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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of tourists visiting Korea for medical procedures more than tripled to 266,501 last year from 81,789 in 2010. The tax breaks on cosmetic procedures should boost those numbers further.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dunia Sibomana, 8, poses with Dr. Alexander Dagum, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Monday in Stony Brook, New York. Sibomana was left disfigured after he was attacked two years ago while playing with his brother and cousin near a nature preserve in the Congo by a group of chimpanzees. He will undergo rare facial reconstruction surgery on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers in Wuhan on Tuesday. Ren Zhiqiang,a former top executive of state-controlled property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, has not been reachable since March 12 after criticizing Xi, Ren's friends said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese Army soldiers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant over a road during a drill to prevent community cluster infection, in New Taipei City on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-15T19:39:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/south-korea-coronavirus-cluster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T15:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Army soldiers wearing protective suits prepare to spray disinfectant in Daegu on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/national/kyushu-electric-halts-sendai-reactor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T15:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyushu Electric Power Co. halted the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday after being unable to install facilities needed to meet anti-terrorism regulations on time.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-16T17:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Boxer sails in the Arabian Sea off Oman last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/business/financial-markets-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T17:34:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian passes the bull statue outside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/national/fathers-many-japanese-firms-taking-less-one-month-paternity-leave-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T17:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a survey of 110 large Japanese companies, with responses from 64, about half said their male employees take leave for child care of less than a month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/business/fed-slashes-rates-central-banks-pull-stops-cushion-coronavirus-blow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T17:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at White House on Sunday. The Federal Reserve swept into action in a new bid to save the U.S. economy from the fallout of the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/15/business/corporate-business/kansai-electric-names-new-president-following-gift-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T17:56:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kansai Electric Power Co.'s former president, Shigeki Iwane (left) and new president, Takashi Morimoto, appear at a news conference Saturday in the city of Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/15/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/south-korea-coronavirus-9/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a choir wear face masks as they attend a service at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/23/national/osaka-bids-rekindle-magic-1970-expo-taxpayers-doubt-lofty-plans-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roughly 64.2 million people came to visit the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka between March and September of 1970.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/14/national/media-national/hansens-discrimination-proving-tough-stamp-despite-legislation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:15:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ostracism fear: Plaintiffs stage a rally near the Kumamoto District Court in April 2018 prior to testimony in a damages suit over the government's mistreatment of leprosy patients' family members. The court ruled in their favor in June the same year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/14/world/canada-trade-us-mexico-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:22:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference outside his Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/14/business/tech/bill-gates-microsoft-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:35:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/14/national/politics-diplomacy/kenneth-weinstein-us-ambassador-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenneth Weinstein]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/13/business/ana-jal-expand-flight-cuts-coronavirus-hits-travel-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T18:53:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks near an empty departures gate at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/21/national/cherry-blossom-season-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cherry blossoms are seen on a tree at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Thursday, prompting Meteorological Agency officials to officially declare that this year's blooming season of Japan's most popular flower has reached the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/16/national/japans-first-somei-yoshino-cherry-tree-bloom-season-confirmed-kochi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This spring's first bloom of the Somei-Yoshino variety of cherry tree has been confirmed in the city of Kochi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/08/national/japans-cherry-blossom-viewing-may-come-early-year-says-weather-forecasting-firm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/05/national/cassette-gas-blast-hurts-six-miyazaki-cherry-blossom-viewing-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:26:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People admire cherry blossoms at Ueno Park in Tokyo. In Miyazaki Prefecture, a joyful cherry blossom-viewing party turned into a major accident after a gas cartidge exploded, hurting at least six.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/20/national/never-early-check-cherry-blossoms-will-bloom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:26:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People jump for joy at Tokyo's Ueno Park, one of the most famous cherry-blossom viewing sites.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/31/national/cherry-trees-full-bloom-tokyo-elsewhere-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes a photo of a cherry tree in full bloom Thursday evening at Ueno Park in Tokyo's Taito Ward. About 2.3 million people visit the famed site to admire the short-lived blossoms each year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/14/reference/the-centuries-old-charm-of-japans-cherry-blossoms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-16T19:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cherry blossoms are a much-adored annual event in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/03/08/national/media-national/prizes-for-every-picnic-as-spring-campaigns-blossom/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) and his wife, Akie, pose for a photo with attendees at a cherry blossom-viewing event held April 13 at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The spring's first cherry blossoms are seen here on a Somei-Yoshino cherry tree in Fukuoka on Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Symbol of friendship: Cherry trees are in full bloom along the Tidal Basin in the center of Washington, D.C., last March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A forecast map released by Japan Meteorological Corp. shows when cherry trees are expected to start blooming across Japan. | JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL CORP.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to the Japan Mint headquarters in Osaka view cherry blossoms on Wednesday as part of an annual event that has been held for more than 130 years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese individuals and companies are planning to kick off a fundraising project aimed at planting 1,000 cherry trees across Britain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the pink: Japanese are proud of someiyoshino cherries, Japanese favorite for blossom viewing. Is the species Japanese or a Korean original?]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/business/financial-markets/hitachi-exec-toyoaki-nakamura-nominated-bank-japan-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T15:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyoaki Nakamura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/business/higashikoganei-tokyo-train-station-soba-robot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot makes soba noodles at Higashikoganei Station in Tokyo on Monday. JR East introduced the robot on a trial basis in response to the chronic manpower shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/science-health-world/iran-frees-85000-prisoners-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:33:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A firefighter disinfects the shrine of Saint Saleh to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in northern Tehran on March 6. Iran's judiciary said Tuesday that it has temporarily freed about 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/national/crime-legal/tokyo-land-sale-fraud-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:34:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maiku Uchida is sent to a police station in Tokyo in November 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/asia-pacific/chinese-rocket-fails/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/coronavirus-primaries-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-viruselections-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monday evening, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine invoked a health emergency to close the polls in the state's primary on Tuesday, after a judge rejected his recommendation to postpone voting because of the coronavirus threat.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/business/financial-markets/dollar-hovers-around-%c2%a5106-50-jumps-tokyo-trading/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/16/world/airlines-seek-emergency-aid-coronavirus-brings-industry-near-halt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T18:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/national/fukushima-japan-coal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T20:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-coal-b-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyonori Watanabe, director of Fukushima Electric Power Co., posing outside the "difficult-to-return" zone in the Yonomori neighborhood of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, says he hopes the region's solar farms will all be taken over by residents, luring additional families home.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/science-health-world/preparing-war-africans-scramble-groceries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T22:16:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man stocks up on groceries at a supermarket in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/asia-pacific/hong-kong-shutdown-lesson-for-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T22:49:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-covidhk-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents evacuate from a public housing building following the outbreak of the coronavirus in Hong Kong on March 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/google-ai-errors-coronavirus-empties-offices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T22:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-vanishingyoutube-a-20200318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-vanishingyoutube-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google said that to reduce the need for people to come into its offices, YouTube and other business divisions are temporarily relying on artificial intelligence to identify problematic content. Such software is not always as accurate as humans, which could lead to erroneously taken down videos, the company warned.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/coronavirus-canada-shuts-borders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T22:51:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-canadacloses-a-20200318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-canadacloses-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justin Trudeau]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/trump-urges-u-s-to-social-activity-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-17T22:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-usvirus-a-20200318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usvirus-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, a member of the coronavirus (COVID-19) task force, answers a question about the virus and the current outbreak during a news briefing at the White House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/economy-business/global-powers-trillions-dollars-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T08:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-worldecon-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-worldecon-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily news briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/world/science-health-world/italy-triage-and-lies-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T09:16:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-italyvirus-a-20200318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-italyvirus-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A patient in a biocontainment unit is carried on a stretcher at the Columbus Covid 2 Hospital in Rome on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/corporate-business/softbank-wework-stock-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T13:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-softbank-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son speaks about its investment plan for WeWork during a news conference in Tokyo last November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/taiwan-shuts-borders-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T14:44:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-taiwanvirus-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwanvirus-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motorcyclists wearing face masks to prevent the infections of the COVID-19 coronavirus, ride during the peak hours while heading to work in Taipei on Wednesday. Taiwan plans to bar all new arrivals by foreign nationals, adding to the growing ranks of governments shutting their borders in a bid to slow the global spread of the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/national/crime-legal/tokyo-high-court-slashes-damages-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T15:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-fukushimaruling-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fukushimaruling-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isao Enei (left), head of a group of plaintiffs seeking damages for evacuating after the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident, speaks at a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo alongside their attorney Junichiro Hironaka.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/vladmimir-putin-russia-constitutional-vote-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T15:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-putinvote-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-putinvote-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-primaries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T15:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-usprimaries-c-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-usprimaries-c-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/world/science-health-world/ozone-chemicals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/tech/facebook-bug-spam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-facebkglitch-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-facebkglitch-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Facebook glitch labeled some legitimate news stories as spam, the company said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/17/asia-pacific/taiwan-china-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:11:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-taiwan-a-20200318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taiwan-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsai Ing-wen]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/financial-markets/tse-relax-delisting-criteria-coronavirus-affected-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-delist-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-delist-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange is reportedly considering special measures, including relaxing its delisting criteria, for companies that have suffered a decline in their business due to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/financial-markets/nikkei-ends-below-17000-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/corporate-business/nissan-indonesia-pullout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:32:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-nissan-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nissan-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. will pull out of local production in Indonesia due to falling vehicle sales in the country, according to a source.