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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Universal basic income is simple: The government provides every person, regardless of age, economic status or employment situation, a fixed monthly payment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's not uncommon for people to eat out alone these days, something businesses are trying to capitalize on. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Health Organization has so far left the question of financial claims in the event of unexpected side effects from COVID-19 vaccines unresolved as it seeks to ensure shots are fairly distributed around the world.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-21T23:56:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A £100 million rescue package for zoos in the U.K., such as ZSL London Zoo, has been announced to help ensure animals are cared for and conservation projects can continue.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-government protesters raise a three finger salute that has become a symbol of anti-government defiance in Bangkok on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. David Perdue speaks during a campaign rally for President Donald Trump at Middle Georgia Regional Airport on in Macon, Georgia.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck carrying parts of the S-400 air defense systems exits a Russian transport aircraft after landing at Murted military airport outside Ankara on Aug. 27, 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:03:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos (right) is congratulated by President Enrique Pena Nieto after a speech in Mexico City in January 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bottle containing the drug remdesivir is held by a health worker at the Institute of Infectology of Kenezy Gyula Teaching Hospital of the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/17/world/science-health-world/elon-musk-starship-mars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:03:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/boris-johnson-no-deal-brexit-eu-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to the media in London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/17/national/japan-us-preparatory-talks-cost-sharing-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:06:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft is seen during a military drill at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Tokyo, in May. Japanese and U.S. officials on Friday wrapped up two days of preparatory talks on defense cost-sharing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/16/national/fishers-worry-plan-release-fukushima-plants-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks for radioactive water are lined up at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-22T00:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/21/national/science-health/tokyo-survey-olympic-volunteers-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T09:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the online survey responded to by 13,480 City Cast Olympic Games volunteers, 75.1% said they want the Japanese capital to create a safe environment for the volunteers to work in.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/15/national/crime-legal/high-court-acquits-tattoo-artist-charged-working-without-medical-license/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:24:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tattoo artist Taiki Masuda holds a sign saying "innocent" Wednesday in the city of Osaka after the Osaka High Court overturned a lower court decision and acquitted the tattoo artist for operating without a medical license, ruling that the process is not a medical procedure.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/05/national/tattoo-taboo-japan-new-website-offers-helping-hand-ink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prohibitions on tattooed visitors to public bathhouses in the country were originally put in place to deny the entry of yakuza members, many of whom are tattooed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/27/national/crime-legal/osaka-court-rules-tattoo-artists-work-violated-medical-law-not-art-expression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:24:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/crime-legal/prosecutors-demand-%c2%a5300000-fine-osaka-tattooist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:25:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/23/national/crime-legal/tattooists-legal-challenge-lift-industry-japan-send-underground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka-based designer and tattooist Taiki Masuda inks a pair of shoes. He says tattooing should be treated as art and self-expression, not as a medical practice.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/18/national/tourism-body-poll-spas-tattoo-policy-amid-influx-foreign-visitors-bearing-body-art/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Tourism Agency is surveying inns and hotels with public baths, asking them why and how they turn away tattoo-bearers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/29/world/social-issues-world/tattoos-make-inroads-with-50-and-older-crowd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:26:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baltimore resident Dan Whitson, 55,]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/01/national/northern-territories-russia-visits-canceled-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of Japanese tourists visit a sightseeing spot on Kunashiri Island on Oct. 30, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/07/national/social-issues/japan-outing-lgbt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T14:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuichi Kamiya supports national legislation explicitly banning outing to ensure a rapid response to the problem.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/22/national/politics-diplomacy/shigeru-ishiba-quits-ldp-faction-head/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T15:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba, who ran in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race last month, intends to step down as head of his faction.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/22/business/imf-suga-reforms-boj-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With high uncertainty over the economic outlook, the BOJ should avoid a premature withdrawal of stimulus and wait until a recovery takes hold, the IMF's Odd Per Brekk said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/22/business/europe-small-businesses-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European Commission is hoping coronavirus recovery funds can serve the dual purpose of reviving economies and helping to reach its proposed target of cutting emissions by at least 55% from 1990 levels by 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/22/national/fake-residence-cards-japan-overstayers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:53:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan plans to use facial recognition technology to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus when it hosts the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next year, government sources said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former foreign students from Vietnam who had to quit school in the wake of the pandemic study Japanese at a shelter provided by the Japan Vietnam Mutual Support Association in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Financial Services Agency conducted an on-site inspection of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday following a system failure that caused a full-day trade suspension earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narita International Airport Co. will waive landing and parking charges for all domestic flights, while reducing the amount for international flights, to help airlines.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi SpaceJet aircraft, being developed by a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. subsidiary, is seen in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18062.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Aircraft is developing a small craft known as the Mitsubishi SpaceJet, previously known as the Mitsubishi Regional Jet. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/23/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-heavy-regional-jet-workforce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13631.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The prototype Mitsubishi SpaceJet takes flight. