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		<lastmod>2020-07-27T22:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor demonstrates a telemedicine application service developed by Japanese medical start-up Medley Inc. in Tokyo this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-27T22:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is set to report a smaller-than-projected operating loss for the latest quarter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-27T22:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Undergraduate students attend a graduation ceremony at Tsinghua University in Beijing on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-27T22:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man passes in front of Pfizer Inc.'s headquarters in New York on July 22. U.S. health officials agreed pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. There are more than 160 coronavirus vaccines in development, according to the World Health Organization, though only 25 are currently in human studies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-27T22:07:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono, left, moderates the first-ever auction of discarded Self-Defense Forces equipment held at the Defense Ministry on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees toil in a nearly empty office in Tokyo in July as the COVID-19 outbreak pressures more people to work from home.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-driving robot made by ZMP Inc. sprays disinfectant while strolling around at Nagoya station earlier this month. The firm is set to have a trial of its self-driving delivery robot in Tokyo next month. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak (center) arrives for a court appearance at the Duta court complex in Kuala Lumpur in August 2018. Najib, fighting dozens of charges over a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal, faces his first verdict on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays for the 1985 Japan Airlines crash victims at a candlelight vigil on Wednesday evening in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuniko Miyajima, who heads the 8.12 Renrakukai relatives’ association prays at a memorial to the victims of JAL 123 at Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, answers a question during a media event in New Delhi in June 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk along the water as Singapore's central business district looms in the background in May 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-27T22:48:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks after winning a second term in the gubernatorial election on July 5.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iwate Prefecture has so far avoided being inundated by a large number of COVID-19 cases. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi holds a teleconference with Liz Truss, the British trade secretary, in Tokyo on June 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman stands next to the Mekong River bordering Thailand and Laos. The state of the Mekong is an urgent worry for the 60 million people who depend on it for farming and fishing as it flows from China through Southeast Asia. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wedding venue provided by bridal company Dlight Inc., which is offering its service free of charge to couples whose ceremonies have been canceled due to coronavirus-related bankruptcies of wedding venues, is pictured on July 10 in Nara city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People participate in a demonstration for promoting child care during remote work at a cafe in Tokyo in July 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The son of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn made a $500,000 cryptocurrency payment to one of two Americans accused of helping the former auto tycoon flee Japan last December, according to documents filed by U.S. prosecutors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Marine conducts a temperature check at the front of the commissary at Camp Courtney in Okinawa Prefecture on July 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/world/china-chengdu-us-consulate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard at the entrance of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu in 2012. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/robots-farming-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25710.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsumi Hashimoto (left) president of the Fukushima Seed Center, talks about how he teamed up with two other technology companies to make cucumber farming less labor intensive.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/social-issues/multicultural-advice-center-sendai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24778.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sendai Multicultural Center provides consulting services in English and Chinese on a daily basis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/japan-nursing-care-facilities-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:07:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25547.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When the Kuma River overflowed on July 4, it flooded Senjuen nursing care facility, leaving 14 residents dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/world/science-health-world/t-cells-immunity-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26195.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/history/south-korea-warns-japan-wartime-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26176.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Culture Minister Park Yang-woo has warned Japan that South Korea is ready to build a regional coalition to pressure Tokyo over its past colonial behavior.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/nagasaki-a-bomb-museum-english-tour-livestream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:09:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26187.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hibiki Yamaguchi (right) gives an online tour of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/business/tech/ai-fashion-trends-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26173.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neural Pocket Inc.'s image analysis system automatically picks up data on clothing from photos on social media to analyze fashion trends.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/u-s-japan-marine-force-overhaul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:11:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26184.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Marine takes part in a joint exercise with Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force in February in Okinawa.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/world/science-health-world/new-york-heat-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26164.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man cools off in splash pad at Washington Square Park in New York City on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/24/national/hibakusha-abomb-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T23:13:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26134.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey held ahead of the 75th anniversary of the U.S. bombings in August shows about 78 percent of atomic bomb survivors are finding it difficult to pass on their experiences, highlighting the challenges and limitations presented by aging.
]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/27/national/abe-likely-quarantine-free-upon-return-g7-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T11:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters a venue for a news conference in Tokyo on May 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/27/world/science-health-world/u-s-covid-19-testing-falling-short/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T11:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26754.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26754.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[RealTime Laboratories prepares samples for COVID-19 testing in Carrollton, Texas. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/27/business/tech/jr-east-disinfection-mobility-robots-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T12:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26575.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26575.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot carries luggage at Takanawa Gateway Station in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/25/national/media-national/illustrator-tokyo-genso-presents-images-deserted-tokyo-never-looked-timely/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T12:23:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/shibuya109.jpg</image:loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/27/national/likely-typhoon-free-july-first-since-records-began-1951/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T12:32:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26735.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26735.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Waves from Typhoon Vongfong, the first typhoon of this year, batter the coastline of Catbalogan in the eastern Philippines in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/world/crime-legal-world/us-donald-trump-twitter-facebook-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T13:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26841.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26841.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This file combination of photos shows (left to right) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The Commerce Department on Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to write a regulation weakening protections laid out in Section 230, language in a 1996 law that protects online companies from legal liability for users’ posts, and for decisions to remove material.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/world/coronavirus-us-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T13:14:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26816.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26816.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical personnel arrive with a patient while a funeral car begins to depart at North Shore Medical Center in Miami earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/asia-pacific/new-zealand-extradition-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T13:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26804.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26804.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced Tuesday that the country will follow the lead of its intelligence allies by suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-postponing-legislative-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T14:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26919.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26919.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up at a polling station to vote outside MTR Corp.'s Whampoa Station during an unofficial primary election, organized by pro-democracy opposition parties to select favored candidates for the legislative election, in Hong Kong, on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/corporate-business/japan-banks-bad-loans-1q/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T15:18:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26908.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26908.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bad loan costs among major banks in Japan are unlikely to appear in their earnings reports for the first quarter of this fiscal year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/27/national/japan-coronavirus-cases-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T15:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26542.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26542.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 131 new coronavirus cases Monday, after reporting over 200 cases for six straight days.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/28/national/okinawa-tourists-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T17:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/np_file_2152.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_2152.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senagajima Umikaji Terrace in the city of Tomigusuku, Okinawa Prefecture, was bustling with local families and couples on March 7.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/science-health/japan-coronavirus-nursing-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T18:25:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26770.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26770.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One nursing care facility for older people in Fukuoka Prefecture reported a cluster of coronavirus infections involving staff and residents.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/hawaii-japan-travel-resumption-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T19:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27047.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27047.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hawaii Gov. David Ige speaks at a community meeting about the then-eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, in Pahoa, Hawaii, in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/coronavirus-nagasaki-abomb-museum-75th-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26528.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26528.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Shinozaki says that while more than 1,000 people would visit the museum per day before the pandemic, only 30 or so came when the museum opened up again in June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/workplace-diversity-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26856.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26856.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most big companies now say that improving racial and ethnic diversity of their workforces is an important goal, but very few of them provide enough information to track their progress.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/school-girls-india-asteroid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26907-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26907.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid. The asteroid is presently near Mars and its orbit is expected to cross that of Earth in about one million years' time.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/corporate-business/nec-jtb-hotels-telework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26868-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26868.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NEC Corp. and JTB Corp. are hoping their scheme will help hotels deal with their recent low occupancy rates.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/studio-ghibli-theme-park-construction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:47:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26852-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26852.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura speaks at a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Ghibli Park in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/asia-pacific/kashmir-domicile-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26831.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26831.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bakarwal nomadic women carry firewood in Kashmir. A new law makes it possible for people from outside Kashmir to become permanent residents, sparking fears among locals that nonlocals will get priority when it comes to housing, jobs and education.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/corporate-business/ntt-telework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26809.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26809.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation aims to let at least 70 percent of its workforce work from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/japan-coronavirus-aid-contract-dentsu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:51:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26812.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26812.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coronavirus aid was meant to help businesses like Takenobu Tonegawa's video production firm, which took a massive hit due to the pandemic and forced the Tokyo-based entrepreneur to find work delivering food on his bicycle for Uber Eats as he waited weeks for his $10,000 payment from the government.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/tesla-global-auto-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T21:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26801.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26801.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales figures for Tesla's Model S outstripped those for the Mercedes S-Class globally in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/terminally-ill-kyoto-woman-left-will-assisted-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T22:05:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26927.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26927.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car carrying Naoki Yamamoto, a doctor in Tokyo, enters Nakagyo Police Station in Kyoto on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/statues-comfort-woman-man-said-resemble-japans-abe-stir-debate-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T10:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue of a girl symbolizing so-called comfort women is seen on the grounds of the Korea Botanic Garden in Pyeongchang along with a statue of a man bowing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/27/business/economy-business/coronavirus-japan-economic-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T11:20:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee wearing a protective mask and face shield uses an alcohol-based solution to clean automated checkout counters in an Aeon shopping mall in Chiba on May 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/corporate-business/canon-suffers-first-quarterly-loss-amid-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/japan-traffic-accidents-fall-first-half-amid-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/corporate-business/nissan-sees-sharp-sales-profit-drop-business-struggles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan shares are down 35 percent this year, compared with a 14 percent decline in Toyota Motor Corp.’s stock and Honda Motor Co.’s 13 percent decline.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/corporate-business/astra-daiichi-cancer-drug/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26886.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[AstraZeneca PLC agreed to pay as much as $6 billion to buy into Daiichi Sankyo Co.’s promising medicine for lung and breast cancer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/japan-astronaut-akihiko-hoshide-iss-commander/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:27:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/najib-razak-conviction-malaysia-muhyiddin-yassin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:31:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin could see his government strengthened amid months of political turmoil. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/world/us-withdrawal-terrorism-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T13:36:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan National Army officers stand guard at the site of a blast in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on May 18. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/asia-pacific/us-uk-hong-kong-election-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T14:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27264.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Occupy Central leader Benny Tai stands earlier this month in front of a vintage double-deck bus used as a polling center for an unofficial "primary" for pro-democracy candidates ahead of legislative elections in Hong Kong. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/business/tech/japanese-automakers-efuel-ev/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T14:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26839.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Automakers are looking into the potential of a carbon neutral fuel called e-fuel, made from water, carbon dioxide and renewable energy, that could be an alternative to electric vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/global-china-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T14:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27268.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Huawei Songshan Lake New Campus in Dongguan, in China's Guangdong province. China's ambitions to challenge U.S. tech dominance are now stymied by strains in relations between China and countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/fitch-japan-long-term-outlook-negative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T15:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/crime-legal/tokyo-nurse-doughnut-acquittal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T15:35:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27282.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter of an assistant nurse acquitted over a 2013 incident in which an 85-year-old woman at a care home in Nagano Prefecture died after eating a doughnut she was given holds a banner that reads "innocent verdict" in front of the Tokyo High Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/asia-pacific/vietnam-coronavirus-infection-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T15:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker in Hanoi gets a test sample Wednesday from an employee at a pizza restaurant where another employee tested positive with the coronavirus after returning from Danang, Vietnam. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/23/business/boeings-737-max-crisis-puts-credit-ratings-risk-downgrade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:03:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The logo for Boeing appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday. The company is scheduled to release its second quarter earnings Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/28/business/ratings-agencies-downgrade-u-k-s-credit-score-following-seminal-brexit-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/14/business/economy-business/fitch-cuts-outlook-japans-government-debt-rating/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:03:36+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/japan-fatalities-coronavirus-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:08:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27204-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ameyoko shopping area in Tokyo's Ueno is seen deserted on May 15, while the capital was under a state of emergency to control the spread of the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/japan-lawmakers-chinese-apps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:09:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27147.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27147.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of lawmakers is considering drawing up a proposal to restrict the use of TikTok and other China-based apps in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/corporate-business/uber-lyft-unemployment-insurance-payments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27177.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27177.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers in New York have won the right to immediately receive unemployment insurance benefits.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-sell-japan-business-us-closures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:11:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27171.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27171.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[McDonald's says it will divest a significant stake in its Japan business as it looks to save cash amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/bodyguard-defense-chief-taro-kono-infected-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27145-1-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27145.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bodyguard of Defense Minister Taro Kono developed a fever Tuesday and was later confirmed to have COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/floods-yamagata-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T16:23:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27313-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27313.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Houses are seen flooded in Okura, Yamagata Prefecture, Wednesday morning after the Mogami River began to overflow late Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/tokyo-reports-266-new-coronavirus-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T17:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26853-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26853.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopping street in Tokyo on Monday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/rokkasho-nuclear-fuel-reprocessing-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T17:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27242.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27242.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chemical tanks are prepared for storage underground at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/osaka-ban-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T17:55:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27240.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27240.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit Osaka's Minami entertainment district on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/politics-diplomacy/china-hawks-ldp-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T18:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[2019-06-28T024848Z_209964041_RC1621D81DA0_RTRMADP_3_G20-SUMMIT.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon his arrival for a family photo session at at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka last June. China hawks among Japan's conservatives, long divided on Beijing, have gained ground recently as its diplomatic and military clout grows.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/corporate-business/gucci-online-sales-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T18:15:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27172-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27172.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gucci owner Kering's revenue fell 44 percent on an organic basis in the three months through June, a decline greater than the sales fall that rival LVMH reported Monday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/corporate-business/nomura-jobs-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T18:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Less than 10 percent of the investment-banking staff in the U.S. will be affected by the job cuts, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/asia-pacific/hong-kong-cant-lock-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T19:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New infections in Hong Kong have broken records on nine of the last 20 days. But unlike other global cities, Hong Kong has been reluctant to impose stay-at-home restrictions or close nonessential businesses.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/business/financial-markets/dollar-hits-fresh-lows-%c2%a5104-90-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T20:10:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-29T20:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/national/japan-coronavirus-cases-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T13:38:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27356.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians cross a street in Nagoya on Tuesday. Aichi Prefecture recorded 155 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, according to NHK, a new single-day high for the prefecture. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/world/us-oregon-phase-out-federal-agents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T14:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27405.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators huddle and blow back tear gas with leaf blowers during clashes with federal officers at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/world/science-health-world/third-children-lead-blood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T14:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/world/science-health-world/russia-worlds-first-approved-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T15:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27426.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scientist prepares samples during the research and development of a novel coronavirus vaccine at a laboratory operated by the BIOCAD biotechnology company in Saint Petersburg, Russia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/business/corporate-business/ibm-japan-quantum-computing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T15:45:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes a photo of the IBM Q System One quantum computer during the 2020 CES in Las Vegas in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australia-scott-morrison-parliament/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T16:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Morrison, Australia's prime minister, speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Canberra on Jan. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/business/google-facebook-twitter-apple-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T16:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27413.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-30T16:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, Commander of U.S. Forces Japan, speaks from Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When trade talks between Britain and Japan started in June, U.K. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said she wanted to go beyond the EU’s existing deal and bolster trade in digital services and data.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A six-nation survey finds that Japanese employees were the least satisfied with coronavirus measures in their workplaces.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A departure lobby for international flights at Tokyo's Haneda Airport is deserted last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27349.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. military said Wednesday all personnel arriving in Japan will be subject to mandatory testing, after a surge on COVID-19 infections at U.S. bases, including U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Citizen Watch Co. has resurrected the venerable Wittnauer brand to target the high-end North American market.