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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shizen Energy Group began offering in May the Minimum Grid service, which is a solar power generation system that combines solar panels, storage batteries and an Energy Management System.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[July machinery orders, which exclude those for ships and from electricity utilities due to their volatility, totaled ¥751.29 billion, according to the Cabinet Office.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T16:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T17:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cleta Mitchell (second from right), a prominent Republican lawyer who chairs an Indiana-based group dedicated to election integrity, watches as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony in August. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T17:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The PuriCare Wearable features two fans and high-efficiency particle air filters that clean air coming in and exhaled breath going out.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T18:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a meeting Tuesday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T20:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T20:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Docomo Account e-money service has stopped allowing customers to create new links between the service and accounts at partner banks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:17:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A car takes Yusuke Iseya to the Tokyo Wangan Police Station in Tokyo's Koto Ward Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/japan-methane-hydrate-alaska/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp.'s marine resources research vessel, Hakurei, approaches a pier in Tokyo in March 2012. The vessel has been used to explore the country's exclusive economic zone for methane hydrate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/asean-covid-19-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and his counterparts from ASEAN, China and South Korea attend a videoconference Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-kono-says-snap-election-possible-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defence Minister Taro Kono says he is expecting a snap general election possibly in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-yoshihide-suga-kyodo-news-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga waves following a debate at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/business/corporate-business/nintendo-switch-production/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. aims to increase the production target for the Switch gaming console to 30 million units for this fiscal year, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/business/economy-business/bank-japans-coronavirus-crisis-loans-risk-revival-zombie-firm-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T21:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has downplayed concerns about the potential emergence of "zombie" companies, but analysts warn otherwise.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/politics-diplomacy/yukio-edano-elected-president-cdp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T22:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano (left), leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party, celebrates with Kenta Izumi, a leadership contender, after Edano won the leadership election for their new opposition party on Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/tokyo-bars-hours-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T22:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Requests for bars, restaurants and other eateries in the capital to close at 10 p.m. will be lifted on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/business/tech/bitcoin-real-world-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T22:08:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man checks receipts after buying bitcoins with naira via a Bitcoin Teller Machine in Lagos. Monthly cryptocurrency transfers to and from Africa of under $10,000 (about ¥1.06 million) — typically made by individuals and small businesses — jumped more than 55 percent in a year to reach $316 million in June. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T22:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T22:10:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Sumo Association held a workshop on COVID-19 prevention measures at Ryugoku Kokugikan on Aug. 30 ahead of the the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament starting this weekend.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sachiko Kishimoto of the nonprofit organization Oocyte Donation Network (OD-Net) holds up a letter from a donor at press conference on March 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-10T23:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Water reflects the silhouettes of a young couple with a toddler. At least 10,000 people in Japan are thought to be unlisted on family registers and thus are considered ineligible for services such as welfare and health insurance.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Australian flag flutters in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA will provide Uber Technologies Inc. discounts on the purchase of electric vehicles for drivers in Europe.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Japan Railway Co. on Wednesday began testing new ticket gates in Tokyo that can be accessed using QR codes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rev. Jun Kwang-hoon, who is the head of the Sarang Jeil Church in Seoul, which is at the center of the new wave of infections, speaks to the media Monday before being imprisoned.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Much of the content censored on WeChat supports pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusuke Iseya]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The collection includes an embroidered silk folding screen that was a gift from Emperor Meiji to King Edward VII in 1902.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All Nippon Airways Co. will resume flights from Japan to Hawaii in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:34:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga waves as he officially kicks off his campaign rally for the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London last Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:35:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shin Shin the giant panda relaxes in a new panda enclosure at Ueno zoo in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken aim at Chinese giants such as Huawei Technologies Co. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36283.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son's foray into highly leveraged derivatives is giving investors for SoftBank Group fresh reason to worry.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:37:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:38:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers buy food at a supermarket in Tokyo on April 8, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36260.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is considering how to make social-distancing rules more binding as it confronts the potential for a fresh wave of coronavirus cases.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:38:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shake hands after a joint press conference in Tehran on June 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/08/national/mauritius-japan-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:39:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated photo shows oil containment booms along the coast of Mauritius following a massive oil spill.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/business/corporate-business/nissan-record-guaranteed-loan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36136.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. received a record ¥130 billion state loan guarantee in May from the Development Bank of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/national/politics-diplomacy/cabinet-support-rate-shinzo-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting of his Cabinet ministers along with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/business/coronavirus-japan-decentralization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People view Tokyo Tower from an observation deck in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:46:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36196.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (center) is widely predicted to be a shoo-in for the LDP presidential election, but party policy chief Fumio Kishida (right) and former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) are also in the running.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/business/borders-closed-airlines-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36046.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With its international fleet grounded until at least mid-2021, Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd. is renting out one of its Boeing Co. Dreamliners for sightseeing trips over Antarctica.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/business/economy-business/china-exports-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36073.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's exports expanded more than expected in August as key markets eased virus containment measures, official data showed Monday, but imports unexpectedly shrank despite a push to boost domestic demand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/business/donald-trump-coal-us-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36062.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A closed Family Dollar store in Manchester, Ohio. The community has been impacted by the closing of two local coal burning generating plants, Killen Station and J.M. Stuart Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/business/us-donald-trump-coal-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the EU and the United Kingdom are helds in Brussels on June 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Divers from Deep History of Sea Country search for artifacts off the Dampier Archipelago in Western Australia on Sept. 20, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The house of Akihito Otake in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign and Trade Minister Casten Nemra says many people have been unable to return to their homes in the Marshall Islands due to radiation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shunichi Suzuki]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/06/national/japan-juvenile-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nation is now at a crossroads on whether it will decide to more harshly penalize offenders as young as 18 by declaring them “adults” and placing them outside the protection of the juvenile law.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T00:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hashem Mahmoud Atin, a ten-month-old suffering from acute malnutrition and who is unable to reach a hospital for treatment, is held in the arms of a sibling inside a shelter at a camp in northern Yemen on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:02:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coronavirus vaccine candidate from Sinovac Biotech Ltd. is on display at a booth in Beijing. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/national/media-national/toshimaen-closes-nerima-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2020, the last day of business after 94 years of operation.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/business/coronavirus-japan-yellowtail-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:05:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yellowtail is unloaded from open sea cages at a fish farm in Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture, on July 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/asia-pacific/north-korea-launch-submarine-missile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:07:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A close-up view of a Romeo-class submarine anchored within the southern section of the bay of the Mayang-do Submarine Base in Mayang-do, North Korea, is seen in a satellite photo taken Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/national/japan-tuna-toyosu-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:10:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wholesaler checks the quality of frozen tuna displayed during auctions at Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Aug. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/world/politics-diplomacy-world/facebook-blocking-us-political-ads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:11:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35699.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Political ads on Facebook are just one piece of content on the social network; political misinformation also flourishes in messages that people post and in discussions in private Facebook Groups.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/national/japan-strike-capability-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:11:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A projectile believed to be a ballistic missile is fired by North Korea last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/national/crime-legal/carlos-ghosn-plotters-extradite-japan-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:12:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35659.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security camera video shows Michael Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport on Dec. 30, 2019, as part of the operation to bring Carlos Ghosn to Lebanon. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35684.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester scuffles with a Trump supporter (right) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday amid ongoing demonstrations after the shooting by police of Black man Jacob Blake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/04/business/corporate-business/amazon-japan-antitrust-watchdog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:17:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35506.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc.'s Japan unit has submitted to the Fair Trade Commission a set of proposed reforms including returning money to its suppliers after having them shoulder part of the costs to cover discounts.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/04/national/social-issues/coronavirus-re-entry-process-visas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T01:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks through Haneda International Airport in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/world/alexei-navalny-health-improving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T09:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37022.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks with journalists after he was released from a detention center in Moscow last August. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/history/wwii-family-internet-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T11:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36505.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot shows Robert Tagawa (left) and his sister, Geneva, talking in a video chat with Tomonori Tagawa (inset) in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/tokyo-international-cruise-terminal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T12:31:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36840.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nippon Maru cruise ship is docked at Tokyo International Cruise Terminal on Thursday, as the new terminal opened to the public the same day.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/business/corporate-business/data-breach-nomura/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T13:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37044.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37044.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nomura Holdings Inc. has said information it held on corporate clients was leaked by an employee to a securities firm.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/crime-legal/high-school-girl-murder-fukui/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T13:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37094.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers on Thursday investigate a house in the city of Fukui where a high school girl's body was found.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/business/corporate-business/bhp-ceo-bonus-customer-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T15:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37104.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[BHP Chairman Ken MacKenzie and incoming CEO Mike Henry hold a news conference to announce Henry's appointment to the job at the firm's Melbourne headquarters in November 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/business/citigroup-jane-fraser-bank-female-ceos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T15:44:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37101.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jane Fraser was named CEO of Citigroup on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/japan-crown-princess-kiko-mako-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T16:17:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37109.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko look at a book about Okinawa Prefecture at their residence in Tokyo's Akasaka district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/world/science-health-world/china-coronavirus-nasal-spray-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T16:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman receives an H1N1 flu nasal spray vaccination in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/business/amazons-japan-unit-return-2-bn-yen-suppliers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T18:57:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37060.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon Japan G.K. was investigated by the Japan Fair Trade Commission in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/japan-singapore-short-term-business-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T19:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37206.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan pose for a photo in Singapore on Aug. 13.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/business/corporate-business/morgan-stanley-jpmorgan-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T19:15:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37118.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37118.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley remained the most profitable foreign securities firm in Japan last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/suga-japan-consumption-tax-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T19:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37142.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/business/trump-2016-china-bashing-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T20:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37110.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at MBS International Airport in Freeland, Michigan, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/business/corporate-business/bytedance-tiktok-sale-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T20:08:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37100-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37100.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Because of a Chinese regulatory review, ByteDance probably needs more time than is available before the U.S. executive order ban on Sept. 20 to nail down an agreement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/world/science-health-world/emissions-pre-pandemic-levels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T20:15:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37147.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lignite-fired power station releases steam in Bergheim, Germany, in January. Emissions from burning fossil fuels dropped by an unprecedented 17 percent from the previous year during the peak of the lockdown in April, but by early June they had mainly returned to about 5 percent below 2019 levels.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/crime-legal/saitama-murders-kumagaya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T20:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37108.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena was found not completely responsible for his actions due to schizophrenia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/asia-pacific/china-india-himalayan-border/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T20:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37091.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar-Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Sept. 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keiko Shigihara used to make pickles out of flower petals from a cherry tree at her former home in Fukushima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun shines through steam rising from chimneys of a power plant in Moscow in November. Global temperatures will continue to warm over the next five years, and may even temporarily rise to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists take part in an Extinction Rebellion protest in London on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job seekers walk towards a job fair held for fresh graduates in Tokyo in March 2016. 
Job offers to students set to graduate from universities next March fell 15.1 percent from a year earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, logging the sharpest drop in a decade.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a World Bank report, Japan's economic activity remains lackluster, with trade — particularly exports to China — "especially weak."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This picture taken Saturday and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervising a "strike drill," a test of long-range multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons, into the Sea of Japan in an undisclosed location in North Korea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joshua Steinman, an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump on cyber issues, adjusts his glasses prior the start of The Prague 5G Security Conference in Prague Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maintaining his innocence: Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House on Tuesday following his release on bail.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:16:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. and Chinese delegations meet in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, during continuing meetings on the U.S.-China bilateral trade relationship Thursday in Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/20/business/u-k-admits-trade-deals-japan-south-korea-unlikely-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Secretary of State for Business Greg Clark gives a speech at the EEF National Manufacturing conference in London Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:18:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moon Hee-sang, the speaker of South Korea's National Assembly, visits Washington earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers check in for international flights at Haneda airport in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:19:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference held at Auto China 2016 in Beijing in 2016. A court in Tokyo on Tuesday rejected Ghosn's latest request for bail, made more than two months after his arrest, prolonging a detention that has brought Japan's harsh justice system under international scrutiny.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomes North Korean Vice-Chairman Kim Yong Chol prior to a meeting in Washington Jan. 18. Pompeo held talks on North Korea with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts ahead of a summit between Pyongyang's leader and the U.S. president, the State Department said Monday. The phone calls, which took place on Sunday, come after President Donald Trump announced that a location for his summit with Kim Jong Un has been decided.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:20:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:20:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, welcomes Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono for their talks in Moscow Monday. Lavrov threw cold water on Tokyo's hopes for a quick return of the disputed Pacific islands, warning Japan that it must recognize them as part of Russia's territory as a starting point for talks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sunflower blooms in between dried-out ones during hot summer weather on a field near the village of Benken, Switzerland, last August.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A courtroom sketch shows ex-Nissan Motor Co. boss Carlos Ghosn speaking at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:25:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Kajiwara and others call for a halt to construction of a U.S. base in Okinawa during a rally in front of the White House in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, then-chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, attends a press conference on the second press day of the Paris auto show in Paris in October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers drag a pig to a slaughterhouse in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, Dec. