope with last summer's heat wave helped push up shipments of appliances to their highest level in 22 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/01/business/sweaty-workers-ditch-ties-cool-biz-enters-10th-year/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work in casual attire at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/29/national/science-health/blood-test-can-predict-dementia-japanese-developers-urge-caution-theres-no-curative-treatment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:07:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20190530.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Tanaka, senior fellow at Shimadzu Corp., at the company's headquarters in Kyoto on April 24. The Nobel Prize winner said he hopes the test he helped pioneer — the predictive blood test for Alzheimer's disease — will one day be administered routinely, but right now it belongs in the hands of drug developers and research laboratories.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/28/world/science-health-world/scientists-zoom-bug-behind-strep-throat-scarlet-fever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:08:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mami Mizutori, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, delivers her statement during the opening of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/15/national/social-issues/japan-aims-slash-dementia-cases-among-patients-70s-6-next-six-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-dementia-a-20190516.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is aiming to cut dementia cases among patients in their 70s by 6 percent over the next six years, government sources said Wednesday. Specific measures for disease prevention include holding exercise lessons at local community centers, as it has been found that physical activity and social engagement could help prevent the disease.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/13/asia-pacific/vietnam-culls-1-2-million-pigs-african-swine-fever-spreads-nationwide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:12:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vietnampigs-a-20190514.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pigs' feet hang on display for sale at a market stall in Hong Kong on Saturday. African swine fever, which has spread rapidly in China, has also hit neighboring Vietnam, which has culled more than 1.2 million infected farmed pigs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/13/business/corporate-business/leading-japanese-insecticide-maker-plans-expand-sales-china-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/10/national/science-health/japan-struggles-ditch-vaccine-backwater-image-due-policy-gaps-making-vulnerable-outbreaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-vaccination-a-20190511.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor administers a vaccination at a facility in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/03/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/monstrous-rumors-stoke-hostility-pakistans-anti-polio-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani policemen escort members of a polio vaccination team during a door-to-door immunization campaign on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 26.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/30/national/two-narita-airport-workers-confirmed-measles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-measles-a-20190501.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narita airport's departure lobby in Chiba Prefecture is packed with travelers Friday, a day before a 10-day holiday kicked off.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/national/science-health/eye-opener-japanese-doctors-work-ips-cells-puts-macular-degeneration-notice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-takahashi-a-20190425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-takahashi-a-20190425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Masayo Takahashi, who heads the Takahashi lab at Riken's center for biological development in Kobe, is a pioneer in iPS cell research focusing on treating eye disorders.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/23/world/science-health-world/u-s-records-71-new-measles-cases-week-outbreak-spreads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-measles-a-20190424.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-measles-a-20190424.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Materials are seen left at a demonstration by people opposed to childhood vaccinations after officials in Rockland County, a New York City suburb, banned children not vaccinated against measles from public spaces, in West Nyack, New York, March 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/19/world/science-health-world/new-york-city-defends-measles-vaccination-order-court-parents-sue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:33:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f-measlesuit-a-20190420.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-measlesuit-a-20190420.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Jewish man and two woman push strollers as they cross a street in a Jewish quarter in Williamsburg Brooklyn in New York City April 9. The origins of the measles outbreak in the United States are not a mystery. Persons infected with the virus brought it to the United States from Israel and Ukraine and passed it on to members of their tight-knit communities, many of whom had not been vaccinated.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/18/national/science-health/patients-well-landmark-2017-retina-transplants-via-donor-ips-cells-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-ips-a-20190419.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ips-a-20190419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A transplant surgery using iPS cells for a patient with an eye disease is carried out at the Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital in March 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/16/national/fukuoka-high-court-overturns-district-court-ruling-refuses-damages-hepatitis-b-relapse-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-hepatitis-a-20190416.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hepatitis-a-20190416.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers for plaintiffs speak at a news conference in the city of Fukuoka on Monday after the Fukuoka High Court overturned a district court ruling and denied damages to chronic hepatitis B sufferers who contracted the illness in a state-run vaccination program.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/03/national/science-health/immunotherapy-key-brighter-future-cancer-patients-japans-aging-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cancer-a-20190404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobel laureate and immunologist Tasuku Honjo receives a prefectural award from Toyama Gov. Takakazu Ishii on March 23 in the city of Toyama.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/02/national/infectious-form-african-swine-fever-virus-detected-first-time-japan-meat-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-swine-a-20190403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The farm ministry said Tuesday that the African swine fever virus was discovered in these sausages brought to Chubu airport from China in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/02/world/science-health-world/congo-ebola-outbreak-spreading-faster-ever-deaths-occurred-outside-treatment-centers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T02:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20190403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health workers carry a newly admitted confirmed Ebola patient into a treatment center in Butembo in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, March 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/22/world/science-health-world/rediscovered-shrine-linked-rome-founder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T14:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-romulus-a-20200223.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/22/asia-pacific/covid-19-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-22T19:23:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-korea-a-20200223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean health official sprays disinfectant in front of a hospital where 16 infections have now been identified with COVID-19 in Cheongdo County near Daegu on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/23/national/first-birthday-address-emperor-naruhito-vows-work-public-japans-social-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-23T14:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-emperor-b-20200223-scaled.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emperor-b-20200223.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito speaks to reporters Friday at his residence near the Imperial Palace ahead of his 60th birthday Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/23/asia-pacific/singapore-lee-kuan-yew-will/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-23T16:09:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/23/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/coronavirus-incubation-27-days/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-23T18:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-27virus-a-20200224.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-27virus-a-20200224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 coronavirus is seen in an illustration.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/24/national/science-health/japan-transplant-donor-patient-anonymity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-24T13:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-organ-a-20200225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-organ-a-20200225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With more people posting about transplants on social media, there have been cases in which the identities of organ donors and recipients have been revealed, worrying organizations such as the Japan Organ Transplant Network and the Japan Marrow Donor Program. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/24/national/tokyo-climate-crisis-youth-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-02-24T18:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-climate-a-20200225.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-climate-a-20200225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Japanese who are members of local chapters of the global environmental group Fridays for Future are seen on the final day of the inaugural Climate Crisis Youth Summit in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako acknowledge tea party guests at the Imperial Palace on Sunday. The party was part of a series of events organized to celebrate the emperor's 60th birthday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A decision by a unit of Honda Motor Co. to stop local production is expected to affect 2,000 workers in the Philippines, according to the country's biggest labor coalition.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Behavox CEO Erkin Adylov]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chitetsu Watanabe poses with his own calligraphy that reads "world No. 1" in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, on Feb. 12, when he received a certificate identifying him as the world's oldest man at age 112.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Buddhist believer wearing a face mask leaves the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul on Tuesday. Countries around the world are stepping up efforts to prevent a pandemic of the flu-like coronavirus that originated in China late last year and has now infected more than 80,000 people as of Tuesday, 10 times more cases than SARS.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A stock index board in Tokyo shows the Nikkei 225 average dropping more than 1,000 points Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wear masks to help guard against coronavirus in downtown Tehran on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-26T00:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guests attend a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 nations in Riyadh on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-26T00:44:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, pauses during a news conference on COVID-19 in Geneva on Feb. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-26T00:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident of Daegu, South Korea, waits for her food on the Dongseong-ro shopping street on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-26T00:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sausages tainted with the highly contagious African swine fever were confiscated at Chubu Airport near Nagoya in January 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-26T00:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swimmer Rikako Ikee, who has been diagnosed with leukemia, helped increase the number of people registering as bone marrow donors by announcing her disease, according to a group coordinating bone marrow donations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burned structures are seen after attackers set fire to an Ebola treatment center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the east Congolese town of Katwa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb. 25.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Executive board members of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology hold a news conference Saturday in Tokyo's Chuo Ward after deciding to ease rules to allow qualified owners of private practices to conduct prenatal tests on pregnant women.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-26T01:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masashi Ito (center) teaches samba in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Jan. 19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Samurai Edson Suemitsu shows a katana at his home in Curitiba, Brazil, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-27T14:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climate activists march during a protest organized by the climate change action group Extinction Rebellion in London on Saturday. The youth-led Teach the Future campaign network in Britain is demanding a new U.K. law that would instruct all schools to teach climate issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-02-27T17:52:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing masks cross the famous scramble crossing in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A masked couple celebrate Valentine's Day at Orchard Road in Singapore on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, at the Kremlin in Moscow Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn addresses a large crowd of journalists on his reasons for dodging trial in Japan, where he is accused of financial misconduct, at the Lebanese Press Syndicate in Beirut last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Jichinsai ceremony, the last of a series of rituals performed to mark the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito, is held Friday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. John Ratcliffe speaks to the press at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A major solar power plant, a project involving General Electric Co., is seen in the city of Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi and General Electric Co. reportedly aim to commercialize a new type of nuclear reactor by the 2030s.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[General Electric Co., Merck KGaA, Sigma-Aldrich Corp. and Canon Inc. are the latest companies to risk hefty penalties as the European Commission clamps down on violations of its merger approval procedures.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[School closures to fight the coronavirus outbreak are exacerbating manpower shortages at retailers and restaurants, including Yoshinoya Co., forcing reduced business hours.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-03T17:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wear protective face masks as they walk through a market in Hong Kong's financial district amid the outbreak of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Missiles are seen during a drill by long-range artillery units of North Korea's military in this image released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical members wearing protective gear take samples from a driver with suspected symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a "drive-thru" virus test facility in Goyang, north of Seoul, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to extend the retirement age of one of the top officials at the Public Prosecutor's Office raised questions about the political independence of the body.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles travel past Tiananmen Gate during a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yonas Kinde, 39, an Ethiopian refugee, stretches before a training session at Waseda University's satellite campus in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, as he prepares for Sunday's Tokyo Marathon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/29/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration shows the novel coronavirus COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/29/national/crime-legal/osaka-police-bike-seats/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a tour of the "secretary's operation center" following a coronavirus task force meeting at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-rakuten-a-20200229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten's plan to make retailers on its online marketplace shoulder the cost of free shipping has stirred a controversy involving not only the retailers, but the country's antitrust watchdog as well.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/28/business/economy-business/japans-retail-entertainment-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Feb. 21. Economists expect the new virus that causes COVID-19 to lower household consumption by more than ¥2 trillion ($18 billion).]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Municipal workers clean a riot-affected area in New Delhi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/28/business/corporate-business/japan-post-insurance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroya Masuda, president and chief executive officer of the Japan Post Holdings Co., speaks during a news conference on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/28/business/world-economy-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:38:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An intersection in the upscale Ginza district of Tokyo on Feb. 15. The world economy may be heading for its worst performance since 2009 amid worries over COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare showed that the job availability ratio in January stood at 1.49, down from 1.57 in December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dongfeng Honda employees work on an assembly line at an auto plant in Wuhan, China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore's business district lies across the water from Bedok Jetty at the East Coast Park, built on reclaimed land.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The specialized nature of the watches Memorigin Watch Company makes means the firm's options for alternative suppliers outside China are limited, given the extra costs involved.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. says users of its popular messaging app were hacked this month and that some of them were used for phishing scams.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:46:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wears a facemask while pushing his shopping cart in Alhambra, California, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/28/business/huawei-build-first-european-5g-factory-france-soothe-western-nerves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-03T19:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei Technologies Chairman Liang Hua speaks during a news conference in Paris Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (from left) Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Vice President Mike Pence listen during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles carry belongings of internally displaced Syrians from the western Aleppo countryside, in Hazano near Idlib, Syria, Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Light illuminates Mount Everest during sunset in Nepal's Solukhumbu district, also known as the Everest region, in this 2015 picture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-03T20:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retiree Sadao Sekine walks down a street in the city of Saitama. The government  Tuesday decided to reform the pension system to expand the range of part-time workers who can join the kōsei nenkin public pension program for corporate employees.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi is interviewed in Vienna, Austria, in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Low blow: A plane flies over central Tokyo on Feb. 3 in a test of new flight paths for passenger aircraft bound for Haneda Airport, as the air hub looks to boost capacity in time for the 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sgt. Reina Hashiba is awarded the badge of an airborne brigade member at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Narashino in Chiba Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T14:35:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women walk on a shopping street in Beijing on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T14:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold placards during a demonstration against nuclear energy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the forthcoming Olympics Games, near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Feb. 29, 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T16:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Tatemichi, a secretary to lawmaker Anri Kawai, is surrounded by reporters outside his house in the city of Hiroshima on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/04/national/crime-legal/more-illegal-payments-anri-kawai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-04T18:11:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anri Kawai (left) and her husband Katsuyuki attend a political fundraising party at a hotel in Hiroshima in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T18:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg waves after speaking at a campaign event Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference regarding issues on undocumented immigrants in Beverly Hills, California, last July. Trump swatted away the latest controversy to shadow his unorthodox march toward the Republican presidential nomination on Monday, attributing his failure to disavow support from a white supremacist to a faulty television earpiece.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T18:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T18:46:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-facebook-a-20200305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Inc. and its partners are considering re-designing the Libra cryptocurrency project in an effort to woo reluctant global regulators and rebuild momentum for the plan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T18:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A red panda at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/27/business/corporate-business/japan-tobacco-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-04T18:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jt-a-20200228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Tobacco Inc. is allowing its domestic employees to work at home, in principle, to prevent them from catching the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/04/asia-pacific/thai-crown-prince-will-ascend-throne-dec-1-palace-official-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-04T19:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T19:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 1,000 students practice flipping boards with photos to reveal a full-mosaic portrait of the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Assumption College in Bangkok last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn observes the annual ploughing ceremony at Sanam Luang in Bangkok in this 2009 file image. He will now succeed his father as king.