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey shows Japanese prefer spending more time with their families and less time working compared with 30 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-30T16:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian artist and activist Fahmi Reza poses with his artwork bearing an image of former Prime Minister Najib Razak.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gigantic pillar of smoke with the familiar mushroom top climbs above Yucca Flat, Nevada, during nuclear test detonation in April 1952. Nuclear analysts from the U.S. and Russia settled on a new method to account for atomic weapons that may shrink estimates on the size of North Korea’s arsenal and could be used to aid future disarmament.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/national/crime-legal/japan-crime-rate-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Street crime dropped sharply in the nation from January to June as people stayed at home amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in front of Tokyo Station on Tuesday. A panel of experts for the Cabinet Office said the country's economic expansion that began in December 2012 ended in October 2018, falling two months short of a record-long post-war growth period.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists gather outside a Kyoto police station last Friday before two doctors were handed over to prosecutors due to their suspected involvement in the assisted death of a terminally ill woman.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an interview with The Japan Times on Wednesday, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said the New Influenza Special Measures Act needs to be revised and tailored to the novel coronavirus in a way that would give municipal leaders the authority to enforce mandatory virus countermeasures, rather than limiting them to making voluntary requests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27508.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Motor Corp. group likely became the world's best-selling carmaker on a first-half basis this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomohiro Kato]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tanks of hydrogen stand near the hydrogen electrolysis plant in Mainz, Germany.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An explosion occurred at this restaurant in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Panasonic Corp.'s lithium-ion battery is pictured with the Tesla Motors logo at the Panasonic Center in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (center) addresses a Liberal Democratic Party committee at a meeting to discuss defense policies held at the party's headquarters on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-31T14:12:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-31T14:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27641.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Expectations for Japan's growth next year are modest, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women wearing traditional clothing and face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus look at a mobile phone at Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, in Seoul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27646.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc.'s second-quarter revenue jumped after the online retail giant made investments to keep operating through the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hydrogen fueling pump at a TrueZero station in Mill Valley, California]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27659.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe speaks publicly on the passing of Lee Teng-hui at the Prime Minister's Office Friday. Abe praised the former leader of Taiwan for improving relations with Japan and fostering democracy on the self-governed island.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27662.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the industry set to more than double annual revenues by 2025, questions about how video games handle sensitive issues have taken on added urgency.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27652.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In its first ever sanctions related to cybercrime, the EU targeted the department for special technologies of the Russian military intelligence service.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui waves to the crowd outside the presidential palace in Taipei May 20, 2000, after his successor was sworn in as Taiwan's next president.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a retail store that is going out of business due to the coronavirus pandemic in Winnetka, Illinois, on June 23. The U.S. economy suffered its sharpest downturn since at least the 1940s in the second quarter, highlighting how the pandemic has ravaged businesses across the country and left millions of Americans out of work.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-07-31T17:22:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27592.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raytheon is lobbying lawmakers in Japan to replace Lockheed Martin Corp. as the supplier for powerful new radar systems, as Tokyo reconsiders plans for two Aegis Ashore missile defense sites.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/asia-pacific/australia-coronavirus-second-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T17:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27677.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The lack of results from Melbourne's lockdown is confirming suspicions that strict social distancing measures are becoming increasingly ineffective as the pandemic heads into its eighth month and populations become weary of the disruptions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/corporate-business/gifu-mitsubishi-suv-plant-closure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T17:46:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27064.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Pajero SUV factory that employs 1,200 people in Sakahogi, Gifu Prefecture, is slated to close in 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/corporate-business/taisho-takeda-consumer-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T18:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27750.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings Co. has emerged as the leading contender to acquire Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s Japanese consumer health care business, according to people familiar with the matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/national/mount-ontake-volcano-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T18:43:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27723.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The kin of those killed in the September 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake offer prayers at Otaki Peak on Friday after entry restrictions were lifted for the first time since the disaster.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/corporate-business/japan-cafe-pronto-taiwan-debut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T18:49:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27775.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cafe chain operator Pronto Corp.'s Xcafe by Pronto is unveiled at Xpark aquarium in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/economy-business/xi-pivot-domestic-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T18:54:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27672.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data from China showed the country's manufacturing outlook improved for a second month in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/ditched-resort-hokkaido-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T18:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[GettyImages-1193396821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The plan was to construct luxury hotels and condominiums in Tomakomai aimed at affluent foreign visitors on a plot of about 1,000 hectares, opening as early as 2023.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/world/crime-legal-world/jeffrey-epsteins-advice-ghislaine-maxwell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T18:57:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, in July 2008.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/financial-markets/dollar-suffers-worst-month-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T22:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27826.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A currency exchange employee shows €100, $100 and 100 Turkish Lira banknotes at his shop at a market in Istanbul Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/economy-business/japans-industrial-output-rises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-01T14:05:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27670.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27670.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's industrial output rose for the first time in five months in June as economic activity that had stalled amid the pandemic picked up.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/business/corporate-business/nvidia-arm-softbank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-01T19:57:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27840.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arm Ltd. microchips are displayed on a model railway track.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/rainy-season-over-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T11:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27848.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk with parasols in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/national/tokyo-coronavirus-cases-top-400/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T11:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo confirmed 463 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, topping the previous record of 367 logged Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/business/economy-business/pandemic-fiscal-health-gdp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T11:33:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27834.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27834.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stroll through Tokyo's glitzy Ginza shopping district on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/asia-pacific/china-team-hong-kong-coronavirus-testing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T12:32:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27980.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27980.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical workers prepare a temporary field hospital at Asia World Expo in Hong Kong on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/national/shinzo-abe-abenomask-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T15:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27974.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27974.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his office in Tokyo on Saturday wearing a cloth mask larger than his trademark "Abenomask" distributed to ward off the novel coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/national/politics-diplomacy/extra-diet-session-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T16:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27658.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27658.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Diet affairs chiefs of the opposition parties submit a formal request to hold an extraordinary Diet session to Lower House speaker Tadamori Oshima (center) at the Diet on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/tokyo-logs-another-record-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T16:46:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27854.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play at a park near Tokyo Skytree on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/higher-culture-japan-acted-like-virus-wraps-now-everywhere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T17:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27943-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk along a nearly empty street in Shinjuku. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-vaccines-rich-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T20:46:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28050.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28050.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse prepares a shot as a study for a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, New York, on July 27.
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/national/tokyo-292-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T08:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28008.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28008.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People eat at an izakaya Japanese-style bar in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/asia-pacific/us-hong-kong-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T10:12:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28015.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28015.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam leaves after a news conference on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/business/economy-business/japan-economy-shrinks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T11:45:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28076.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28076.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy in the first quarter contracted at the same pace as previously estimated, with gross domestic product shrinking by an annualized 2.2 percent. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-donald-trump-2020-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T11:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28067.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28067.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald, first lady Melania Trump, and their son, Barron, walk to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington last November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/business/corporate-business/jetro-export-made-in-japan-crafts-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T11:55:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28051.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese tea ceremony set is put on display. The Japan External Trade Organization has picked 519 items by 121 producers for this year's Takumi Next project, which is aimed at helping Japanese artisans sell their wares in markets overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-pentagon-anthony-tata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T12:53:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28071.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28071.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In theory, the position would still offer Anthony Tata some degree of influence on hot-button Pentagon policy matters, potentially including Iran.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/hong-kong-china-coronavirus-tests-dna/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T14:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28125.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy district councilor Lui Man-kwong (right) protests outside the Hospital Authority headquarters in Hong Kong on Sunday against the government's decision to have mainland inspectors carry out COVID-19 testing in the city.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/okinawa-coronavirus-us-military-sofa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T15:52:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28093.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28093.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In his meeting with Defense Minister Taro Kono (right) on July 15, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (center) demanded the central government take steps toward the revision of the SOFA to make U.S. military personnel subject to Japanese quarantine laws.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/shinzo-abe-hiroshima-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T16:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28212.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he will attend peace memorial ceremonies to be held this month in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to commemorate U.S. atomic bombings during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/business/corporate-business/japan-airlines-coronavirus-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T16:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28216.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28216.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. posted a net loss of ¥93.71 billion in the April-June quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/crime-legal/noriyuki-makihara-suspended-term-drugs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T16:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28200.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28200.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A court illustration shows Noriyuki Makihara listening to the ruling handed down at his trial in the Tokyo District Court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/asia-pacific/singapore-electronic-tags-quarantine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T16:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28197.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From August 11, the devices will be given to incoming travelers, including citizens and residents, from a select group of countries who will be allowed to isolate at home.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/world/cities-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T16:59:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28078.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28078.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man cools off in the spray from a fire hydrant Tuesday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/business/corporate-business/softbank-oyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T17:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28217.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28217.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oyo is merging its hotel-booking and apartment-rental units operations in Japan under a single company called Oyo Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/coronavirus-japan-summer-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T17:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28180.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers head to their respective departure gates at the domestic terminal of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on July 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/japan-museums-coronavirus-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T17:45:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Various types of masks are displayed at a museum run by the municipal government of Urahoro, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military vehicles carrying Chinese DF-31A long-range missiles drive past Tiananmen Gate in Beijing during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kashmiri man drinks tea in the Anchar neighborhood of Srinagar, India, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CEO Ryuichi Isaka has overseen a broad restructuring of Seven &amp; I Holdings since taking the helm in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[World coal demand is set for its biggest annual drop since World War II as economic activity plunges due to coronavirus lockdowns.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donna Welton]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T17:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA["Michiharu Kimura" has lived in a welfare housing facility for 11 years after he was left partially paralyzed at the age of 56.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T18:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27975.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Speculation that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will call a snap election this autumn is receding, given the resurgence of the novel coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T18:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) gather to protest against the death penalty in Iran in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T18:03:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator holds a stuffed Hamtaro toy  during a protest demanding the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha in Bangkok last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T18:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Civic group members in front of a museum in Busan, South Korea, on July 4, 2018, alongside a statue symbolizing Korean wartime laborers]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/02/world/science-health-world/sewage-drones-coronavirus-fight/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees of a wastewater management technology firm demonstrate sewer surveillance, which aims to pinpoint unknown COVID-19 outbreaks, in Ashkelon, southern Israel.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27976.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule (left) before it undocks from the International Space Station on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/media-national/kabukicho-host-clubs-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:15:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[That’s entertainment: Before the emergence of COVID-19, thousands would descend on Kabukicho’s bars, cabaret clubs, karaoke establishments, pachinko parlors, cinemas, retail outlets, hotels and restaurants.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/media-national/clothing-retailers-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:15:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26175.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brooks Brothers Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy in July, felled by the coronavirus pandemic's impact on clothing sales and its own heavy debt load.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/media-national/rainy-season-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27159.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raindrops keep falling on my head: People carry umbrellas in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood on June 11 as the rainy season starts in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/30/national/11-dead-5600-people-sent-hospitals-japan-due-heat-related-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks under a mist cooling system in the Otemachi business district in Tokyo on Monday. After temperatures spiked in many areas following the end of the rainy season, there have been reports of deaths and hospitalizations due to heat-related medical issues across the country. The Meteorological Agency said temperatures were expected to remain above average in the upcoming week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/06/22/national/media-national/for-when-raindrops-keep-falling-on-our-heads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For when raindrops keep falling on our heads]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/muslims-cremation-burials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27843.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoichi Reien, a cemetery in Yoichi, Hokkaido, is one of only seven sites in Japan that accomodate Muslims.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/business/economy-business/world-economy-decline-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27407.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo, like numerous other cities in the Asia-Pacific region, has seen cases of COVID-19 increase rapidly in recent weeks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/kobe-maternity-home-pregnant-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27851.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ikuko Nagahara (left) heads Mana Josanin maternity home in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/mask-resale-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27835.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masks seized by Aichi Prefectural Police in June on suspicion they were being marketed for reselling for profits.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/summer-travel-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27889.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People relax at a beach in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/national/science-health/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:26:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27833.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past Pfizer Inc. headquarters on July 22 in New York City.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/19/world/fbi-releases-video-images-of-boston-bombing-suspects-appeals-for-publics-help/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[wn20130420n4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Caught on film: These video stills released Thursday by the FBI show the two Boston bombing suspects, one in a black baseball cap and the other in a white cap, walking along the route of the marathon Monday. Investigators consider the two men to be "armed and extremely dangerous," said Rick DesLauriers, FBI chief in Boston. The bureau has no details yet of the suspects' identities, origin or motive.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/16/world/crime-legal-world/boston-marathon-bomber-tsarnaev-sentenced-to-death-for-2013-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:32:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bostonnews-b-20150517.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this undated image shown to jurors on March 18, convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev poses at his home in Cambridge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/07/world/crime-legal-world/states-closing-argument-accused-boston-bomber-wanted-punish-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-boston-a-20150408.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A courtroom sketch shows prosecutor Aloke Chakravarty addressing the jury during closing argumentsMonday  in the trial for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the federal courthouse in Boston.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/31/world/crime-legal-world/prosecution-rests-boston-bombing-jury-hears-grisly-deaths-defense-calls-first-witness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bostontrial-a-20150401.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Undated file photos show (from left) Krystle Campbell, 29; Lu Lingzi, a Boston University graduate student from China; and Martin Richard, 8. The three were killed in the bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Prosecutors rested their case Monday against bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating injuries suffered by the three people who died in the terror attack.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/25/world/a-look-back-at-2013-top-10-world-news-stories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-photo-a-20131225.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spy games: Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden gives an interview to Britain's The Guardian newspaper in Hong Kong on June 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/16/world/crime-legal-world/boston-marathon-bombers-death-sentence-seen-more-as-symbolic-judgment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:39:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/f-bostondecades-a-20150517.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bostondecades-a-20150517.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev raises his middle finger at a surveillance camera in his holding cell in this 2013 surveillance image released by the U.S. Justice Department on April 22. The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Friday sentenced Tsarnaev to death for helping carry out the 2013 attack in which three people died and 264 were injured.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/business/economy-business/global-economy-gdp-reports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27863-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27863.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Report cards on the massive economic toll of the coronavirus were issued in the U.S. and Europe this week and they were downright abysmal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/01/world/florida-teen-accused-of-masterminding-twitter-hack-that-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27849.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a recent Twitter hack, fraudulent tweets soliciting investments in the digital currency bitcoin were posted in mid-July by 45 verified Twitter accounts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/corporate-business/u-s-virus-relief-checks-offer-no-relief-hondas-short-handed-office-staff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:43:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27824.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker stands as Honda Motor vehicles bound for shipment sit parked at a port in Yokohama on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-delays-election-year-dozen-opposition-candidates-barred-running/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27823.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks at a news conference at government headquarters in Hong Kong on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/business/corporate-business/mazda-forecasts-%c2%a590-billion-net-loss-full-year-pandemic-weakens-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mazda expects a net loss of ¥90 billion for the year through next March because of the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/national/scaled-beer-garden-sapporo-serve-test-new-normal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors enjoy drinks Friday at the "Mini Beer Garden" in Sapporo's Odori Park, with transparent acrylic boards set up between them to prevent coronavirus infections. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/shibuya-train-info-center-akita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T11:28:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An old train car that has served as a tourist information center outside Tokyo's Shibuya Station is lifted up with a crane early Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/business/corporate-business/shopping-tokyo-station-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T12:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A restaurant at Gransta Tokyo, a shopping area that opened Monday at Tokyo Station, operates out of a re-created dining car.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/world/science-health-world/dinosaurs-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T12:49:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28323.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cast of the fibula — lower leg bone — from Centrosaurus apertus, a horned dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago in the Canadian province of Alberta,  is seen disfigured by aggressive malignant bone cancer in this image released on Monday.