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An information board for an employees' shuttle bus is on display near the Huawei office building at its research and development center in Dongguan in south China's Guangdong province Dec. 18. The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/21/national/crime-legal/nissans-jailed-ex-chief-carlos-ghosn-vows-restore-honor-court-nhk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[TV crews stand in front of the Tokyo Detention Center, where former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn and another former executive, Greg Kelly, are being detained, in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/u-n-adopts-japan-sponsored-resolution-promoting-volunteerism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaflets to recruit volunteers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are handed out at Shinjuku Station in September. A resolution encouraging volunteerism that was co-sponsored by Japan was adopted Monday by the U.N. General Assembly.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in Tokyo's Marunouchi business district on Aug. 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The reflection of a pedestrian can be seen in front of an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say loyalty and a strong ability to read and react to the political winds are two keys to LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai’s success.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers spend time at an izakaya Japanese-style pub in Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The massive galaxy cluster MACSJ 1206 is seen in this undated image.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Keio University Hospital in Tokyo for an apparent check-up and treatment of his ulcerative colitis intestinal disease on Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37571.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a new report, BP describes a future where oil’s supremacy is challenged, and ultimately fades. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internet searches on gastrointestinal symptoms predicted a rise in COVID-19 cases weeks later, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found, demonstrating a novel early warning system for hot spots of the pandemic disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-14T16:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors work at a COVID-19 quarantine center in Nashik, India, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-14T17:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37502.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese police have introduced a facial analysis system that can match photos of people who have been arrested in the past with images gathered from surveillance cameras and social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-14T22:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Far-right demonstrators clash with counterdemonstrators during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-14T23:37:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37660.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 80 new coronavirus cases Monday, the first below 100 since Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-14T23:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House lawmaker Anri Kawai faces reporters on Wednesday night in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-14T23:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to face a barrage of questions from the opposition over a number of scandals when the Diet opens Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Vice President and presidential hopeful Joe Biden pauses during the Democratic debate on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) speaks during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 2, 2019. Just as China's uncompromising approach in Hong Kong has strengthened the city's pro-democracy forces, so far its tough approach to Taiwan has only reduced support for its stated goal of unification.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teng Biao, a Chinese legal scholar and human rights activist who now lives in the U.S, speaks during a forum in Taipei on Sunday. Chinese pro-democracy activists who traveled to Taiwan to observe its presidential election said Sunday that the re-election of independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen gave them cause for hope despite Beijing's quashing of dissent on the mainland.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (center) celebrates with Vice President-elect William Lai (left) and Vice President Chen Chien-jen outside the campaign headquarters in Taipei on Saturday after her election victory.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen reacts after preliminary results of the presidential election were released during a rally outside the Democratic Progressive Party headquarters in Taipei on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/30/national/politics-diplomacy/total-656-candidates-preparing-run-next-lower-house-election-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Jiji Press tally found that a total of 656 people are preparing to run in the next Lower House election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:07:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:08:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37614.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 150 Japanese flight attendants at United Airlines based in Narita are at risk of losing their jobs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/14/business/corporate-governance-abenomics-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37622.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Companies have opened up more to outside scrutiny, thanks to the key Abenomics policy of prodding companies to strengthen corporate governance.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37698.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo Inc. says more money was found to be stolen from bank accounts linked to its e-money service.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshihide-suga-japan-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:14:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37680.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga reacts as he is elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party on Monday, paving the way for him to become the next prime minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/tetsuro-fukuyama-opposition-merger-constitutional-democratic-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:15:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37656.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuro Fukuyama, the secretary general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (second from right), is set to stay on in his post.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/14/business/financial-markets/us-election-japan-bond-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:17:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37580.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37580.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese investors are increasingly reducing their U.S. Treasury holdings ahead of the presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37558.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan, which would allow the U.K. to unilaterally override parts of the treaty it signed with the EU, will be debated and voted upon in the House of Commons on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/19/business/corporate-business/softbank-shares-dive-concerns-balance-sheet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/b-sbanalysis-a-20160720.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-sbanalysis-a-20160720.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., leaves a news conference in London on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/09/business/corporate-business/softbank-sell-25-stake-arm-vision-fund-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b-softbank-a-20170310.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-softbank-a-20170310.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/13/national/nikkei-adults-survey-japanese-diaspora/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37503.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People of Japanese descent look at family photos in Piedade, Brazil, in March 2014. The vast majority of young people belonging to the Japanese diaspora around the world want to make connections with Nikkei in other countries, a survey has shown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/13/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-aso-ldp-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:44:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37537.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso arrives for a ceremony marking the beginning of Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga's campaign for the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37518.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rasuka, Japan's oldest sea otter in captivity, seen in this file photo, has died at 25 years old — equivalent to 100 human years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:44:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women block a police bus during a rally to protest against the presidential election results in Minsk on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/national/media-national/environment-business-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:47:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35663.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is seeking to boost international cooperation on climate change through the response to the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/national/social-issues/japan-foreign-residents-discrimination-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37349.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official from the Beppu municipality distributes notices reminding business not to discriminate against foreign residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/business/japan-uk-trade-deal-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37351.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi holds a videoconference with U.K. trade minister Liz Truss on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-election-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37427.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The three candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race at a debate Saturday in Tokyo: (From left) former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga and LDP Policy Council Chairman Fumio Kishida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/business/japanese-department-stores/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36239.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Department stores in Japan, such as Mitsukoshi, have been feeling the strain of changes to retail and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:52:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37450.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young Rohingya girl sits at a transit camp Sept. 8 after nearly 300 Rohingya migrants came ashore on the beach in Lhokseumawe on the northern coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/business/corporate-business/china-tiktok-us-close/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37453.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37446.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reef is seen in an aerial shot in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/business/yoshifumi-nishikawa-japan-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:54:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37397.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshifumi Nishikawa holds a news conference in March 2008 when he was the chief of Japan Post Holdings.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/philippines-duterte-china-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37423.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte returns a salute to Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe during their meeting at the Malacanang Palace in Manila on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/world/california-fires-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:55:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37328.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to speed up his state’s effort to fight climate change as wildfires rip through the region. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:55:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37390.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on Israel and Bahrain establishing full diplomatic ties in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/national/magnitude-6-1-earthquake-jolts-miyagi-prefecture-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:56:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The epicenter of the earthquake that occurred on Sept. 12 at 11:44 a.m. is located in Miyagi Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/national/shinzo-abe-strike-capability-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:56:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37314.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37314.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military vehicles carrying hypersonic DF-17 missiles travel past Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China on Oct. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/business/japanese-companies-women-key-posts-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:57:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37311.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37311.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only 42.6 percent of companies in Japan are actively promoting women to managerial positions, down 7.4 points from last year, according to a recent private survey.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/national/us-india-japan-australia-quad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T00:57:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Bharatiya Janata Party activist burns a photograph of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest in Jammu, India, in July. A bitter military standoff between India and China has pushed New Delhi closer to the U.S., Australia and Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/17/business/u-k-says-aims-join-trans-pacific-free-trading-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18551.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18551.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liz Truss]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/19/business/expansion-pacific-trade-deal-discussed-ministerial-meeting-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tpp-a-20190120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a ministerial meeting of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership members in Tokyo on Saturday. 		                                                                                                kyodo]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/30/business/cptpp-now-reality-raises-bar-japans-multiparty-approach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tppfocus-a-20181231.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic Revitalization Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (center) answers questions during a news conference in Santiago in March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/30/business/long-last-11-member-pacific-trade-deal-takes-effect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:04:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tpp-a-20181230.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars bound for shipment are seen in front of a Nippon Yusen KK car-carrier at a yard in Yokohama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/23/business/heard-grapevine-pacific-trade-pact-primes-new-zealand-wine-japanese-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:04:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-nzwine-a-20181224.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wine from New Zealand is displayed at the Torizen Seo restaurant in Tokyo on Dec. 7.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/04/business/economy-business/japans-busy-year-trade-deals-seen-shaking-economy-years-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-trade-b-20181105.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade ministers from 11 countries, including Toshimitsu Motegi of Japan (fourth from right), pose for pictures after the signing ceremony for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, in Santiago, Chile, on March 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/31/business/11-member-free-trade-pact-moves-closer-enactment-japanese-farmers-express-concern-increased-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-farmers-a-20181101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese dairy producers and other farmer have expressed concerns over a possible influx of imported goods as a result of CPTPP.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/28/business/economy-business/canada-said-fifth-country-ratify-japan-led-cptpp-trade-deal-australia-close-behind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-cptpp-a-20181029.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a meeting with World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/26/business/minister-says-tpp-may-come-effect-year-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:07:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tpp-a-20181027.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief negotiators from the 11-member Trans-Pacific Partnership discuss progress on the pact's ratification in July in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/business/economy-business/tpp-takes-back-seat-malaysia-sets-sights-early-conclusion-rcep-trade-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:07:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/b-malayminister-a-20181018.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-malayminister-a-20181018.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Darell Leiking]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/09/business/economy-business/malaysias-mahathir-calls-review-trans-pacific-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b-tppmalay-a-20180610.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-tppmalay-a-20180610.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mahathir Mohamad]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump says he would reconsider joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership if it were a better deal than the one offered to President Barack Obama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. won’t expand further in India due to the country’s high taxes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While masks have become indispensable during the coronavirus pandemic, their compatibility with spectator events is largely untested.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly (left) arrives for the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under a tighter climate target for 2030, European automakers would need to embrace tougher pollution standards, with new rules that could retire combustion engines to science museums.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oriental Land Co., operator of Tokyo Disney Resort, will cut winter bonus payments by 70 percent due to a plunge in revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's economic plight may give Japan's next prime minister a chance to meet the reclusive state's leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly elected Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (center) and members of his Cabinet pose for a photo at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexei Navalny and his wife, Yulia, pose for a photo in a hospital in Berlin in a picture posted to Instagram on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man is rescued from a life raft by the Japan Coast Guard on Sept. 4 after a cargo ship capsized due to a typhoon.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artistic impression depicts Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks to the media in Kawasaki on Wednesday after Yoshihide Suga became prime minister the same day.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An increasing number of  counterfeit U.S. bills are being discovered in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Playing it safe: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the prime minister's office on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly elected Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga speaks after winning a seat in the Yokohama Municipal Assembly for the first time in 1987.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A booth displays a coronavirus vaccine candidate from Sinovac Biotech at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38390.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s next-generation PlayStation 5 will go on sale on Nov. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-17T22:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38441.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan kept its aggressive monetary stimulus unchanged at a policy board meeting Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga smiles along with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) Wednesday night after forming his Cabinet.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cross a street at a shopping district in Singapore in June. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/17/business/economy-business/suganomics-prime-minister/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says he intends to work on his agenda of regulatory reform.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-18T13:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump looks forward to working with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House Conference on American History at the National Archives in Washington on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[TikTok has emerged as a top target in Trump’s effort to crack down on China ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. is one of the companies that have canceled plans to hire 2021 graduates as the airline industry is hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a news conference in Istanbul in October 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken in July 2018 shows a screen in Tokyo's Yurakucho district reporting the news that Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara had been executed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Japan Life Co. Chairman Takayoshi Yamaguchi is seen in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward Friday after being arrested on suspicion of fraud.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy protesters perform in front of the Royal Thai Army headquarters in Bangkok on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-18T18:36:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moderna Inc. decided to share its full trial design to create public confidence that it’s doing everything it can to ensure a vaccine works and won’t cause harm, the company's CEO said. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/18/business/economy-business/inflation-negative-go-to-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-18T18:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38636.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Consumer prices excluding fresh food fell 0.4 percent in August from a year earlier, falling back into negative territory again after two flat months.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite only beginning its work Wednesday, Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet already enjoys a 66 percent approval rate, one poll says.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supplied image shows how the attraction will look when it opens on Sept. 28, five months behind schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga after he was chosen as Japan's new leader on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly apppinted Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Qantas Boeing 747 jumbo jet flies over Sydney. Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region have begun offering "flights to nowhere" that take off and land at the same airport.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Florida National Guard rescue residents from their flooded vehicle in Cantonment, Florida, on Wednesday, after Hurricane Sally slowly moved through the area.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, removes his face mask to speak during a campaign event in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visits an air defense missile base at an undisclosed location. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/17/business/economy-business/fed-interest-rates-zero-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-18T18:56:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a virtual news conference on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump said he would be briefed Thursday about a proposal that calls for Oracle Corp. to become a "trusted technology provider" for TikTok's U.S. operations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An U.S. flag flies from a boat damaged by Hurricane Sally in Pensacola, Florida, on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/17/national/bills-sugas-favorite-pancakes/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38399.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is known to be a fan of this pancake from the Bills restaurant chain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/18/national/diet-first-coronavirus-infection/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students sit at computers during a cyberdefense programming class in the "War Room" at Korea University in Seoul in November 2015.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deven Sherk, former staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, was discriminated against because of the color of his skin during his time as a service member. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An estimated 100 Chinese ships intrude each year into the territorial waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at Berlin's Charite hospital