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi inspects the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A basketball wheelchair manufactured by Matsunaga Manufactory Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T19:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Policy Board member Goushi Kataoka]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-04T19:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kumamoto District Court on Wednesday ruled that special courts for segregated leprosy patients set up outside of standard courtrooms in the past were unconstitutional.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-shoji-pulse-gifts-a-20180211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The gift of giving: Department stores typically devote an entire section of their showrooms to seasonal gifts at various times of the year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A student undergoes an interview at a job fair in Tokyo in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Old and young: Residents at an old-age home are served a meal at dinnertime.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/22/business/tech/dr-phil-learns-the-dangers-of-erasing-tweets/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-badge-b-20200228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Shiino, who is on a yearlong paternity leave after becoming a father for the first time in December, has created a badge designed to be worn by able-bodied train or bus passengers to show that they are willing to give up their seats.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-fed-a-20200305.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks to reporters at a news conference Tuesday in Washington after the central bank cut interest rates in an emergency move designed to shield the world's largest economy from the impact of the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Uchida, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump responds to a question about Ukraine and the whistleblower report while holding a news story from the New York Times during a joint news conference with Finland President Sauli Niinisto at the White House in Washington last fall.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the Fridays for Future protest in Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keith Alexander, chief executive officer of IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco on Monday. Alexander discussed Huawei as a cybersecurity threat and safeguarding the U.S. elections.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Deputy Prime Minister, head of the crisis center on prevention of coronavirus spread, Tatyana Golikova (left) and Anna Popova, head of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), attend a briefing on prevention of spread of the COVID-2019 coronavirus, in Moscow Wednesday. Three Russians evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, Russian health officials said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated provided photo shows space for wheelchair users inside an express train in Germany. Japan's transport ministry plans to create similar spaces inside shinkansen trains.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian children take Japanese lessons at a school in Iga, Mie Prefecture, in August 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff members wear protective gear to care for patients infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus at a hospital in Daegu, South Korea, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, exits after a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington in January.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal Huawei documents obtained by Reuters could bolster Washington's campaign to check the power of the world's leading maker of telecommunications-equipment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank will launch its 5G network on March 27, accompanied by a lineup of 5G-ready smartphones.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Getting it right: Public health nurses, with faces obscured, attend a workshop in Tokyo in 2011 to learn how to offer counseling for gay people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A panel of experts with the health ministry Wednesday discusses approval of a gene therapy for treating spinal muscular atrophy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu Group Inc. said about 5,000 employee at its headquarters in Tokyo will telework from Wednesday after an employee was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While the law forbids Japanese couples from using different surnames after marriage, the practice is permitted in marriages between Japanese and foreign nationals.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-05T23:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest Wednesday in Tokyo over the Nuclear Regulation Authority giving its approval for the safety measures implemented at the No. 2 unit of the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he meets with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at Downing Street in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of an Iraqi Shiite family, all wearing masks, pose for a picture during their visit Tuesday to the shrine of Imam Ali in the holy Iraqi central city of Najaf, where the first case of coronavirus COVID-19 has been documented in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U..S President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump wave as they board Air Force One at Palam Air Force Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in hazmat suits are seen Wednesday in front of a pig farm in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, after a swine fever outbreak was detected, leading to about 6,600 pigs being culled.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works at the new Takeda Pharmaceutical factory in Oranienburg, Germany, in June 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Food for thought: You need your salivary glands to be working to enjoy and to digest food, but at least 8 million people in Japan suffer from dry mouth syndrome.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Using Truvada, "The speed of the decline we've seen in new HIV infections in gay and bisexual men is a world first," said study leader Andrew Grulich.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T18:48:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen in Tokyo's Higashi-Shimbashi district shows the Nikkei index dropping below 20,000 on Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T18:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stock price figures sit reflected in a window in the lobby of the Euronext NV Paris stock exchange in Paris.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T18:51:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs and their supporters seek damages from the state and the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant at Sendai High Court on Feb. 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T18:58:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restaurant tables stand empty in Venice's Piazza San Marco on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The market in the old section of Sanaa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/08/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/south-korea-coronavirus-8/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T19:04:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean health official wearing protective gear walks inside a closed apartment complex after 46 residents were confirmed to have the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Daegu on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/09/national/olympic-torch-fukushima-nuclear-evacuees-futaba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T19:53:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Given the lingering radiation, Yuji Onuma, an evacuee from the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, which co-hosts the defunct Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, has decided not to move back with his wife and two young sons. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miniatures of robots like these from the popular anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam" have been launched into space from the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-hoffman-paradise-a-20200308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overworked: The Japanese weren't always workaholics, writes author Jiro Asada in April's PHP magazine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/07/national/media-national/youtube-content-attempts-find-real-japanese-opinions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:21:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-stmichel-youtube-a-20200308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Window on the world: YouTube channels such as That Japanese Man Yuta feature interviews with Japanese people on global topics such as the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/07/national/media-national/resurgence-yoko-tajimas-personal-feminist-ideology/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-brasor-yoko-tajima-a-20200308.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Need for freedom: Former TV personality Yoko Tajima has enjoyed something of a resurgence in recent months. One of her books, written more than 20 years ago, is selling relatively well and she has been the subject of increased media coverage.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stage-4 cancer patient Kari Kolstoe poses with her medication as passengers are confined to their rooms on the Grand Princess, a cruise ship carrying at least 21 people who have tested positive for the new coronavirus, off the coast of San Francisco on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean soldiers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Daegu International Airport in Daegu on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:25:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers in protective suits observe a moment of silence for those killed by the March 11 mega-quake and tsunami during a search for bodies in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 11, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/07/national/science-health/japan-first-whole-genome-sequencing-service/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mask-clad tourist poses with the Olympic rings in the background in Tokyo's Odaiba district on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/07/world/senior-saudi-princes-accused-treason-arrested/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohammad bin Nayef, then Saudi Arabia's crown prince, and British Prime Minister Theresa May head to a bilateral meeting at An Nasiriyah Palace in Riyadh on April 4, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/national/tokyo-gov-yuriko-koike-questions-use-daylight-savings-time-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:38:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-koike-a-20180823.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuriko Koike]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/07/national/japan-mulls-daylight-savings-proposal-2020-olympics-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-daylight-b-20180807.