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/world/coronavirus-low-carbon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:34:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-online-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-online-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chrissy Brackett (right) and her grandson Caidence Miller, a fourth grader at Cottage Lake Elementary in Woodinville, Washington state, struggle to navigate the school district's online learning system on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/economy-business/japan-household-assets-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:42:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-assets-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-assets-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan data released Wednesday shows Japanese households's financial assets rose 3.3 percent from a year earlier to a record ¥1.90 quadrillion as of the end of December.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-endorses-candidate-shizuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:45:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-shizuoka-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shizuoka-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials of opposition parties gather at the Diet on Tuesday with Ken Tanaka (third from left), an independent candidate running in a Lower House by-election in Shizuoka Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/tech/ntt-docomo-5g-services-march-25/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T17:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-docomo-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-docomo-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo Inc. President Kazuhiro Yoshizawa holds an online news conference Wednesday in Tokyo to announce the launch of smartphone services based on superfast 5G technology on March 25. The news conference went online out of concern over the spread of the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/national/social-issues/japan-suicides-historic-low-2019-teens-kill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T18:57:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-suicide-a-20200318.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-suicide-a-20200318.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A father of a junior high school student who committed suicide in 2011 attends a news conference in January in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/airbnb-refund-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T19:12:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-airbnb-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airbnb-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When a Toronto family canceled a trip to Japan due to the coronavirus outbreak, they received a refund from their hotels and a voucher from the airline. Airbnb Inc. said no.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/financial-markets/dollar-rises-around-%c2%a5107-40-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-18T19:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/19/national/crime-legal/moritomo-gakuen-couple-guilty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T10:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/n-moritomo-a-20200220.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moritomo-a-20200220.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of Moritomo Gakuen, outside the Osaka District Court on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/national/suicide-note-reignites-moritomo-gakuen-cronyism-scandal-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T13:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/n-moritomo-a-20200319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-moritomo-a-20200319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhisa Sagawa, former chief of the Finance Ministry's financial bureau.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/business/corporate-business/operator-muji-stores-fined-7-5bn-tax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T14:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-muji-a-20200320.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-muji-a-20200320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The operator of the Muji chain has been ordered to pay ¥7.5 billion in income tax dating back three years as well as penalties of around ¥2.1 billion.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/business/corporate-business/kirin-release-two-new-whisky-brands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T14:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bottles of Kirin Brewery Co.'s new whisky brands, Fuji and Riku]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-cases-near-zero-experts-warn-second-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T14:28:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man carries a toddler on his shoulders as both wear protective face masks in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/national/japanese-government-cancels-crown-princes-court-banquets-virus-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T14:47:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino was scheduled to hold buffet-style banquets for some 750 international guests on April 21. The event has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/national/japan-former-emperor-empress-exit-palace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T17:00:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko leave the Imperial Palace on Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/new-zealand-abortion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T17:21:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Justice Minister Andrew Little speaks to lawmakers in Wellington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-bump-flattened-president-tied-fortunes-stock-rally-crashed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T17:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders at the New York Stock Exchange watch U.S. President Donald Trump's televised White House news conference on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/business/economy-business/japan-inflation-rate-slowed-february-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T17:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b-inflation-a-20200320.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-inflation-a-20200320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's inflation rate slowed down to 0.6 percent in February from a year earlier, government data showed Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/world/science-health-world/hiv-drug-combo-fails-covid-19-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T18:00:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk Wednesday along the Las Vegas Strip, devoid of the usual crowds after casinos were ordered to shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/asia-pacific/cambodia-mekong-dam-on-hold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T18:32:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A home at the edge of Boeung Tompoun, a Mekong River wetland in Phnom Penh.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/business/corporate-business/japan-ex-keidanren-head-lead-kansai-electric/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T18:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadayuki Sakakibara]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/business/financial-markets/boj-%c2%a51-3tr-emergency-bond-buy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T18:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/national/japan-msdf-aegis-destroyer-new-sm3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T19:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maya, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s seventh Aegis-equipped destroyer, was put into commission Thursday after being handed over to the Defense Ministry at a shipyard in Yokohama the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/world/science-health-world/plastic-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T19:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-plastic-a-20200320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Until the novel coronavirus started its spread across the globe, 2020 appeared to be a year when meaningful plastic use restrictions would finally take hold.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/18/national/japan-rural-land-prices-rise-first-time-28-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:14:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A single-car train belonging to the Nishikigawa railway crosses a bridge over the Nishiki River in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/national/tokyo-disneyland-wages-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:20:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disneyland-b-20200320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A union head on Thursday calls on Tokyo Disneyland operator Oriental Land Co. to keep paying nonregular workers while the facility remains closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/06/national/tokyo-disneyland-gives-sneak-preview-new-beauty-beast-attraction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:22:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disney-a-20181207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendering shows how the new "Beauty and the Beast" attraction will look like when it opens in the spring of 2020 at Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/19/national/die-hard-fans-wait-11-hours-see-mickey-mouse-anniversary-attraction-tokyo-disneyland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/n-mickey-b-20181119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mickey-b-20181119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided by a visitor to Tokyo Disneyland shows people lining up for an attraction featuring Mickey Mouse on Sunday. Faces are blurred for privacy reasons.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/13/national/crime-legal/tokyo-disneyland-seeks-rejection-costumed-performers-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/n-disney-a-20181114.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disney-a-20181114.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a damages suit against the operator of Tokyo Disneyland speak at a news conference in Chiba on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/11/national/tokyo-disneylands-new-parade-unveiled-ahead-premiere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-disneyland-a-20180411.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disneyland-a-20180411.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Disneyland's new parade celebrating the theme park's 35th anniversary was unveiled to the media on Tuesday. The show, titled "Dreaming Up!" is the first renewal of the park's daytime parade in five years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/crime-legal/disneyland-entertainer-awarded-compensation-pain-linked-performances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-disney-a-20171123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-disney-a-20171123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female employee of Oriental Land Co. who performed at Tokyo Disneyland was awarded compensation for developing a pain disorder due to the weight of the heavy costumes, the company said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/17/national/newborns-corpse-found-tokyo-disneyland-waste-treatment-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:24:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/15/business/nonregular-workers-allowed-join-labor-union-tokyo-disneyland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:24:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:25:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b-disneyhotel-a-20150904.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-disneyhotel-a-20150904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's rendition shows the interrior of the projected fourth hotel by Oriental Land Co., the operator of the Disney theme parks in Japan, near Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/oriental-land-recalling-cupcakes-sold-disney-sites-mold-discovered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/f-measles-a-20150125.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-measles-a-20150125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The crowd leaves after watching a parade Thursday at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. A major measles outbreak traced to Disneyland has brought criticism down on the small but vocal movement among parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/03/national/tokyo-disneyland-disneysea-combined-to-break-visitor-record-in-2012/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:27:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-19T22:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-20T10:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers are seen in front of the apartment where Mia Kurihara lived with her parents and sister in Noda, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/29/national/crime-legal/father-arrested-chiba-suspicion-assault-following-death-10-year-old-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-20T10:51:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abuse-a-20190130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 10-year girl was found dead on Jan. 24 in this apartment in Noda, Chiba Prefecture. Her father, Yuichiro Kurihara, was arrested Friday for allegedly assaulting her.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/19/national/crime-legal/chiba-father-16-years-fatal-abuse-of-daughter-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-20T14:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to get seats for the ruling in Yuichiro Kurihara's child abuse case at the Chiba District Court on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/20/business/tech/google-firebase/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-firebase-a-20200321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Embedded inside apps such as Instacart and Expedia, Firebase software plays a big role storing data, delivering notifications, logging glitches and tracking clicks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-20T15:23:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 12]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soap artisans cut bars at the Licorne soap factory in Marseille, southern France.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-fins-a-20200321.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fish Elpistostege watsoni lived about 380 million years ago in what is now Quebec.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A train on Sanriku Railway Co.'s Rias Line, which was heavily damaged by Typhoon Hagibis last year, is parked before services resumed Friday morning, in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-centralbanks-a-20200322.jpg]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spanish Civil Guard officers work in a van at the emergency area at Alcorcon's hospital, outside Madrid, on Thursday. The health of a Spanish nurse with Ebola worsened on the day and four other people were put into isolation in Madrid, while the country's government rejected claims its methods for dealing with the disease weren't working and blamed human error.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When working at home, creating an "office environment” is important. Try to set up your workspace in a well-lit room or one with as much natural light as possible. Have a lot more meetings: Communicate, communicate, communicate.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wearing protective masks check in at Kansai International Airport in Osaka. In just a matter of weeks, people in affected areas have become accustomed to wearing masks, stocking up on essentials, canceling social and business gatherings, scrapping travel plans and working from home.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T17:43:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders greet one another before their Democratic presidential primary debate in Washington on March 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health ministry team of about 10 experts will study how European countries have tackled infectious diseases upon accepting large numbers of refugees.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry plans offer HIV tests for free as part of annual health checks companies provide to employees to make the test more accessible.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/20/world/science-health-world/works-contain-plague-killed-94-madagascar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children wear face masks at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Oct. 3. A plague outbreak has killed dozens in the island nation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent Societies disclosed on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capsules of Pfizer Inc.'s Lyrica medication, used in the treatment of fibromyalgia and diabetic nerve pain, sit on a sorting tray. Demand for painkillers is taking off and drugmakers are introducing new products to the Japanese market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/national/minamata-disease-victims-voices-dim-age-still-cry-recognition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Congenital Minamata disease patient Shinobu Sakamoto, 61, and her mother, Fujie, sit in a car as they head for a hospital in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Sept. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bartender hands over a drink at an Emmy Awards press preview on Thursday in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:05:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ticks transmit deadly diseases, including thrombocytopenia syndrome and Japanese spotted fever.