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-health-care-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T14:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laura Gross poses on her balcony in Fort Lee, New Jersey, on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-journalists-hong-kong-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T14:10:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28317.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protester supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement attend the Delay No More, Democracy march at Times Square in New York City on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/history/last-korean-war-criminal-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T14:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28364.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Hak-rae, the last surviving Korean war criminal from World War II, holds a copy of a photo that was taken at a POW camp run by the Japanese Imperial Army in Thailand in 1942, during an interview at his home in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/corporate-business/wynn-japan-casino/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T17:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28211.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wynn Resorts Ltd. closed its Yokohama office as casino plans in Japan are delayed due to coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/hiroshima-hibakusha-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T18:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27396.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27396.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local peace-building group ANT-Hiroshima, led by Tomoko Watanabe, has overseen the publication of children's books on the bombing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/economy-business/japan-regional-economies-upgraded/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T18:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28346.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Finance Ministry sees a better picture for the nation's regional economies for the first time in nearly three years, saying there are signs of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/world/social-issues-world/un-antonio-guterres-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T18:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28425.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28425.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A teacher reads to a pre-school class of children who are wearing masks and with desks spaced apart as per coronavirus guidelines during the summer school session in Monterey Park, California, on July 9.  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the world faces a "catastrophe" due to school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/corporate-business/microsoft-china-tiktok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28257.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28257.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft has emerged as a top contender to buy TikTok partly because Facebook, Google and other tech giants are being scrutinized by U.S. regulators and lawmakers over antitrust issues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/corporate-business/seven-i-gas-stations-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:08:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuel pumps are mostly vacant at a Marathon Petroleum Corp. Speedway gas station in Waddy, Kentucky, on March 25. U.S. natural gas futures slipped after last week's storage decline matched forecasts, while traders weighed the magnitude of potential drops in demand and supply amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/corporate-business/japan-steel-mills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28261.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant stands illuminated at dusk in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture.
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/29/business/corporate-business/japans-top-steel-mills-slash-profit-forecasts-china-glut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/03/business/corporate-business/jfe-steel-chugoku-electric-scrap-plan-coal-fired-power-plant-near-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:15:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/06/business/u-s-trade-body-says-steel-product-japan-nations-injured-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/03/business/u-s-slaps-duties-cold-rolled-steel-japan-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:16:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/23/business/china-opens-anti-dumping-probe-japan-made-electrical-steel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/tokyo-coronavirus-testing-faxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28424.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28424.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's new reporting system will allow all 31 test centers in the capital to send COVID-19 test results to the metropolitan government via computers and tablets, rather than by fax. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/cold-symptoms-work-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28450-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28450.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical associations had called for people feeling unwell to stay home for at least seven days after developing cold-like symptoms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/corporate-business/softbank-group-failed-declare-%c2%a540-billion-taxable-income-fiscal-18/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28437.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28437.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. failed to declare about ¥40 billion in taxable income in the business year through March 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/tech/japanese-facebook-accounts-stolen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28427.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28427.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 7,600 Facebook accounts of Japanese users appear to have been stolen, according to a cybersecurity company.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/hospital-bed-occupancy-rates-rise-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28248.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28248.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff work in the Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19 patients at St. Marianna Medical University Hospital in Kawasaki in May. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/south-korea-japan-nippon-steel-assets-wartime-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28332.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28332.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/australia-victoria-military-fines-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28321.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28321.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers and soldiers patrol a popular running track in Melbourne on Tuesday after the state announced new restrictions as the city battles fresh outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/business/us-donald-trump-tiktok-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28314.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28314.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S.'s possible ban of TikTok is splitting many in the tech industry: Some decry the betrayal of values like free speech and capitalism, while others advocate doing whatever it takes to subdue a geopolitical rival and its pivotal tech industry.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/asia-pacific/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-ballistic-missiles-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28260.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Intercontinental ballistic missiles are displayed during a military parade in Pyongyang in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-vladimir-putin-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28275.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walks with then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after a remembrance ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow in 2011. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/japan-mystery-seed-packages-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28254.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28254.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This suspicious package of seeds marked as coming from China was delivered to the address of a man who lives in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/typhoon-interrup-chinese-ships-japan-islets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:32:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28253.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese vessel (right) sails near the Senkaku Islands in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/national/japan-coronavirus-dogs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:32:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28256.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two pet dogs belonging to two coronavirus patients have tested positive for the virus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/world/no-pandemic-silver-bullet-who-warns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:33:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28242.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends the Bastille Day military parade honoring French health workers in Paris in July. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/world/science-health-world/artificial-skin-able-to-feel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:33:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28244.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Benjamin Tee demonstrates how his device can detect the texture of a soft stress ball. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/03/business/corporate-business/yahoo-japan-line-to-postpone-merger-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/25/national/crime-legal/sedative-kyoto-als-patient-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T06:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26338.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoki Yamamoto (center), a doctor in Tokyo who was arrested on suspicion of helping a woman die, arrives at Kyoto Station on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/04/national/international-school-teachers-coronavirus-entry-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T09:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28480.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28480.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/05/world/science-health-world/temperatures-naming-heat-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T13:10:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28588.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tourist cools off at the Barcaccia fountain by the Spanish Steps in central Rome on Saturday amid a heat wave. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of the shadows: Takashi Niigaki, ghostwriter of well known deaf composer Mamoru Samuragochi, reacts to a reporter's question during a news conference in Tokyo Thursday. Niigaki said he hopes to continue composing and performing, despite the uproar over Samuragochi's admission Wednesday that he did not write the pieces he is best known for, such as his "Hiroshima Symphony."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial ceremony is held at Nagasaki's Peace Park on Wednesday, the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo shows an image of illuminations being planned at the Peace Park in the city of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukinori Okamura, a curator for the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels, points to a damaged part of the artwork at the gallery in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noboru Sakiyama, who heads a national association of second-generation hibakusha groups, addresses a news conference in the city of Hiroshima on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/05/national/bomb-survivor-others-press-trump-nuclear-disarmament/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[William Schull, a professor emeritus at the University of Texas, is interviewed in Nagoya on Nov. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/11/national/japan-marks-atomic-bombings-abe-condemned-inaction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:29:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-focus-b-20160812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama (left) and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrive at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-seeks-nagasaki-visit-canadas-foreign-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-visit-a-20160721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion (left) and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida greet each other in Hiroshima on April 9 ahead of the Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/07/national/hiroshima-survivor-meets-obama-aide-urges-end-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-a-20160608.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for U.S. President Barack Obama, speaks in Washington on Tuesday with Setsuko Thurlow, an 84-year-old atomic bomb survivor who now lives in Canada.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/02/national/manga-shows-hiroshima-survival-one-joy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:30:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hirowomen-a-20160603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taeko Tada holds a copy of the manga she wrote about women who survived the atomic bombing, seen on May 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/26/national/eve-obamas-visit-calls-revise-sofa-grow-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:31:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(Left to right) Sunao Tsuboi, Mikiso Iwasa and Terumi Tanaka of atomic bomb victims' organization Nihon Hidankyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/26/national/hibakusha-recalls-horror-bombing-pain-stigmatization-road-healing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-shiraishi-a-20160527.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hibakusha Tamiko Shiraishi speaks in front of the atomic bomb memorial tower, which houses the unclaimed remains of more than 70,000 people, in Hiroshima on May 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/24/national/politics-diplomacy/no-apology-sought-bombings-kishida-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:32:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-apology-a-20160425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama gives a speech in central London on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/13/national/bruneian-survived-hiroshima-bombing-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:32:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/13/national/hiroshima-survivors-look-obama-visit-disarmament-not-apology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-survivors-a-20160414.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atomic bomb survivor Hiroshi Harada says U.S. President Barack Obama would be making a very delicate political decision to come to Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/15/national/bomb-survivors-south-korea-seek-unesco-memory-world-listing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:34:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:34:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nagasaki-a-20150929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conductor Kazumichi Terai leads the Himawari chorus made up of some 50 survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki, on April 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/18/national/history/permanent-a-bomb-exhibit-opens-at-u-n-office-in-vienna/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T00:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abomb-a-20151119.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diplomats at the U.N.'s office in Vienna on Tuesday look at photographs showing parts of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the 1945 atomic bombings. The pictures are now on permanent display.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/japanese-lawmaker-wants-sales-tax-ditched-coronavirus-weighs-heavily-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T11:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29105.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29105.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Ando is among a group of junior Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers proposing that Japan get rid of the sales tax and directly subsidize firms to prevent business closures.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/national/history/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-end-of-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T14:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28325.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yachiyo Kato began sharing her story with students at a local high school at the age of 90.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/31/national/history/hiroshima-nagasaki-peace-declarations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T14:09:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27537.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27537.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads out the Peace Declaration on Aug. 9, 2019, during a ceremony marking the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/japan-subsidies-china-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T14:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29171.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29171.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cranes idle at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta. Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s fourth most-populous nation, is another country that has benefited from a surge in Japanese investment. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-osamu-masuko-resigns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T15:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29297.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29297.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osamu Masuko]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/asia-pacific/south-korean-dreams-soaring-house-prices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T15:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29025.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29025.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite more than 20 cooling policies introduced by President Moon Jae-in’s government, home prices in Seoul have risen more than 50 percent since 2017, the fastest pace in the world, according to statistics site Numbeo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/heat-exhaustion-japan-summer-classes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T17:17:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29327.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, use umbrellas to stay cool under the sun in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/corporate-business/mie-hot-spring-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T17:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28575.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner flag bearing the message “We can beat the coronavirus!” is seen on a street in the Yunoyama hot spring resort in Komono, Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/tech/trump-tiktok-wechat-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T17:38:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29174.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29174.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders prohibiting U.S. residents from doing any business with TikTok, WeChat or the apps’ Chinese owners beginning 45 days from now. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/asia-pacific/south-korean-trainee-doctors-strike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T17:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of South Korean trainee doctors went on strike Friday outside parliament to protest the government's plan to raise the number of medical students. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/joe-biden-nuclear-free-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T17:58:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29209.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware, in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/pandemic-derails-abes-strategy-revive-regional-japan-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T18:13:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29149.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street near the typically crowded Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, a popular tourist attraction, is empty on July 21 amid the spread of the novel coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/science-health/okinawa-coral-black-devil-sponge/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27053.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Encrusting pore coral is one of the varieties that has been damaged by a coral-killing sponge.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/national/japan-coronavirus-thursday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T18:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28985.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo confirmed 360 new cases of COVID-19 infection on Thursday for its 10th consecutive day over 200.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/economy-business/stuck-home-south-koreans-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T18:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29296.jpeg]]></image:title>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/02/national/japan-16-billion-kagoshima-island-us-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T20:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mage-a-20191203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government said Monday it has agreed to buy Mage Island in Kagoshima Prefecture for use as a U.S. military training site.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/crime-legal/nippon-steel-appeals-south-korean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T20:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29365.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Chun-sik (center) speaks to reporters in Seoul in October 2018 after South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that Nippon Steel, then Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp., should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/history/atomic-bomb-autopsy-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T20:53:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28820.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sayaka Sugihara checks the rate of deterioration in a specimen on a glass slide returned by the U.S. military.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/reserve-funds-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T20:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29152.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other ministers are pictured before a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/world/science-health-world/canada-arctic-ice-shelf/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29211.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Milne Ice Shelf on Canada's Ellesmere Island has shrunk by about 80 square kilometers. By comparison, the island of Manhattan in New York covers roughly 60 square kilometers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/corporate-business/china-japan-tiktok-ban/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29229.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Media reports say China has warned Japan that a placing a ban on ByteDance's short-video app TikTok would have a "large impact" on bilateral relations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/economy-business/household-spending-data-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T20:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29210.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumption was apparently boosted by the lifting of the state of emergency over the virus on May 25, as well as the government's ¥100,000 per person cash handouts starting the same month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/business/corporate-business/bank-lenders-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T20:58:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29087.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29087.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many central government and bank officials see the risk of a crisis emerging in the next few months, when more struggling firms could go under and hit regional banks. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/business/nintendos-profit-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29107.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29107.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. said Thursday its net profit for April to June soared to ¥106.48 billion from a year earlier as the coronavirus pandemic has spurred demand for its Switch console and software.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/asia-pacific/south-korean-farmers-barter-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29106.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29106.