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female athletes train in Tokyo in August 2017. The exercise is aimed at collecting data on marathon runners' physical reactions to extreme heat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/27/national/introducing-daylight-saving-time-2020-difficult-says-former-olympics-minister-toshiaki-endo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in scorching weather in Nagoya in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/07/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-wuhan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man and woman sit in front of a poster reminding citizens to wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a bus stop in Bozhou, in China's eastern Anhui province, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:47:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cruise ship worker cleans a railing on the Grand Princess off the California coast on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T20:47:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greg Kelly]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/national/social-issues/fukushima-radioactive-water-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T21:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hosono-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in protective gear gather in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Aug. 7, 2019, calling for a boycott of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, citing the need to protect athletes from exposure to radioactive substances released in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T21:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sato-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukushima's fishing industry was one of the prefecture's hardest-hit sectors following the March 2011 nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T21:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A power pylon lies toppled in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, on Sept. 9 last year after Typhoon Faxai made landfall near Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony's first 5G smartphone, the Xperia 1 II]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:29:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:30:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-stations-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A body scanner is set up at a subway station in Tokyo in November as part of a trial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/business/economy-business/sales-tax-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tax-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan saw a 6.3 percent economic contraction in the last three months of 2019, fueling criticism of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to carry out the tax increase at a vulnerable time for the economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (right) and his one-time ally Anwar Ibrahim leave a news conference in Kuala Lumpur in June 2018. Mahathir kicked off a leadership race after he abruptly submitted his resignation to the king on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/national/crime-legal/japan-philippines-phone-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-scams-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of Japanese men arrested in Tokyo on Monday had been detained at this facility in Manila over an alleged phone scam targeting people in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/billion-year-old-chinese-seaweed-oldest-green-plant-fossil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fossil-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A green seaweed fossil from China dating back 1 billion years is seen using a microscope in this photograph released by Virgina Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, Monday. The fossil itself is roughly the size of a rice grain. The dark color of this fossil was created by adding a drop of mineral oil to the rock in which it's embedded, to create contrast.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/world/crime-legal-world/lawyer-u-s-says-julian-assange-put-lives-risk-side-claims-hes-target-trump-war-journalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-09T23:36:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Julian Assange wearing two pair of glasses in seen at court during a hearing to decide whether he should be extradited to the United States, in London Monday in this courtroom sketch.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Personal touch: In Japan, seals have been traditionally used to finalize printed documents the way signatures are used in other countries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer feeds pigs at a backyard farm on the outskirts of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Sept. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:17:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Esperance Nzavaki and health workers celebrate news of her Ebola cure at The Alliance for International Medical Action treatment center in Beni, Congo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl gets a vaccination shot at a hospital in Yunyang County in southwest China's Chongqing province on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scanning electron micrograph of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci Janice Haney Carr / CDC (Public domain)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child receives a vaccination at a hospital in Huaibei in China's eastern Anhui province on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/29/national/science-health/cities-japan-eye-tougher-rules-passive-smoking/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People puff away at a designated smoking area in Tokyo in May 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/23/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-vaccine-scandal-ripples-domestic-market-threatens-push-larger-global-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baby receives a vaccine shot next to a poster that reads "standardize vaccination and build a healthy China" at a hospital in Handan, in northern China's Hebei province, on April 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/18/business/home-dna-testing-gains-popularity-aging-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumer DNA tests are gaining popularity in aging Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/14/national/science-health/tokyo-entre-doctor-ai-medical-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Sho Okiyama's startup company, Aillis Inc., is developing medical devices based on artificial intelligence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/13/asia-pacific/north-korea-may-hiding-hog-apocalypse-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:23:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-nkswine-a-20191014.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although North Korea has reported one outbreak, experts are worried that the reclusive state is hiding an African swine fever disaster.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Congolese volunteer displays a flip book he uses to inform people about the Ebola virus, in Goma, Congo, on Saturday. A woman in her 70s from Saitama Prefecture who recently returned from a visit to Congo has tested negative for a possible Ebola infection at a medical institute in Tokyo, the health ministry said Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:24:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:25:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Financial losses linked to smoking are estimated to have topped ¥2 trillion in fiscal 2015, according to research by the health ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:25:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials disinfect a farm in the city of Gifu on Sunday after a pig that died there was confirmed as having swine fever.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cancer-a-20180916.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drop in helicobacter pylori infections and smoking among men are factors behind a slight decline in cancer cases expected this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/15/national/science-health/swine-fever-virus-discovered-gifu-previously-unreported-type-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:26:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The carcass of a wild boar was found in the city of Gifu on Thursday following an outbreak of a new variant of swine flu.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T01:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People in protective gear gather near a pen on Tuesday in Seki, Gifu Prefecture, following the detection of swine fever in one of the pigs kept there.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/10/asia-pacific/xi-jinping-china-coronavirus-wuhan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures during an inspection of the center for disease control and prevention of Chaoyang District in Beijing in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Meadows will take over as White House chief of staff, replacing Mick Mulvaney.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T16:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse processes a swab at a drive-thru testing site for the new coronavirus and other viruses for employees at UW Medical Center Northwest in Seattle on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T18:11:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese trade officials visit the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo to hold a teleconference with their South Korean counterparts Tuesday to discuss export controls.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Health Organization Health Emergencies Program Director Michael Ryan (left, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (center) and Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove attend a daily press briefing on the COVID-19 virus at the WHO's headquaters on in Geneva on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nikkei 225 stock average jumped 3.88 percent on Thursday, following an almost 5 percent advance in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T18:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-10T18:34:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders monitor stock prices at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. Global shares rose Thursday on optimism about a U.S.-China trade deal and the Chinese government's efforts to boost its economy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders gather at the post where DuPont is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riken researcher Haruko Obokata works in her Kobe laboratory in January. Her claim that she discovered a simple way to turn animal cells back to a youthful, neutral state, a feat hailed as a "game-changer" in the quest to grow transplant tissue in the lab. The leading science journal Nature said on July 3 that it had withdrawn her stem-cell study., which was deemed flawed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A dancer performs during a Toshiba product demonstration at the CEATEC Japan 2010 expo in Chiba.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. shareholders head to an extraordinary meeting Wednesday in the city of Chiba.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/business/corporate-business/toshiba-posts-1q-net-loss-sales-lowest-since-december-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T19:21:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/09/business/corporate-business/shareholder-demands-toshiba-sue-execs-accounting-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T19:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koichi Ueda, chairman of the third-party investigation committee for Toshiba Corp., second from left, and his investigation committee members Hideki Matsui, left, Taigi Ito, second from right, and Kazuyasu Yamada bow during a news conference in Tokyo in July over the industrial giant’s accounting scandal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/13/business/corporate-business/toshiba-may-book-%c2%a5100-billion-loss-in-fiscal-2014-amid-accounting-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T19:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-toshiba-a-20150813.