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is planning to slash the workforce in its struggling regional jet business.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/06/business/spacejet-japan-airliner-sixth-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SpaceJet regional jet, manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., on display]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Development Officer of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation Alex Bellamy poses in front of a SpaceJet M100 aircraft during the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris last June.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11415.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A prototype of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.'s SpaceJet passenger jet is towed from an assembly plant to adjacent Nagoya Airport in Aichi Prefecture on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new prototype of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.'s small SpaceJet passenger aircraft is towed from an assembly plant to the adjacent Nagoya Airport in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/06/business/mitsubishi-mesa-100-spacejet-deal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A SpaceJet cabin is displayed during the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, in Paris, on June 17.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20190130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet sits on the tarmac at Nagoya Airport in 2015 following its first flight.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/04/business/mitsubishi-jet-starts-test-flights-u-s-gain-safety-certification/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. said its regional passenger jet has started safety test flights in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/31/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-heavy-provide-%c2%a5220-billion-aid-struggling-aircraft-unit/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20190126.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first Japanese-made commercial jet under development by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., conducts a test flight over Grant County International Airport in Washington last June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/29/business/corporate-business/negative-net-worth-mitsubishi-heavys-aircraft-unit-balloons-%c2%a5110-billion/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20180719.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A technician walks down steps from a Mitsubishi MRJ at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, Britain, Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20180207.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Aircraft's Mitsubishi Regional Jet takes off for its first flight in 2015. The delivery of the jet has been pushed back five times.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/16/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-regional-jet-faces-first-order-cancellation/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up at the MRJ Museum inside Nagoya Airport on its opening day Nov. 30 in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/17/business/corporate-business/no-misconduct-found-kobe-steel-plant-making-aluminum-mrj/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet touches down at Nagoya Airport in Aichi Prefecture in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/20/business/mitsubishi-aircraft-targets-paris-air-show-debut-regional-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/02/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-aircraft-sinks-negative-net-worth-spiraling-mrj-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is taking a severe hit from surging costs caused by delays in the Mitsubishi Regional Jet project.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/23/business/fifth-delay-announced-japans-mrj-jet-raising-concerns-new-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the media look on as Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.'s Mitsubishi Regional Jet touches down following its first flight at Nagoya airport in Aichi Prefecture on Nov. 11, 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/19/business/corporate-business/mitsubishis-second-test-jet-arrives-u-s-flight-trials/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A second Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. passenger jet arrives at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/14/business/japan-defense-contractors-get-used-dealing-foreign-military-buyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks at Airbus's A380 flight model during the Japan Aerospace 2016 air show in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/26/business/mitsubishi-jetliners-initial-delivery-faces-another-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Three Mitsubishi Regional Jets are stationed at Grant County International Airport in Washinghton on Dec. 19. Mitsubishi Aircraft/ VIA KYODO]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/02/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-heavy-aircraft-unit-may-delay-delivery-mrj-passenger-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet flies near Grant County International Airport at Moses Lake, Washington, last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/29/business/corporate-business/mrj-reaches-u-s-two-false-starts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet lands at Grant County International Airport at Moses Lake, Washington, on Wednesday. It will be joined by three others for certification testing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/business/mrj-launches-third-bid-reach-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet takes off from Nagoya Airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/27/business/mrj-touches-kamchatka-way-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/19/reference/mrj-hiccups-revive-manufacturing-industry-jitters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-fyi-a-20160920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet touches down at Nagoya Airport in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, following its maiden flight last November. If it passes testing, it will become Japan's first domestically produced commercial plane since 1974.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/30/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-heavy-says-mrj-delivery-still-on-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20160831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. still expects to hand over its first MRJ in 2018. The plane is back in the hangar for tests.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/28/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-regional-jet-aborts-flight-u-s-second-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-mrj-a-20160829.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet takes off Sunday from Nagoya Airport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/29/business/corporate-business/mrj-back-hangar-test-flights-u-s-thwarted-air-conditioner/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-mrj-a-20160830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20160830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The tail of a Mitsubishi Regional Jet is shown in 2014. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. aborted test flights to the United States on Saturday and Sunday due to problems with the MRJ's air-conditioning system.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/16/business/mitsubishis-new-jetliner-set-fly-washington-state-start-test-runs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-mrj-a-20160817.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20160817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mitsubishi Regional Jet is set to head to the U.S. this month for test flights there.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/27/business/mitsubishi-regional-jet-leaves-test-flights-u-s-soon-returns-due-defect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:29:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-mrj-a-20160828.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20160828.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defects in the air-conditioning system forced a Mitsubishi Regional Jet heading to the U.S. to return to Nagoya on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/12/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-aircraft-pitch-mrj-latin-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20160513.