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives guidance at the Ryongmun Liquor Factory in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang in May 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/asia-pacific/death-penalty-china-canadian/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/world/dna-test-coronavirus-90-minutes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29079.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29079.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A small DNA-testing company that just months ago was trying to get its footing in consumer genetics is now part of an effort to make U.K. hospitals safer during the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/31/national/bomb-survivor-supporters-call-nations-join-nuke-ban-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-hibakusha-a-20181101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hibakusha-a-20181101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michiko Tsukamoto, an atomic bomb survivor, speaks at an event held at the United Nations headquarters Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/02/national/pope-issues-anti-war-photo-featuring-victims-nagasaki-atomic-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-pope-a-20180103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pope-a-20180103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis has issued a card showing victims of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing in an effort to convey the importance of peace.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/04/national/hiroshima-tree-seeds-to-be-planted-in-oslo-ahead-of-nobel-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/n-abombtree-a-20171205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abombtree-a-20171205.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seeds from trees that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, some of which appear in this photo, will be planted in Oslo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/03/national/hideo-tsuchiyama-leader-nagasaki-peace-movement-dies-92/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:31:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-tsuchiyama-a-20170904.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsuchiyama-a-20170904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideo Tsuchiyama, who was exposed to radiation when he entered Nagasaki on Aug. 10, 1945, the day after the U.S. atomic bombing, is seen with former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy in the city in December 2013. Tsuchiyama died Saturday at the age of 92.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/22/national/u-s-geneticist-pioneered-research-health-impacts-atomic-bomb-dies-95/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/17/national/social-issues/hibakusha-group-hits-obama-hiroshima-speech-says-avoided-responsibility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/11/national/politics-diplomacy/g-7-ministers-adopt-hiroshima-declaration-hoping-add-momentum-nonproliferation-movement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/n-g7main-z-20160412.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-g7main-z-20160412]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry puts his hand on Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s back after they and their fellow Group of Seven foreign ministers laid wreaths at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Monday. Also pictured (left to right) are EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/05/asia-pacific/exhaust-plumes-may-point-pyongyang-producing-plutonium-u-s-think-tank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f-northnukes-a-20160406.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-northnukes-a-20160406.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a visit to the Sinhung Machine Plant in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/02/national/politics-diplomacy/plutonium-japan-disposed-underground-new-mexico/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:34:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/14/national/hibaku-rice-grown-to-recall-horror-of-atomic-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:35:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/n-rice-a-20151215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-rice-a-20151215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Choichi Ueno of Kaminokawa, Tochigi Prefecture, checks rice in October. The grain has been grown from seeds collected in Nagasaki after the city was hit by an atomic bomb in 1945.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/30/national/grandson-atomic-bomb-crewman-writes-hibakusha-horrors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:36:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/n-interview-a-20151001.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-interview-a-20151001.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ari Beser, the grandson of the only U.S. serviceman aboard both planes that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, talks about his project to spread the stories of atomic bomb survivors during an interview in Tokyo's Harajuku district in September.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/30/national/survivors-memoirs-gain-new-significance-70-years-atomic-bombings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/n-books-a-20151001.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-books-a-20151001.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michiko Hattori, 86, poses with her book "Anohi Pikadon ga" ("On the Day of the Atomic Bombing") at her home in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, in July.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-kazakhstan-urged-to-lead-push-for-global-nuclear-test-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/n-ctbt-a-20150924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ctbt-a-20150924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, is interviewed at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 11.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-fails-mention-nuclear-arms-ban-pact-second-year-draft-u-n-resolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:38:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-nukeban-a-20181020.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nukeban-a-20181020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks in the city of Nagasaki in August.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/10/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-shuns-ban-treaty-leading-way-nuclear-free-world-falls-japans-citizens-hibakusha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-abenuke-a-20180810.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abenuke-a-20180810.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees watch as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presents a floral wreath Thursday at the annual ceremony to mark the 1945 atomic bombing of the city of Nagasaki.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/09/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-foreign-minister-u-n-chief-agree-need-keep-north-korea-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-kono-a-20180810.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kono-a-20180810.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shake hands in the city of Nagasaki on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/26/national/hiroshima-bomb-museum-east-building-reopens-full-renovation-slated-finish-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-hiroshima-a-20170427.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-a-20170427.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Computer generated imagery at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows how the atomic bomb exploded over the city and destroyed it on Aug. 6, 1945.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/21/national/children-nagasaki-bomb-survivors-take-government-court-lack-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/n-nagasaki-a-20170222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nagasaki-a-20170222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Second-generation hibakusha and their supporters gather outside the Nagasaki District Court on Monday before filing their case to seek compensation over health issues as a result of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/26/national/politics-diplomacy/china-obama-dont-portray-japan-victim-hiroshima-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/11/national/politics-diplomacy/kishida-to-visit-france-italy-ahead-of-g-7-talks-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:43:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/04/national/u-s-ambassador-hopes-obamas-hiroshima-trip-spurs-nonnuclear-quest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:44:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-kennedy-a-20160805.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-kennedy-a-20160805.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy speaks during an interview at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/asia-pacific/offbeat-asia-pacific/thigh-land-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T12:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29403.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he finishes speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, on Thursday. In his speech, he pronounced Thailand as Thighland. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/yoshiro-mori-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T12:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29393.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29393.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/world/facebook-coronavirus-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T12:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29389.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29389.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drawing the line between true and false is also more complex for the new COVID-19 vaccines, fact-checkers said, than with content about vaccines with an established safety record.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/science-health/japan-astrazenec-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T12:03:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29213.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29213.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is expected to reach a deal soon with AstraZeneca PLC to secure over 100 million doses of a novel coronavirus vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/asia-pacific/philippines-coronavirus-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T12:03:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29202.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child looks out from his home in Caloocan, Metro Manila, amid the reimposed lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/06/world/science-health-world/arctic-sea-ice-record-lows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T12:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29111.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29111.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Broken up sea ice is seen from the window of a NASA Gulfstream III flight as part of a research mission above the east coast of Greenland March 2018.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/world/coronavirus-water-wash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T13:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29460.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29460.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy harvests vegetables on the banks of the Ganges River in Prayagraj, India. The world needs to spend $6.7 trillion on water infrastructure by 2030, according to the U.N., not just for urgent sanitation needs to fight off disease, but to tackle longer term issues from the pandemic such as providing better irrigation to head off a potential food crisis.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/asia-pacific/wechat-us-ban-families-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T14:21:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29424.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29424.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a sign for Tencent, the parent company of Chinese social media company WeChat, outside the Tencent headquarters in Beijing on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on transactions using WeChat will cut ties to families and friends in China, millions of users in the United States fear.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/asia-pacific/china-inner-mongolia-bubonic-plague/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T15:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/09/world/trump-coronavirus-executive-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-09T18:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29563.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump shows signed executive orders for economic relief during a news conference at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/national/japan-saturday-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although it’s partly due to increased testing, Tokyo continues to see daily infections in the triple digits, with numbers going over 200 for 12 consecutive days.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei on Monday, in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipei in 1979.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar (second left) arrives at Sungshan Airport in Taipei on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T12:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men and women in their 40s smoked the most, with rates of 37.6 percent and 13.4 percent, respectively.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces his government's resignation on Monday amid popular outrage over the deadly Beirut port explosion. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naoki Kitamura (right), principal of Rissho Shonan High School in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, apologizes during a news conference in the early hours of Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andrei Ravkov, the head of State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus speaks to the media in Minsk on Thursday. Belarusian authorities opened a criminal case against 33 Russian private military contractors detained earlier this week on charges of plotting a terrorist act.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T16:36:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a SoftBank Corp. store in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden is closing in on an announcement of a running mate as early as midweek, sources say.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29857.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs and supporters cheer after the Hiroshima District Court ruled in favor of their claim over "black rain" on July 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T16:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29964.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The education ministry says all national universities in Japan have created export control sections to prevent technologies with potential military applications from being transferred abroad.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29852.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother breast-feeds her child in Tokyo last week. Concern over transmission of the virus via breastfeeding is widespread but health bodies differ in their approach to the issue and the level of risk they attach to it.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsumi Mizuno holds a container of pasteurized breast milk samples at Showa University's Koto Toyosu Hospital in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29833.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police stand guard next to an Apple Daily front page inside the paper's headquarters as Hong Kong media tycoon and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai was arrested on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:38:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stacks of plastics are stored for distribution to recycling companies at the Amarsul plant in Seixal, Portugal, on July 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:39:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29747.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anon Nampa, one of the leaders of recent anti-government protests, speaks during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:40:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29735.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has bet that the controlled legalization of marijuana will boost the wellness, travel and agriculture sectors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/10/national/tokyo-2020-olympics-volunteers-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:41:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent survey shows over 60 percent of volunteers registered for next summer's Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games are worried about how anti-coronavirus measures will be implemented.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child works at a toy factory.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Taylor and his son Peter — two people accused of helping former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escape house arrest in Tokyo — have been denied bail for a third time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29703.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rare horned Chinese pond turtle is seen in this photo taken at iZoo in Kawazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T17:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28161.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terumi Tanaka, a Nagasaki atomic bombing survivor, has been active in groups for atomic bomb survivors, and took part in rallies to call for government support in the 1970s.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28119.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chieko Kiriake says the former Army Clothing Depot’s buildings in Hiroshima are testament to how precious peace is through their mere presence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/09/national/japan-governors-coronavirus/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's governors attend a videoconference Saturday to ask the government to boost grants for fighting the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/09/business/hotels-safety-domestic-tourism/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29619.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oyo Hotel New Washington in Tokyo received certificates from Oyo Japan G.K. for passing sanitation benchmarks. This photo taken on July 27 shows Deputy-CEO Ryota Tanozaki (left), hotel owner Yoshimi Takahara (center) and a hotel employee.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Center of attention: Some media outlets in Japan have come under criticism for the way they covered Haruma Miura's death on July 18.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Remote work in response to the COVID-19 outbreak is giving fathers more time to spend with their children on summer projects. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:06:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young children often cry for attention when they don't get what they want.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn takes questions in Beirut on Jan. 8 after his dramatic escape from Japan. Two men accused of helping him have been denied bail by a U.S. judge. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The town of Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, will test out a self-driving amphibious tour bus this winter that could eventually help transport goods between remote islands.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials stand Saturday on the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:09:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers with children board a bullet train at JR Shin-Osaka Station on Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/business/japan-uk-trade-deal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and British Trade Secretary Liz Truss hold trade talks in London on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/business/corporate-business/japan-saizeriya-restaurant-face-mask/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:10:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29523.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese restaurant chain operator Saizeriya Co. has "developed" a face mask for use when eating and drinking, possibly a boon to eateries around the world hit hard by social distancing necessitated by the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, speaks at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis on April 26, 2019.    ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/08/world/kids-hospitalized-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:14:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Between March and July, the U.S. hospitalization rates of children with COVID-19 increased steadily, with Black and Latino children hospitalized at a higher rate.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T18:16:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tanker carrying liquefied natural gasis tugged toward a thermal power station in Futtsu, east of Tokyo, in 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29961.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk through a mist shower on Tuesday in the Ginza district of Tokyo. In the city center, temperatures started soaring early in the morning and had already hit 30 degrees Celsius by 7 a.m.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T19:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29849.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Vietnam Coast Guard crewman looks out near a patrol ship being built at a shipyard in Danang in July 2014. Japan has signed a ¥36.6 billion deal with Vietnam to provide the Southeast Asian country with six patrol boats to boost its maritime law enforcement capabilities.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/business/economy-business/japan-account-surplus-shrinks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T19:39:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29854.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing face masks amid the novel coronavirus pandemic walk near JR Tokyo Station on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinas-poor-natural-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T19:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29910.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wade through floodwaters as they move their belongings at a flooded tourist attraction near Chao Lake in Hefei, Anhui province, China, on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-11T19:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29869.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee inspects the front page of the Apple Daily newspaper, published by Next Digital Ltd., at the company's printing facility in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Hong Kong police arrested Next Digital Chairman Jimmy Lai on Monday and raided the offices of his flagship newspaper the Apple Daily.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-hong-kong-china-arrests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T22:47:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29880.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow looks out of a car window while being driven away by police from her home after she was arrested under the new national security law in the city late Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/business/pandemic-telework-moving-to-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T13:22:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30131.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey by Mynavi Corp. has shown many people do not necessarily want to live in Tokyo — if they have the choice.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T14:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30145.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defectors who were soldiers when they lived in North Korea release a balloon containing one dollar banknotes, radios, CDs and leaflets denouncing the North Korean regime in 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T14:28:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30155.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. is looking to invest over ¥1 trillion in public stocks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T14:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30123.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agnes Chow speaks to reporters Tuesday in Hong Kong after she was released on bail.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30147.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a news conference at the White House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30161.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At 55, Kamala Harris brings to the Biden campaign relative youth, deep electoral experience and a reputation for sharply challenging Republicans. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/world/trump-block-us-citizens-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:25:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30151.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People use the legal border crossing into the United States, on the U.S.- Mexico border in Tijuana, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/10/world/mauritians-use-hair-japanese-ship-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29830.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People scoop leaked oil from the vessel MV Wakashio, near Blue bay Marine Park in southeast Mauritius on Sunday.