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. may book a loss of over ¥100 billion for the business year through March 2015 as it grapples with a sweeping accounting scandal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/22/business/corporate-business/toshiba-announce-next-week-scope-accounting-irregularities-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T19:24:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/13/national/japans-government-approves-bill-lower-age-adulthood-18-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T19:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-adulthood-a-20180314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bill to lower the age of adulthood to 18 from 20 would enable 18- and 19-year-olds to sign contracts and get married without the consent of their parents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/09/business/nonregular-workers-losing-income-amid-viral-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-temps-a-20200310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school pupils in Nagoya use a vacant classroom for study while their school is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Sudden school closures are hitting the incomes of nonregular workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/25/business/corporate-business/bank-of-tokyo-mitsubishi-to-hire-contract-workers-until-retirement-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:40:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/29/national/foreign-part-timers-proliferate-chubu-scarce-japanese-flee-drunks-pubs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:43:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnamese (right) prepares to deliver a dish made by a Nepalese chef at Japanese pub Amataro in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/06/national/stimulus-efforts-struggle-abe-pushes-equal-pay-lift-japans-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:43:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-equalpay-a-20160607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants firms to pay the same wages for workers doing the same job.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/29/national/exploited-working-students-starting-to-fight-burakku-arubaito-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-black-d-20141230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sukiya "gyudon" (beef and rice) restaurant chain has changed its working conditions following criticism of how it treats part-time employees.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/18/national/media-national/dark-force-targets-youth-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Debatable practices: Members of a student union discuss "black baito" (employees that take advantage of part-time workers) at a law workshop at Hokkaido University in Sapporo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/21/national/top-talent-turn-part-timers-after-childbirth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:45:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masako Tanaka (right) confers with Takayuki Inoshita, president of Whiteplus Inc., at their office in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/15/national/social-issues/group-petitions-revisions-labor-laws-help-keep-new-mothers-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:46:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/n-maternity-z-20151016.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n maternity z 20151016]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only 4 percent of women in nonregular jobs have been able to take child care leave and get back to work afterward, according to 2010 statistics by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/02/business/economy-business/inflation-adjusted-wages-continue-falling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/19/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-set-to-boost-staff-status/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:48:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper enters Fast Retailing Co.'s Uniqlo Lee Theatre flagship store in Hong Kong on Jan. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/04/business/base-salaries-up-for-first-time-in-22-months-in-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:48:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/16/national/nonregular-workers-deserve-equivalent-bonuses-benefits-work-reform-guideline-draft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bonus-a-20161217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets women with part-time work experience at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/bill-designed-to-assist-part-timers-readied/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/26/business/for-young-women-sex-industry-offers-safety-net-the-government-doesnt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-10T22:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[yl-20140226-kabukicho.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For young women sex industry offers safety net the government doesn't]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/21/national/poll-highlights-refugees-difficulties-in-rebuilding-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/16/national/crime-legal/kan-sues-abe-for-311-defamation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130717a2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoto Kan]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/12/national/hibiya-rally-tries-to-keep-nuclear-foes-on-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:04:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In memory: Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (left), nature writer C.W. Nicol (foreground) and singer Tokiko Kato (third from left) observe a moment of silence at a memorial gathering at Hibiya Park in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/26/national/fukushima-evacuee-kids-made-welcome-in-saitama-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:06:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130326a5a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upbeat: Pupils attending Kisai Elementary School in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, practice a medley of songs from Kisai and two Fukushima elementary schools in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/07/national/social-issues/11-tohoku-disaster-displaced-remain-shelters-10-years-study-finds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/06/national/big-tokyo-quake-drill-focuses-stranded-commuters/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants receive a supply of emergency food at the Cabinet Office building during a disaster drill in central Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/17/national/media-national/data-from-311-could-save-lives-if-used-effectively/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[fd20130317pba.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[She ain't heavy: A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force carries an elderly woman on his back as people are evacuated to a shelter at Kesennuma city in Miyagi Prefecture on March 12, 2011. Data collected during the initial stages of the 3/11 disaster could help focus such rescue efforts in future disasters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/12/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-rebukes-japan-china-regions-garbage-drifting-ocean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump signs the "Save Our Seas Act of 2018" in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/09/national/work-starts-to-scrap-beached-ship/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shore duty over: Work begins Monday to dismantle the Kyotoku Maru No. 18, a fishing vessel that was washed ashore by the March 2011 tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/14/national/fukushima-evacuations-were-not-worth-the-money-study-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-relocations-b-20160315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philip Thomas]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/09/national/frequency-easing-japan-felt-12000-aftershocks-since-march-2011-quake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:21:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/11/national/88-bodies-from-311-remain-unidentified-3%c2%bd-years-on/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:25:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disaster-a-20140912.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police search for the remains of people still missing since the March 11, 2011, disasters in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/27/national/iwate-governor-thanks-u-s-for-311-operation-tomodachi-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T01:26:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/10/national/crime-legal/japan-tepco-compensation-fukushima-residents-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T11:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tepco-a-20200311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs seeking compensation from the government and Tepco over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant that prompted them to evacuate their homes in Fukushima Prefecture head to the Sapporo District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-michigan-win-bernie-sanders/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/10/national/fukushima-bringing-young-people-back-minamisoma/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Odaka Pioneer Village in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, is run by a venture company whose novel programs are aiming to bring young residents back to the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/world/science-health-world/global-mask-shortage/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the deadly new coronavirus now present in 100 countries, companies are unable to match demand for masks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-conference-canceled-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An MTA worker wipes down a turnstile at the Broad Street subway station after more cases of coronavirus were confirmed in New York City on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/national/monuments-311-ninth-anniversary/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, look at a firetruck crushed by a tsunami on March 11, 2011, in September when the museum opened.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-stabbing-brazilian-couple-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T18:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-11T18:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photographer takes pictures of the illuminated Olympic rings in front of the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo's Odaiba area on Jan. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/business/financial-markets/bank-of-japan-stocks-stimulus-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bojvirus-a-20200312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan is reportedly planning to boost its purchases of exchange-traded funds as part of steps to support the volatile stock market amid the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/national/japan-adopts-bill-tighten-personal-data-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean trade officials in Seoul hold a teleconference with their Japanese counterparts Tuesday to discuss export controls.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/taiwan-coronavirus-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:43:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee with Taiwan's Universal Incorporation, one of the country's major mask makers, operates machines at a factory in Tainan on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/national/child-care-disasters-miyagi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/world/social-issues-world/witchcraft-female-genital-mutilation-guinea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer holds ears of rice in a paddy field in Tohnosho, Chiba Prefecture, in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:52:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of new Toyota cars, including Lexus models, in China plunged 70 percent in February from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/10/world/dutch-prosecutors-accuse-russia-trying-thwart-mh17-investigation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:55:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sabine ten Doesschate (center) and Boudewijn van Eijck (right), lawyers of suspect Oleg Pulatov, sit in the courtroom at the Schiphol Judicial Complex on Tuesday, the second day of the trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, even though the suspects are still at large.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-11T19:55:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-11T20:52:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A union worker tracks wage hikes at major metalworkers Wednesday at the Tokyo headquarters of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/business/financial-markets/japanese-investors-41bn-overseas-bonds-week/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T14:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-bondsbuying-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese investors went on a record shopping spree in global debt markets last week, with the Government Pension Investment Fund likely to have been active.