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:05:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/05/national/science-health/japanese-researchers-compound-normalizes-brain-structure-function-mice-syndrome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:06:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T18:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagoya hospital has kicked off its first clinical trial in a new treatment for vitiligo, a disorder that causes pigment loss that leaves discolored patches on the skin.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T21:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian with a mask walks through the Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/23/national/crime-legal/executed-aum-member-letter-terrorist-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-23T21:03:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomomasa Nakagawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-23T23:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait in line for help with unemployment benefits at the One-Stop Career Center on Tuesday in Las Vegas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/23/asia-pacific/us-cdc-expert-job-china-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T00:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff put on protective equipment before attending to COVID-19 patients at the Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan, China, on March 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/23/world/science-health-world/nursing-homes-spain-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T00:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sanitary workers clean a nursing home where a woman died and several residents and care providers have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Grado, Asturias, Spain, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-24T13:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Campbell, a scholar of Japanese literature and University of Tokyo professor, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-24T16:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai responds to reporters' questions during an interview in Washington in November 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/24/asia-pacific/china-green-light-alipay-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T16:42:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinavirusaap-a-20200325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The QR-based health code system by Alipay from Ant Financial assigns each user one of three colors — green, yellow or red — based on their location, basic health information and travel history. Green allows freedom of movement, while yellow and red indicate that you need to self-quarantine or enter a supervised quarantine facility, respectively.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:12:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local government employee in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki Prefecture, takes care of his daughter during his child care leave last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/23/national/politics-diplomacy/v4-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_1573.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (left), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from left), Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (center), Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (second from right) and Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Mihaly Varga join for a photo before their talks in Bratislava, Slovakia,in April 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:19:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:23:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse escorts a patient affected by COVID-19 as he arrives at the CHC Montlegia hospital, in Liege, Belgium, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/23/business/corporate-business/toyota-honda-suzuki-halt-plants-india-due-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenichi Ayukawa, managing director and CEO of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corp., shows off a prototype electric vehicle at the Auto Expo in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/17/national/science-health/working-cancer-patients-face-pay-cuts-mounting-medical-bills-lack-awareness-study-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-cancer-z-20170818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 50 percent of respondents in one survey said cancer patients struggled to cover medical expenses along with costs of basic living.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/world/science-health-world/rare-drug-resistant-fungus-found-55-u-k-hospitals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/national/science-health/spike-life-threatening-tick-borne-diseases-raises-alarm-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tick-a-20170809.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical experts are urging caution amid a rising number of potentially fatal infections that can be contracted through tick bites.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/01/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/philippines-highest-hiv-infection-growth-rate-asia-pacific-u-n-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/09/asia-pacific/chinese-nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-final-stages-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-liu-a-20170710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liu Xiaobo looks at documents in his home in Beijing on Jan. 6, 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/world/science-health-world/personalized-cancer-vaccines-keep-disease-bay-two-years-early-german-u-s-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-24T17:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-neoantigens-a-20170707.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cancer cells are shown on a screen connected to a microscope at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, Germany, in March 2012.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a Tuesday news conference, University of Tokyo officials announce the discovery of misconduct involving two researchers at its Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe receives a set of proposals from Fumio Kishida (left), policy chief of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, on May 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-26T20:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most institutional investors are worried about the possible negative effects of a Japanese law revision tightening restrictions on foreign investment, according to a recent survey.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-stockoverhaul-a-20191221.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange is considering cutting its number of markets from five to three as the centerpiece of stock market reforms.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/18/business/economy-business/hundreds-firms-may-demoted-tokyo-stock-exchange-shake/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange may demote about a third of its largest listed companies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Huawei logo is displayed on the company’s stand during the ‘Electronics Show - International Trade Fair for Consumer Electronics’ at Ptak Warsaw Expo in Nadarzyn, Poland, in May 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-27T19:10:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under current regulations, key foreign supply chains remain beyond the reach of U.S. authorities, fueling frustration among China hawks in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reactor 1 of Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tsuruga nuclear power plant was the first reactor built in Fukui Prefecture. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. is reportedly seeking a ¥1 trillion ($9 billion) credit line from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and MUFG Bank Ltd. to ensure the automaker has ample funding to deal with the intensifying coronavirus pandemic across the world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rail cars for transporting oil at the RN-Tuapsinsky refinery, operated by the Rosneft Oil Co., in Tuapse, Russia, on Monday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Corp. launched new ultrafast 5G wireless services on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soumaila Cisse votes during the presidential election in Niafunke, Mali, on Aug. 12, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:28:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan security personnel stands along with Sikhs near the site of an attack to a Sikh temple in Kabul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:29:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The wreckage of a U.S. Bombardier E-11A jet is seen Tuesday after it crashed in mountainous territory of the Deh Yak district in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The U.S. military jet crashed in mountainous territory in eastern Afghanistan, where there is a heavy Taliban presence, the Pentagon confirmed Monday, rejecting the insurgents' suggestions that it was shot down.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People honor Dr. Tetsu Nakamura, a famed humanitarian aid doctor slain in Afghanistan, at a farewell ceremony held Saturday in the city of Fukuoka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/08/asia-pacific/mike-pompeo-accuses-iran-undermining-afghanistan-peace-efforts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about Iran Tuesday  at the State Department in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/media-national/tetsu-nakamuras-death-afghanistan-exposes-gap-perception-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tribute: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and soldiers carry the coffin of slain physician Tetsu Nakamura in Kabul on Dec. 7 before transporting his body to his homeland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/28/national/japanese-doctor-tetsu-nakamura-receives-decoration-honoring-service-afghanistan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoko Nakamura (center), the widow of slain physician Tetsu Nakamura, poses with their daughter Akiko and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/23/national/tetsu-nakamura-award-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:32:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coffin of physician Tetsu Nakamura rests at a hospital in Kabul on Dec. 6, after he was killed in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, two days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/13/national/tetsu-nakamura-japanese-doctors-ashes-buried-in-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A portrait of slain Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura at an intersection in Kabul]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/10/national/afghanistan-police-detain-six-men-killing-japanese-doctor-tetsu-nakamura/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coffin of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura is seen at a hospital in Kabul on Friday, following his murder in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, two days earlier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coffin of slain Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura is carried by airline workers Monday at Fukuoka airport in the city of Fukuoka, his hometown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/05/national/famed-japanese-doctor-killed-afghanistan-spent-life-helping-poor/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura (right) provides medical treatment in Pakistan in the early 1980s. He was gunned down Wednesday in Afghanistan along with five Afghans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/30/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/afghan-polls-set-see-big-drop-voter-numbers-amid-taliban-threat-lack-interest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard shows his finger marked with ink Sunday as he holds a weapon a day after he cast his vote in Kabul. Voter participation in Afghanistan's presidential elections appeared on Sunday to have been lower than in previous years, with turnout hit by the threat of attacks, a muted campaign and concerns of fraud.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/13/world/taliban-car-bomb-blast-kills-four-afghan-special-forces-members-kabul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:37:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan special forces stand guard at the site of a suicide car bomb explosion that killed at least four people, on the outskirts of Kabul Thursday. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement sent to the media.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taliban-says-trumps-decision-cancel-afghan-talks-will-mean-u-s-lives-lost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:37:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump updates the media on Hurricane Dorian preparedness from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington Sept. 4. Trump on Sunday tweeted that secret meetings that were to be held at Camp David with Taliban leaders and the Afghan president on Sunday had been canceled following a bombing in Kabul last week.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/04/asia-pacific/full-u-s-pullout-afghanistan-ignite-total-civil-war-nine-american-ex-envoys/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. military advisers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade work with Afghan soldiers at an artillery position on an Afghan National Army base in Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan, Aug. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trumps-team-misgivings-emerge-deal-taliban-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. soldiers salute during a flag-lowering ceremony at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Sept. 11, 2002.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/08/world/taliban-car-bomb-kills-least-14-group-holds-peace-talks-qatar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20190709.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wounded boys receive treatment in a hospital after a car bomb attack in Ghazni province, central Afghanistan, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/mike-pompeo-visits-kabul-hopes-peace-deal-sept-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/f-pompeo-a-20190627.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pompeo-a-20190627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with (fourth from left) Resolute Support NATO Base Commander Gen. Austin Scott Miller, Afghanistan Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday during an unannounced visit to Kabul.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/16/world/ancient-afghan-citadel-collapses-cultural-heritage-sites-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/09/world/taliban-attack-aid-group-kabul-ends-four-killed-dozens-wounded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Afghan security force keeps watch during a gunmen attack in Kabul Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/02/world/war-weary-afghanistan-fighters-swap-kalashnikovs-cricket-bats-pads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan men play cricket on a field covered in snow on the outskirts of Kabul in December 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/09/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/long-spoiler-pakistan-quietly-starts-aiding-u-s-taliban-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (left) receives U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad on Jan. 18.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/27/world/foreign-troops-exit-afghanistan-18-months-draft-deal-taliban-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afgh-b-20190128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, shown in a file photo, will travel to Kabul to discuss "significant progress" in peace negotiations with the Taliban.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/26/world/talibans-new-political-leader-mullah-abdul-ghani-baradar-expected-join-peace-talks-u-s-qatar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/taliban-talks-gather-pace-afghan-women-fear-turning-back-clock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-afghanwomen-a-20190124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanwomen-a-20190124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks to the media as first lady Rula Ghani (left) and Sarwar Danish, his current second vice president, look on at the Independent Electoral Commission office in Kabul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/23/world/huge-afghanistan-attack-massive-death-toll-shows-taliban-strength-outset-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f-afghanattack-a-20180124.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanattack-a-20180124.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security forces inspect the site of a Taliban attack in the Maidan Wardak provincial capital of Maidan Shar, east of Kabul, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/27/world/crime-legal-world/alleged-leader-china-consulate-attack-pakistan-reported-killed-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-chinattack-a-20181228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chinattack-a-20181228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paramilitary forces and police taCe cover behind a wall during an attack on the Chinese consulate, where blasts and shots are heard, in Karachi, Pakistan Nov. 23.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/22/world/planned-drawdown-afghanistan-imperils-u-s-push-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-trafghan-a-20181223.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Kabul on Oct. 17.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-mulls-major-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-seen-growing-impatient-interventions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-trafghan-a-20181222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trafghan-a-20181222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. troops patrol at an Afghan National Army base in Logar province, Afghanistan, in August.