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/16/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-gets-946-million-plane-order-u-s-leasing-company/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/b-mrj-a-20160217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20160217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A maintenance worker inspects an engine on the Mitsubishi Regional Jet at Nagoya airport in Aichi Prefecture last November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/24/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-regional-jet-rollout-delayed-another-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/04/business/corporate-business/mrjs-fly-j-air-routes-future-jal-chairman-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/24/business/maiden-flight-of-japans-first-domestic-airliner-postponed-to-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/10/business/mitsubishi-regional-jets-maiden-flight-set-wednesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/b-mrj-a-20151111.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20151111.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aircraft enthusiasts gaze at a Mitsubishi Regional Jet from the observation deck at Nagoya Airport in October.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/01/business/first-flight-mitsubishi-regional-jet-planned-late-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/b-mjet-a-20150901.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mjet-a-20150901.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet passenger aircraft, developed by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., stands in a hangar following a rollout ceremony at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Komaki South Plant in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, in October 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/30/business/japans-first-passenger-jet-test-flight-set-for-week-of-october-26/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b-mrj-a-20151001.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20151001.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) passenger aircraft, developed by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., taxies during a low speed taxiing test at Nagoya airport in Aichi Prefecture on June 10.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/19/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-regional-jet-may-debut-ana-route-nagoya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/b-ana-mrj-a-20150820.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-ana-mrj-a-20150820.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Regional Jet painted in All Nippon Airways livery sits in a Mitsubishi Aircraft plant in Aichi Prefecture in July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/04/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-aircraft-opens-u-s-facility-aims-2500-jets-globally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/20/business/mitsubishi-mrj-jet-marketing-push-takes-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/b-mrj-a-20150521.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20150521.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guests look on as the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) passenger aircraft, developed by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., stands on display following a rollout ceremony at a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. plant in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/21/business/corporate-business/mrj-chief-hopes-domestic-aircraft-industry-will-take-flight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/n-mrj-a-20150122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mrj-a-20150122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruaki Kawai, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., which is developing the first domestically made compact passenger jet, is seen in an undated photo.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/16/business/mitsubishi-aircraft-roll-first-passenger-jet-four-year-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b-mrj-a-20141017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20141017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideo Egawa, chairman of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., holds a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/18/business/japans-first-homegrown-airliner-finally-unveiled/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b-mrj-a-20141019.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20141019.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo taken in June shows the test model of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.'s Mitsubishi Regional Jet, which was unveiled Saturday in a ceremony at a plant in the town of Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/28/business/corporate-business/jal-orders-32-mitsubishi-regional-jets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/b-mrj-a-20140829.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20140829.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. Regional Jet sits in a hangar in June in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture. Japan Airlines Co. on Thursday announced plans to buy 32 MRJs, in a deal estimated at around ¥150 billion, and to begin using them in 2021 on domestic routes.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/20/business/economy-business/government-eyes-commercializing-next-generation-domestic-aircraft-by-2030/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/26/business/corporate-business/jet-maker-enlists-bullet-train-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-mitsubishi-a-20140627.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruaki Kawai, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., is interviewed in Tokyo on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/16/business/corporate-business/myanmar-airline-to-buy-six-jets-from-mitsubishi-aircraft/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-mrj-a-20140717.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teruaki Kawai, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., is interviewed in Tokyo on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/06/10/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-aircraft-yet-sell-jal-regional-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p6-mrj-a-20140611.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Components for Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.'s Mitsubishi Regional Jet are put on display for a media preview at the Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Tobishima Plant in Aichi Prefecture last September.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/15/business/mitsubishi-aircraft-receives-order-regional-jet-u-s-carrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:30:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is still looking for the wreck of this F-35A fighter jet, seen here in Aichi Prefecture in June 2017, which crashed into the sea last month off Aomori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi may visit Japan as early as next month, sources said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators protest against the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-25T10:13:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46589.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of babies born in Japan in 2020 is expected to hit another record low.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flood-affected residents search for their belongings following heavy rains on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi Ltd. will stop using hanko seals for its internal paperwork by March 2022 and reduce paper use by 70 percent by next March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nomura Holdings Inc. is recruiting people for its merger and acquisition business as consultations on local deals are up about 30% to 40% from a normal year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/business/auto-startups-tesla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T16:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fisker Ocean electric SUV is at least two years away from production in a project heavily dependent on nailing down deals with partners who will build the car and provide key components.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/national/politics-diplomacy/sugas-first-diet-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T17:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/national/japan-un-nuclear-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T17:31:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46761.