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-duma-constitution-putin-president-again/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T15:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-putinin-a-20200312.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a session of the lower house of parliament to consider constitutional changes on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/world/crime-legal-world/harvey-weinsteins-23-year-sentence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T16:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-weinstein-a-20200313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-weinstein-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Harvey Weinstein]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/business/tech/ar-startup-magic-leap-explores-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T17:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-magicleap-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees use Magic Leap One augmented reality headsets and controllers at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/cambodian-treason-trial-conspiracy-theories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T17:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/business/financial-markets/stocks-tumble-trump-europe-curbs-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T18:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-market-a-20200313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-market-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen broadcasts stock market news on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/national/japan-un-resolution-human-rights-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T19:21:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/national/crime-legal/record-child-abuse-victims-japan-2019/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T19:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/world/science-health-world/dinosaur-footprints-scottish-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T19:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-dinosaur-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration of dinosaurs living on what is now Scotland's Isle of Skye 170 million years ago during the Jurassic Period]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/business/corporate-business/honda-partially-resumes-production-virus-hit-wuhan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T19:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/11/national/crime-legal/tokyo-police-arrest-two-taking-possession-stolen-nem-cryptocurrency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T19:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/12/national/fukushima-dreams-ryoma-ouchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-12T22:36:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ryoma-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Ouchi, 62, father of young baseball player Ryoma Ouchi, looks at old photographs of his children at their now-abandoned house after their evacuation caused by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/national/crime-legal/sendai-court-ups-tepco-payouts-fukushima-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T14:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-tepco-a-20200314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tepco-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs and lawyers who filed a lawsuit seeking damages for having to evacuate after meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant hold up banners Thursday in front of the Sendai High Court.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/national/crime-legal/japans-sexual-offense-law-sweden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T15:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sweden-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's revised Penal Code broadened the definition of rape to include male victims. However, it did not drop a requirement that the perpetrator must have used force or threatened the victim to establish an assault as rape, which some say does not go far enough to protect victims.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/business/bank-japan-downgrade-economic-view-policy-meeting-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T16:10:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-boj-a-20200313.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20200313.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference on Jan. 21 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/business/corporate-business/softbank-share-buyback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T16:13:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. plans to spend up to ¥500 billion to buy back as much as 7 percent of its shares, taking a step advocated by activist investor Elliott Management Corp. to boost stockholder value.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/us-europe-learn-from-asia-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T17:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vessons-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Worshippers watch Pope Francis deliver the Angelus prayer on a giant screen to avoid crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/business/corporate-business/japan-post-halve-recruits-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T19:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-jpost-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to more halve the number of staff it hires in April 2021, according to a plan announced by the country's postal and financial behemoth on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/national/crime-legal/japan-flower-demo-sexual-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T20:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-flower-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Nagoya on Sunday, International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/world/us-bombs-iran-backed-militia-iraq/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T20:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Kataib Hezbollah militia in Iraq hold a picture of Iranian Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 4, ahead of the funeral of militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed along with Soleimani in an airstrike at Baghdad's main airport.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/national/5-5-quake-rattles-central-japan-no-tsunami-warning-issued/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quake-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A slope is collapsed along a road in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Friday morning after the city was hit by a quake registering an upper 5 out of 7 on the Japanese earthquake intensity scale earlier in the day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/frepap-peru-ezequiel-jonas-ataucusi-molina/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T20:32:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of Israelite Mission of the New Universal Pact attends a service on the outskirts of Lima on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-13T20:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold posters reading "Never Again!" and depicting Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Bjoern Hoecke making a Nazi salute as they attend a protest rally titled "Unteilbar" ("Indivisible") against exclusion in Dresden, eastern Germany, on August 24, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/national/crime-legal/nagoya-acuittal-overturned-man-raped-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-13T20:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a woman who was raped by her father hold up a sign saying "victory" in front of the Nagoya High Court on Thursday after the court sentenced the man to 10 years in prison, scrapping the lower court ruling that had acquitted him.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-china-coronavirus-conspiracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T10:37:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-uschinavirus-a-20200315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cui Tiankai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/national/crime-legal/osaka-parents-13-years-daughters-death/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lay judge (left) of a trial of a couple who were given prison sentences for confining their daughter for over 10 years speaks to reporters at the Osaka District Court on Thursday after the ruling was handed down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/20/national/crime-legal/baby-sitter-gets-26-years-for-killing-yokohama-boy-in-2014/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/28/national/crime-legal/baby-sitter-in-dead-toddler-case-to-face-child-porn-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-t3-babysitter-a-20140429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuji Motte, a 26-year-old baby sitter arrested in March in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy under his care, could soon be served with a fresh arrest warrant on charges of producing child pornography.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/17/national/crime-legal/boy-found-dead-in-sitters-apartment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:14:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/05/business/economy-business/japan-eyes-hiring-foreign-maids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/20/national/accj-urges-rise-in-foreign-housekeepers-so-women-can-join-workforce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:16:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/23/business/foreign-maids-the-talk-of-kansai-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/09/business/low-wages-heart-foreign-labor-shortage-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:19:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-brasor-foreign-workers-a-20160110.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At risk of exploitation: Chinese laborers stand in front of a dorm in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, in May 2013. Japan's trainee system is widely perceived as being little more than a cheap way to fill manual labor positions at factories and on farms, where foreign workers can be paid less than the minimum wage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/26/national/social-issues/plan-hire-foreign-housekeepers-no-easy-chore-say-industry-players/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:19:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20151027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sachiko Wada demonstrates her Taskaji online housekeeping service on a laptop.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/10/national/social-issues/plans-adopted-to-import-foreign-housekeepers-in-name-of-female-empowerment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-us-military-brought-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-blame-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman leaves a supermarket at a nearly empty mall in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/17/world/science-health-world/mass-radio-campaign-saves-thousands-children-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:45:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20180713.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A laboratory worker uses a microscope at the health center in the commune of Wangata during a vaccination campaign against the outbreak of Ebola in Congo on May 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/21/national/app-helps-non-japanese-find-multilingual-medical-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:47:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-app-a-20180622.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-app-a-20180622.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screenshot of smartphone app Japan Hospital Guide shows locations of nearby hospitals and clinics with multilingual staff in Tokyo. The app was launched in November to help an increasing number of overseas tourists to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/15/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/hong-kong-scientists-say-new-research-points-universal-antibody-drug-hiv/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-hiv-a-20180616.