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/04/world/trump-asks-pakistan-leader-khan-help-afghan-peace-talks-u-s-pull-speculation-swirls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f-trumpkhan-a-20181205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpkhan-a-20181205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, arrives to address an election campaign rally in Islamabad in July. A Pakistani government spokesman said Monday that President Donald Trump has reached out to Prime Minister Khan, sending him a letter seeking Islamabad's cooperation in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table to end the 17-year war in neighboring Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/18/world/update-2-u-s-envoy-hopes-peace-deal-taliban-2019-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/f-afghantalks-a-20181119.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghantalks-a-20181119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (rear right) and U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, (rear left) meet in Kabul on Nov. 10.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/world/taliban-takes-credit-bodyguard-kills-top-afghan-police-chief-u-s-general-unhurt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:41:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/f-kandahar-a-20181020.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kandahar-a-20181020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan Gen.Abdul Raziq, police chief of Kandahar, poses for a picture during a graduation ceremony at a police training center in Kandahar province last year. The Afghan security chief and a journalist were killed and three Americans wounded on Thursday when a gunman opened fire on a high-level security meeting attended by top U.S. commander Gen. Scott Miller, officials said.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/world/new-u-s-general-takes-command-nato-forces-afghanistan-peace-still-elusive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f-afghanistanmiller-a-20180903.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanistanmiller-a-20180903.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gen. Scott Miller speaks during a change of command ceremony at Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/09/world/apparent-insider-attack-afghanistan-kills-soldier-california/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-taliban-talks-without-official-afghan-representation-yield-possible-signals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/f-taliban-a-20180731.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20180731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taliban celebrate a cease-fire in Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, June 16.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/27/world/head-islamic-state-afghanistan-reported-killed-10-cohorts-u-s-led-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/f-afstrike-a-20180828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afstrike-a-20180828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security personnel inspect the side of a suicide attack near the office of the Election Commission in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. At least two people were killed and four others wounded Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated his vest full of explosives near the office of the Election Commission in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/14/world/least-15-killed-attackers-set-off-multiple-blasts-engage-firefight-jalalabad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-jalalabad-a-20180515.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan security force member keeps watch at the site of blasts in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/16/world/well-armed-taliban-battle-west-afghan-city-new-crisis-kabul-regime-despite-u-s-air-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-taliban-a-20180517.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20180517.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan security force member stands guard at the entrance gate of the government compound of Farah province, western Afghanistan, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/03/world/social-issues-world/nearly-half-afghanistans-children-not-go-school-kabul-seminar-hears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/f-afghaneducation-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghaneducation-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan boys read the Koran in a madrasa, or religious school, in Kabul on May 28.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/07/world/blast-afghan-mosque-used-voter-center-kills-least-17-wounds-34/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-khost-a-20180508.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-khost-a-20180508.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wounded men receive treatment at a hospital following a deadly bombing at a mosque in Khost city, the provincial capital of the eastern Khost province, Afghanistan, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/08/world/afghan-gunships-killed-wounded-107-boys-men-religious-ceremony-attack-last-month-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghan-a-20180509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security forces patrol in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/09/world/taliban-take-another-district-center-afghan-fighting-rages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/f-taliban-a-20180510.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20180510.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security forces run from the site of a suicide attack after a second bombing in Kabul April 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/03/world/casualty-claims-conflict-afghan-airstrike-targets-apparent-taliban-gathering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/f-kunduz-a-20180404.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kunduz-a-20180404.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan man is treated at a hospital following an airstrike in Dashti Archi district of Kunduz province northern Afghanistan Monday. An Afghan official says an airstrike on a Taliban training camp in northern Afghanistan killed at least 20 insurgents and wounded many more on Monday, while the Taliban said the airstrike hit a religious school during a graduation ceremony, killing dozens of civilians.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/13/national/soliciting-votes-afghanistan-embassy-plans-deploy-japanese-style-mascot-soften-war-torn-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This screenshot shows one of the candidates for a mascot for the Afghan Embassy in Japan posted on its Twitter account.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-puts-pakistan-notice-stop-playing-double-game-stop-terrorism-risk-losing-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Pakistani religious groups rally to condemn a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/25/world/social-issues-world/afghans-sent-home-forced-flee-anew-amid-bloodshed-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghans run near the Intercontinental Hotel as smoke billows during a fight between gunmen and Afghan security forces in Kabul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/16/world/3400-civilians-killed-afghan-conflict-2017-u-n-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan amputee walks at a hospital run by the International Committee of the Red Cross for war victims and the disabled in Kabul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/28/world/china-pakistan-consider-including-afghanistan-57-billion-economic-corridor-beijing-looks-broker-peace-troubled-neighbors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/22/world/pence-makes-surprise-kabul-visit-assures-leaders-u-s-will-see/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (right) at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/world/islamic-state-claims-blast-afghan-intelligence-agency-kabul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security personnel stand near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-army-deserter-bergdahl-apologizes-to-troops-injured-searching-for-him/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f-bergdahl-a-20171101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bergdahl-a-20171101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl leaves the courthouse after taking the stand on the fourth day of sentencing proceedings in his court martial at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/31/world/afghan-taliban-say-u-s-professor-kidnapped-last-year-kabul-seriously-ill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:45:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/10/11/world/trumps-afghanistan-strategy-u-s-ratchets-bombing-highest-level-since-2010-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-afghbomb-a-20171012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks to troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sept. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/05/world/u-s-senators-visit-afghanistan-demand-coherent-strategy-taliban-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/f-afghanplan-a-20170706.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanplan-a-20170706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Senator John McCain speaks during a press conference at the Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul Tuesday as Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham look on.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/16/world/taliban-send-trump-letter-warning-sending-troops-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f-taliban-a-20170817.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. forces and Afghan commandos are seen in Asad Khil village near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul in April. The Taliban have sent an "open letter" to President Donald Trump, reiterating their calls for America to leave Afghanistan after 16 years of war.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/08/world/taliban-deny-cooperating-islamic-state-afghan-village-massacre/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-eyes-afghanistans-elusive-mineral-riches-fund-ongoing-16-year-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. troops are seen outside their base in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province on July 7.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/22/world/afghan-taliban-airs-video-american-australian-teachers-abducted-last-year-kabul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/f-taliban-a-20170623.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20170623.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo combination image taken from video released Wednesday by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid shows kidnapped teachers Australian Timothy Weekes (top) and American Kevin King, who were both abducted by the insurgents in Afghanistan in August 2016. In the video the two captives report the date as June 16, and say they are being treated well by the Taliban but that they remain prisoners and appeal to their governments to help set them free.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/18/world/six-officers-killed-taliban-attack-afghanistan-provincial-police-headquarters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/08/world/pakistan-claims-killed-50-afghan-troops-retaliatory-border-clash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/f-pakafg-a-20170509.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pakafg-a-20170509.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard March 27 while people wait for the opening of the border crossing in Chaman, Pakistan. Pakistan says its forces killed at least 50 Afghan troops and destroyed five checkpoints in clashes along the disputed border two days earlier, while Afghanistan dismissed the account, saying only two border police and a civilian were killed. The two armies traded fire Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/world/roadside-ied-blast-kills-10-van-pakistan-tribal-area-bordering-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-pakistan-a-20170427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-pakistan-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pakistani bombing victim is treated at a hospital in the tribal district of Kurram on Tuesday. At least nine people were killed, including women and children, and 13 others injured when a passenger vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Pakistan's northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/24/world/talibans-brazen-attack-afghan-soldiers-eclipses-trumps-mother-bombs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-afghan-a-20170425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghan-a-20170425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan special forces on Sunday inspect a cave that was used by suspected Islamic State militants at the site where U.S. forces recently dropped the "mother of all bombs" in the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/world/death-toll-afghan-base-attack-rises-140-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/24/world/clues-casualties-impact-largest-u-s-bomb-dropped-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-afbomb-a-20170425.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afbomb-a-20170425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Burned trees are seen Sunday at the site of the MOAB, or "mother of all bombs," which struck the Achin district of the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/22/world/taliban-attackers-kill-least-140-soldiers-afghan-base/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/f-taliban-a-20170423.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20170423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security personnel stand guard near the site of an attack on an army compound in Dihdadi District of Balkh province on April 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/29/world/afghans-plan-double-special-forces-17000-threats-grow-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/f-afgspec-a-20170330.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afgspec-a-20170330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New recruits to the Afghan Army's special forces take part in a military exercise in the Rishkhur district outside Kabul on Feb. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/26/world/afghans-angry-qualified-female-air-force-pilot-applies-asylum-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/f-afghanasylum-a-20161227.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanasylum-a-20161227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Niloofar Rahmani]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/20/world/gunman-afghan-army-uniform-kills-two-u-s-advisers-wounds-three-kabul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/15/world/islamic-state-faces-uphill-branding-war-in-afghanistan-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ISafpak-a-20160816.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan police pose for a photograph with an Islamic State flag after an operation in the Kot district of Jalalabad province east of Kabul on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/25/world/gunmen-storm-american-university-kabul-kill-guard-wound-least-18/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kabul-a-20160826.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan policemen stand guard at the site of an attack at American University of Afghanistan in Kabul Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/22/national/pillaged-cultural-assets-returned-to-afghanistan-with-help-of-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-afghanistan-a-20160823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-afghanistan-a-20160823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ikuo Hirayama addresses a UNESCO conference in Kabul in 2002.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/13/world/drone-kills-islamic-state-leader-afghanistan-pakistan-u-s-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/23/world/taliban-no-2-haqqani-may-be-even-more-deadly-foe-than-mansour/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/10/world/taliban-tightens-grip-helmand-province-kabul-focuses-islamic-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-afghanmess-a-20160811.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanmess-a-20160811.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan policemen search commuters at a checkpoint in Helmand province on Tuesday. Officials have warned of a humanitarian crisis in Helmand as fierce fighting sent refugees fleeing to the capital of the southern Afghan province, with Taliban insurgents tightening their grip despite intensified U.S. airstrikes.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/05/world/pakistani-chopper-goes-afghanistan-occupants-feared-held-taliban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-chopper-a-20160806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-chopper-a-20160806.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pakistani Air Force Mi-17 helicopter flies over the Presidential Palace during a 2014 parade marking the country's National Day in Islamabad. A Pakistani government helicopter crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, without confirming reports six people on board were taken hostage by the Taliban.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/09/world/opium-harvested-taliban-ends-combat-lull-helmand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/f-taliban-a-20160510.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-a-20160510.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier mans his position at an outpost in Babaji area of Lashkar Gah Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/world/afghan-drone-war-data-show-unmanned-flights-dominate-air-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-BRI-afghones-a-20160422.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-BRI-afghones-a-20160422.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone takes off from Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on March 9.