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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk attends an opening ceremony for the China-made Model Y program in Shanghai in January. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39276.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced fines of up to £10,000 ($12,900) on Saturday for people in England who break new rules requiring them to self-isolate if they have been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono apologizes Tuesday at the Diet.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-21T11:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39284.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SUVs emerged as the second-biggest driver of global growth in carbon emissions between 2010 and 2018, a report has said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawmaker Raymond Chan has dismissed the upcoming Hong Kong Legislative Council session as "illegal.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39337.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ByteDance said on Monday that it will own 80 percent of TikTok Global, a newly created U.S. company that will own most of the app's operations worldwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39283.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars pass  the JP Morgan Chase headquarters in New York on Feb. 20. A cache of thousands of reports major banks filed with federal regulators shows that they moved trillions of dollars around the world for suspected terrorists, drug dealers and corrupt foreign officials despite concerns about the suspicious nature of the transactions.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-21T15:27:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39341.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ant Group’s simultaneous listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai may mark the biggest IPO ever, topping Saudi Aramco’s record $29 billion sale.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-21T17:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-22T10:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 16. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-22T13:57:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft on Monday announced it had acquired ZeniMax Media, marking a major expansion into video gaming that will give it ownership of several best-selling franchises.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asakusa's Nakamise shopping street is crowded in Tokyo on Monday, the third day of Japan's four-day holiday period amid continued worries over the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce new measures to fight COVID-19 as cases rise. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ayumi Nishigawa, founder and CEO of Japanese clothing company Coxco Inc., plans to open a free fashion school for children living in poor areas of Manila.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenneth Weinstein]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks in a pre-recorded message that was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 59 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the lowest since June 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim after a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40208.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/business/corporate-business/tokyo-disneyland-new-beauty-and-the-beast-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Disneyland's new area of attractions is shown to media Friday in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, with a new castle seen in the background.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-voting-rules-fuel-postelection-fights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:31:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman fills out her ballot outside the city clerk's office in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, on Thursday, the first day absentee ballots could be cast in the state.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/business/corporate-business/apple-app-store-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:31:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40110.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apple charges a commission of between 15 percent and 30 percent for apps that use its in-app payment system and sets out extensive rules for apps in its App Store.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/national/crime-legal/japan-bicycle-traffic-violations-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40167.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer speaks to a cyclist delivering food in Nagoya on Sept. 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/business/corporate-business/toshiba-investor-inquiry-vote-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40103.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Kaibara (second from left) and other officials of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank bow at a news conference held Thursday in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/business/corporate-business/how-toyota-plant-retooled-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:58:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39725.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39725.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota engineers dismantled a battery production line, repainted the floors and reorganized electric wiring that would prevent accidents and fires.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/business/boj-support-march-kuroda-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:25:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39841.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39841.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/business/corporate-business/convenience-store-sales-fall-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39834.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39834.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Convenience store sales fell for the sixth straight month in August amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/national/japan-coronavirus-entry-curbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:27:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39685.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39685.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is considering further relaxing entry restrictions for visitors from overseas as early as next month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/national/heavy-rain-tropical-storm-dolphin-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39703-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39703.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Dolphin is on course to approach eastern and northeastern Japan, with heavy rain expected along the Pacific coast Thursday and Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/business/economy-business/japan-sbi-regional-banks-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39693.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO of SBI Holdings Inc., says the company wants to revive struggling regional banks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/national/japan-men-government-workers-paternity-leave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39690.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39690.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nearly all men working for the government whose wives have recently given birth plan to take paternity leave, according to a recent survey.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-china-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:38:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39682-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39682.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte speaks in a recorded message played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/business/microsoft-virtual-commute-telework/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:38:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39671-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39671.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft's Teams collaboration software will remind users about the end of the work day and suggest tasks to help workers wind down.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/business/corporate-business/japan-national-parks-workations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:41:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39662.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39662.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[National parks across Japan are taking steps to attract teleworkers for "workations" amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/23/national/taiwan-japan-endangered-rhino/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39661.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39661.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female white rhino, Emma, from the Leofoo Safari Park in Taiwan will be sent to Japan next year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/16/world/oregon-fires-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38028.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38028.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The remains of a fire-damaged hotel in Gates, Oregon]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/15/world/science-health-world/fires-brazil-wetland-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37930.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37930.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises into the air as trees burn in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/world/oregon-wildfires-destory-towns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36792.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36792.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke-filled skies in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/29/world/california-wildfire-worst-in-decades/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_34033.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34033.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fireplace of the Nature Lodge Museum and Store at Big Basin Redwoods State Park stands among the devastation wrought by a fire Friday that destroyed nearly all buildings and burned thousands of trees in the park in in Boulder Creek, California.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/30/asia-pacific/animals-australia-bushfires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:51:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27070-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27070.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds and 51 million frogs were killed or impacted by Australia's worst bushfires in decades, the WWF said.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/burning-issue-australia-debates-risks-logging-fire-damaged-forests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:52:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16517-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16517.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A children's playground is surrounded by charred trees in Bemboka, Australia. A new report by a group of leading Australian scientists suggests logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of wildfires, with the group singling out "salvage logging" — the practice of harvesting in fire-affected forests — as particularly harmful.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/31/asia-pacific/forest-fire-kills-19-sichuan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/np_file_2786.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_2786.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters on Tuesday work on extinguishing a forest fire that started near Xichang in Liangshan prefecture of Sichuan province, China.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/27/business/tech/worlds-wildfires-worsen-firefighters-go-high-tech-stay-healthy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:53:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b-firetech-a-20200228.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-firetech-a-20200228.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Prometeo monitoring device, by IBM, is worn by a firefighter during a prescribed burn of the forest in Olivella, south of Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/21/business/fires-climate-australias-coal-lobby/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:54:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-auscoal-a-20200222.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-auscoal-a-20200222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coal-fueled Loy Yang Power Station in the Latrobe Valley, Australia]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/14/asia-pacific/fires-australias-new-south-wales-state-contained-first-time-nearly-six-months/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-ausfires-a-20200215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausfires-a-20200215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Australian farmer in front of his burned home in Buchan, Victoria state, on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/09/asia-pacific/australia-mega-fire-doused-torrential-rain-brings-relief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-aussiefire-a-20200210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-aussiefire-a-20200210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shelter under a jumble of umbrellas Friday as rain falls amid a severe weather warning by the Bureau of Meteorology for the coast of New South Wales state. The rain comes as a slight relief for some areas dealing with wildfires that have devastated large swathes of land across the state over the past several months.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/indonesian-president-orders-officials-find-permanent-solution-forest-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-indofires-a-20200207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-indofires-a-20200207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A palm oil plantation next to burned forest near Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on Sept. 29]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/asia-pacific/fires-australian-rains-bring-floods-threat-tropical-cyclone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/f-ausdis-a-20200207.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausdis-a-20200207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Graham, 68, sits for an interview beside his burned home in Buchan, Victoria, Australia, on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/27/world/crime-legal-world/inquiry-londons-deadly-grenfell-fire-begins-asking-blame/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:55:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/27/asia-pacific/australia-rain-bush-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-bushfires-a-20200128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-bushfires-a-20200128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Rural Fire Service air tanker drops fire retardant on a wildfire burning close to homes in Penrose, Australia, on Jan. 10.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/australian-dream-dying-wildfires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-australia-a-20200123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-australia-a-20200123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alisha Stoneham returns to her property, where she and her partner were nearly caught in the flames before narrowly escaping, following the recent bushfires in Conjola Park, New South Wales, Australia, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/20/national/shuri-castle-fire-world-heritage-yakushiji-temple-nara-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/n-temple-z-20200121-scaled.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-temple-z-20200121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During a drill, firefighters spray water toward the main building of Yakushiji Temple in the city of Nara on Monday. The temple is a World Heritage-listed site. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/20/asia-pacific/australia-emergency-funding-fire-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:56:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f-firesupport-a-20200121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-firesupport-a-20200121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia is reeling from bush fires that since September 2019 have claimed 28 lives and razed 10 million hectares (100,000 square kilometers) of land.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/19/asia-pacific/australia-tourism-government-aid-bush-fires/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:56:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-ausfires-a-20200120.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first cruise ship to visit Kangaroo Island since fires destroyed an Australian national park there lies offshore on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan dispatched two C-130 planes to help fight the devastating bush fires in Australia on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/16/asia-pacific/australian-fires-turn-historic-surfboard-collection-cinders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Ford shows one of the few unburned surfboards from his vintage collection on Wednesday in Lake Conjola, Australia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/13/asia-pacific/koala-endangered-fires-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vets and volunteers treat koalas at Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park on Kangaroo Island, Australia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/12/asia-pacific/australia-fires-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists hold signs in a protest over Australia's bush fire crisis, outside the Australian Embassy in Mexico City on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/12/asia-pacific/australia-scott-morrison-inquiry-bush-fires-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T19:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fog mixed with bush-fire smoke cloaks the Ruined Castle area of the Blue Mountains, 75 kilometers from Sydney, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/world/science-health-world/climate-change-fires-forests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joshua Trees burn Saturday morning in Juniper Hills, California, on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/business/china-oracle-walmart-tiktok-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39611.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over the weekend, ByteDance, Oracle and Walmart said they had reached a deal that would satisfy U.S. President Donald Trump's call for TikTok to be sold to an American firm or be shutdown in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/national/strike-capability-asia-scholars-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Curtis Wilbur launches a harpoon surface-to-surface missile during Pacific Vanguard quadrilateral exercises between Australia, Japan, South Korea and the U.S. in the Philippine Sea in May 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/national/japan-record-defense-budget-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis destroyer Kongo sails near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in June 2018, after taking part in the U.S.-led RIMPAC war games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/world/racial-bias-twitter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39462.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A graduate student discovered that an image he posted to social network Twitter cropped out the face of a Black colleague.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/world/science-health-world/arctic-sea-ice-shrinks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship navigates through floating ice in the Arctic Ocean on Sept. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/world/trump-supreme-court-pick/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:06:19+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 Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/business/corporate-business/japan-firms-demonstrate-underground-carbon-storage-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:09:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstration project facility for capturing carbon dioxide generated at a nearby refinery and storing it deep in the ground in Tomakomai, Hokkaido. The project was carried out from 2012 through 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/national/us-japan-alliance-yoshihide-suga-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39377.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters Sunday at the Prime Minister's Office following telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/asia-pacific/us-north-korea-war-bob-woodward-book/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range ballistic missile in this photo released on Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/asia-pacific/china-military-video-us-guam-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39378.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. military planes are parked on the tarmac of Andersen Air Force base on the island of Guam, a U.S. Pacific Territory, on Aug. 15, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/business/survey-work-retirement-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:14:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39323.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job-seekers visit a Hello Work public employment support center in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/asia-pacific/china-taiwan-buffer-zone-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Soldiers are seen near military equipment at a Taiwanese air defense missile base.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/21/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshihide-suga-donald-trump-us-japan-phone-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39277.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39277.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga briefs reporters on his telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday night at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/national/social-issues/japan-newlyweds-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39267.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly married couples in Japan can receive up to ¥600,000 to cover their rent and other costs to start a new life from next April, provided they live in a municipality adopting the country's newlywed support program, government sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/national/politics-diplomacy/china-japan-taiwan-tsai-ing-wen-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:21:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39078.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori meets with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/business/startups-tech-workplaces-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees butcher pork at a Smithfield Foods Inc. pork processing facility in Milan, Missouri, in 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-korea-coronavirus-online-bullies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Ji-seon (left) and her husband, Kim Chang-yeon, at their church in Busan, South Korea. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trumps-us-supreme-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39080.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Oval Office in July. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/business/corporate-business/ana-pola-orbis-cosmetics-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:27:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39066.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA and Pola Orbis are jointly developing cosmetics for use in outer space.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/world/science-health-world/spinning-clock-new-york-counts-time-climate-devastation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:28:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/national/japan-campsites-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:28:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Campers set up their tent at a campsite in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/world/supreme-court-us-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:28:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39074.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather at the Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday to honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/media-national/japan-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:30:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37292.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Japan, the groups invested in the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics say they need a COVID-19 vaccine to be produced by early next year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/media-national/online-meetings-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:32:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37980.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["There's no point in calling a meeting in which people just state their opinions one by one," says one exhausted participant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/history/japan-russia-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38253.