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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:31:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-icebreaker-a-20180330.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Vladimir Rusanov, an ice-breaking tanker run by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., is loaded with liquefied natural gas at a port in Sabbeta, Russia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/24/business/nippon-yusen-cooking-trans-pacific-container-ship-test-quest-automate-shipping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:31:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nyk-a-20170825.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nippon Yusen KK container ship sits berthed at a shipping terminal in Tokyo in July. The largest container line in Japan plans to test a remote-controlled vessel in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/business/corporate-business/japans-big-three-shippers-see-profitable-year-amid-industry-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:31:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/02/business/corporate-business/japanese-merger-worlds-biggest-shipping-company-hopes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:31:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shipping-a-20161103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. President Eizo Murakami (left), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. President Junichiro Ikeda (center) and Nippon Yusen KK President Tadaaki Naito join hands after announcing in Tokyo on Monday that they will merge their container operations.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/31/business/corporate-business/japans-top-three-shippers-merge-container-businesses-worlds-no-6/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-shipping-a-20161101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nippon Yusen KK ship sits moored while its containers are stacked at Oi Container Terminal in Tokyo in June 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/29/business/corporate-business/mitsui-o-s-k-expects-to-sink-into-red-ink-for-business-2015/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:32:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/09/business/corporate-business/mitsui-o-s-k-pioneer-arctic-route-lng/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-arctic-a-20140710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Led by icebreakers, liquefied natural gas tankers operated by Russia's Gazprom sail in the Arctic Ocean toward Japan in 2012. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. plans to begin regular, year-round shipments of LNG via the Arctic route in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/24/national/4-billion-paid-for-ships-release/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:32:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[w1-s2-mitsui-a-20140425.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Baosteel Emotion, a ship owned by Japanese shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., is moored at a port in Zhejiang province on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/21/national/china-ship-seizure-hikes-redress-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:33:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/20/national/shanghai-court-seizes-mitsui-o-s-k-vessel-over-unpaid-war-redress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T15:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers buy vegetables at a market in Shenyang, in China's northeastern Liaoning province, on Monday. China's consumer inflation edged up in July, partly because of rising food prices from flood-related disruptions and the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/japan-coronavirus-wednesday-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:03:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30252.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shield thmselves from the sun and the coronavirus in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/atomic-bomb-hibakusha-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:18:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30070.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michio Hakariya, an 83-year-old atomic-bomb survivor, gives an interview at Nagasaki's Peace Park on Sunday, the 75th anniversary of the 1945 attack on the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-opposition-party-split-merger-talks-hit-impasse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30044.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the Democratic Party for the People, said he would not be among the members going forward with a merger with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/social-conformity-masks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30043.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A team of psychologists surveyed 1,000 Japanese and found that the top reason for wearing masks was because everyone else was doing so.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/business/corporate-business/softbanks-masayoshi-son-mulls-sale-british-chip-firm-arm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/national/japanese-come-out-support-arrested-hong-kong-activist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30030.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow (center) is led away by police from her home after she was arrested under the new national security law in Hong Kong late on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/new-zealand-auckland-lockdown-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30033.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news alert is displayed on a mobile phone in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/business/corporate-business/japan-kept-activist-investor-limbo-key-toshiba-vote-sources-say/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29846.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's handling of Effissimo's vote on Toshiba left the impression that the law was being used to deter activists.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/business/corporate-business/bankruptcies-japan-down-july-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers stand in front of a bubble tea shop next to the Robot Restaurant, temporarily closed due to the coronavirus, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/jimmy-lai-arrest-hong-kong-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T16:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30129.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Media tycoon and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai leaves a police station after being bailed out in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/national/japan-coronavirus-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T17:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29918.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk under a mist sprinkler in Tokyo's Ginza district amid scorching summer heat on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/business/corporate-business/kkr-carlyle-bet-japan-dealmaking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T18:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30206.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Private-equity firms expect to see more deal-making among Japanese companies later this year due to the COVID-19 economic fallout. Pepper Food Service Co. plans to sell its fast-food chain Pepper Lunch to a private-equity company.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/business/japan-nuclear-fuel-imports-zero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T18:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30122.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's imports of nuclear fuel were nearly zero last year, as many reactors remain idle or are slated to be decommissioned.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/35-years-japan-airlines-crash-answers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T18:42:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30071.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susanne Bayly-Yukawa and Shuji Oda, who lost family members in the 1985 JAL 123 crash, confront Yuji Akasaka, the airline's president, on Mount Osutaka in Gunma Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/jal-123-crash-gunma-35-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T18:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30133.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the bereaved families of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash visit the site where it went down in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Wednesday, the 35th anniversary of the accident that killed 520 passengers and crew.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/national/one-sons-legacy-crash-jal-123/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T19:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/n-jalcrash-a-20180812.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-jalcrash-a-20180812.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kuniko Miyajima, 71, winds up a music box at the grave marker of her son, Ken, at Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture on July 21. Ken died when Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed there on Aug. 12, 1985.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/stem-cells-malaysia-extinct-rhinos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T20:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher prepares Sumatran Rhinoceros cells for research at a laboratory of International Islamic University of Malaysia in Kuantan on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/crime-legal/japan-fights-hiroshima-black-rain-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T21:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30142.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this Sept. 8, 1945, file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, two people are seen walking on a path through the destruction that resulted from the Aug. 6 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/asia-pacific/new-zealand-coronavirus-cluster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T11:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30352.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff take a COVID-19 test from a visitor at a drive-thru center in Christchurch, New Zealand. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/moms-kids-coronavirus-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T13:59:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30353.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children have their temperatures checked at the entrance to the Tokyo Joypolis indoor amusement park in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/world/who-owned-the-chemicals-that-blew-up-beirut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T14:13:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30342.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30342.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A massive explosion at Beirut's port caused widespread destruction. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/asia-pacific/south-korea-us-military-drills-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T14:33:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30310.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean soldier stands guard along the Demilitarized Zone in October 2018. South Korea and the United States will kick off their annual joint military drills this week but without mobilizing U.S.-based troops due to coronavirus outbreak. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/asia-pacific/north-korea-nuclear-reactor-flooding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T16:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech last month. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/crime-legal/two-doctors-indicted-terminal-als-patients-medically-assisted-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T17:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30421.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car carrying Naoki Yamamoto enters Nakagyo Police Station in Kyoto on July 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/business/corporate-business/tencent-wechat-ban-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T17:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30406.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30406.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tencent's sales rose 29 percent to 114.9 billion yuan (¥1.77 trillion) in the three months ended June, while net income increased to 33.1 billion yuan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/world/3-4-million-england-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T17:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30466.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30466.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 3.4 million people in England — 6 percent of the population — have contracted the coronavirus, with infection rates twice as high in London, a major antibody study found.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/carcass-feeding-game-changer-zoos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T17:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29870.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pumas at Morioka Zoological Park in Iwate Prefecture are being fed with dead boars as part of a "carcass feeding" program.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/post-merger-opposition-party-expected-more-than-140-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T13:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30535.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano (center), head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and CDP Secretary-General Tetsuro Fukuyama (left) meet with Ichiro Ozawa (right), a Lower House member of the Democratic Party for the People, in the Diet building Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/business/japan-banks-qatar-megasolar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T14:08:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30436.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30436.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Mizuho Bank have agreed to provide a $330 million loan to help build the first megasolar plant in Qatar.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/asia-pacific/sponge-city-china-floods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T15:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30614.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30614.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's paramilitary police officers evacuate a resident on a flooded street in Meishan in Sichuan province. While dams and levees have helped save lives, flooding remains China’s biggest natural headache.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/world/science-health-world/china-coronavirus-frozen-food-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T15:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30595.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30595.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sample taken from the surface of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern city of Shenzhen from Brazil, as well as samples of outer packaging of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp sold in the northwestern city of Xian, have tested positive for the virus, local Chinese authorities said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/world/trump-scores-diplomatic-deal-allies-israel-uae-u-s-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T16:14:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30570.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city hall in Tel Aviv is lit up in the colors of the United Arab Emirates national flag after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalize relations in a landmark U.S.-brokered deal, only the third such accord Israel state has struck with an Arab nation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/asia-pacific/thailand-monarchy-student-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T17:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30641.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30641.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Student protesters gather at an anti-government rally at Srinakhrinwirot University in Bangkok on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/national/history/japan-75-years-wartime-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T17:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30069.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30069.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Hirohito responds to citizens in Hiroshima on Dec. 7, 1947, on one of his visits to places around the nation after the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/national/travel-ban-japanese-universities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T18:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30582.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of students had plans to begin studies in Japan this year, only to have been held up by Japan's entry ban.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/national/princess-mako-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T18:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako and Kei Komuro attend a news conference in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sept. 3, 2017 after an announcement is made of their planned engagement.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[There is concern that garbage collectors could become infected with COVID-19 while collecting trash containing used face masks and tissues.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T19:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Epic Games Inc. Fortnite: Battle Royale video game ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T19:48:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya speaks at a news conference after the Belarusian presidential election in Minsk on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T19:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relations between South Korea and Japan are expected to figure once again in an independence day speech by South Korean President Moon Jae-in set for Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:06:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30553.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cameras are seen on the roofs of Argo AI modified Ford Motor Co. Fusion autonomous vehicles parked at the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30542.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusaku Maezawa has dived back into the apparel business with the purchase of stakes in United Arrows Ltd. and Adastria Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff prepare COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru center in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:18:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People commute to work in the Marunouchi district near Tokyo Station last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/fujifilm-complete-delayed-avigan-clinical-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30514.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Thursday it expects to complete clinical tests of the antiviral drug Avigan in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/japan-coronavirus-thursday-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed 206 new coronavirus infections Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype of a Central Japan Railway Co. maglev train is unveiled to the media at an experimental center in Yamanashi Prefecture on Oct. 3, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:25:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30326.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators examine the Lawson convenience store in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, where a store clerk was stabbed to death Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/business/corporate-business/mcdonalds-japan-profits-takeout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30351.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With more customers using takeaway and delivery, McDonald's Holdings Co.'s sales increased 2% in the first half of this year.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/business/financial-markets/japanese-worlds-biggest-pension-fund-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30343.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masataka Miyazono, president of the massive Government Pension Investment Fund, is interviewed in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/business/corporate-business/toshiba-loss-amid-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:27:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30298.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba posted a net loss of ¥11.35 billion for the April-June quarter, as the coronavirus fallout hurt the business.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/japan-bangladesh-loans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30311.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan, which will extend infrastructure loans totaling up to ¥338.25 billion to Bangladesh, is a major donor to the country. Bangladesh saw economic growth of 8.2 percent in 2019 and 7.9 percent in 2018, according to the Asian Development Bank.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/business/corporate-business/hitachi-bombardier-trains-spain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T20:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30307.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take pictures of a Frecciarossa 1000 high-speed train by Bombardier Transportation at the InnoTrans railway technology trade fair in Berlin in September 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/world/science-health-world/climate-change-greenland-ice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T13:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30944.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/national/shizuoka-injunction-japan-maglev/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T20:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31042.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype maglev train is unveiled to the media at Central Japan Railway Co.'s  "laboratory" in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, in October 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/indonesia-tourism-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T20:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man emerges from the surf at Kuta beach on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/national/tokyo-reports-385-new-coronavirus-cases-number-stays-around-level-friday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T21:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31005.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's daily infection figure has stayed below 400 during the Bon holidays, after hitting a record 472 cases on Aug. 1, but the figures are up sharply from around 200 daily cases posted between Monday and Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/13/national/japan-singapore-covid-19-border-curbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-16T23:20:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30424.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and his Singaporean counterpart, Vivian Balakrishnan, meet in Singapore on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/16/national/japan-sunday-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T11:05:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31077.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Few people are seen at a shinkansen platform of Tokyo Station Saturday as many Tokyoites refrain from traveling amid the COVID-19 outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/31/business/satoyama-offers-chance-narrow-economic-gaps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T17:26:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/asia-pacific/indian-hospitals-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T17:32:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31018.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Kumar Gaurav (right), 42, a medical professor and consultant psychiatrist who has been named the top official at Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur, India, during the coronavirus outbreak, speaks to a nurse who contracted COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/japan-coronavirus-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T18:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk under the glaring sun in Tokyo's Ginza shopping area on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/business/corporate-business/japanese-officials-tried-push-nissan-honda-merger-talks-ft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T21:22:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31134.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Government figures apparently tried to bring Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. to the table for merger talks this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/coronavirus-cluster-tenri-university-rugby-team/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T21:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tenri University vice president Tatsuki Okada (left) speaks in a news conference in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-china-ties-2020-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T22:02:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on July 31. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-18T11:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Belarusian opposition supporters gather for a protest in Minsk on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/corporate-business/california-vehicle-emissions-automakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T12:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Center for Biological Diversity estimates the deal will improve fuel economy 3.7 percent year over year between 2022 and 2026.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/asia-pacific/north-korea-calls-party-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T14:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31426.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Executive Policy Council of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Aug. 5. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/publishing-china-hong-kong-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T15:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31422.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor handles a copy of the Ta Kung Pao newspaper at a sorting area in Hong Kong on Aug. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/national/tokyo-207-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T18:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31526.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People use the Shibuya Scramble Crossing in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/southeast-asia-detects-mutated-virus-strain-sweeping-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T21:11:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait to get tested for COVID-19 at a government facility in Metro Manila, Philippines, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Krofchik of Las Vegas keeps cool with a bottle of ice on his head as the thermometer reads 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius) at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley, California, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T13:02:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker collects a swab from a man at a makeshift COVID-19 testing site in Dalian, in China's Liaoning province, in late July. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters march on the streets against an extradition bill in Hong Kong in July 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T14:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ship sits docked in front of a Nihon Silo Co. grain silo at dusk in Chiba on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ashish Kumar, 20, who used to work at a plastics factory in western India, checks his phone outside his house in Dutta Nagar village, in Gonda district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, in July. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill Biden, celebrates after being formally nominated as the 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T14:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The hedge fund's most recent acquisition of Sony shares became known to the public in April 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nichii Gakkan Co. closed 51 of its Coco Juku English-language schools across Japan on March 31. At the location of a branch in Shinjuku, the shutters were closed and a notice was taped to the front entrance.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters rally against changes to the United States Postal Services in Newport Beach, California, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T14:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bottles of the Alinamin V vitamin drink sold by Takeda Consumer Healthcare Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T17:14:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oyo Japan is creating a six-member management oversight committee to deal with the downturn in its business, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/economy-business/japan-jobless-rate-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T17:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 2.4 million furloughed workers are currently being kept on payrolls backed by state subsidies.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T17:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to set up consultation services in Osaka and Fukuoka for foreign institutions by allocating ¥50 million in a state budget for fiscal 2021, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/science-health/philippines-avigan-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T17:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31305.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Avigan, an antiviral drug manufactured by a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings, is seen as a potential treatment for COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/19/asia-pacific/thai-police-protesters-monarchy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T18:49:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anon Nampa, one of the leaders of recent anti-government protests, is embraced by a protester after being granted a bail outside the criminal court in Bangkok on Aug. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/corporate-business/u-s-europe-u-k-australia-new-zealand-japan-travel-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff assist passengers from behind a plastic barrier at the Air France-KLM Group check-in desk at Narita Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/tech/us-restrictions-on-huawei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Trump administration said Monday it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei, aimed at cracking down on its access to commercially available chips.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/national/social-issues/birth-rate-aging-crisis-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30780.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's population has declined for the 11th straight year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:05:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30589.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cape Verde is better known for its beaches than its prowess at the Olympics, having never won a medal since it began competing in 1996.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carrie Lam says the U.S. sanctions have brought her some trouble when using credit cards, but described the experience as "meaningless."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters inspect collapsed buildings in Sapporo on Dec. 17, 2018, following an explosion the night before.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31371.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura visited Yasukuni shrine on Sunday, a day after the anniversary of the end of World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:09:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attendee plays the Fortnite video game, made by Epic Games Inc., during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31350.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. owned $1.04 billion of Amazon stock, its biggest investment, a $475 million stake in Alphabet, $248.6 million of Adobe Inc. and $189 million of Netflix, the Tokyo-based company said in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated Aug. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/economy-business/japanese-manufacturers-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Data on Monday showed Japan was hit by its largest economic slump on record in the second quarter as the health crisis delivered a blow to consumption and exports.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:21:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seen in the Situation Room of the White House in May 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31265.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plans to resurrect Hitachi's nuclear power project in the U.K. came as conservative British lawmakers question the involvement of state-backed China General Nuclear Power Corp. in the country's nuclear power sector.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/hamamatsu-japan-record-high-temperature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31160.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, reported a record high of 41.1 degrees on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:23:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of an Ainu minority group walk to the Sapporo District Court on Monday to file a lawsuit against the central government — the first such lawsuit by Ainu people to confirm their indigenous rights.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/japan-schools-restart-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31199.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students stand up and listen to their school song at the beginning of a new semester on Monday in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:29:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31090.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan External Trade Organization survey says more Japanese companies are expanding in Southeast Asia and scaling down in China as tensions climb between Beijing and Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/crime-legal/nippon-steel-south-korea-courts/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31161.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean court that ordered the seizure of Japanese steel-maker Nippon Steel Corp. assets in the country, in connection with a wartime labor compensation case, has rejected an appeal by the firm.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/business/economy-business/japan-gdp-shrinks-record-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31117.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The preliminary gross domestic product data corresponds to a 7.8 percent decrease on a seasonally-adjusted quarterly basis, marking negative growth for the third consecutive quarter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/business/corporate-business/toshiba-3d-investment-probe-shareholder-vote/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Drivers spent more time stuck in traffic in 2019 than in previous years, losing hundreds of hours due to congestion that costs countries billions of dollars.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activist and student leaders greet supporters after a protest rally at Democracy Monument in Bangkok on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T19:39:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Several Democratic state attorneys general said they were in discussions about potential legal action to stop Postal Service changes that could affect the election outcome.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese police walk by a U.S. Embassy car outside a hotel in Shanghai where officials from both sides were negotiating to end a tariff war on July 30, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Self-Defense Force aircraft conduct a large-scale joint and bilateral integration training exercise on Tuesday in airspace near Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electrical power flow and conditions are monitored at the California Independent System Operator grid control center in Folsom, California, on Aug. 18, 2017.