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/21/asia-pacific/china-eyes-deeper-military-ties-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/18/world/al-qaida-seen-cozying-taliban-upping-threat-u-s-nato-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-alqaida-a-20160419.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-alqaida-a-20160419.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. commander for Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson (fourth, left) poses for pictures at forward operating base Gamberi, Laghman province, on April 4.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/12/asia-pacific/growing-terrorism-risk-leads-china-to-boost-role-in-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-afgchina-a-20160413.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afgchina-a-20160413.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan policemen take part in drills at a police training center in Nangarhar province in March 2015.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/18/national/japanese-tapped-u-n-chiefs-special-representative-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/n-unrep-a-20160319.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-unrep-a-20160319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadamichi Yamamoto]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/15/world/taliban-use-captured-humvees-suicide-attack-helmand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Army Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, listens to journalists during a news conference at Resolute Support headquarters, in Kabul Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/07/world/social-issues-world/young-afghan-brains-leaving-amid-mass-exodus-europe-posing-severe-economic-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan men line up to apply for passports at a passport department office in Kabul on Nov.29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/02/world/nato-keep-afghanistan-troop-levels-intact-seek-funds-amid-sobering-realities-ground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg starts the NATO Ministerial Meeting on the South, Partnerships, and Defense Capacity, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/28/business/delayed-kabul-jalalabad-road-project-highlights-chinas-challenge-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard keeps watch at a Chinese road construction site in the Khogyani district of eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Nov. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/09/world/nato-ponders-future-of-afghan-mission-as-fatigue-frustration-mount/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A soldier of the Afghan National Army is seen through the cockpit of a scrapped Russian helicopter as he guards Kunduz airport in this file photo from 2011. Some people within NATO are questioning the wisdom of sinking further resources into the 12-year mission as fatigue and frustration exact a toll.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/27/world/powerful-quake-rocks-south-asia-70-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man with his belongings walks past the rubble of a house after it was damaged by an earthquake Monday in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/20/world/germany-turkey-italy-will-keep-troops-afghanistan-nato-officials-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers take pictures of military aircraft taking part in the opening ceremony of NATO's large-scale Trident Juncture 2015 exercise at an Italian Air Force base in Trapani, Sicily, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/15/world/taliban-advances-prompting-obama-delay-afghanistan-forces-withdrawal-timetable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-drawdown-a-20151016.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghans wait to receive aid distributed by the National Army troops in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Wednesdat. The Taliban said they were pulling back in the northern city Tuesday in order to protect civilians, but fighting continued elsewhere in the country, apparently prompting the U.S. forces to delay their withdrawal from the country.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/03/world/u-s-military-airstrike-may-hit-afghan-hospital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/30/world/audacious-attack-taliban-test-limits-afghan-security-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-taliban-b-20151001.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan special forces arrive after launching a counteroffensive to retake the city of Kunduz from Taliban insurgents Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/14/world/talibans-mullah-omar-died-natural-causes-afghanistan-son-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/30/world/kabul-confirms-taliban-chief-omar-died-pakistan-2013-pushes-peace-parley/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-omar-a-20150731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated image released by the FBI, Mullah Omar is seen in a wanted poster. Afghanistan said Wednesday that Omar died in Pakistan in 2013. The Taliban could not be immediately reached for comment on the government's comments about Omar, who has been declared dead many times before.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/world/afghan-taliban-lose-ground-loyalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:52:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/23/world/fear-of-is-drives-shiite-afghans-to-seek-taliban-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afgis-a-20150324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethnic Hazara demonstrators gather in Ghazni, Afghanistan, last Tuesday to demand action in rescuing Hazaras kidnapped from a bus by masked men who many believe were under the influence of the Islamic State group.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/30/world/suicide-attack-afghan-lawmaker-kills-three-kabul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kabulattack-a-20150331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan firefighters hose down the site of a suicide attack targeting lawmaker Gul Pacha Majidi, in Kabul on Sunday. The suicide attacker targeting the prominent Afghan MP killed three people and wounded seven others, just days after Washington announced it would slow the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/14/world/gunmen-storm-guest-house-kabul-least-one-american-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kabul-a-20150515.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security forces arrive Wednesday at the site of an attack in Kabul. Gunmen stormed a guest house popular with foreigners just before it was due to host a concert, and up to 100 people were reportedly trapped inside as security forces fought to clear the building.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/19/national/japan-pledges-16-2-million-in-aid-for-afghanistan-pakistan-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aid-a-20150320.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan refugee is shown following her arrival at the International Organization for Migration office in Torkham, an Afghan town that borders Pakistan, on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/13/asia-pacific/china-offers-mediate-stalled-afghan-taliban-peace-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother carries a picture of her slain son last Saturday as mourners recalled the students killed in an attack on a school in Peshawar last year. The gunmen were affiliated with the Pakistan Taliban.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/21/asia-pacific/afghanistan-arrested-chinese-uighurs-to-get-beijings-help-on-taliban-talks-officials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/crime-legal-world/afghan-taliban-smuggling-drugs-and-gems-like-mafia-u-n-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/12/world/obama-seen-weighing-slower-forces-drawdown-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/09/world/drone-kills-veteran-afghan-militant-with-suspected-is-links/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/afghan-president-urges-u-s-rethink-pullout-deadline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/f-ghani-a-20150106-e1420437907886.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ghani-a-20150106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ashraf Ghani]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/10/world/offbeat-world/afghan-bruce-lee-high-kicking-his-way-to-internet-fame/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/f-afghanbruce-a-20141211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanbruce-a-20141211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abbas Alizada, who calls himself the "Afghan Bruce Lee," poses for the media in Kabul on Tuesday. From the ruins of an iconic bombed-out palace above Kabul, the young man bearing a striking resemblance to the kung fu legend is high-kicking his way to Internet fame, aiming to show another side to his war-weary nation.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/08/world/afghan-students-find-inspiration-islamic-states-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/29/world/u-s-led-mission-afghanistan-ends-combat-role-thousands-foreign-troops-stay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanwrap-a-20141230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Gen. John Campbell, commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, folds the flag of the ISAF during the change of mission ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, when the American-led coalition officially ended its combat mission after a more than 13 year war that ousted the Taliban government in 2001.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/03/national/kyoto-based-nicco-refuses-forget-women-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nicco-a-20141204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women from rural areas of Afghanistan attend a literacy course organized by the Kyoto-based Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development (NICCO), as part of the organization's efforts to help women gain financial independence and pursue employment opportunities.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/08/world/hagel-visits-afghan-outpost-serving-role-u-s-exit-strategy-longest-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel addresses American troops Sunday at the Gamberi forward operating base in the eastern Afghan Laghman province. Hagel said Saturday during a visit to Kabul that an additional 1,000 U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan next year to meet a temporary shortfall in NATO forces. President Barack Obama approved the move despite an earlier plan to limit the U.S. force to a maximum of 9,800 troops in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/01/world/kabul-police-chief-quits-after-taliban-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-kabulchief-a-20141202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kabul police chief Zahir Zahir (second from the left) resigned on Sunday, a police spokesman said. The Afghan capital has been hit by at least nine militant attacks in the last two weeks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/01/world/afghan-forces-ill-equipped-to-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afghanforces-a-20141202.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan National Army soldiers take part in a training exercise at a military base in Kabul on Nov. 23. As foreign combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, the experiences of police chiefs and army commanders across the country are arguably NATO's biggest worry.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/24/world/suicide-bomber-kills-45-at-volleyball-match-in-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/24/world/crime-legal-world/russian-captured-afghanistan-face-terrorism-charges-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/21/world/afghan-presidential-rivals-abdullah-ghani-sign-power-sharing-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/19/world/politics-diplomacy-world/taliban-push-territory-quickens-afghan-troops-get-new-kill-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-afgshoot-a-20140820.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, in May 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/27/national/defense-revamp-imperils-afghan-aid-doctor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p3-afghan-a-20140628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-afghan-a-20140628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsu Nakamura of Peshawar-kai and one of his local staff members examine the construction site for an irrigation canal in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, in April 2007]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senior-afghan-poll-official-quits-opens-way-abdullah-return-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/w1-afgpoll-a-20140625.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-afgpoll-a-20140625.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abdullah Abdullah]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/08/world/poll-americans-split-bergdahl-prisoner-swap-taliban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/w2-bergdahl-a-20140609.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-bergdahl-a-20140609.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image grab from a Taliban video released in April 2010 via the Site Intelligence Group shows U.S. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl after his capture in Afghanistan in June 2009.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/14/world/taliban-shifting-religious-group-criminal-enterprise-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/w2-taliban-a-20140615.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-taliban-a-20140615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security personnel present an alleged Taliban fighter to the media at the Afghan National Army headquarters near Jalalabad in March. .]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/06/world/bergdahl-left-unit-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A video still obtained from Islamist website Voice Of Jihad shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sitting in a vehicle prior to his release on Saturday. The video has been authenticated based on its contents.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/02/world/freed-from-captivity-bergdahls-ordeal-continues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jani and Bob Bergdahl speak to reporters in Boise, Idaho, on Sunday, following the release of their son, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, from Taliban captivity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/front-runner-abdullah-wins-key-ally-in-afghan-presidential-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/04/world/afghan-villagers-tell-landslide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-landslide-a-20140505.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan man on Saturday stands in the district of Argo after a landslide partially buried a village the day before.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-troops-afghanistan-may-fall-10000/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-usafghan-a-20140423.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. soldiers protect their faces from rotor wash as wounded comrades are airlifted by a helicopter near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in August 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/afghan-poll-may-headed-runoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-afghan-a-20140504.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani addresses reporters in Kabul on April 27.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/poll-success-puts-afghans-on-track-for-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-afgpoll-a-20140410.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan women enter a polling station in Jalalabad on Saturday to vote during the country's presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/vote-might-tip-afghan-tribes-into-new-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p4-kand-a-20140405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident of Herat, in northwestern Afghanistan, has his picture taken Monday in order to receive a voter card for Saturday's presidential election. The poll comes as U.S.-led foreign troops withdraw after 13 years of fighting.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/smooth-afghan-election-raises-questions-about-talibans-strength/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-afghanpoll-a-20140408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after voting at a polling station in the northwestern city of Herat on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/afghanistan-at-crossroads-as-karzai-era-ends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/p8-afghan-a-20140331.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-afghan-a-20140331.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during official Nawroz festivities at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/05/national/nicco-driven-to-continue-afghan-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-nicco-a-20131206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fundamentals: Afghan women, including mothers with children, participate in a reading class organized by NICCO as part of the group's support program to build self-reliance.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/29/world/karzai-says-u-s-drone-strike-killed-2-year-old/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/w2-afghan-a-20131130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-afghan-a-20131130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education in exile: Afghan refugees attend a makeshift school in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday. Around a hundred illiterate children gather for three hours a day in a mosque room and a yard to learn from two volunteer teachers &#8212; a man and a woman &#8212; how to read and do numbers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/afghan-president-holds-firm-on-delaying-security-deal-with-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-karzai-a-20131125.