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From similar spots: The Japanese bombard Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/media-national/despite-pandemic-individuals-living-ordinary-lives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37295.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British research that Shukan Gendai cites shows men aged over 55 are more likely to die if recently widowed at a rate 40 percent higher than that of the general population.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshihide-suga-taiwan-tsai-ing-wen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:35:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39011.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meets with former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in Taipei on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/social-issues/pandemic-spurs-terminally-ill-opt-home-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:36:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37763.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fumiko Torii (second from left) died in July at the age of 71 in the care of her family after opting to move from hospital into home care.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/asia-pacific/thailand-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39021.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy protester with a painted face reading "Sept. 19 Coup" protests at the Thammasat University in Bangkok on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-visits-war-linked-yasukuni-shrine-first-time-since-2013/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:38:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit Yasukuni Shrine on the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Aug. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/19/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshihide-suga-donald-trump-first-phone-conversation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T20:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga prepares for a photo session with other Cabinet ministers at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/world/science-health-world/study-children-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T12:11:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play with bubbles during the opening of their kindergarten in Bogota on Wednesday. In children, a branch of the immune system that evolved to protect against unfamiliar pathogens rapidly destroys the coronavirus before it wreaks damage on their bodies, according to recent research]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/business/corporate-business/xbox-new-cloud-service-in-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T13:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40117.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although the XBox has struggled in the Japanese gaming market, Microsoft Corp. has said it is expanding its investment there.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/national/social-issues/japan-non-tourist-new-visa-entry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T14:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40291.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Omi, who heads a government subcommittee on COVID-19 measures, and economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura attend a meeting of the government’s virus task force on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/asia-pacific/seoul-suggests-joint-probe-pyongyang-shooting-south-korean-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T17:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch a TV showing a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, in Seoul on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/tokyo-confirms-270-new-cases-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T17:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Saturday it had confirmed 270 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/japan-coronavirus-health-questionnaires-travelers-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T17:41:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40359.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Questionnaires to check the health condition of people entering Japan]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/science-health/japan-early-warning-test-acute-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T22:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office workers head home at sunset amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/world/americans-us-coronavirus-race-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T08:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump waves after speaking at a campaign rally Friday in Virginia. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/world/amy-coney-barrett-us-supreme-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T11:17:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40475.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40475.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee for the Supreme Court. 
]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/asia-pacific/north-korea-south-korea-naval-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T11:18:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40476.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40476.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A South Korean government ship near Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/national/yoshihide-suga-vladimir-putin-talks-japan-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T11:46:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40463.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40463.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Russian President Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/national/tokyo-144-coronavirus-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T16:31:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40534.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk on a pedestrian overpass linking Tokyo's JR Shibuya Station and the Shibuya Fukuras commercial complex on Saturday. The overpass, built as part of a project to redevelop the Shibuya area, opened the same day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/national/ldp-lawmakers-support-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T18:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40325.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's state ministers pose with him for a photo on Sept. 18. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/national/japan-taro-kono-fax-machine-hanko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T09:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40522.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40522.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono, minister in charge of administrative reform, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T13:11:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40645.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40645.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to Black voters in Atlanta on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/corporate-business/tiktok-us-ban-on-hold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T13:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40641.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40641.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ban, which was scheduled to go into effect at 11:59 p.m. Sunday in New York on Sunday, would have removed TikTok from the app stores run by Apple Inc. and Google’s Android, the most widely used marketplaces for downloadable apps.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/world/brexit-talks-time-running-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T14:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40715.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40715.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier (left) makes his way to the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy in London on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/beijing-health-whistleblowers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T14:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40696.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40696.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff members arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/world/science-health-world/disease-ticks-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T16:10:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40765.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40765.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A laboratory worker shows a tube containing dozens of ticks. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/corporate-business/saudi-arabia-blue-ammonia-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T17:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40660.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40660.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia is sending blue ammonia to Japan, where it will be used in power stations to produce electricity without carbon emissions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/economy-business/china-economy-rebound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T17:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40661-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40661.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China has staged an uneven recovery, initially driven by strong industrial output yet with recent data showing signs that consumption had started to catch up.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/mount-fuji-first-snowfall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T18:08:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40693.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The summit of Mount Fuji shows a thin layer of snow on Monday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/23/national/delivery-abenomasks-starts-34-remaining-prefectures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:16:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13730.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A post office worker delivers so-called Abenomasks to households in the city of Fukui on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/09/national/tokyo-residents-abenomasks-coronavirus-state-of-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:16:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11008.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11008.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only households in Tokyo have so far received the so-called Abenomasks, cloth face masks the government is trying to distribute to all households.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/24/business/abenomask-recall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:16:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_8340.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8340.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deliveries of cloth face masks that the government aims to distribute to all households in the nation began last Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/28/national/japan-abenomasks-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:17:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26855.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26855.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is pushing ahead with the distribution of its much derided "Abenomasks," even though commercially made masks are now readily available, prompting a renewed outcry on social media.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/19/national/founder-japanese-apartment-operator-leopalace21-requested-use-irregular-building-material-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-leopalace-a-20190319.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rental apartment operator Leopalace21 has said that materials used for the walls of its apartments were changed prior to building at the direction of the company's founder, leading to defective construction work nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/31/national/japan-nears-record-number-hospitalizations-heat-related-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:21:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-heat-a-20180801.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-heat-a-20180801.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A remote for an air conditioner installed by property firm Leopalace21 Corp. The company has received criticism amid the heat wave because of installed units that automatically stop running after three hours.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/28/business/corporate-business/japans-leopalace21-opens-serviced-apartments-cambodia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:21:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/science-health/tokyo-78-coronavirus-monday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40761.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40761.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 78 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 virus Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/eu-taiwan-china-naming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:24:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40772.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40772.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climate activists gather at the building of Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration during a parade to call for climate change awareness, in Taipei on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/china-chipmaker-smic-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/corporate-business/toshiba-chip-kioxia-tokyo-bourse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40619.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40619.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s logo is unveiled at a news conference in Tokyo in September 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/world/science-health-world/brazil-amazon-coronavirus-herd-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40652.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40652.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People drink at a bar in Manaus, Brazil, on Friday after the city ordered the closure of bars and restaurants amid a new surge in COVID-19 cases. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-donald-trump-campaign-brad-parscale-detained-harm-self/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:27:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40664.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40664.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brad Parscale]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/national/politics-diplomacy/china-foreign-minister-wang-yi-visit-japan-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40596.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Yi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/asia-pacific/us-china-un-micronesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40491.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Federated States of Micronesia President David Panuelo speaks in a pre-recorded message played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday in New York. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/business/corporate-business/china-nissan-profit-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:37:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40479.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Receptionists with Chinese automaker Enovate wait for attendees of the Auto China 2020 show in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/business/us-exports-china-chipmaker-smic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/media-national/japans-gender-roles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:44:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38657.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38657.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government has tried to make it easier for women to balance working lives and motherhood by funding programs such as day care services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/media-national/japans-remote-workforce-packs-pounds-amid-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38960.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38960.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reports from Japan show that men have packed on an average of 3.3 kilograms since the state of emergency was declared in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/world/airports-deploy-rapid-virus-tests-sniffer-dogs-unlock-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40052.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40052.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sniffer dogs have been employed in Finland to help detect traces of the coronavirus on travelers. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/malaysians-donate-coronavirus-protective-gear-japan-hospitals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:51:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40439.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wan Abdulaziz (right) donates protective clothing to KKR Sapporo Medical Center on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/asia-pacific/taiwan-military-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:53:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40426.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40426.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen visits an air force maintenance center at the Gangshan air base in Kaohsiung on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-motors-early-retirement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40387.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40387.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans to cut 500 to 600 jobs through early retirement, as the automaker has been hit by the economic slump stemming from the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/children-japan-stress-coronavirus-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:53:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40386.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40386.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 70 percent of schoolchildren in Japan feel stress due to the novel coronavirus, according to a survey by the National Center for Child Health and Development. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/yoshihide-suga-visits-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:54:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40392.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40392.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visits the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-who-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40353.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40353.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee manually inspects syringes of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by SinoVac at its factory in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-conservative-religion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:56:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40347.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40347.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Judge Amy Coney Barrett addresses a Federalist Society convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Nov. 15, 2019. President Donald Trump has selected Barrett, a favorite candidate of conservatives, to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and will try to force Senate confirmation before Election Day.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/national/yoshihide-suga-xi-jinping-japan-china-talks-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40341.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40341.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/national/social-issues/mio-sugita-sexual-violence-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T21:59:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40294.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40294.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mio Sugita]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/25/world/science-health-world/why-covid-19-may-be-life-threatening-some-patients/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T22:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40213.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40213.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Increasing evidence suggests that a significant minority of COVID-19 patients get very ill because of an impaired interferon response.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/world/clashes-rage-azerbaijan-ethnic-armenian-enclave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T09:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40814.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40814.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image grab taken from a video made available on the official web site of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry on Monday allegedly shows an Azeri artillery strike toward the positions of Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/overseas-students-japan-jobs-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T10:59:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40753.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40753.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese students in financial difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic have supper at a Tokyo temple that is offering support.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-climate-change-road-map-2060/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T11:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40846.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40846.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wind turbines near Beijing. China's surprise pledge to slash its carbon footprint to zero by 2060 has been met with cautious applause.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/business/japan-china-manufacturing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T11:12:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40505.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40505.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A plant that produces face masks, established with the help of government subsidies to the Iris Ohyama company, in Miyagi Prefecture on Sept. 18]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/tesla-rivals-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T11:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40677.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40677.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Attendees look at cars at the Tesla booth during the Auto China 2020 show in Beijing on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/business/corporate-business/ana-tokyo-trading-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T11:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40744.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40744.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA Holdings Inc. tumbled in Tokyo trading Monday after a report the airline is considering raising ¥200 billion via a public share offering.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/national/japan-eating-cinemas-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T11:55:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40822.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40822.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering easing a rule on eating at movie theaters.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/business/financial-markets/japan-stocks-bubble-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T12:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40843.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40843.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nikkei 500, an index that includes 275 more companies than the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei average, has finally recovered to top the all-time high set in the 1980s.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/science-health/japan-moon-water-hopping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T12:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40686.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40686.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An illustration shows the concept for a lunar orbit space station.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/crime-legal/japan-government-lawsuit-abenomask-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T12:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40733.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40733.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A law professor sued the government Monday demanding it reveal the unit price of the so-called Abenomasks distributed for free to all households in Japan amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/national/japan-start-easing-outbound-travel-advisory-stages-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T12:59:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40821.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40821.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan plans to start easing its advisory for travel abroad, starting in October.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/20/business/tech/japanese-startup-raises-28-million-help-fund-moon-mission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T13:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32050.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32050.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A full-scale model of Ispace's lunar lander and lunar rover HAKUTO-R.