A heat wave baking California in triple-digit temperatures continued to strain the electrical system on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denise Abranches, a dental surgeon who was among the first volunteers in Brazil for a coronavirus vaccine trial in June. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akira Amari]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow is arrested in Hong Kong on Aug. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Trump (left) joins then real estate developer and presidential hopeful Donald Trump at an event in New York, in November 1999. Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York. He was 71. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows after speaking at the Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Saturday, as Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako look on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Feeling blue: Young people's tastes in clothes have diversified and jeans are no longer seen as the fashion standard.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Home and dry: Beaches in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, are closed for swimming.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumi Fujisawa, co-founder and vice president of Sophiabank Ltd., is interviewed at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/national/history/wwii-ending-surrender/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T20:58:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Life goes on: A man floats a lantern down a waterway in Hiroshima to mark the 75th anniversary of that city's bombing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/national/media-national/child-abuse-caregivers/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29234.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In order to prevent and uncover child abuse, safeguards should be built into the education system and adults must be able to read the signs of abuse early on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/national/japan-keep-event-capacity-capped-5000-people-time/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan plans to keep the cap on spectators for concerts, professional sports and other events at 5,000 after August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/15/national/fall-armyworm-japanese-crops/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The caterpillar larva of a fall armyworm sits on the leaf of a corn plant on a farm in South Africa.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Taiwanese Air Force F-16 in the foreground flies on the flank of a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force H-6 bomber as it passes near Taiwan in February. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People commute in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district, the nerve center of the national government, in December 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrives at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday to pay tribute to the war dead on the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/national/japan-malaysia-coronavirus-travel-restrictions/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T21:21:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30909.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A major investor in Toshiba Corp. says its vote at a shareholders meeting was not fully recognized and is calling for a probe. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30907.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade experts said there is little political upside for U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon a deal with China at this stage. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-19T21:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian defense officials in New Delhi on Thursday display part of an air-to-air missile that allegedly was fired by a Pakistani Air Force aircraft that violated Indian airspace.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker takes test samples for the COVID-19 coronavirus from a South Korean police officer in Seoul on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano (left) attends the party's executive meeting on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt first detected cases of COVID-19 among its crew on March 24.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-20T14:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-20T14:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vendors wait for customers as they sell chickens at a traditional market in Jakarta on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-20T14:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives at the global premiere for Apple's "The Morning Show" at the Lincoln Center in the Manhattan borough of New York City, last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/19/national/japan-coronavirus-wednesday-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T15:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk at a scramble intersection in front of Tokyo's Shibuya Station on Tuesday, amid the scorching summer heat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/19/national/russia-bombers-intercepted-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T16:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Russian TU-95 bomber is seen flying near the southern part of Japan in this handout picture taken by the Air Self-Defense Force in  August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/japan-coronavirus-thursday-aug-20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T19:52:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32009.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo on Wednesday amid scorching summer heat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/corporate-business/nissan-ghosn-tax-penalties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T21:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32036.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan's former executive Carlos Ghosn speaks at a news conference in Beirut on Jan. 8 after escaping to Lebanon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/itochu-energey-metals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31828.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Itochu is shaking up the status quo at Japan's storied trading houses with nimble cost-cutting and a focus on nonresource businesses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/business/distinguishing-features-define-sogo-shosha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Logistics is one of the sōgō shōsha's important functions that were developed as they executed core business roles as trader and wholesaler.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/corporate-business/airbnb-files-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31850.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[AirBnb's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is faster than expected.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/dazn-targets-1-billion-push-new-funding-sports-streamer-rebounds-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:20:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31829.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31829.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dazn, whose logo is shown at its offices in Tokyo, wants to build a presence in 200 markets and is in the early stages of planning a public offering. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/tokyo-shibuya-station-flooding-facility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:21:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31820.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The underground facility below JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo can hold up to 4,000 tons of rainwater.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/japan-u-s-defense-chiefs-meet-aug-29-guam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31822.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono and his U.S. counterpart Mark Esper will likely meet in Guam on Aug. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31805.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31805.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan has been urging its people to be alert for what officials call an "omnipresent infiltration" from China involving Beijing-backed cyberattacks against the island that China considers its territory.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/monkey-dogs-tech-nagano/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-20T22:28:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "monkey dog" trained to chase away wild primates works in Omachi, Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/tech/changing-tiktok-japan-ownership-address-security-concerns-ruling-party-lawmaker-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T08:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31792-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31792.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The TikTok app is becoming the focus of internet security watchdogs around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/politics-diplomacy/remote-parliamentary-sessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T09:34:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31163.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31163.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Constitution specifies how many Diet members must be present for plenary sessions to take place.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/asia-pacific/coronavirus-tourism-rethink-bangkok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T09:38:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32040.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With cheap air travel fueling a boom in tourism in recent years, cities such as Bangkok have struggled to balance the needs of local residents with the demands of visitors who boost the hospitality industry but can also cause damage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/majority-japanese-firms-against-holding-olympics-2021-according-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T10:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32079.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32079.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than half of nearly 13,000 Japanese companies surveyed are opposed to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics being held in the summer of 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/world/alexei-navalny-poisoning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T11:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32107.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his lieutenants, began feeling ill on a plane to Moscow on Thursday morning after drinking tea at an airport cafe in the Siberian city of Tomsk.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/convenience-stores-japan-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32075.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A store clerk stacks shelves at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/economy-business/inflation-zero-japan-reopens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32104.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32104.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People commute to work near JR Tokyo Station on July 16, a day after Tokyo raised its alert for the novel coronavirus pandemic to the highest level following recent upticks in infections in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/mizuho-first-japan-bank-passbook-fee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T15:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32191.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32191.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Bank announced Friday that people under age 70 who open new bank accounts from Jan. 18 would be charged ¥1,100 if they chose to have a paper passbook.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/asia-pacific/takeaway-waste-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T16:05:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32323.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker holds a plastic bag containing a take-away lunch at a restaurant in Hong Kong after the government banned dine-in services due to the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/corporate-business/nippon-paint-joins-singapores-wuthelam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T16:18:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32317.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Paint and Singapore-based Wuthelam are trying to create a dominant paints and coatings company in Asia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/corporate-business/toyota-car-leasing-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T16:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32332.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles sit in traffic in Mumbai last September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/asia-pacific/rohingya-hope-resettlement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T17:05:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32302.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/economy-business/japan-supermarket-sales-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T17:33:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vegetable prices are higher than regular years this month due to a lack of sunny weather as the rainy season dragged on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/japan-papua-new-guinea-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T17:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32216.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32216.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/social-issues/stranded-non-japanese-september/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T18:33:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32344.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airline employees work at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/japan-keidanren-chief-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:11:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Nakanishi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/history/kamaishi-wwii-bombardment-memories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31554.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sliding door panels, damaged by shrapnel from the bombing, have been displayed at a local history museum for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/corporate-business/publishers-ask-apple-ceo-app-store-deal-given-amazon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:23:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32090.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., said during an antitrust hearing that all developers are treated equally. BLOOMBERG]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/coronavirus-asia-wealth-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:24:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32134.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Star Ferry Co. vessel, owned by Wharf Holdings Ltd., travels across Victoria harbor as Two International Finance Center, left, and other buildings on Hong Kong island stand illuminated at dusk in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/economy-business/u-s-china-differ-plans-phase-1-trade-deal-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32121.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with China's President Xi Jinping during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/covid-19-relief-work-deloitte-dentsu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32124.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Executives of Dentsu Inc. and Service Design Engineering Council bow at a news conference held in Tokyo on June 8 over a contract regarding COVID-19 relief payouts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/asia-pacific/china-food-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:26:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32140.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's sudden and massive push to curb the problem of discarded leftovers — known as the "Clean Plates Campaign” — has puzzled experts who keep a close watch on the world’s biggest consumer of everything from grains to meat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/china-us-debt-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T19:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund before the U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai in July 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/mauritius-oil-leak-japanese-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:36:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People clean up leaked oil on the coast of Mauritius on Aug. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/japan-relief-team-mauritius-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:37:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MV Wakashio bulk carrier ran aground and broke into two parts near Blue Bay Marine Park off the coast of Mauritius.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/09/national/japan-disaster-relief-team-mauritius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Executive Vice President Akihiko Ono (center) apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/12/national/sea-life-mauritius-dying-japanese-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30065.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The bulk carrier ship MV Wakashio, which ran aground on a reef off Mauritius]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/world/crime-legal-world/steve-bannon-border-wall-scam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T22:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32101-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32101.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday following his arraignment hearing for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/japan-coronavirus-friday-aug-21/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-22T09:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk the Shinjuku area of Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/asia-pacific/south-korea-social-distancing-rules-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-22T18:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32530.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea used advanced contact tracing and widespread testing to contain its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus, but Asia’s fourth-largest economy has experienced persistent outbreaks in recent weeks, mostly in and around densely populated Seoul and the surrounding areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/tokyo-confirms-256-covid-19-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-22T18:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32488.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo confirmed 256 coronavirus infections on Saturday, topping the 200 mark for the third straight day, while seeing an uptick in the number of severe cases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/asia-pacific/china-floods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-22T18:27:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32430.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32430.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floods in mountainous southwest China, including in Chongqing, have washed away roads and forced tens of thousands from their homes. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/asia-pacific/south-korea-coronavirus-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T11:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk through the Itaewon district of Seoul on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/alexei-navalny-germany-russia-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T13:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in Moscow in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/japanese-fishing-boat-missing-okinawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T14:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/asia-pacific/facebook-disinformation-buddhist-monk-cambodia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T17:07:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32595.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32595.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Luon Sovath, a Cambodian monk and rights activist who fled Cambodia, poses in Bangkok in July 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/business/economy-business/japan-india-australia-supply-chain-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T22:11:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maersk Eindhoven container ship, operated by Maersk Line Ltd., is moored next to gantry cranes at a shipping terminal in Yokohama on July 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/japan-coronavirus-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T22:11:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32680.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32680.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and her child take part in a water-sprinkling event aimed at countering the summer heat in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/12/19/national/one-bad-apple-set-to-spoil-osakas-buraku-aid-barrel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T01:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/1998/10/23/national/ostracized-leather-tanners-faced-with-new-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T01:41:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/asia-pacific/china-weddings-suzhou-trade-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T13:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32727.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32727.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mannequin is dressed in an embroidered face mask and wedding dress at the Suzhou Jusere Wedding &amp; Evening Dress Co. Ltd. store in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mexico-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-brother-bribes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T13:14:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32724.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32724.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[How Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador handles allegations of corruption against his brother will weigh on his party’s prospects of holding onto a majority in the lower house of congress in elections next year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/science-health/japan-coronavirus-tokyo-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T15:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32795.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32795.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past the National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games now postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/school-earthquake-onagawa-qatar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T16:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32801.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32801.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children of Onagawa Elementary and Junior High School, which opened in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, leave a gymnasium Sunday after a ceremony to start the semester.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/japan-computer-systems-economic-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T17:50:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32748.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32748.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government’s weak digital services are hurting Japan's broader competitiveness, economists say.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-white-house-kellyanne-conway-leaving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T18:05:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32764.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32764.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House adviser Kellyanne Conway speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington on Aug. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/economy-business/china-investors-record-defaults/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T18:28:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32860.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32860.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some fund managers are bracing for defaults on domestic Chinese debt to hit record highs this year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/japan-go-to-travel-subsidy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T18:31:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32876.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32876.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the government would continue the Go To Travel campaign while consulting health experts.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/digital-attacks-press-freedom-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T14:35:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32997.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32997.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An immigration officer is tested for COVID-19 during a mass testing at the immigration headquarters in Jakarta on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/tokyo-reports-182-new-virus-cases-following-one-day-drop-into-double-digits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T17:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32994-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 182 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the capital's cumulative total to 19,610. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/tech/nintendo-upgraded-switch-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T17:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32991.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The release of an upgraded Switch would be coupled with, or followed by, a slew of games from Nintendo itself and related outside studios, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/facebook-blocks-critical-thai-monarchy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T18:33:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32975.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32975.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy protesters walk past a picture of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn during a rally to demand that the government resign, dissolve the parliament and to hold new elections under a revised constitution, near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on Aug. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/science-health/japan-startup-begin-human-clinical-tests-covid-19-drug-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T23:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33086.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33086.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bonac Corp. will start human clinical trials of a COVID-19 drug in 2021.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-effects-economic-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T23:07:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32985.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32985.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A phlebotomist who recovered from COVID-19 that she contracted from a patient talks with an ER technician in Seattle in April. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/almost-japan-households-received-virus-relief-cash-handouts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T12:48:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan_Daily_Life_59917-8d9a6.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents in Japan were able to apply for the handouts for three months from when the municipalities they live in began accepting applications, with many reaching their deadline by the end of August.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/japan-spectator-cap-extended/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T12:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32940.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutoshi Nishimura, who is charge of the government's coronavirus response, said the rule could be relaxed earlier if infection rates drop substantially.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/japanese-experts-warn-oil-damage-could-kill-mangroves-mauritius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T13:51:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33155.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33155.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan International Cooperation Agency expert on Saturday confirms oil drifting in swamps where mangroves live in Mauritius.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/asia-pacific/india-bengaluru-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T15:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33221.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33221.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thanks partly to a high-tech testing and tracing system monitored by masked officials on giant screens in a city "war room," Bengaluru had contained the outbreak better than cities like Mumbai, which had tallied more than 100 times as many cases.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/business/economy-business/coronavirus-economic-boom-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T19:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor will start selling the Honda e, its first mass-produced electric car, in Japan on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. first lady Melania Trump addresses the Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/world/science-health-world/developing-countries-coronavirus-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A laboratory technician works at the mAbxience biopharmaceutical company in Garin, Argentina, earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/national/women-university-students-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women accounted for a record 45.5 percent of students enrolled in universities in Japan, according to education ministry data.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/national/politics-diplomacy/shizo-abe-news-conference-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:19:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media upon his arrival at the entrance of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo as the 2020 Olympics mascots are seen on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/asia-pacific/south-korea-striking-doctors-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:19:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical residents and doctors attend a 24-hour strike to protest a government plan in Seoul on Aug. 14. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/business/corporate-business/honda-settle-us-takata-air-bags/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33181.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The state probes are connected with the ongoing recalls of tens of millions of vehicles equipped with potentially defective Takata airbag inflators that were sold by Honda and other major auto manufacturers over the past 20 years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/asia-pacific/moon-risks-u-s-rift-china-policy-top-south-korean-opposition-lawmaker-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33201.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures toward South Korean President Moon Jae-In during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, in December 2017. South Korea is caught between maintaining strong ties with China — its biggest trading partner — and the U.S., its main military ally and a key market for the exports that power its economy. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/26/national/tokyo-disaster-prevention-animal-crossing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Fire Department officials offer advice on disaster prevention using the popular game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/corporate-business/itochu-raises-stake-familymart-65-via-tender-offer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:28:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33153.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33153.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the three months to May, FamilyMart suffered a 71.5 percent drop in net profit to ¥5.79 billion, failing to draw consumers while people were asked to stay at home and work remotely.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/authentication-data-38-japanese-firms-stolen-amid-surge-teleworkers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33152.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 900 items of authentication data for access to VPN servers, provided by Pulse Secure LLC of the United States, were found to have been stolen and leaked online, of which 90 were linked to Japan, according to an expert and others familiar with the matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/corporate-business/olympus-recall-4150-endoscopes-sold-u-s-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33060.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign for Olympus Corp. is displayed outside the company's showroom in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/hanko-specialist-hopes-stamp-mark-post-coronavirus-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32111.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32111.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumikazu Matsuzaki has branched out into creating hanko for people with non-Japanese names.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/japan-energy-forests-biomass/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:39:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is hoping to reduce its reliance on fossil fuel-fed power plants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/asia-pacific/south-korea-closes-schools-seoul-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:39:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33077.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers and volunteers disinfect a street in Goyang, South Korea, on Tuesday as a precaution against COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/economy-business/jobs-britain-retailers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:41:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33027.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopper walks past a store of the clothing and food retailer Marks and Spencer in central London earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/japan-stranded-foreign-technical-interns-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33035.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A foreign technical trainee makes cloth face masks for a garment-maker in Gifu Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/tech/apple-epic-games-fortnite-app-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33026.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33026.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. ruling late Monday wasn’t a total loss for Fortnite developer Epic Games, as the judge granted the company’s request for a temporary order blocking Apple from limiting the game developer’s ability to provide Unreal Engine, key graphics technology, for other apps.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/rohingya-excluded-myanmar-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33010.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33010.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya candidate Abdul Rasheed (right) and other members of the Democracy and Human Rights Party meet in the party's office in Yangon on Aug. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/national/japan-myanmar-reopen-borders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T00:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32941.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32941.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi pose for a photo during their meeting in Naypyidaw on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/russia-qanon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:02:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32971.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32971.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/business/financial-markets/mufg-covid-19-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32965.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32965.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is planning to issue sustainability bonds to help smaller companies and hospitals tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/hong-kong-japan-travel-bubble-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32934.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32934.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passenger rides on the Disneyland Resort line in Hong Kong in March. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/crime-legal/japan-lawmaker-denies-bribery-casino-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:09:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32932.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32932.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media gather outside an office of lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/corporate-business/takeda-to-sell-consumer-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32891-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32891.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has agreed to sell its consumer health care business for ¥242 billion to Blackstone Group Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-health-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32889.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes off his face mask prior to making a short speech to the media upon his arrival at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/japan-prioritize-flu-vaccine-elderly-preexisting-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32721-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32721.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to prioritize flu vaccinations for older people as there is expected to be higher demand amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/economy-business/japan-green-power-paris-climate-goals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32853.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An engineer inspects solar panels at Banpu Power's solar plant in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/economy-business/european-battery-makers-green-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:20:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32766.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A FIAMM employee prepares batteries for French client EDF at the battery-maker's factory in Avezzano, Italy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/asia-pacific/bangladesh-ambitious-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:21:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32770.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inundated houses are seen in Savar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/world/eu-climate-change-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32737.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European Commission is expected to propose a tougher climate goal for 2030 next week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/china-venture-funds-us-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32742.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just six U.S.-dollar funds with exposure to China have sought to raise capital this year, down from 21 last year, according to researcher Preqin.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/economy-business/university-tokyo-bonds-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32744.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students take an entrance exam at the University of Tokyo in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/business/jackson-hole-monetary-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:25:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32740.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors view the Grand Teton National Park mountain range from the Jackson Lake Lodge in Moran, Wyoming, on Aug. 22, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/japan-laos-coronavirus-travel-restrictions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32707-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32707.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has been undertaking a four-nation trip, which has seen him visit Laos, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-approval-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32704.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe enters his office in Tokyo on Wednesday after returning from a three-day break during which he underwent a medical checkup amid speculation over his health.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-shinzo-abe-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32573.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses reporters at his office in Tokyo Wednesday after returning to work following a three-day break that included a medical checkup at Keio University Hospital amid speculation about his health.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/business/economy-business/coronavirus-double-dip-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:33:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31862.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura has had to contend with the sharpest contraction of the nation's economy on record.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/coronavirus-japan-coffins-chainsaws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:35:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant lies inside a mock coffin with plastic shields to maintain social distancing during a coffin horror show performed by Kowagarasetai (Scare Squad) in Tokyo on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/business/economy-business/trip-com-japan-china-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32565.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shown in an Aug. 11 interview, Trip.com Co-Founder and Executive Chairman James Liang says travel demand is ready to rebound once the coronavirus wanes.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-tensions-us-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brent Christensen, director of the American Institute in Taiwan, talks to soldiers after attending an event to mark the 62nd anniversary of the Second Taiwan Strait crisis in Kinmen, Taiwan, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/japan-cambodia-coronavirus-travel-restrictions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:39:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) speaks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/asia-pacific/australia-great-barrier-reef/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Snorkelers explore the Great Barrier Reef outside of Cairns, Australia, in March. Travel bans are keeping thousands of international travelers away, endangering the economic future of Cairns, the gateway to the natural wonder.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/business/tiktok-challenge-trump-executive-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32556.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[TikTok has said that it tried to engage with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump for nearly a year, but faced "a lack of due process" and that the government paid no attention to the facts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/crime-legal/arrested-lawmaker-tsukasa-akimotos-fingerprints-found-bills-offered-bribes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A van carrying House of Representative member  Tsukasa Akimoto enters the Tokyo Detention House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/media-national/tiktok-security-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/media-national/office-worker-new-normal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:54:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31053.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's office worker has been an endangered species for years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/go-to-travel-failure-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32480.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido appears mostly empty during the Bon holidays earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/science-health/masks-labor-coronavirus-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T01:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32429.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whether to require women to wear face masks while in labor has sparked online debates.   ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/national/japan-heat-coronavirus-medical-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A little girl participates in a summer event in the Marunouchi area outside Tokyo Station amid soaring temperatures on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/world/flagging-brexit-negotiations-revive-specter-no-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32445.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32445.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a news conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the U.K.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/world/science-health-world/new-antibody-tests-covid-19-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:01:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32441.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32441.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scientist works at a lab in Argentina. Officials have used antibody tests to estimate that roughly a quarter of New York City residents had been infected by April while about 7.1 percent of people in the U.K. had been as of July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democrats-us-voting-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:04:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32423.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32423.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mail carrier delivers mail to an apartment building in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. U.S. Postmaster General Louis De Joy denied claims that he was working to undermine mail delivery after comments by President Donald Trump raised fears that the Postal Service would be sabotaged to aid his chances in the November election.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-russia-lithuania-belarus-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32422.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32422.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Biegun]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-campaign-convention-fundraising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32421.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32421.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, wear face masks as they watch fireworks outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-shut-down-us-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:06:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32409.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/economy-business/europe-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32389.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32389.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers arrive at Los Angeles Airport's international terminal hours before the start of the European travel ban on March 13. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/business/corporate-business/renown-durban-bankrupty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T02:10:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/business/corporate-business/surging-demand-china-flights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T11:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33483.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers stand at China Southern Airlines check-in counters at Beijing Daxing International Airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/business/economy-business/rcep-states-make-significant-progress-trade-talks-without-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T11:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33626.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33626.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ministers from 15 Asia-Pacific countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership hold a videoconference Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/asia-pacific/missiles-south-china-sea-us-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T12:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33493.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese-held Subi Reef, a man-made island in the Spratly chain in the disputed South China Sea, is seen in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/business/corporate-business/japan-display-sell-part-ishikawa-panel-plant-sharp-390-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T14:33:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33701.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33701.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Display Inc.'s factory in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/hong-kong-arrests-change-narrative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T14:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33464.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting argues with a pro-Beijing lawmaker during a demonstration of an anti-riot vehicle equipped with a water cannon in August last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/hong-kong-first-coronavirus-reinfection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T15:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32933.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a mural in Hong Kong on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-donald-trump-election-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T15:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump points to supporters after addressing the first day of the Republican National Convention after delegates voted to confirm him as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-successors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T15:41:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32761.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Kishida]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-serve-out-term-ruling-party-leader-aide-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T15:45:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33642.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga, chief Cabinet secretary, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/blue-japanese-butterfly-extinct/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T15:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33750.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A small blue butterfly known as Celastrina ogasawaraensis may be the first butterfly species native to Japan to go extinct.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/business/tech/facebook-ads-mainland-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T16:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33749.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook has long said it works with Chinese advertisers to reach users only outside the country, not inside. But the company’s advertising system tells a different story.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/business/cyberattacks-new-zealand-stock-exchange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T16:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-28T16:57:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33789.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination during the final night of the Republican National Convention at the White House on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/schools-japan-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32911.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Disinfectant has become commonplace at schools across the country as the nation battles to keep COVID-19 at bay.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/23/national/japan-likely-ease-entry-restrictions-foreign-students-months-end-source/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32543.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The international departure terminal at Tokyo's Haneda Airport is almost empty in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/biden-obama-2-0-northeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32300.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrive for a joint news conference following their meeting in Tokyo in December 2013. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/social-issues/trainees-hiroshima-overwork-unpaid-overtime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30370.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One non-Japanese trainee clocked up more than 127 hours of overtime for the month of June, well above the legal limit.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/pets-japanese-stay-home-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:44:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31328.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tropical fish are selling well at Fuji 3A Project aquarium fish shop in Nagoya amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/world/dont-drink-tea-poison-favored-weapon-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:44:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32152.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32152.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kremlin has for years regarded Alexei Navalny as an enemy because of his investigations into graft by officials. He has been harassed and jailed numerous times, but only for short periods.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/19/national/new-political-party-japan-largest-opposition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:45:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party for the People head Yuichiro Tamaki (left) talks to Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan counterpart Yukio Edano in Hiroshima Prefecture on Aug. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/national/social-issues/emperor-naruhito-socia-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:45:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31333.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a memorial service marking the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II at the Nippon Budokan hall on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/financial-markets/bank-of-japan-work-from-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31330.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At least three traders have asked the BOJ whether they can participate in its operations from outside the office, only to be met with a refusal, people familiar with the matter said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-tokyo-hospital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:45:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) arrives at Keio University Hospital in the Shinanomachi district of Tokyo on Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/17/national/social-issues/hong-kong-japan-china-national-security-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30813.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30813.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The flags of Japan and Hong Kong are displayed at a Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstration in Tokyo in June last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/national/science-health/coronavirus-antibodies-disappear-in-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:46:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30533.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lab technician conducts coronavirus vaccine research at Valneva SA laboratories in Vienna.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/business/corporate-business/skydrive-tomohiro-fukuzawa-flying-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:46:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29861.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29861.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SD-XX concept model]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/national/politics-diplomacy/biden-japan-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32074.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32074.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech in front of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at Sendai Airport on Aug. 23, 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/national/tokyo-restaurants-shorten-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:47:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33533.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33533.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People eat at a bar in Tokyo's Shimbashi area on July 31.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/oita-residents-rice-foreign-interns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T19:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33638.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33638.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The residents association in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, held a party for overseas workers and local residents, with Indonesian food provided.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/all-okinawa-crossroads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T19:13:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33473.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33473.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga died in 2018, leaving behind an uncertain future for his All Okinawa movement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/business/corporate-business/nippon-steel-china-global-grip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T19:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33769.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33769.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel Corp.'s plant in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/business/corporate-business/softbank-group-sell-12-5-billion-stock-mobile-wireless-unit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:05:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33885.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33885.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. said Friday it will sell about ¥1.33 trillion of the stock it holds in wireless unit SoftBank Corp.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/japan-defense-radar-system-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33830.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33830.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will deliver an air radar system to the Philippines as the first export of a complete, new defense product by Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/medical-aid-diplomacy-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33696.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33696.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) speaks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on Aug. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/singapore-dengue-more-mosquitoes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33727.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33727.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore's specially bred mosquitoes carry a bacteria that prevents eggs from hatching, and "compete with the wild type," leading to "a gradual reduction of the mosquito population."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/world/science-health-world/scientists-map-out-mosquito-immune-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:29:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33693.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Sudanese refugee takes care of her baby under a mosquito net in a transit tent at a refugee camp in Uganda in 2017. Malaria affects more than 200 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 405,000 people in 2018 — most of them babies and children under five years old.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/coconut-palm-oil-environmental-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33674.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coconut oil, as opposed to palm oil, has been increasing in popularity as a healthy superfood with fewer cultivation concerns. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/people-leaving-tokyo-population/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33673-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in the Ginza district of Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/international-reaction-shinzo-abe-resignation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T21:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33938-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33938.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows toward the national flag at the start of a press conference on Friday in which he announced his decision to step down due to a chronic health problem.