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defiant: Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers a speech on the first day of the Loya Jirga in Kabul on Thursday. An aid to Karzai said he plans to defy U.S. threats to sign a bilateral security deal before spring elections.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/09/world/afghanistan-to-free-80-of-high-security-detainees-pentagon-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/23/world/u-s-drawdown-in-afghanistan-sees-worlds-biggest-garage-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-usafghan-a-20131024.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Truly bazaar: Afghan police guard the site of an attack by a Taliban suicide bomber on foreign troops in Kabul on Friday. As the U.S. troop withdrawal from the country and sell-off of equipment accelerates, the Taliban have become part of the world's biggest garage sale]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/04/world/as-u-s-withdraws-from-afghanistan-poppy-trade-it-spent-billions-fighting-still-flourishes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:56:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w2-afghan-a-20131105.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Battlefield loss: U.S. Marines kneel down beside a cross to pay their final respects to a fallen comrade, during a September 2012 memorial ceremony at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/11/asia-pacific/u-s-forcibly-took-custody-of-militant-leader-afghans-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130902f2a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxed in: Niaz Mohammad stands on land that was dotted with homes in Tarok Kolache before Americans bombed the village in 2010. Less than half of the village was rebuilt after the bombardment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/19/world/efforts-to-close-second-guantanamo-in-afghanistan-prove-problematic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wn20131002a4a.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Charles Gurganus]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/31/world/crime-legal-world/u-s-soldier-to-admit-afghan-massacre-to-avoid-execution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130318a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-03-28T04:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130123f3a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the know: Vali Nasr, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, wants Japan to be more engaged in Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson]]></image:caption>
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Shop assistants in a Marks and Spencer Group Plc food hall clean escalator hand rails at a store on Oxford Street in London on Monday. The Coronavirus-driven stockpiling by Britons girding for a nationwide lockdown lifted U.K. grocery sales to a record in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian, left, looks at this phone while walking past the Isetan Shinjuku department store, operated by Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd., back, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/business/corporate-business/nissan-eyes-suspending-10000-jobs-abroad-coronavirus-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-07T21:35:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4368.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers are seen on the production line at Nissan's car plant in Sunderland, England.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/world/whatsapp-fake-virus-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-07T21:39:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4330.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4330.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[WhatsApp has tightened message forwarding limits after seeing a jump in messages touting bogus medical advice since the start of the coronavirus crisis.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/asia-pacific/lockdown-eases-wuhan-residents-worry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T10:31:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4335.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman wearing a protective suit washes a car on a street in Wuhan, Hubei province, the center of China's COVID-19 outbreak, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/corporate-business/wework-sues-softbank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T13:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4392.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4392.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[WeWork has sued SoftBank Group for abandoning a $3 billion (¥326.4 billion) tender offer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/world/us-navy-secretary-resigns-coronavirus-carrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T16:09:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4513.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly testifies to the Senate Armed Services in December. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/singapore-proposes-banning-gatherings-amid-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T16:16:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/world/russian-space-agency-says-trump-paving-way-seize-planets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T16:16:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/asia-pacific/wuhan-lockdown-china-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T16:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4525.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4525.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers wearing masks and suits to protect against the spread of new coronavirus walk past people holding a celebratory banner at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on Wednesday. Within hours of China lifting an 11-week lockdown on the central city, tens of thousands people left the city by train and plane alone, according to local media reports. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/asia-pacific/china-snake-village-coronavirus-wildlife-trade-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T18:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4555.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4555.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A snake farm with empty wooden slats is pictured after a ban on the trade and consumption of wildlife following the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Zisiqiao village, Zhejiang province, China on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/border-jams-delay-supply-toilet-paper-ingredient-pulp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T18:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4510.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4510.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker boxes rolls of individually wrapped toilet paper to be shipped in Bangor, Maine, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/business/economy-business/central-bankers-stimulus-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T18:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4174.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4174.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/economy-business/japan-machinery-orders-rose-again-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T18:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4411.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4411.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Machinery orders rose 2.3 percent in February from the previous month, but the government retains its assessment that orders are "stalling" with a coronavirus-linked contraction looming.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/economy-business/pandemic-world-working-hours-wipeout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:01:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4393.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4393.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to wipe out 6.7 percent of working hours globally in the second quarter of this year, according to the International Labor Organization.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/corporate-business/cuts-major-oil-producers-exxon-chops-spending-30/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4385.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4385.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Darren Woods, CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. briefs reporters in New York on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/japan-current-account-surplus-grows-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4413.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4413.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan saw its biggest current account surplus in nearly two years in February as goods imports plunged due to coronavirus-related factory closures in China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/asia-pacific/taiwan-bans-official-use-zoom-over-cybersecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:23:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4514.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4514.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan has said its government agencies should avoid using services such as Zoom as they may have security flaws.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/spain-warns-eu-future-risk-financial-response-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/rakuten-begins-low-cost-mobile-phone-service-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4400-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4400.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Mobile Inc. on Wednesday launched its full-scale mobile phone service with reduced charges.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/economy-business/japan-economy-25-percent-contraction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4498.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4498.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fewer than usual pedestrians cross the street in Tokyo on Wednesday after the government announced the state of emergency in the capital amid the growing spread of COVID-19 in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/world/pandemic-grips-britain-boris-johnson-still-intensive-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4417.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4417.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media wait outside St Thomas' Hospital in London on Tuesday after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/global-coal-plants-unprofitable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-08T19:44:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4478.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4478.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Research by an environmental think tank shows that of 6,696 operational plants and 1,046 in the pipeline, 46 percent will be unprofitable this year, up from 41 percent in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-power-struggle-record-economic-aid-package/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T09:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4382.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe attends an LDP executive meeting with Fumio Kishida and Toshihiro Nikai on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/08/business/corporate-business/nintendo-suspends-switch-game-console-shipments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T13:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4583.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4583.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. Switch game consoles, top, and Switch Lite game consoles are displayed inside the Nintendo Tokyo store.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/national/irene-hirano-obit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T14:50:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4616.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4616.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Irene Hirano (center) takes part in a ceremony at the airport renamed after her late husband, former senator Daniel K. Inouye, on May 30, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/world/science-health-world/masks-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T18:41:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4253.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4253.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Support for using masks to protect against disease is spreading from the U.S. West Coast to the Czech Republic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/economy-business/australian-debt-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T19:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4678.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4678.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand in a line outside a Centrelink office in Sydney on March 26. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/world/boris-johnson-getting-better-uk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T19:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4738.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4738.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Prime Minister Boris Johnson in intensive care, the British government is facing two major issues: How to finance a vast increase in state spending to support the shuttered economy and the timing of lifting lockdown measures.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/car-boom-wuhan-lockdown-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T19:56:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4672.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4672.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard wears protective clothing as he checks the temperature of people entering the Audi store in Wuhan on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/corporate-business/china-investors-two-accounting-scandals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T19:56:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4665.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4665.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nasdaq-listed Luckin Coffee Inc. has announced that its chief operating officer and some underlings may have fabricated billions of yuan in sales for 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/impossible-dilemma-world-watches-italy-firms-plead-return-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T20:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4429.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4429.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker sanitizes Duomo square in central Milan on March 31.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/world/us-senators-no-zoom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/corporate-business/japanese-carmakers-cut-off-pay-32000-north-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:20:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4666.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4666.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers assemble a RAV4 hybrid SUV at Toyota Motor Corp.'s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky in August  2019.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/corporate-business/japanese-carmakers-plan-put-20000-temporary-leave-partial-pay-deal-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:24:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4661.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4661.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works on the assembly line at the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Mizushima plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/asia-pacific/south-pacific-cyclone-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:33:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4613.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4613.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Damage from Cyclone Harold in Luganville, Vanuatu ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/world/science-health-world/rapid-health-declines-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4610.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4610.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health care worker attends to a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at the General University Hospital in Prague on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/business/corporate-business/fast-retailing-sharply-cuts-earnings-outlook-due-virus-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:36:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4784.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4784.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees speak to customers about a temporary closure due the coronavirus at a Uniqlo store, operated by Fast Retailing Co., in Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/09/world/science-health-world/fewer-coronavirus-deaths-seen-countries-mandate-tuberculosis-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-09T21:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4260.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4260.