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/business/corporate-business/japan-airlines-jal-gender-neutral-greetings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T14:14:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40933.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40933.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines is ditching the phrase "ladies and gentlemen" at airports and on flights for gender-neutral terms.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/princess-yuriko-emperor-heart-failure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T14:41:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40790.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40790.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Yuriko is seen at the Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo after attending a memorial ceremony for her son Prince Tomohito of Mikasa on June 6, 2017, the fifth anniversary of his death.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/business/financial-markets/record-ban-short-selling-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T15:56:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40967.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40967.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/world/true-coronavirus-death-toll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T16:48:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40858.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40858.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A funeral home in Queens, New York City, in April. Tens of thousands of probable COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. weren’t captured by official statistics between March and May, a study in July found, frustrating efforts to track and mitigate the pandemic’s progression.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/business/corporate-business/coronavirus-output-toyota-honda-nissan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T16:50:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40985.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40985.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works on a vehicle production line at the Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd. plant in Bidadi, India.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/national/japan-considers-holding-crown-princes-proclamation-ceremonies-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T18:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40812.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40812.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino takes a walk with his wife, Crown Princess Kiko, at their residence in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/thailand-rule-breaker-school-uniforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T19:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40851.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40851.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An advertising campaign for Tin Tunsopon's uniforms ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/29/asia-pacific/taiwan-no-signs-china-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T19:14:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41017.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41017.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan navy sailors wait for Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen to arrive for lunch with them at the Zuoying naval base in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The village of Ischgl, Austria, the gateway to one of Tyrol’s most popular ski resorts]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/world/crime-legal-world/seagram-heiress-nxivm-sex-cult/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T14:35:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clare Bronfman, an heiress of the Seagram's liquor empire, arrives at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in January 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/business/corporate-business/japan-brewers-tax-beer-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T16:57:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Revisions to the liquor tax system in Japan kicked off Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/business/corporate-business/docomo-parent-child-listings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T17:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT's buyout of its mobile unit NTT Docomo is likely to trigger a wave of consolidation of listed units.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/national/social-issues/gender-diversity-women-in-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T22:41:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 25th International Conference for Women in Business included numerous panel discussions on the situation for working women in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-coronavirus-before-snap-vote-komeito/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T22:42:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of Komeito, greets Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at Komeito's party convention this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/28/national/japan-disclose-footage-radar-lock-south-korean-warship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:31:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenji Kanasugi (left), director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Monday, after holding talks with South Korean counterpart Kim Yong-kil over the alleged locking of a South Korean warship's fire-control radar onto a Japanese patrol plane in the Sea of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/business/airasia-japans-fate-known-within-week-founder-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AirAsia Japan recently rolled out contactless check-in counters at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/01/national/load-lifted-students-shoulders-ministry-recommends-letting-leave-textbooks-school/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fuku Kutsuwa, a fourth grader at Gifu Elementary School in the city of Gifu, shows off her school backpack, which has become much lighter to carry around, after the school recently allowed its students to keep their textbooks and other study materials at school.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/05/national/chubu-electric-tests-mobile-payment-app-coffee-machine-prelude-building-blockchain-based-energy-marketplace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:49:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A smartphone app created by Chubu Electric Power Co. for internal use allows employees to pay for coffee with the firm's own virtual currency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/20/business/corporate-business/tepco-chubu-electric-may-integrate-thermal-power-biz-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/16/national/tours-provide-renewed-interest-japans-oldest-hydro-power-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Yajima of Chubu Electric Power Co. checks a water mill at the Miyashiro No. 1 power plant, the nation's oldest hydroelectric power plant, in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/21/business/corporate-business/chubu-electric-mulls-selling-power-inpex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:50:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/09/business/corporate-business/tepco-chubu-electric-merge-thermal-power-plant-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:51:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/08/business/corporate-business/tepco-chubu-electric-merge-existing-thermal-power-plants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s combined-cycle thermal power station in Kawasaki is pictured in August. The nation's top utility and Chubu Electric Power Co. will unite their thermal power operations in a joint venture with a dominating market share.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/28/business/corporate-business/japan-utilities-toshiba-hitachi-eye-nuclear-business-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nuke-a-20190829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid lingering safety fears over nuclear plants, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex, Chubu Electric Power Co. and two major nuclear reactor builders are considering a business alliance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/22/business/corporate-business/japanese-firms-talks-alliance-nuclear-power-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:53:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nukebiz-a-20180823.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and Chubu Electric Power Co. are reportedly in discussions with Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. to launch a joint company to streamline their nuclear businesses.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/29/business/japanese-joint-venture-enter-worlds-largest-battery-business-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/02/national/massive-power-blackout-hits-nagano-prefecture-hospitals-trains-homes-affected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:55:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/nagano-1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nagano 1]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters in Nagano Station await for train service to resume Monday morning after a massive power outage snarled transportation in the capital of Nagano Prefecture for close to three hours.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/16/business/chubu-electric-affiliate-to-power-some-tmg-facilities-instead-of-tepco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/21/national/hamaoka-holds-nankai-trough-quake-exercise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at the Hamaoka nuclear power station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, set up a makeshift utility pole during a disaster drill on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/07/business/corporate-business/chubu-electric-to-acquire-80-of-power-retailer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/22/national/pop-ninja-booth-gives-tourists-virtual-reality-experience-nagoyas-chubu-airport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:57:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/n-ninja-a-20181123.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ninja-a-20181123.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors can get a virtual-reality ninja experience at a booth set up in the international arrivals lobby at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/20/national/centrair-emerges-as-key-freight-hub-for-agricultural-exporters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T23:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/n-chubu-a-20150721.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20150721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroyuki Ono (left), chief executive officer of Owasebussan Co., and Mie Vice Gov. Eiichi Ishigaki stand beside a cargo of farmed yellowtail bound for Taiwan at Chubu Centrair International Airport on July 6.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/04/national/chubu-airport-retools-to-attract-foreign-tourists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/p3-chubu-a-20140405.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p3-chubu-a-20140405.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers exit a Centrair Limousine bus after arriving at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Nagoya. The bus transports travelers between the airport, situated in Tokoname on a man-made island in Ise Bay, and local hotels in the center of the city.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/14/national/chubu-electric-applies-to-restart-risk-laden-hamaoka-nuclear-plant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/06/national/aichi-hospital-partners-with-it-firm-in-first-for-air-ambulance-training/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Video footage is taken on a smartphone attached to an air ambulance nurse.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/national/social-issues/unmarried-couples-legal-protection-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_40683-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40683.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse and her common-law husband have gone as far as to prepare a marriage document as a result of the pandemic, but have yet to submit it.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/business/economy-business/business-sentiment-improves-after-11-year-low/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:12:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41499.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Business sentiment improved in July-September from a 11-year low hit three months ago, the Bank of Japan's tankan survey shows.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/national/tourism-tokyo-go-to-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41625.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo was included in the Go To Travel campaign from Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/new-delhi-gang-rape-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41527.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators protest after the death of a rape victim, in New Delhi on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/national/suga-south-korea-wartime-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T00:15:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41510.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not visit South Korea without a guarantee on wartime labor row, Foreign Ministry official says.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stock-exchange-network-issue-halted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T10:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41683.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man takes a photo of a blank electronic stock board at a securities firm in Tokyo on Thursday. Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended because of a problem with the system for relaying market information.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/business/video-game-development-crunch-overtime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T13:32:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Polish game developer CD Projekt Red this week asked all of its employees to work six-day weeks in the lead-up to the November release of Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most hotly anticipated games of the fall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/top-global-university-project-brighter-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T11:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/creating-better-future-liberal-arts-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T11:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A class is conducted on the lawn in front of the University Hall.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/01/national/north-korea-japan-travel-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T15:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41778.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea could be using the sales of stamps to help supplement a shortfall in its hard currency earnings, sources say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/world/science-health-world/how-russia-shortened-covid-19-vaccine-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T15:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse prepares to administer the Russian coronavirus vaccine during a clinical trial in Moscow on Sept. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/asia-pacific/hong-kong-thousands-of-riot-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T15:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An anti-government demonstrator gestures during a protest in Causeway Bay district on National Day in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A toy figurine of the Ant Group Co. mascot sits on a desk at the company's headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk on the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa district Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuabread has developed a freezing technique to preserve the taste and flavor of freshly baked bread for delivery to both corporate and individual clients.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is enjoying high approval ratings in his first weeks as leader, but will not be calling an election to consolidate his position.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, pose for a photo before a bilateral meeting in Paris on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cruise ships docked at the Port of Miami. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-02T18:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-02T18:25:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A federal judge ruled Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in suspending new visas for hundreds of thousands of foreign workers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The highest proportion of H1-B visas are given to Indian nationals who work in information technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-02T19:41:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jun Sawada (left), president and chief executive officer of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., and Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, president and chief executive officer of NTT Docomo Inc., attend a news conference, as seen on a smartphone in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/national/crime-legal/japan-new-justice-minister-yoko-kamikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T00:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-lawmaker-mio-sugita-sexual-assaults/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T00:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mio Sugita, a Lower House lawmaker from the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters Wednesday at the party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/business/financial-markets/exchange-outage-latest-blow-tokyos-financial-hub-dreams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T08:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronic stock board displays shares without prices outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Thursday, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trading for the entire day Thursday following a hardware breakdown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/world/trump-coronavirus-reactions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T09:10:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks after arriving at the White House in Washington D.C., on Thursday, following campaign events in New Jersey. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/national/coronavirus-vaccination-given-free-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T09:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vials of potential COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac are seen on the production line at Sinovac Biotech production facility during a media tour on Sept. 24 in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-coronavirus-mistrust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T11:04:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a screen showing a news report that U.S. President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/national/crime-legal/man-gets-suspended-term-over-road-rage-captured-dashboard-cam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T11:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A court illustration shows Fumio Miyazaki listening to a ruling handed down at the Mito District Court on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-positive-test-election-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T12:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42069-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42069.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump exits Marine One while arriving to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. Trump was being treated for COVID-19, which he announced after one of his closest aides had tested positive for the virus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/national/science-health/astrazeneca-japan-coronavirus-vaccine-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T13:13:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42034.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view of the offices of British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC in Macclesfield, Cheshire]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/23/world/science-health-world/gilead-remdesivir-healthier-coronavirus-patients-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T13:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13645.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The drug remdesivir is seen during a news conference at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/23/business/corporate-business/gilead-remdesivir-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T13:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19582.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19582.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Producing and supplying billions of doses of Gilead Sciences' antiviral drug remdesivir remain major concerns.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/national/tokyo-208-coronavirus-saturday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T15:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk on the shinkansen platform at JR Tokyo Station on Saturday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/world/hospital-treatments-donald-trump-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T15:25:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42176.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump cheer at the main gate of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, late Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/national/tourism-tokyo-travel-subsidy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T15:28:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42160.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists ride a sightseeing bus in the Marunouchi area near Tokyo Station on Saturday, the first weekend since travel to and from the capital was included in a government subsidy program.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/03/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/mike-pompeo-asia-visit-quad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T17:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42077.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wears a face mask during his visit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/02/business/economy-business/japan-jobless-rate-up-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T16:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41834.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The jobless rate rose from 2.9 percent in July to 3 percent in August, the highest since May 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/04/asia-pacific/hong-kong-protesters-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T16:59:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police ask people to leave during a protest urging the release of 12 Hong Kong activists, detained on the Chinese mainland, who were arrested at sea after attempting to flee to Taiwan, on Chinese National Day in Hong Kong on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/04/national/katsunobu-kato-digitalization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T17:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42241.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato speaks during a news conference last month in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/04/business/private-renters-sapporo-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T17:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40789.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kunihiko Minami, who runs private lodging in Sapporo, hopes a discount campaign that kicked off recently will help attract domestic travelers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/04/business/corporate-business/auto-parts-makers-masks-beds-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T18:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40857.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aisin Seiki Co., an auto parts maker in the Toyota group, started producing makeshift beds and partitions in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/04/asia-pacific/india-china-us-opportunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T08:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42248.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi in February. India’s border dispute with China has accelerated its relations with the United States. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/world/trump-health-confusion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T10:25:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42365.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's physician Dr. Sean Conley, accompanied by other medical staff members, provides an update on Trump's condition at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/liberal-arts-offers-solid-foundation-future-study-career/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T12:09:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41312.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuta Okuyama interprets for a guest speaker at a school interpretation forum at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/university-campus-redefined-post-coronavirus-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T12:09:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[338082.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sophia University President Yoshiaki Terumichi speaks to The Japan Times.