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/27/national/emperor-empress-pay-respects-to-tsushima-maru-victims-in-naha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T22:33:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/p2-emperor-a-20140628.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-emperor-a-20140628.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko lay flowers at the "Kozakura-no-to" (literally "tower of small cherry trees"), a cenotaph in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/22/national/okinawa-holds-ceremony-to-mark-70-years-since-tsushima-maru-sinking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T22:34:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/n-tsushima-a-20140823.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-tsushima-a-20140823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children release butterflies during a memorial service held in Naha on Friday in memory of passengers who died aboard the Tsushima Maru. The Japanese ship, carrying hundreds of schoolchildren, sank in 1944 following a U.S. torpedo attack.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/will-japans-next-pm-north-korea-surely-wants-know/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33925.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33925.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians in Osaka's Dotonbori area watch a televised broadcast of a press conference in which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention of stepping down on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/comedian-keiko-utsumi-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T12:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33734.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33734.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Utsumi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/27/national/social-issues/japan-entry-policies-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T13:09:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33229.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33229.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travel between Japan and Vietnam partially resumed on June 25, but only for members of the business community.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/asia-pacific/china-captures-hong-kong-activists-fleeing-to-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T13:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_34054.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34054.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather outside a court in Hong Kong on Thursday. Recent attempts to flee Hong Kong point to the anxiety that has set in among activists as China’s ruling Communist Party tightens its grip over the semiautonomous city to quell dissent.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/national/japanese-u-s-defense-chiefs-meet-guam-china-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T15:06:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33860.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33860.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Defense Minister Taro Kono hold a news conference after talks at the Pentagon near Washington in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/national/japan-tokyo-coronavirus-saturday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T15:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34104.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians cross a street in the Marunouchi District of Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/abes-resignation-surprises-japan-insiders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T15:57:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33879-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33879.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso (center, top) is surrounded by journalists at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/national/crime-legal/japan-teen-stabbing-fukuoka/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T16:03:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_34031.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34031.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The shopping mall in Fukuoka where a 21-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Friday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/business/japan-fees-switch-mobile-carrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T17:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33710.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33710.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government has been stepping up calls for mobile carriers to reduce fees while seeking to encourage users to switch providers more freely.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-us-shinzo-abe-alliance-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T19:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33977.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33977.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington in February 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers are placed at a shooting location for the Netflix reality show "Terrace House" in Tokyo on May 25, two days after cast member Hana Kimura killed herself.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/30/national/japan-mauritius-mangroves-oil-wakashio/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:05:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of a disaster-relief team investigates the oil-covered mangroves in Mauritius on Aug. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-us-defense-guam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34192.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono and U.S. counterpart Mark Esper hold talks in Guam on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:09:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan has been focusing on building its defense capabilities in recent years, and conducts annual drills simulating an enemy invasion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/business/tech/jal-touchless-check-in-haneda-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:12:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34023.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. is testing contactless self-service check-in machines with motion sensors that let customers avoid picking up the coronavirus. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands in New York on Sept. 25, 2019, after reaching a bilateral trade agreement. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National security adviser Robert O'Brien speaks at the State Department in Washington on Aug. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:14:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33980.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows after announcing his intention to resign at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday, citing a flare-up of his long-running intestinal illness.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/business/world-richest-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/world/science-health-world/us-states-donald-trump-coronavirus-testing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:19:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34009.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters wearing face masks due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak look on as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-us-courts-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:21:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33978.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Taylor, who was implicated in enabling the dramatic escape of former Nissan Motor Co. boss Carlos Ghosn, is seen in a booking photograph from October 2012 on unrelated charges.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/world/science-health-world/first-us-coronavirus-reinfection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:21:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) is seen infected with the novel coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/politics-diplomacy/shinzo-abe-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T23:21:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacts during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-support-taiwan-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T10:55:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34632.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen attends an inauguration ceremony for a maintenance center for F-16 fighter jets in Taichung, Taiwan, on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/business/economy-business/shinzo-abe-economy-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T12:56:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_34637.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34637.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday, during which he announced his intention to step down.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/31/business/corporate-business/tokyo-toshimaen-closes-harry-potter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T13:10:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors line up in front of Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo on Monday, the last day of the park that opened 94 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/31/business/corporate-business/post-pandemic-japan-offices-innovation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T13:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34371.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[WeWork's Iceberg office space in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/31/national/politics-diplomacy/donald-trump-shinzo-abe-us-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T13:11:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34479.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump departs a joint news conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Rose Garden of the White House in June 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/business/economy-business/japan-second-quarter-capital-expenditure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T13:20:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_34627.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34627.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese firms cut spending on plant and equipment by the most in a decade amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/i-am-taiwanese-czech-speaker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T14:32:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Czech senate president Milos Vystrcil answers questions from the media after delivering a speech at the parliament in Taipei on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/asia-pacific/border-flash-point-china-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T15:06:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34676.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner erected by the Indian Army stands near Pangong Tso lake near the India-China border in India's Ladakh area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/science-health/japan-tokyo-coronavirus-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T16:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34737.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 170 additional cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/social-issues/japan-stranded-foreign-residents-free/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T16:59:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33627.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An airline employee talks with a passenger at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on Aug. 19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/japan-taiwan-reopen-borders-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T17:41:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_34639-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34639.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi announced on Tuesday the easing of travel restrictions for new arrivals from some foreign countries and regions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/japan-third-team-mauritius-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T17:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34721.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People clean up oil on the coast of Mauritius on Aug. 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-to-exclude-rank-and-file/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T18:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34669.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai speaks to reporters at the party's headquarters in Tokyo after an executive meeting Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/science-health/japan-join-international-framework-procure-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T22:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34792.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese government will consider financially supporting the development of nine potential vaccines that are currently in the second to third stages of clinical trials.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/asia-pacific/china-us-quad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T23:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34725.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stephen Biegun]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/shinzo-abe-policy-japan-strike-capability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T23:08:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean missile is fired in this image released on March 22. Outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will set the policy direction on whether Japan will acquire a strike capability against missile bases in other countries, government sources said Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/business/facebook-australia-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T23:10:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34629.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook said Monday that a proposal by the Australian government to force the company to pay media companies for their articles is unfair.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/business/japan-coronavirus-businesses-crowdfunding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T12:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34387.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The staff of Yamada Farm in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, have been able to continue working thanks to the millions of yen received through crowdfunding.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/kinkakuji-golden-pavilion-renovation-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T12:28:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large photo panel was set up at Kinkakuji temple in Kyoto on Tuesday, as renovation work that started the same day will prevent visitors from viewing the famed golden pavilion.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/dolphin-drive-hunting-begins-wakayama-taiji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T12:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34703.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The season's first drive hunt of dolphins and other small cetaceans starts in waters off Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-02T12:30:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34840.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with business owners near the remains of a camera shop in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/asia-pacific/guns-us-racial-justice-protests-portland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T13:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34853.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather outside a building used by police officers in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/business/financial-markets/japan-betting-against-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T13:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/world/kuwait-running-out-of-cash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T15:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34898.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Kuwait, a standoff between the elected parliament and a government whose prime minister is appointed by the emir has led to policy gridlock. Lawmakers have thwarted plans to reallocate state handouts and blocked proposals to issue debt.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/business/corporate-business/kirin-australian-sale-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T16:14:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Holdings Co. started the sale process for its Lion Dairy and Drinks business in 2018 as part of a plan to narrow its business scope to improve profitability amid a slump in beer consumption in its home market.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-02T16:38:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate co-developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical firm CanSino Biologics Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/business/xi-china-economy-us-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T17:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker welds medal truck parts at a factory in Weifang in China's eastern Shandong province. President Xi Jinping's new economic plan is for a more self-reliant domestic economy to serve as China’s main growth driver, supplemented by foreign technologies and investment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/national/japan-coronavirus-september-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T17:54:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A T-shirt bearing an illustration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on sale at a store in Tokyo's Asakusa shopping district on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-02T17:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34838.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Corp. will be added to the Nikkei 225 Stock Average, Japan’s blue-chip equity gauge, starting Oct. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/national/japan-safety-nuclear-fuel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T18:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday approved safety measures at a new facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel prior to reprocessing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/national/half-japan-healthier-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T18:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 50 people take part in a morning yoga session on the rooftop of the Shibuya Sky building in Tokyo on Aug. 26, before going to work.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/national/science-health/japan-coronavirus-vaccines-free-residents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T22:46:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An experimental COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at a clinic in London on Aug. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/02/asia-pacific/china-military-nuclear-weapons-us-pentagon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T22:47:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military vehicles carrying DF-26 ballistic missiles travel past Tiananmen Gate in Beijing during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-02T23:23:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga answers questions from the media during a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo to announce his candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/31/national/social-issues/japan-reentry-ban-foreign-residents-procedures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T00:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person stands in an almost empty terminal of Tokyo's Haneda Airport in late April. Starting Tuesday, Japan is set to lift its entry restrictions on foreign residents, allowing those who left before the strict coronavirus curbs were imposed to return, and those planning to leave temporarily to proceed without fear of being locked out.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-03T11:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peerzada Lateef Shah, who narrowly survived an assassination attempt last year by Kashmiri separatists who regarded him as a traitor, in Mitrigam, India]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/national/abe-resignation-trudeau-johnson/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T11:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35159.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held separate telephone talks with the Canadian and British leaders on Wednesday to explain his intention to resign.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/business/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T12:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35141.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett poses for a photo session during the opening ceremony of a new plant in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in November 2011.

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		<lastmod>2020-09-03T12:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/business/corporate-business/convenience-stores-24-hour-schedules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T13:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35138.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35138.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Fair Trade Commission report took the industry's top convenience store chains to task over their business practices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/world/alexei-navalny-poisoned-with-novichok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T13:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media prior to a Moscow court session in August 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/world/science-health-world/steroids-coronavirus-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T14:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35173.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An analysis — which pooled data from separate trials of low dose hydrocortisone, dexamethasone (pictured) and methylprednisolone — found that steroids improve survival rates of COVID-19 patients sick enough to be in intensive care in hospital.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/national/tokyo-reports-211-cases-covid-19-thursday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T16:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35298.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 211 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/national/typhoon-maysak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T19:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in strong winds in Nagasaki Prefecture on Wednesday as Typhoon Maysak passed near the Kyushu region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/national/politics-diplomacy/fumio-kishida-prime-minister-election-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T19:06:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumio Kishida, policy chief for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, announces his platform for its presidential election in remarks on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/national/freighter-missing-southwestern-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T19:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High waves hit the coast of Nagasaki on Wednesday as Typhoon Maysak approached the Kyushu region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/world/science-health-world/covid-19-vaccine-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T19:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination test at a research facility in Hollywood, Florida. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-03T21:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group empire will soon have to contend with a renewed challenge from old nemesis Tencent, which is increasingly encroaching on its turf from payments to wealth management.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/world/pentagons-china-cold-war-bombers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-03T21:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A B-52 Stratofortress prepares for refueling over Afghanistan during a close-air-support mission in this undated handout photo.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/business/corporate-business/jr-east-last-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T11:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The last trains of the night on the Yamanote and other lines in Tokyo run by East Japan Railway Co. will start leaving earlier next spring. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-04T12:15:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[There is precedent for Honda and GM's latest tie-up, as Honda already owns a minority stake in Cruise LLC, the self-driving car company that is majority owned by GM. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-04T13:46:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Inc. says it will ban political advertising the week before the U.S. election, one of its most sweeping moves against disinformation yet as CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned of a "risk of civil unrest" after the vote.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-04T14:10:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boat crosses Victoria Harbour in front of a skyline of buildings during sunset in Hong Kong on June 29, 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-04T14:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35473.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ceiling of a store in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, was damaged Friday following an earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/04/world/historical-homes-beirut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T16:03:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rescue dog on Thursday walks near rubble of damaged buildings due to the massive explosion at Beirut's port area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/04/asia-pacific/north-korea-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T16:07:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un sits in his vehicle after arriving at a railway station in Dong Dang, Vietnam, at the border with China, on February 26, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/03/national/japanese-kids-mental-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T16:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35213.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese children had the second-worst mental well-being of 38 developed and emerging countries rated by UNICEF in report Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/04/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-primaries-to-pick-abes-successor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T17:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/17/national/social-issues/japan-121st-global-gender-equality-ranking/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women promoting a gender quota system for legislators gather at the Diet in Tokyo in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple's iPhone is a huge revenue driver for game creators in Japan, including established names like Square Enix Holdings Co., which gets 40 percent of its group revenue from smartphone games, and Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-04T19:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi takes part in a teleconference of the foreign ministers of the Group of 20 major economies Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of children on day care waiting lists has hit a record low.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The aftermath of a bombing by Khalifa Hifter's forces in Tripoli, Jan. 16, 2020. A confidential report sent to the Security Council details extensive breaches of the international arms embargo on Libya by eight countries since the beginning of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-04T23:48:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. is exploring assembling a group of bidders for TikTok’s India assets, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/04/national/magnitude-5-earthquake-jolts-fukui-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T23:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The epicenter of the earthquake that occurred on Sept. 4 at 9:10 a.m. is located in Fukui Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-05T08:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-05T08:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official of the Meteorological Agency explains the forecasts for Typhoon Haishen in a joint news conference with the land ministry at the agency Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plastic shields and diagrams reminding visitors to observe a six-foot distance have become ubiquitous at Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kagawa police officers on Friday investigate a site in Takamatsu where a car had been parked the previous day with two girls inside who were later declared dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-06T13:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-06T15:15:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito takes pictures as Crown Prince Akishino looks on at their residence in Tokyo's Akasaka district in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-07T08:04:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/national/science-health/tokyo-77-new-coronavirus-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-07T16:30:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reports 77 new coronavirus cases Monday, the lowest figure since July 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-07T17:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-07T19:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-07T19:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenta Izumi of the Democratic Party for the People (left) and Yukio Edano of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan are running for leadership of a new major opposition party.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-08T08:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopping area in the Setagaya district of Tokyo. The Cabinet Office has rated the economy as "worsening" for the 12th straight month. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-08T11:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Fumio Kishida, Yoshihide Suga and Shigeru Ishiba kicked off their campaigns Tuesday for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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