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A preliminary study posted on medRxiv, a site for unpublished medical research, foudn a correlation between countries that require citizens to get the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine and those showing fewer number of confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait at an entrance to a labor arbitration office in Beijing on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police said Tuesday they had arrested 11 individuals suspected of overcharging at clubs in Kabukicho in Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers from the Tokyo Bar Association patrol the Kabukicho entertainment district in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, July 17 as part of their efforts to eradicate "bottakuri" rip-offs at bars and nightclubs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taxis pass buildings illuminated at night in the Ginza district of Tokyo in May 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This combination photo shows revelers using toy water guns to spray at one another as they celebrate the Buddhist New Year, known in Thailand as Songkran, in Bangkok on April 14, 2019, and the same place Monday after the government banned Songkran festivities over the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/12/29/national/club-crowd-uses-salsa-to-slam-archaic-law/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speaking with their feet: Members of Let's Dance give a salsa demonstration in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Dec. 13 to draw support for their petition to revise a law being used to crack down on small dance clubs and live music venues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/29/national/crime-legal/kabukicho-clinic-chief-hid-%c2%a5350-million-pays-back-taxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:24:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noon, a nightclub in Osaka, is seen in December 2011. In April 2012, the manager was prosecuted for allowing patrons to continue dancing after midnight. The episode led to a campaign to revise a law crafted during the nation's postwar turmoil.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/17/national/japan-eases-late-night-restrictions-dance-clubs/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A revision to an anti-dancing law came after individuals from the music industry launched a campaign to change the 1948 law, criticizing the fact that dance clubs were lumped into the same category as sex parlors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/03/national/cabinet-oks-bill-that-would-let-nightclubs-operate-past-midnight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:25:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:25:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People dance at a special free event held in a former dance club in Osaka last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People dance at a special free event held in a former dance club in Osaka last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/25/national/crime-legal/dance-club-operator-acquitted-of-corrupting-sexual-morals-under-48-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:26:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crackdown: The sleek windows of Vanity Restaurant Tokyo are seen at the top of the Roi Building in Roppongi on Monday. Police arrested three of the nightclub's managers on Sunday for allegedly operating without a license.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-13T21:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In 2015, the Diet revised the adult entertainment business law to enable clubs to operate past midnight provided they met certain conditions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hailey'5 Cafe in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, shown on Nov. 20, 2017, is making itself more attractive to women with brighter interiors and female-focused amenities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demand for medicines that prove their mettle against COVID-19 could swiftly outstrip supply, necessitating new industry alliances, parallel manufacturing by multiple companies and shared intellectual property.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at his primary night event in Columbia, South Carolina, on Feb. 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A forest fire burns on Sunday within the 30-kilometer (19-mile) Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, not far from the nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather for a speech by the main opposition United Future Party's candidate Hwang Kyo-ahn in Seoul on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko attend the award ceremony for a book report contest for young people in Tokyo on Feb. 7.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of elderly women sit on a bench for a chat in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antarctica's Fildes bay at Isla Rey Jorge in Bellingshausen, Chile, hosts Chilean and Russian military bases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/15/business/corporate-business/fujifilm-coronavirus-treatment-avigan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-15T17:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujifilm Holdings Corp. has boosted its production capacity of anti-flu drug Avigan, which is being tested as a treatment for COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-15T17:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The global economy is projected to contract by 3.0 percent in 2020 from a year before due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-15T17:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Taro Aso and BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speak to reporters following a teleconference with G7 finance chiefs, on Tuesday at the Finance Ministry.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-15T17:46:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ai Hamamoto, an employee at internet-based startup Venture Republic Inc., works from home last month at her residence in Tokyo. With the coronavirus pandemic prompting a massive teleworking experiment, some companies already have an eye on how they’ll change operations when the crisis dissipates.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-15T18:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bullet train travels along a track in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-15T18:20:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-15T19:07:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empty toll booths are seen on New Jersey Turnpike/I 95, one of the busiest highway in the United States, on Tuesday in New Jersey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T09:47:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff treat a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at the University hospital of Aachen, Germany, on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T17:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T18:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a briefing about COVID-19 at the White House on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T18:57:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thae Yong Ho, a former North Korean diploma who defected to South Korea in 2016, celebrates after he was declared certain to secure victory in the parliamentary election in Seoul on Thursday, after running as a candidate of the main opposition United Future Party.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrant workers from Bangladesh and India are pictured inside a vehicle in Little India, Singapore, on April 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:14:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A driver prepares to transport N95 respirator masks outside a United Parcel Service ground sorting facility in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:15:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Theodore Roosevelt enters the port in Da Nang, Vietnam, March 5. The United States has said it is "seriously concerned" about China's reported sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/23/national/science-health/tiny-tardigrades-might-hold-key-origin-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Biologists are studying a tardigrade's ability to restart life after rehydration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/09/national/science-health/like-hot-scientists-drill-off-japan-sizzling-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:24:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This image released by NASA Wednesday shows Martian sand dunes. Images like this provide information about erosion and movement of surface material, about wind and weather patterns, even about the soil grains and grain sizes. However, looking past the dunes, these images also reveal the nature of the substrate beneath. Within the spaces between the dunes, a resistant and highly fractured surface is revealed. The fractured ground is resistant to erosion by the wind, and suggests the material is bedrock that is now shattered by a history of bending stresses or temperature changes, such as cooling, for example.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/09/world/science-health-world/nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-finds-key-evidence-lake-landing-site/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This NASA handout photo shows beds of sandstone inclined to the southwest toward Mount Sharp and away from the Gale Crater rim on Mars. The inclination of the beds indicates build-out of sediment toward Mount Sharp. These inclined beds are interpreted as the deposits of small deltas fed by rivers flowing down from the crater rim to the north and building out into a lake to the south, where Mount Sharp is now.  NASA scientists who have been studying observations from the Curiosity rover scouring the Red Planet, announced Monday that Mount Sharp may have built up over time from lake sediments. The latest analysis is based on rocks discovered at the lower edges of Mount Sharp, which is located, rather oddly, in the midst of a crater on Earth's neighboring planet. While scientists are still not sure how long Mars was wet for any given spell through history, a "great surprise" was finding slanted rocks and soil that point to the existence of a lake bed in the crater, said Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology. The Mastcam's left-eye camera recorded the component frames of this mosaic on March 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/30/business/corporate-business/amazon-japan-life-supermarket-tie-sell-fresh-foods-online-starting-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-16T19:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life will supply a range of products, including those from its in-house brand, to members of Amazon Japan's Prime Now service.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/07/national/report-names-japans-top-three-mega-banks-worlds-biggest-lenders-coal-plant-developers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-17T11:02:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Financial Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group together accounted for 32 percent of direct lending to coal power plant developers since January 2017, according to a report.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/17/business/tech/toyota-pony-ai-california/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-17T12:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An autonomous vehicle operated by self-driving car startup Pony.ai is seen during a government-organized tour to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, in Guangzhou, China, in February 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-20T02:57:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-albania-a-20191130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emergency personnel carry a body during a search for survivors in a collapsed building in Durres, after an earthquake shook Albania, Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/25/world/social-issues-world/albania-border-patrol-eus-frontex-helps-tackle-migrant-flow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T02:57:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX) uses binoculars as he patrols with his colleagues near the Albania-Greece border, in Kapshtica near Korce, Albania, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/05/world/social-issues-world/unhcr-warns-false-rumors-migrants-gather-near-greeces-northern-border-seeking-cross/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers carry a migrant during scuffles as migrants and refugees, who say that they seek to travel onward to Northern Europe, gather outside a camp in the town of Diavata in northern Greece Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/09/world/vatican-event-pope-francis-promotes-17-prelates-cardinals-adding-potential-successors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cardinals are seen seated during a consistory held in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican in March 2006. On Sunday Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals during an event in the same square.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/23/national/heavy-rain-akita-forces-120000-evacuate/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man rides his bicycle through floodwaters in the city of Akita on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/national/japans-defense-ministry-redo-surveys-aegis-ashore-deployment/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-aegis-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's plan to deploy the Aegis Ashore land-based missile-defense system, like the one seen here on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, has hit a snag due to the use of flawed data by the Defense Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/25/national/sdf-recruitment-flyers-cast-doubt-defense-minister-highlight-gender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T03:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-20T03:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/world/g20-health-ministers-pandemic-systemic-weakness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T12:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7324.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7324.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabia chairs a virtual meeting on COVID-19 with the G20 health ministers on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/world/crime-legal-world/bandits-nigeria/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T12:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-20T12:28:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone, in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-tests-thousands-spread-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T12:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man being tested for COVID-19 reacts as a medical worker takes a swab sample in Wuhan, China, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/business/tech/houseparty-vs-zoom-coronavirus-chat-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7451.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7451.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houseparty, a service that lets a group of people chat and play games simultaneously, has been around for years but has seen a bump in popularity as people shelter at home. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/world/coronavirus-muslims-ramadan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7342.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7342.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Palestinian vendor displays traditional lanterns outside his shop in Gaza City on Sunday ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-donald-trump-culture-war-coronavirus-response-campaign/</loc>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7334.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7334.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demonstrate against stay-at-home orders at the Capitol building in Olympia, Washington, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/asia-pacific/vietnam-protests-beijings-expansion-disputed-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:14:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The epicenter of the earthquake that occurred on April 20 at 5:39 a.m. is located in Miyagi Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/business/economy-business/japan-record-%c2%a5117-trillion-stimulus-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:40:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7439-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7439.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters walk in a normally crowded area in Osaka's Umeda district on Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/business/corporate-business/convenience-store-sales-fell-march-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:53:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7472.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7472.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales at convenience stores in Japan fell 5.8 percent in March from a year earlier amid coronavirus crisis. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/19/world/crime-legal-world/crimes-spiking-major-u-s-cities-amid-empty-streets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7299.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7299.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer checks the temperature of all people entering the 32nd precinct of the New York Police Department in an attempt to stem the spread of the new coronavirus on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/19/world/beer-may-lose-fizz-co2-supplies-go-flat-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T17:56:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7297-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7297.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dwindling supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants is sparking concern about shortages of beer, soda and seltzer water.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/business/financial-markets/monetary-financing-taboo-central-banks-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T18:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7349-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7349.