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/new-masters-puts-emphasis-international-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T12:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41344.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41344.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sophia’s new master’s program on international cooperation will include overseas training at international organizations such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/expectations-toward-universities-global-talent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T12:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41357.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[David Macdonald, representative officer and president of Discovery Japan]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/icu-taught-global-citizen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T12:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stroll around Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nation's sex industry — commonly known as fūzoku — exists primarily in the form of parlors that dispatch sex workers to clients. Among other types of establishments subject to the latest exclusion are brothel-like facilities known as “soaplands,” short-stay “love hotels” and “fashion health” massage parlors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 66 new COVID-19 cases Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodrigo Duterte]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic mascot designer Ryo Taniguchi holds up his winning designs, on April 26 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo students react Wednesday to the unveiling of the mascot for the 2020 Olympic Games.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeshi Natsuno (left), a member of the panel choosing the mascot for the Tokyo Olympics, displays a box of postcards Monday with information on the voting process to be sent to elementary schools nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromi Kano]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/20/national/judging-tokyo-games-mascot-competition-streamed-online/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olympic minister Tamayo Marukawa explains the design competition selection process for the official mascot of the 2020 Tokyo Games during a news conference in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-05T18:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mailbox has been set up in Funassyiland Select Harajuku for customers to send letters to Funassyi.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-05T18:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[Japan Funassyi]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Funassyi, the popular unofficial mascot of Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, greets reporters at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday. Known for its bizarre squeaks and jumps, the mascot said it would be making more appearances overseas.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nara's Sento-kun mascot welcomes visitors to the city at JR Nara Station in April 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/20/national/ldp-breaks-out-election-mascots/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Betting on cute: Illustrations of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba drawn by Reika Takahashi were selected among 400 contestants of a competition the ruling party held last year. The LDP plans to utilize the characters as mascots for items they plan to distribute ahead of the Upper House election in July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/13/national/kumamon-governor-tickle-the-ivies/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Heavy hitters: Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima and Kumamon, the prefecture's popular black bear "yuru-kyara" mascot, field questions from members of the media during a visit to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-05T18:19:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Totto-chan kyodo]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Egg on their face: A Facebook user erroneously links Fukuppy to the Fukushima No. 1 plant cleanup.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/11/23/national/popularity-contest-afoot-between-local-mascots/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Running neck and neck: Bear mascot Kuma-mon from Kumamoto Prefecture and Bari-san, a character representing Ehime Prefecture, are the front-runners in an online popularity contest of community mascots.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This character, named Katsue-san and designed to promote the historical heritage of the city of Tottori, is being withdrawn following a negative public reaction.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A table tennis tournament takes place at a Sendai facility for people with disabilities in May. It was organized by Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/28/national/tokyo-native-looks-put-innovation-not-money-creative-sports-open/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant tries out a sport called squachu in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42372.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takata-no-Yumechan (center), the official mascot of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, wins Japan's 10th and final mascot competition on Sunday. Yurunakin (right) of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, came second, while Tsurugon (left) of Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, was third.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mascots-a-20191104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Arukuma (right), the promotional mascot of the Nagano Prefectural Government, receives a gold medal for winning a character contest held Sunday in the city of Nagano. The medal was awarded by Kaparu, last year's champion from Shiki, Saitama Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/11/national/japan-mascots-yura-kyara/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chubu-a-20190312.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Municipalities compete hard to win the annual Yuru-kyara Grand Prix, but the mascot contest has become so heated that some cities are cheating.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/18/national/embassies-using-mascots-as-ambassadors/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shaloum-chan]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/01/13/national/media-national/mascots-bear-cash-for-local-authorities/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the black: Kumamon, the official mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, brought in ¥11.8 billion in revenues for the area in the first six months of 2012 alone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/10/05/national/media-national/can-anything-stop-the-akb48-mutations/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Funassyi (center) and other mascots attend a tsunami disaster prevention event together with Eriko Yamatani, the state minister in charge of disaster management, at the Cabinet Office last Sept. 7.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Even though Japan is relaxing its entry restrictions on those from overseas, except for tourists, visa applicants will be required to meet strict conditions to receive permission to enter the country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan, seen in this photo, plans to conduct stress tests on its five major financial institutions to scrutinize how resilient they are to risks posed by COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First-year students attend a commencement ceremony at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post's DeliRo self-driving mail delivery robot is dispatched for a test run on a sidewalk in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga speaks at a meeting on regulatory reform at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent years building up Russia as a global power.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As tens of millions of people around the world dig in for the long haul of working from home, one question looms large: Who pays for the tea and toilet paper?]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuhiko Okabe, the head of the Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health, speaks during an interview in Kawasaki on Sept. 30.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Science Council of Japan holds a general meeting in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43218.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Out of 248 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Tokyo on Thursday, people in their 30s had the highest number of infections, at 61.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry experts who spearheaded a report by the Asia Pacific Initiative on the government’s response to COVID-19 speak during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor CEO Takahiro Hachigo plans to centralize decision-making by bringing the firm's standalone research and development division in-house and cutting senior management roles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T17:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuya Matsunaga holds a picture of his wife and daughter as he heads to the Tokyo District Court Thursday for a trial over the fatal traffic accident. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T17:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (left, front) holds an online meeting with the bank's regional managers on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T17:50:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43138.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's current account surplus fell in August. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T17:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, have in effect been stopped from going to work except in some industries.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko attend an art festival organized by the Cultural Affairs Agency in Tokyo on Oct. 1]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-08T21:44:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In November, protesters gather near the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku Ward to call on the capital to make a Climate Emergency Declaration.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43195.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan will consider fresh measures against stalking by the use of GPS devices.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said preventing Taiwan from sharing its experience goes against the collective interests of the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T00:50:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of U.S. Forces Japan, hold talks at Yokota Air Base on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43129.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news program broadcast at Seoul Railway Station on Wednesday shows an image of Jo Song Gil, North Korea's former ambassador to Italy. Jo, who had vanished in Italy in late 2018, currently lives in South Korea under government protection, a lawmaker said Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Thunderbolt 2000 multiple rocket launcher fires munitions during a military exercise in Taichung, Taiwan, in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43085.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43057.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Significant improvements in exports, especially of cars, as well as in shipments of industrial goods such as steel helped lift Japan's economic assessment for August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/07/national/quad-japan-symbolism-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign ministers from Japan, the U.S., Australia and India take their seats as they attend the four Indo-Pacific nations' meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/07/national/japan-u-s-aegis-ashore-plan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi speaks to reporters in Tokyo after holding talks on the phone with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki leaves the Prime Minister's Office Wednesday after talking with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reports 142 new cases of coronavirus Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:13:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne poses next to her Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi before their luncheon meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:13:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her European allies are preparing to retaliate against Russia over the poisoning of a Kremlin critic. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:14:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron meet in London in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:15:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People work at a TKP Corp. shared office in Tokyo. The company sees an opportunity in Tokyo's evolving office market.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump salutes Marine One upon returning to the White House on Monday, after testing positive for COVID-19 and spending four days at the the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/07/national/japanese-actress-suzu-hirose-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42775.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Suzu Hirose has tested positive for the new coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers shout and gesture during a strike against a government "omnibus" bill on job creation, which they believe will deprive workers of their rights, in Surabaya on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/national/japan-south-korea-resume-business-travel-thursday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:19:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quarantine officer at Narita Airport checks a traveler arriving from Seoul in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/national/masateru-shiraishi-adachi-tokyo-lgbt-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An LGBT parade is held in Sapporo in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/national/mike-pompeo-yoshihide-suga-tokyo-japan-quad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo greet each other prior to their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/national/rare-wild-sea-otters-cape-kiritappu-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hokkaido town of Hamanaka has seen an influx of tourists with high-end cameras hoping to photograph the area's resident sea otters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/business/corporate-business/toyota-nissan-uk-tariffs-eu-fta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42548.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. have asked the British government to cover the cost of extra tariffs if the country is unable to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union by the end of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/business/corporate-business/toyota-hydrogen-north-american-fuel-cell-truck/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:23:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42575.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. and Hino Motors Ltd. said Monday they have agreed to jointly develop fuel cell electric trucks for the North American market.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/business/corporate-business/nintendo-bulls-betting-switch-can-provide-gamings-iphone-moment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:24:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42573.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some Nintendo bulls believe the company can transform into one that’s able to roll out incremental new platforms while retaining its user base, but some say Western investors get frustrated with the company’s anti-promotional style.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/national/tropical-storm-chan-hom-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42614.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image from Tuesday afternoon shows Tropical Storm Chan-hom south of Japan. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/world/political-retreat-climate-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Extinction Rebellion demonstration in London in 2019 ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:26:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emmanuel Macron]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers sort through bags of garbage at a disposal facility in Payatas, Quezon City, Philippines. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:28:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transport minister Kazuyoshi Akaba (right) gives a pep talk to a Mauritius-bound inspection team in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/18/national/russia-moving-troops-new-barracks-disputed-isles-off-hokkaido-plans-armor-installations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Coast Guard vessel PS08 Kariba sails off Cape Nosappu in Nemuro on Hokkaido , with part of the Russian-held islands visible the background, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/13/national/crime-legal/brazil-court-grants-nissan-ex-boss-carlos-ghosn-daughter-supervised-access-rio-flat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:31:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ghosn-a-20181214.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The building in which an apartment containing cash, artworks and personal belongings of Carlos Ghosn is pictured in Rio de Janeiro Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-kono-no-comment-russia-held-islands-ahead-possible-wwii-treaty-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/11/national/japanese-scientist-tasuku-honjo-receives-nobel-physiology-medicine-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:32:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Physiology or medicine laureate Tasuko Honjo (left) receives the Nobel Prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during the award ceremony in Stockholm Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/business/japan-sets-policy-will-block-huawei-zte-public-procurement-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers are served at a Huawei stand at a store in southern China's Hainan Island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/06/business/toyota-worries-trumps-proposed-tariffs-dent-u-s-car-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz speaks during an interview at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in 2016. Lentz told the Detroit Economic Club Wednesday that car sales fell below 30 percent of sales last month, and he thinks that's close to the bottom.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/06/national/u-s-warship-conducts-freedom-navigation-operation-challenge-russias-excessive-maritime-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T01:34:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell departs the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-09T12:06:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43213.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean soldiers stand before spectators during a military parade in Pyonyang's Kim Il Sung square on Oct. 10, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/08/national/cancel-or-proceed-public-statements-reignite-debate-on-2020-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T12:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43123.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Athletics President Sebastian Coe speaks to members of the media during a visit to the National Stadium in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/08/business/economy-business/nagasaki-banks-flaws-suga-regional-rescue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T14:18:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43097.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki's Chinatown, a popular attraction among tourists, stands empty in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/09/business/economy-business/bank-of-japan-upgrades-assessments-regional-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T14:24:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43383.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan on Thursday upgraded its assessments of eight out of nine regional economies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/business/corporate-business/japan-bullet-trains-empty-seats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T14:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Shinkansen bullet train travels along an elevated railway track near Yurakucho station in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/09/national/typhoon-chan-hom-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T15:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43435.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High waves are seen at Miyake Island in the Izu chain Friday as Typhoon Chan-hom approaches.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/09/world/joe-biden-climate-czar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T16:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43454.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks about climate change, outside the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept. 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of foreign nationals who entered Japan between January and June totaled 4.09 million, down 75.1 percent from the same period last year, according to agency data.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Red flags to indicate the ocean has a high tide and locals should not be swimming due to danger are seen at Jacksonville Beach before Hurricane Dorian, in Jacksonville, Florida, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican Brian Kemp (right) shakes hands with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal at the Capitol on Thursday in Atlanta. Kemp resigned Thursday as Georgia's secretary of state, a day after his campaign said he's captured enough votes to become governor despite his rival's refusal to concede.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives from the elevator at Trump Tower in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matsubaya official Yasushi Igarashi (left), H&amp;N Wine Japan President Mariko Honma and her son, Satoshi, show off bottles of Georgian wine.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken on Sept. 07 shows Georgia's then-Foreign Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili during a meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart in Tbilisi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police Officer Robert Olsen is seen in an undated handout picture released by the DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia. The shooting death of an unarmed, black, naked man by Officer Olsen in an Atlanta suburb prompted a social media outcry on Tuesday over what many people deemed to be unnecessary force against someone who may have been in mental distress. The death of Anthony Hill, 27, at an apartment complex in DeKalb County on Monday afternoon is the latest in a string of killings of unarmed black men by police in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) attends an online ministerial meeting on the promotion of health services on Thursday at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[First-year students of Nagoya University’s School of Engineering attend a class while practicing social distancing on Oct. 2.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43388.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, known to be a workaholic, has been meeting people outside of the government to discuss issues such as digital reform.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker performs a coronavirus test in Masli, in the state of Tripura, India. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43453.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about climate change and wildfires affecting western states in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept. 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing protective face masks walk past the Colosseum as local authorities in Rome ordered face coverings to be worn at all times outdoors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/us-institutionalize-quad-china-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T15:10:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43664.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo greet prior to their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/asia-pacific/north-korea-military-parade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T15:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People leave after paying their respects before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill, as the country marks the 75th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/09/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-signals-openness-science-council-japan-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T16:06:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43532.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Science Council of Japan controversy threatens to puncture positivity toward Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga buoyed by optimism and high expectations for the new administration.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-free-streak-ends-cluster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T15:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43804.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A beach in Qingdao, China, in August ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/niigata-prefecture-bear-alert-attack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T17:46:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43826.