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-hiv-a-20180616.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese AIDS activists hand out condoms in a subway train in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/19/world/science-health-world/congos-ebola-outbreak-not-international-emergency-can-controlled-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-ebola-a-20180512.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ebola-a-20180512.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker sprays a colleague with disinfectant during a training session for Congolese health workers to deal with Ebola virus in Kinshasa in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/04/world/science-health-world/core-genes-malaria-parasite-found-offering-new-medical-targets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T12:58:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/27/national/japan-imports-ebola-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-viruses-a-20190928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-viruses-a-20190928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Five viruses imported to Japan were taken to the Murayama research lab of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Musashimurayama, western Tokyo, earlier this week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/science-health/flesh-eating-disease-cases-rise-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:04:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/n-disease-a-20150904.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disease-a-20150904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This handout image shows bacteria that can cause the regularly fatal severe invasive streptococcal disease.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/09/national/rubella-cases-in-japan-already-exceed-5000-this-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/31/national/foreign-workers-way-japanese-businesses-ready/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-industries-a-20190401.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-industries-a-20190401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian trainees at a farm in Kagawa Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/08/national/roads-promoting-3-11-reconstruction-fully-open-march-2021-land-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-reconstruction-a-20190809.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-reconstruction-a-20190809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars drive on what is known as the "Reconstruction Road" in the town of Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/30/national/haneda-airport-flight-path-tests-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-haneda-a-20190831.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-haneda-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo provided by the transport ministry shows the small jet that was used Friday to test a new flight path over central Tokyo for aircraft bound for Haneda airport.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/18/business/sanae-takaichi-5g-japan-rural-areas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/b-takaichi-a-20190919.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-takaichi-a-20190919.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters during an interview on Tuesday at her ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/business/japan-exporting-coal-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-coal-a-20200226.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-coal-a-20200226.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters in Kobe prepare banners prior to a rally in June against Japan's support for new coal-fired power generation projects.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/23/national/politics-diplomacy/new-environment-minister-shinjiro-koizumi-climate-change-sexy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/n-koizumi-a-20190924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-koizumi-a-20190924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi delivers a speech at the United Nations on Sunday in New York.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/21/business/tech/japan-require-carriers-immediately-unlock-sim-cards-smartphones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:38:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/16/business/rainy-weather-affecting-tokyo-vegetable-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:40:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/b-vegetable-a-20190717.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-vegetable-a-20190717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vegetable prices have risen in Tokyo after over two weeks of cloudy and rainy weather.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/11/national/japan-tighten-rules-foreign-university-students-tokyo-school-loses-track-1600-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:44:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/n-welfareuniv-a-20190612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-welfareuniv-a-20190612.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The education ministry said it told the Tokyo University of Social Welfare to stop accepting new foreign students on preliminary courses after the university lost track of thousands of students from overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/national/culture-chiefs-japan-china-south-korea-agree-ignore-tensions-continue-exchanges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-culture-a-20190831.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-culture-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Culture minister Masahiko Shibayama (left) and his South Korean and Chinese counterparts Park Yang-woo (center) and Luo Shugang pose in Incheon, South Korea, on Friday after pledging to promote trilateral cultural exchanges.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/10/national/survey-finds-894-buildings-public-elementary-junior-high-schools-not-yet-quake-proof/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:45:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/09/world/japan-mandate-alcohol-tests-flight-attendants-plane-inspectors-following-string-drinking-related-incidents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-airlines-a-20190410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transport ministry officials enter a Japan Airlines Co. office at Haneda airport in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/05/business/ihi-admits-unqualified-workers-inspected-airplane-engines-latest-quality-control-scandal-hit-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T13:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b-ihi-a-20190306.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ihi-a-20190306.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[IHI Corp. headquarters in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/science-health/ldp-health-ministry-odds-passive-smoking-bill-shelved-till-fall-diet-session-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:17:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-smoking-a-20170607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-smoking-a-20170607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bill to curb passive smoking will apparently not be passed the current Diet session due to a conflict between the health ministry and ruling Liberal Democratic Party.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/02/national/science-health/health-ministry-drops-effort-ban-smoking-restaurants-amid-efforts-curb-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/n-cancer-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cancer-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry has given up plans to include a total ban on smoking in restaurants in anti-cancer measures being drawn up, sources say.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/27/national/science-health/new-cancer-guidelines-eyed-study-suggests-drugs-less-effective-elderly-patients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/21/national/health-ministry-grilled-dentsu-president-alleged-extra-work-branches-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/21/national/nearly-quarter-japanese-considered-suicide-government-survey-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:20:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/n-suicide-z-20170322.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-z-20170322.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a survey released by the ministry, 23.6 percent of respondents had considered suicide.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/08/national/science-health/new-guidelines-tackle-misuse-antibiotics-amid-rise-superbugs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-antibiotics-a-20170309.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electron microscope image shows Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a pathogen resistant to many antibiotics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/02/national/science-health/health-ministry-dilutes-plan-ban-indoor-smoking-restaurant-industry-ldp-resist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/smoking-ban-public-facilities-infringe-constitutional-rights-ldp-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/n-ldpsmoking-a-20170210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ldpsmoking-a-20170210.jpg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/20/national/suicides-japan-drop-22-year-low-2016/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/27/national/social-issues/ministry-make-easier-shame-companies-excessive-overtime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-overtime-a-20161228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health ministry panel announces measures to prevent death by overwork and changes to overtime regulations during a meeting in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/15/national/science-health/health-ministry-poll-finds-passive-smoking-risk-still-high-japans-eateries-workplaces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-tereshkova-a-20200315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Valentina Tereshkova at a 2007 Kremlin award ceremony]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/28/national/mental-woes-begin-30s-heart-brain-ills-50s-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:25:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-survey-a-20161029.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survey-a-20161029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A labor group points out the need to place greater weight on measures to address the mental health of younger workers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/26/national/social-issues/ministry-eyes-scandinavian-plan-boost-paternity-leave-keep-women-working/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-quota-z-20161027.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-quota-z-20161027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the government's data, only 2.3 percent of fathers in the private sector took child care leave in fiscal 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/23/national/science-health/government-conduct-survey-medical-services-foreign-patients-preparation-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:26:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-medical-a-20161023.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-medical-a-20161023.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry plans to conduct a survey on Japan's medical services for non-Japanese residents and international travelers to improve such services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/07/national/social-issues/1-in-4-firms-say-some-workers-log-80-hours-overtime-a-month-white-paper-on-karoshi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:27:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/n-karoshi-z-20161008.