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Central banks may soon resort to a policy of direct financing in which they buy public debts amid a crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/19/asia-pacific/south-korea-new-coronavirus-cases-single-digits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T18:16:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_7207.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7207.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing protective masks sit at a park near the Han River in Seoul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-20T18:22:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7154.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters wait in line outside Riverside University High School to cast ballots during the presidential primary election held amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Milwaukee on April 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/18/business/corporate-business/wework-directors-lose-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T18:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo last November about its investment losses from WeWork.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/18/world/science-health-world/fishing-coronavirus-marine-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T18:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7087.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fish are sorted into plastic baskets and displayed for sale in Nice, France, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/18/national/still-edible-food-waste-japan-drops-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-20T18:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7044.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The amount of food wasted in Japan in fiscal 2017 fell 310,000 tons from the previous year to a total of 6.12 million tons as more restaurants and convenience stores dumped less food.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/20/business/economy-business/coronavirus-pandemic-toll-jobs-2008-financial-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T14:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7341.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People check job offers on computers at a Hello Work labor office in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district in December 2009.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7549.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health care workers stand in the street in counterprotest as hundreds of people protest at the State Capitol to demand that a stay-at-home order be lifted in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/21/national/japan-commercial-whaling-meat-hard-sell/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7464.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whale meat is displayed at the Taruichi izakaya in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/21/business/corporate-business/air-baltic-throttling-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T15:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7621.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Baltic Corp. Martin Gauss says the airline is looking to grow once the COVID-19 outbreak calms down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/21/asia-pacific/northwest-china-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T16:26:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7658.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in front of a propaganda billboard reading "it is everyone's responsibility to control the spread of disease" at a public park in Beijing on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7547.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes a military drill on Feb. 28. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T17:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7668.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dayaram Kushwaha, a migrant worker, carries his 5-year-old son, Shivam, on his shoulders as they walk along a road to return to their village during a nationwide lockdown in New Delhi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7704.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police take a man into custody at an eel restaurant where he was said to have held two girls hostage in the city of Fukuoka on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/21/asia-pacific/two-us-warships-south-china-sea-china-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Nak-yon, South Korea's former prime minister, and his wife, Kim Suk-hee, hold flowers in a sign of victory in the parliamentary elections at his office in Seoul on April 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:37:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump says he has rejected a sum offered by South Korea in response to his demand that Seoul pay for a larger share of the cost of hosting U.S. military forces. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Falling demand for air travel due to the coronavirus pandemic has forced ANA Holdings Inc. to cut its earnings estimate sharply for the 2019 business year through March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A policeman wields his baton toward a man for breaking curfew during a nationwide lockdown in India on April 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman dances in a screenshot from the Instagram account of a Zoom party called Club Quarantee, which boasts all the usual trappings of a bottle-service club — except for the buckets of Champagne. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:42:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7463.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Inc. has started selling coronavirus testing kits to companies in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T22:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 3D-printed Olympics logo stands in front of a Tokyo 2021 display.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/21/asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T12:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7677.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV news report featuring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seen at the main railway station in Seoul on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/business/tech/video-game-sales-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T13:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7858.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demand for video games is growing dramatically as more people are quarantined at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/business/economy-business/g20-farm-ministers-food-supply/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T13:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7872.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's farm minister Taku Eto participates in a videoconference with Group of 20 farm ministers on Tuesday evening to discuss steps deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-diplomacy-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T13:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7822.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the courtyard of Elysee Palace in Paris in March 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/world/science-health-world/hydroxychloroquine-drug/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T13:49:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7882.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Salvadoran Health Minister Francisco Alabi supervises the delivery of bottles of hydroxychloroquine pills to be distributed in hospitals in San Salvador on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/world/us-coronavirus-deaths-45000-doubling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T14:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7809.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse wipes away tears outside NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan as police officers cheer and thank health care workers last Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a news conference to announce newly appointed principal officials on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T17:11:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7993.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sam Altman, former president of Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator and chief executive officer of OpenAI, has helped boost New Zealand’s reputation as a respite in times of disaster. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T17:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7890.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. workers make perform a final inspection on a Fit vehicle on the production line at the company's Yorii plant in Saitama Prefecture in March 2016. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/business/imf-pandemic-reponse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T17:52:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7832.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund and other regional financing entities are working together to ease the economic and financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/world/u-s-cdc-coronavirus-second-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T17:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7867.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person rides a delivery bike on Tuesday in New York. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield has said a second wave of the coronavirus could hit during next year's flu season, putting an even greater strain on the nation's health care system than the first outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/singapore-cautionary-tale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T17:53:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Migrant workers stand outside their rooms at a dormitory in Singapore on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/national/japan-protest-chinese-intrusions-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T18:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has protested a move by China to set a route for its government-operated ships that passed near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/business/corporate-business/netflix-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T18:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7827.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Netflix Inc. says it won’t run out of new TV shows or movies anytime soon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/22/business/corporate-business/japan-airlines-cuts-net-profit-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T18:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7995.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines ticket agents wear masks at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The carrier, like many other airlines in the world, has downgraded its business outlook as the coronavirus pandemic heavily reduces demand for air travel.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T18:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical personnel wave to a patient being discharged from the Leishenshan Hospital after recovering from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, on March 1. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T18:56:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T18:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam listens to reporters questions during a news conference on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T10:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster warning against the spread of "fake news" online about COVID-19 is displayed on a street in Hanoi.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T10:50:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8035.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gasoline price in Japan keeps falling as the coronavirus outbreak dents energy consumption.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T12:08:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8063.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nurses and doctors clear the area before defibrillating a patient with COVID-19 who went into cardiac arrest on Monday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, New York. The emergency room team successfully revived the patient. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T12:08:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un takes part in a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in this image released on April 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T18:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T18:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Brazilian customs agent uses a sniffer dog to inspect a container bound for Europe for smuggled drugs at the Port of Santos in Santos, Brazil, on Sept. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T18:42:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T19:48:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T20:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8196.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Choe Ryong Hae, vice-chairman of the central committee of the Workers' Party, arrive for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T21:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8328.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Motor Corp. headquarters stands in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T21:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8216.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man looks at a phone as varieties of rice are displayed for sale at a store in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T21:22:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8215.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Google said Wednesday it found hackers targeting international health organizations amid the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ousted director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a key U.S. agency, said he was reassigned to a new role because he resisted efforts to push hydroxychloroquine, touted by U.S. President Donald Trump, and the related chloroquine as cures for COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crushed ore is displayed before it is sent to the mill at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, on Jan. 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As the pandemic races through New York, killing some 14,000 people in the city alone, all the frantic layers of everyday life are pulled away and the homeless — always there, but usually invisible — are now in sharp relief.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T21:36:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-23T21:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid the spread of the coronavirus disease, a family watches television inside their apartment in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T11:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T11:56:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T11:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp.'s plant in Mie Prefecture where face masks are being produced.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T16:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T17:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T17:42:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T18:06:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to get tested for the novel coronavirus at the Dharavi slum in Mumbai on April 16 during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T19:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign on the window of Southern Star Tattoo informs customers that tattoos are by appointment only in the Little Five Points area of Atlanta on Thursday. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has eased restrictions to reopen Georgia's economy during the coronavirus pandemic, by allowing some business to open on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T19:28:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Kitauji, president of staffing agency Crobo Co., speaks to a Nepalese man whose job offer was withdrawn, in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fortress face-lift: The stone walls around Nagoya Castle are under repair for the first time in 300 years. The work won't be done till 2019 at the earliest.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/24/national/politics-diplomacy/government-convinces-city-call-senkakus-aerial-survey/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Coast Guard vessels patrol near the disputed Senkaku Islands last August.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Teng-hui speaks Sunday at a hotel on the island of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T19:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A human skeleton believed to be about 27,000 years old is displayed at a cultural facility in the town of Nishihara in Okinawa on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T19:51:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks at a newly opened Ground Self-Defense Force base on Miyako Island on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force troops hold a ceremony in March 2016 to mark the forming of a unit on Okinawa Prefecture's Yonaguni Island, which is located close to Taiwan. The GSDF is bolstering its presence on the prefecture's remote islands.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-24T19:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo from the People's Daily Facebook page shows an H-6K bomber from China's air force flying toward the Western Pacific over the Miyako Strait in Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's first domestically produced aircraft carrier, known as the Type 001A, is seen during a launch ceremony at Dalian shipyard in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man runs past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse checks on a patient who has recovered from COVID-19 at a hospital in Manila on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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