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign warning of wild bears on a road in Gosen, Niigata Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/business/economy-business/china-slow-yuan-currency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T17:54:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43803.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Office workers pack a food court in Shanghai on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/8000-evacuees-anniversary-typhoon-hagibis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T17:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43842-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43842.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents offer prayers in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday, the first anniversary of Typhoon Hagibis that killed over 100 people.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/social-issues/tokyo-g1-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T17:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43815.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43815.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono, minister in charge of regulatory reform, speaks during the G1 Global Conference held at Globis University in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/business/economy-business/japan-machinery-orders-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43781.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43781.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Core private-sector machinery orders rose 0.2% in August from the previous month for the second straight monthly increase.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/business/financial-markets/bank-of-japan-assets-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43759.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan’s growing pile of assets is complicating its strategy to exit stimulus, economists say.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/asia-pacific/china-app-great-firewall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:04:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43784.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43784.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese app briefly gave the country’s internet users access to long-banned websites like Facebook and Google.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/11/world/crime-legal-world/attack-police-station-paris-france/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43748.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43748.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo shows the broken windows of a car outside the police station of Champigny-sur-Marne, near Paris, on Sunday, the morning after the station was attacked by around 40 people launching fireworks. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/11/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-covid-19-election-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43751.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43751.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the South Portico of the White House during a rally on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/11/asia-pacific/north-korea-unveils-massive-new-missile-move-u-s-calls-disappointing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:09:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43740.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43740.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile is displayed during a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/national/media-national/defamation-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:12:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41986.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41986.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalist Shiori Ito has sued Mio Sugita for libel because the Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker "liked" several tweets that implied Ito was not a rape victim but rather a sexual opportunist.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/national/media-national/japanese-virtual-youtubers-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:13:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43233.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43233.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Virtual YouTubers typically use livestreams to connect with audiences, but the real-time interactions can sometimes be a minefield to navigate.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/business/corporate-business/ana-part-time-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:14:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43693.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA's parent company, ANA Holdings Inc., in July reported a record net loss of ¥108.82 billion in the April-June quarter, citing reduced demand for air travel.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/world/science-health-world/covid-19-patients-mental-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42967.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42967.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nearly a third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients experienced altered mental function, ranging from confusion to delirium to unresponsiveness, in one American study.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/business/japan-third-extra-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:16:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43587.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43587.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hakubun Shimomura, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's policy research council chief, speaks during an interview at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/national/couple-abomb-hiroshima-photograph/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43596.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43596.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Kawaue, 90, holds a photograph of him and his late wife looking out over the city of Hiroshima from the top of a building a year after the city was destroyed by a nuclear bomb in 1945.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/business/savings-rate-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:21:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43579.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43579.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Private consumption accounts for more than half the economy and a rebound is especially important with the virus hitting exports markets even harder than Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-xi-jinping-north-korea-kim-jong-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:24:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43572.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43572.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during Xi's visit in Pyongyang in this picture released on June 21, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-campaign-debate-canceled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43566.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43566.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House in Washington after returning from his hospitalization at Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/national/politics-diplomacy/china-japan-digital-museum-senkaku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43563.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's Foreign Ministry has slamed Tokyo's protest of Beijing's creation of a digital museum laying out its claims to a group of Japanese-administered islets in the East China Sea, called the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/10/national/science-health/japan-daisen-kofun-tomb-mound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T18:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43562.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daisen Kofun, Japan’s largest ancient burial mound, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, is one of the sites collectively called the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/crime-legal/ex-advisers-china-firm-convicted-bribing-lawmaker-casino/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T19:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43864.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43864.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The opening of casino resorts are at a standstill amid the coronavirus pandemic. Two former advisers connected to casino bids were found guilty of giving bribes to a lawmaker on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/27/national/hiroshimas-foreign-residents-detail-rain-disaster-call-support-multiple-languages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T23:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/n-hiroshima-a-20180728.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hiroshima-a-20180728.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian Lili Tomita, 21, who moved to Hiroshima about three years ago, shows her in-laws' garage on Saturday. This is where she and her husband stored their belongings just days before the floods, but most of their effects were destroyed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/02/national/tokyo-pageant-highlights-qualities-people-mental-physical-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-12T23:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/n-pageant-a-20180403.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-pageant-a-20180403.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fashion enthusiast Mana Yokoyama, 24, plays the violin in the talent competition during the Special Beauty Japan pageant for people with mental and physical challenges at Yamano Beauty College in Tokyo in March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/japan-protests-chinese-government-ships-approach-fishing-boat-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T10:02:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43894.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43894.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has lodged a protest with China after two Chinese government ships approached a Japanese fishing boat near the disputed Senkaku Islands.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/japan-drones-taro-kono/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T10:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43755.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43755.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the U.S. Air Force.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/asia-pacific/china-taiwan-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T11:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43788.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43788.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's president, during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Saturday. Tsai called for dialogue with Beijing while vowing to defend the island in the face of Chinese intimidation. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/asia-pacific/taiwan-china-spy-fake-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T11:25:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43941.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43941.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A helicopter flies overhead with a Taiwanese flag during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Saturday. Taiwan has labeled new spying accusations by China as fake news after Chinese state television aired a program showing a Taiwanese academic arrested in China on national security grounds.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/asia-pacific/north-korea-new-missile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T11:54:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43866.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile is displayed during a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/asia-pacific/bts-korean-war-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T14:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43999.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43999.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of South Korean boy band BTS pose during the annual MAMA Awards at Nagoya Dome in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/business/financial-markets/warren-buffett-share-price-boom-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T17:33:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43934.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43934.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Warren Buffett's huge investment in Japan's trading houses has failed to sustain higher share prices.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/hirosaki-ninja-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T18:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44019.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsumaro Sato, who has bought a historic "ninja house," poses at the property in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/world/science-health-world/china-coronavirus-vaccines-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44103.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sinopharm subsidiary CNBG has developed a potential vaccine that may be administered to students heading overseas, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/power-firm-jera-shut-inefficient-coal-fired-plants-2030/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:12:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44093.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thermal power generation using fossil fuels accounts for about 40% of Japan's total CO2 emissions]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/crime-legal/protest-mio-sugita-sex-crime-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:40:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Flower Demo group protest against sexual violence outside the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/business/nations-delay-deal-digital-tax-mid-2021-amid-u-s-europe-row/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:41:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43915.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under the envisaged rules, global tech giants that generate revenue by offering consumer products or digital services will be taxed based on their sales, even in countries where they are not physically present.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/business/economy-business/japan-boj-law-digital-currency-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kozo Yamamoto, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's council on financial affairs, says Japan must swiftly revise laws to allow the central bank to issue a digital currency.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/japan-south-korea-trilateral-summit-wartime-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43927.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not attend a trilateral summit with South Korea and China without progress in settling the feud with Seoul over wartime labor issues, government sources say.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:57:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pauses as he makes a speech prior to a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/business/investors-carbon-emitters-reduction-targets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T22:58:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coal-fired heating complex in Harbin, northern China]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-13T23:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. military forces fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System rocket during a live fire amphibious landing exercise in the Philippines in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/national/kyohei-tsutsumi-veteran-composer-dies-80/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T23:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43914.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyohei Tsutsumi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-election-legal-war-swing-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T23:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43910.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Viewers look on at the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, during a watch party in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/23/national/politics-diplomacy/final-season-for-toru-hashimoto-show/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T23:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p3 kansai main-a 20140224]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (right) explains to the media in Osaka on Feb. 15 his plan to integrate the city of Osaka and Osaka Prefecture, as Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui looks on.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/05/national/politics-diplomacy/nippon-ishin-no-kai-yoshihide-suga-ldp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T23:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35645.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35645.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (center) and Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui (2nd from left) have enjoyed a close relationship over the years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/japan-international-rules-coronavirus-cruise-ships/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T07:57:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43928.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43928.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media gather at the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama on Feb. 7. About 700 people on board the ship were ultimately infected with the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/28/national/japan-coast-guard-taiwan-fishing-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T10:23:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40712.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40712.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship and a Taiwanese fishing boat were involved in a minor collision Sunday off the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/china-senkakus-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T10:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43924.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Coast Guard ships have remained in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for a record length of time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/malaysia-party-ruling-bloc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T11:23:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44137.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin reacts during a parliament session in Kuala Lumpur in July. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-reinfections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T11:58:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44144.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44144.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A COVID-19 testing center in Paris ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/business/corporate-business/big-money-day-traders-mercari/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T12:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44130.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44130.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercari Inc.'s shares are closing in on new highs, helped by the coronavirus pandemic which has boosted usage of its online marketplace where users buy and sell items.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/go-to-travel-campaign-discounts-restricted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T12:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44011.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit Lake Ashinoko in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 4. The national Go To Travel campaign aimed at spurring domestic travel included Tokyo from this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-14T12:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44012.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the plaintiff hold a sign reading "unjust ruling" on Tuesday in Tokyo after the Supreme Court ruled against a non-regular worker who sued her employer for not paying her bonuses.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-14T14:20:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44172.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya living in Malaysia protest against the treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims near the Myanmar Embassy in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/philippines-eyes-partnership-japan-cyber-defense-drones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T14:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-14T15:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43312.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As well as being a major film studio, Toho operates almost 20% of the cinema screens in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/business/corporate-business/hoshino-resorts-china-zhejiang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T16:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44186.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hoshino Resorts Co.'s planned hotel in the Mount Tiantai area of China's Zhejiang province.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/national/science-health/japan-promote-co2-cut-review-energy-mix-targets-fy-2030/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T17:34:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44111.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry minister Hiroshi Kajiyama speaks during a meeting of energy experts held at the ministry on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/09/national/social-issues/japan-eased-entry-travelers-hurdles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T17:48:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43358.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social distancing signs on benches in the departures hall of Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture in July]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/business/japan-firms-women-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T18:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44126.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Reuters Corporate Survey showed that about one-fifth of Japanese companies have no female managers and most say women account for less than 10% of management.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-14T18:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44209.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's newest submarine, the Taigei, is unveiled Wednesday at a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. shipyard in Kobe.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/national/berlin-comfort-women-statue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44167.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statue symbolizing "comfort women" is unveiled in Berlin in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/national/japan-arms-exports-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44123.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/business/corporate-business/ana-wage-cut-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44128.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[All Nippon Airways Co. plans to cut monthly wages and other benefits by 5% from January at the latest.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news report on Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech in the city of Shenzhen is shown on a public screen in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canvassing board member Judge Robert Rosenberg examines a disputed election ballot at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in November 2000.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/business/corporate-business/nippon-steel-us-plants-restructuring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44143.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel Corp. is considering selling plants in the U.S. given a slump in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/14/national/china-japan-senkakus-record-57-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnam’s communist regime has long made a practice of harassing, beating and imprisoning outspoken activists.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone speaks at a news conference in April 1985. Nakasone died on Nov. 29, 2019, at age 101.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index, made up of Mercari Inc., other startups and smaller firms, has risen more than 50% this year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a construction site in South Pyongan province in this photo released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides a white steed as he visits battle sites in the area of Mount Paektu in this undated picture released Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/national/japan-un-nuke-resolution-ban-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:23:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United Nations General Assembly is held on Sept. 22 at the U.N. headquarters in New York.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/business/corporate-business/softbank-masayoshi-son-grab-gojek/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:24:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Grab Holdings Inc. driver waits for an order outside a restaurant in the Jalan Alor area of Kuala Lumpur in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-fast-retailing-profits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:28:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tadashi Yanai, chairman and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/asia-pacific/thai-protesters-defy-emergency-decree/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:34:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy protester stands in front of police officers during anti-government protests in Bangkok on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/asia-pacific/first-no-quarantine-flights-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passenger from New Zealand arrives at Sydney Airport on Friday after quarantine restrictions were lifted on travelers from New Zealand. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/15/national/japan-senkakus-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:38:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/15/national/crime-legal/supreme-court-japan-post-nonregular/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:38:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs celebrate after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of them in Tokyo on Thursday.