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-karoshi-z-20161008]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a survey carried out between last December and January this year, about 10.8 percent of Japanese companies said they had workers putting in 80 to 100 hours of overtime a month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/national/social-issues/deeper-plan-eyed-raise-day-care-salaries-fiscal-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/04/national/social-issues/child-abuse-japan-reaches-record-high-fiscal-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:55:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/09/national/social-issues/parents-search-for-day-care-centers-a-drag-ministry-finds-in-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/22/national/zika-virus-confirmed-in-boy-who-returned-to-japan-from-pacific-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:58:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/29/national/social-issues/plagued-hang-ups-welfare-ministry-shorten-child-abuse-hotline-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/11/national/new-zika-virus-infection-confirmed-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/crime-legal/former-welfare-official-gets-suspended-sentence-number-bribery-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T14:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/national/science-health/flu-season-reaches-full-swing-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T15:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/business/japans-economic-policymakers-now-factoring-olympics-cancellation-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T15:14:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-boj-a-20200314.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-boj-a-20200314.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The damage to Japan's economy from a cancellation of the Olympics would be huge, marking a severe blow to household and corporate sentiment, sources say.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/13/business/panel-ease-rules-paid-accommodations-private-homes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/01/national/slightly-babies-born-last-year-japan-population-suffers-net-loss-almost-300000-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/18/national/dye-factory-scrutiny-five-workers-contract-rare-bladder-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/05/national/science-health/laughing-gas-crackdown-looms-recreational-use-drug/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/03/national/science-health/drugmaker-kaketsuken-raided-decades-alleged-faked-records-illegal-additives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/02/national/science-health/survey-finds-50-japanese-hospitals-fully-smoke-free/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:32:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/21/national/health-ministry-website-goes-tweet-hints-cyberattack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/26/national/science-health/japan-sees-first-two-cases-chronic-hepatitis-e-infection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/20/national/science-health/nhk-says-health-ministry-confirms-link-workers-leukemia-fukushima-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:35:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/14/national/crime-legal/welfare-ministry-official-accused-of-taking-bribes-may-have-received-more/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:35:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/n-bribery-a-20151015.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bribery-a-20151015.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuyuki Nakayasu]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/03/national/social-issues/number-welfare-recipients-japan-hits-record-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:36:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/02/national/science-health/experts-doubt-shift-generic-drugs-best-prescription-health-care-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/n-genericdrugs-a-20150603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-genericdrugs-a-20150603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to increase the use of cheaper generic drugs to slash health care costs. However, experts say some deliver poor results compared with the patented versions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/science-health/78-indonesians-filipinos-qualified-caregivers-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/03/business/novartis-japan-unit-faces-business-suspension-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:41:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/17/national/science-health/government-eyes-using-biocontainment-lab-in-western-tokyo-to-analyze-ebola/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:43:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/01/national/medical-mishaps-hit-highest-since-2005/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:45:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/27/national/diovan-scandal-traced-to-cozy-doctor-drugmaker-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:46:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/p3-diovan-a-20140228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-diovan-a-20140228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The head office of Novartis Pharma K.K. stands in Tokyo's Nishiazabu district.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/nearly-all-japans-genetic-testing-facilities-mismanage-patient-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/06/business/governance-fix-needed-gpif-asset-change-shiozaki-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T16:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/17/world/canada-pulls-families-diplomats-cuba-amid-unusual-illnesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-cubanada-a-20180418.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-cubanada-a-20180418.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pass by the Canadaian Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/12/world/science-health-world/trial-new-bug-spray-malaria-nets-tanzania-sets-hopes-flying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:48:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/09/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/officials-look-stem-norovirus-outbreak-olympic-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f-norovirus-a-20180210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-norovirus-a-20180210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean soldiers inspect a visitor at a security checkpoint as they replace security guards showing symptoms of norovirus at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/01/national/world-first-womans-death-linked-hepatitis-e-infection-blood-transfusion-japanese-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:48:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/29/national/science-health/tokyo-hospital-gauge-effect-daily-anti-viral-use-hiv-infections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:49:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-aids-a-20180130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aids-a-20180130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The National Center for Global Health and Medicine is set to conduct a clinical study to see whether the risk for HIV infection can be reduced by taking anti-viral medicine on a daily basis.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/26/national/science-health/health-ministry-issues-warning-flu-epidemic-rages-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-flu-z-20180127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-flu-z-20180127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This season a delay in the domestic production of flu vaccines has caused a shortage.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/26/world/science-health-world/birth-defects-found-u-s-areas-zika-according-american-health-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:49:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/f-zika-a-20180127.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-zika-a-20180127.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up in Buenos Aires on Wednesday during a vaccination campaign for yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and Zika after the World Health Organization issued recommendations for travelers heading to certain parts of Brazil and Southeast Asia.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/16/national/science-health/number-flu-patients-rises-japan-1-24-million-new-cases-reported-first-week-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:50:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-flu-z-20180117.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-flu-z-20180117.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare called on the public to wear masks or cover their mouths with a handkerchief so as not to spread flu.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/05/national/science-health/japan-reports-5000-syphilis-patients-first-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:50:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-syphilis-a-20180106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-syphilis-a-20180106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The syphilis-causing Treponema pallidum bacteria, demonstrated in this silver stain, is affecting more people in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/21/national/science-health/brain-fire-film-chronicling-u-s-womans-fight-rare-brain-disease-makes-japan-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-brainonfire-a-20171222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-brainonfire-a-20171222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still image from the recently released film "Brain on Fire" shows actress Chloe Grace Moretz playing the role of journalist Susannah Cahalan, who was diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/18/national/researchers-prevent-kidney-stones-long-term-space-missions-medication-manage-bone-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:52:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/science-health/tokyo-based-fund-ceo-leads-public-private-fight-diseases-around-globe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:52:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-globalhealth-a-20171213.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-globalhealth-a-20171213.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[BT Slingsby, CEO of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, says Japan's pharmaceutical industry is uniquely qualified to help solve public health problems around the world.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/12/national/science-health/japan-seeing-surge-hand-foot-mouth-disease-cases-affecting-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/world/science-health-world/pfizers-breast-cancer-drug-found-superior-chemotherapy-phase-iii-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/world/science-health-world/insecticide-resistance-spreads-africa-threatening-progress-malaria-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:54:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-malaria-a-20171201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelans wait to get treatment for malaria at a health center in San Felix on Nov. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/23/world/science-health-world/three-coffees-day-linked-health-harm-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T17:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-coffee-a-20171124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three or four cups of coffee a day appear to confer the greatest benefit against premature death and heart disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/national/japans-cosmetics-makers-advance-makeups-role-medical-camouflage/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maki Tsunoda, 56, receives makeup advice to conceal a skin disorder brought on by cancer treatment, during a visit to the Shiseido Life Quality Beauty Center in Tokyo's Ginza district on Oct. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/science-health/japan-coverage-preventive-breast-ovary-removal-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-14T18:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/04/national/transgender-woman-japan-sues-right-change-listed-sex-family-registry/</loc>
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