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/national/japan-international-travel-advisories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People traveling abroad check in at airline counters at Narita airport on Oct. 5. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/15/national/japan-test-coronavirus-measures-filling-stadium-27000-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:43:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A three-day trial will be held at Yokohama Stadium from Oct. 30, with the stadium filled to 80% of its full 34,000-spectator capacity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/national/fukushima-blank-spaces-decontamination-limbo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A September 2009 photo shows the home of Takashi Asano in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The house is now a wreck with a damaged roof and is accessible to wild animals.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/business/cabinet-coronavirus-subsidies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (center) poses for a photo before a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/national/suga-meets-science-council-chief-furor-rejected-nominees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T20:28:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takaaki Kajita, head of the Science Council of Japan, speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office Friday after meeting Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-leaders-end-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T11:22:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44797.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A young pro-democracy protester talks with police during a demonstration at an intersection in Bangkok on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-vietnam-indonesia-china-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T13:22:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is greeted at the Pentagon by acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on May 9, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/17/world/u-s-gun-sales-soar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T17:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45058.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Andreyah Garland, a 44-year-old single mother of three daughters and a new member of a gun club, points her shotgun as she undergoes a gun training session with club founder Damon Finch in Newburgh, New York, earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/18/national/comic-strips-manga-osamu-tezuka-book/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-18T13:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ A scene from Osamu Tezuka's "Tiger Land" ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/18/national/infertility-treatment-couples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-18T15:15:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44597.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44597.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Going through infertility treatment is, for many, physically, emotionally and financially draining.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/18/world/made-in-iran-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-18T18:34:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45218.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45218.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks through a traditional bazaar in northern Tehran on Thursday. "Made in Iran” has emerged as a rare glimmer of hope in the financial destruction from being ostracized from the oil market and global trade while COVID-19 rages.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/18/world/coronavirus-spikes-fatigue-apathy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T10:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45121.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians and cyclists in New York’s Central Park in early October ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/treat-coronavirus-early-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T10:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45096.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong doctor Yuen Kwok-Yung (left) examines patient records at Hanoi's Paediatrics Hospital in 2004. Yuen and other doctors from Hong Kong were in Vietnam to help stop a bird flu epidemic. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/business/economy-business/china-economy-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T12:22:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45286.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45286.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A line for the sale of a limited edition Nike shoe in Shanghai on Friday. The Chinese economy surged in the July-to-September quarter according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics, showing that a fast economic rebound is possible when the virus is brought firmly under control.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/17/world/covid-19-cold-war-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T12:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24606.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member tests samples of a potential COVID-19 vaccine at a lab in Beijing. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/asia-pacific/china-americans-us-prosecutes-scholars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T13:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45292.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45292.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. State Department officials have for months been stressing harsh actions taken by Chinese security agencies against Americans.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/jacinda-ardern-election-victory-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T13:15:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45279.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45279.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, speaks during an election night event at Auckland Town Hall on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/business/economy-business/japan-exports-fall-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T14:09:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45256-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45256.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s exports fell by the smallest margin in seven months in September, supported by the biggest gain in exports to China in more than two and a half years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/asia-pacific/taiwanese-diplomat-china-fiji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T15:19:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45368.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Helicopters fly over Taipei during national day celebrations on Oct. 10. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/business/financial-markets/global-bond-yields-japan-insurers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T16:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/business/corporate-business/softbank-shares-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T18:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45409.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a new 20-year high as its founder Masayoshi Son shifted toward a more cautious investment strategy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/national/cyberattacks-coronavirus-vaccine-china-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T18:24:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45373.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45373.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government's National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity issues alerts on its website regarding cybersecurity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/national/science-council-japan-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T18:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45273-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45273.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Oike, president of Kyoto University of the Arts who led the 2015 reviews in a panel under the Cabinet Office, has said the failure to appoint the six nominees violates the law.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/tibet-political-leader-us-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T11:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45446.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45446.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, in 2016 ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/world/us-diplomats-spies-donald-trump-attacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T12:40:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45477.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45477.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Lenzi uses a Brock string for vision therapy at his home in Durham, New Hampshire. Lenzi, who worked for the State Department in Guangzhou, China, experiences the same mysterious affliction as dozens of staff members at the American Embassy in Havana.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/19/national/politics-diplomacy/taro-kono-outspoken-reformer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T13:30:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45422.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45422.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono, then the foreign minister, at the International Media Center for the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in 2019. Kono has made no secret of his desire to eventually become prime minister. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/world/science-health-world/cat-etching-nazca-lines-peru/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T14:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45439.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45439.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant cat figure was discovered etched into a slope in the desert near the town of Nasca in southern Peru. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/russia-tokyo-olympics-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T15:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45433.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45433.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian military intelligence carried out cyberattacks targeting the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, according to the British government.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/crime-legal/japan-bureaucrat-murdering-not-guilty-plea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T18:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideaki Kumazawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/business/financial-markets/warren-buffett-overseas-investors-japan-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T18:41:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign investors are said to be buying up Japanese stocks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/crime-legal/parents-convicted-abandoning-girls-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T22:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45624.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kagoshima District Court gave a suspended sentence to the parents of 3-year-old and 1-year-old girls for leaving them at home alone for more than a week. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/social-issues/hawaii-restrictions-japanese-travelers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T11:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45500.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A near-empty Waikiki Beach is viewed on Thursday in Honolulu. A new travel testing program allows visitors from Japan who test negative for COVID-19 to come to Hawaii and avoid two weeks of mandatory quarantine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/corporate-business/japan-oldest-mill-cleaner-steel-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T12:24:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45681.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steam rises from Nippon Steel &amp; Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Kimitsu Works steel mill in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/economy-business/boj-inflation-forecasts-go-to-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T12:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45678.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan is expected to consider cutting its price projections for the year ending in March to account for the downward price pressure of the government's Go To Travel campaign, which subsidizes domestic travel.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/08/national/mikiso-iwasa-dies-at-91/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T14:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikiso Iwasa (left) attends an event at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima in May 2016 along with Barack Obama (right), who visited the city as the first sitting U.S. president.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/u-n-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T14:02:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36779.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an online news conference on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/social-issues/japan-illicit-outflow-food-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T15:24:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45657.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe eats strawberries grown in Tochigi Prefecture during an economic forum in Abu Dhabi in April 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/australia-join-quad-naval-drill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T15:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45640.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi gestures toward Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne prior to their luncheon meeting at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Oct. 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/japan-fewer-newborns-2021-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T15:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The latest data show reported pregnancies were down by 26,331 between May and July from a year earlier, highlighting the impact of the new coronavirus since that time.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/economy-business/boj-risks-prolonged-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T16:19:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45840.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Makoto Sakurai]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-diabetes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T16:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45808.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atticus, Sarah, Arthur and Ophelia Simis  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/suga-ends-trip-sea-tensions-no-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T16:53:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45765.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga listens to questions from a reporter during a news conference in Jakarta on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/25-million-stays-japan-go-to-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T17:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45702.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45702.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A commercial street leading to Zenkoji temple in the city of Nagano is crowded with tourists on Oct. 4, the first weekend after Tokyo was added to the Go To Travel government subsidy program.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/world/donald-trump-records-chinese-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T17:11:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45694.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President  Donald Trump meets with President Xi Jinping of China during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/india-narendra-modi-popular-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T17:22:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45697-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45697.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays his respects at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi on Oct. 2]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/crime-legal/six-doctors-prosecutors-2014-toddler-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:21:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45888.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45888.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child who died received propofol equivalent to 2.7 times the level appropriate for an adult over about 70 hours at a Shinjuku Ward hospital, according to a report by a third-party investigation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/north-korean-government-ship-japans-eez-last-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:24:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/foreign-visitors-japan-drop-99-september-6th-straight-month/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:25:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45894.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45894.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An empty street near the usually crowded Kiyomizu Temple, a popular tourist attraction in Kyoto, is seen in this picture taken in July. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/japan-cambodia-coronavirus-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45873.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/japan-plans-hub-foreign-brokers-file-paperwork-english-attempt-recruit-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:34:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45828.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45828.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is considering creating a one-stop venue where financial firms can file regulatory paperwork in English.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/world/arctic-greenland-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45732.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Danish patrol vessel sails in Sisimiut harbor, Greenland, in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/corporate-business/nitori-hostile-takeover-shimachu-dcm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45690.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45690.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nitori Holdings Co. is considering launching a hostile takeover bid for Shimachu Co., rivaling an offer made earlier in the month by DCM Holdings Co., sources said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/asia-pacific/singapore-tengah-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45677.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A model of Singapore's Tengah project]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/asia-pacific/thailand-protests-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45675.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activists flash three-fingered salutes while listening to the national anthem outside of the Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/business/google-antitrust-lawsuit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:50:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45669.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google alleging antitrust violations marks the government’s most significant attempt to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/yoshihide-suga-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45609.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga leaves Vietnam for Indonesia on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/business/tech/japan-tech-show-ceatec-virtual-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:11:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45574.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alps Alpine Co., a Tokyo-based electronics components maker, is exhibiting a digital panel that allows users to control the screen without touching it, using sensors to detect fingers within close range.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/business/tokyo-bourse-vows-overhaul-trading-systems-after-full-day-outage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:12:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45424.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past an electronic quotation board displaying share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/tokyo-ward-assemblyman-apologizes-remarks-opposing-lgbt-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45562.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masateru Shiraishi, an assembly member for Tokyo's Adachi Ward, apologizes during an assembly session Tuesday for remarks he recently made about LGBT people.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/indonesia-rejected-us-spy-planes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:16:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft from the U.S. Navy flies during an exhibition. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/dentsu-tokyo-olympics-ioc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44665.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu Inc. stands accused of providing $6.2 million to Tokyo's Olympic bid campaign, despite having a contract with the IOC to market the games.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/national/japan-china-restart-business-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:17:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45491.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quarantine official conducts a COVID-19 test on a passenger after their arrival at Narita Airport. Japan and China are expected to agree on resuming business travel between the two countries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/business/bad-math-leading-expert-challenges-airlines-covid-19-safety-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:18:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45463.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Airlines staff member cleans the cabin of a plane at Haneda Airport in May. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-jinping-thought-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:18:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45445.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news report on Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech in the city of Shenzhen is shown inside a store in Hong Kong last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/20/business/financial-markets/australia-qe-japan-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s buying spree of Australian bonds may cool off with the Reserve Bank of Australia mulling an expansion of its quantitative easing program.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has lashed out at the government’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Empress Emerita Michiko, who turned 86 Tuesday, takes a walk with Emperor Emeritus Akihito at their residence in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial service is held at a temple in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward Monday for hanko seals that have been discarded.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Global oil demand has recovered to 94% of pre-pandemic levels, depleting the world’s bloated inventories, the International Energy Agency estimates.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, walk at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Temporary shelters housing Rohingya Muslim refugees are seen at the Balukhali refugee camp near the Bangladesh town of Gumdhum on Sunday. Heavy monsoon rain heaped new misery on hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohinyga stuck in makeshift camps in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar, as authorities started a drive to force them to a new site.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45222.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (center) waves as she meets supporters at a shopping mall in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:44:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The approval rate for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet dropped 5.9 percentage points from last month to 60.5%, a Kyodo poll has shown.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his wife, Mariko, leave on a trip to Vietnam and Indonesia from Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43699.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the methods of infertility treatment available, but not publicly funded, is microinjection, in which a single sperm is injected into an egg.]]></image:caption>
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