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People including hibakusha rally in the city of Hiroshima on Monday, calling on Japan's government to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/asia-pacific/china-sanctions-boeing-raytheon-arms-sales-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:12:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46843.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan Navy sailors take part in a commissioning ceremony for guided missile frigates at Kaohsiung's Zuoying naval base in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/seoul-accuses-chinas-xi-distorting-history-korean-war-anniversary-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:17:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46836.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the commemorating conference on the 70th anniversary of China entering the Korean War, at the Great Hall fo the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/business/demon-slayer-fastest-movie-%c2%a510-billion-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:18:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46807.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46807.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The animated movie "Demon Slayer — Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Movie: Mugen Train" has become the fastest film in Japan to reach ¥10 billion in box-office revenue.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/business/china-new-growth-plan-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46728.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials have recently insisted the economy will further open its doors to foreign capital and competition, reflecting concerns about how the world will perceive the upcoming economic plans.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/business/corporate-business/japan-nec-5g-uk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:21:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46731-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46731.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.K. government has decided to collaborate with NEC Corp. on the development of 5G ultrafast wireless communications networks.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-toyama-gubernatorial-election-hachiro-nitta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46716.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hachiro Nitta with his supporters on Sunday in Toyama after winning the gubernatorial election there.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/25/business/apple-supply-chain-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:27:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46686.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers shop for smartphone cases at a market near the Van Trung Industrial Park in the Viet Yen district in Bac Giang province.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/25/national/deer-digestible-paper-bags-nara/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45860.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45860.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 1,000 deer roam Nara Park, a major tourist attraction.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/25/business/lee-kun-hee-samsung-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:29:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46638.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46638.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee built the company into the electronics powerhouse of today, becoming synonymous with the rise of South Korea on a global economic stage.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/25/asia-pacific/south-korea-draft-resisters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46601.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46601.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Keun-hyeong, a conscientious objector, and his wife, Kim Seoyoung, prepare for an online church service in Bucheon, South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/25/national/japan-create-database-babysitters-convicted-sexual-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:30:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46593.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46593.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A database of babysitters who have been convicted of sexual assault will be created as more parents turn to child care services.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/national/media-national/coronavirus-wealth-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:36:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45637.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45637.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up outside a tapioca tea shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood in June.The popularity of the beverage has waned in recent months.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-experimental-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45680.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45680.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China is rapidly increasing the number of people receiving its experimental coronavirus vaccines, such as one being developed by Sinovac.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/business/china-hong-kong-economic-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:39:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45462.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45462.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The move to integrate Hong Kong into a wider financial center involving Macau and mainland Chinese cities could see the erosion of the territory's special status.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/asia-pacific/thailand-queen-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46531-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46531.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A royal motorcade carrying Thailand's Queen Suthida and Prince Dipangkorn drives past a group of anti-government demonstrators in front of Government House on Oct. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/16/national/hopes-high-pope-francis-will-send-message-bombed-cities-support-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:42:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-chugoku-a-20181017.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-chugoku-a-20181017.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This letter from Pope Francis was sent to the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in May in response to their invitation that he visit the atomic-bombed cities. He writes that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are reminders of the extreme suffering and death caused by violence and war.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/world/social-issues-world/metoo-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46137.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46137.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solmaz Azhadri, who studied paining with the acclaimed Iranian artist Aydin Aghdashloo, at her home in San Diego on Sept. 2. Thirteen different women have related accusations of sexual misconduct by Aghdashloo. The artist has strenuously denied wrongdoing.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/national/dna-analysis-genetic-impact-japan-atomic-bomb-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46429.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46429.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Candles are placed at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 8, a day before the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/24/national/japan-airlines-discounted-coronavirus-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:45:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46424.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46424.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Airlines Co. employee assists passengers at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture on Sept. 26.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/23/national/japan-send-new-team-work-out-long-term-measures-mauritius-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T19:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46393.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46393.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This aerial view taken Aug. 8 shows the Pointe d'Esny and the Grand Port in the background with a large patch of leaked oil.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/national/bears-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T08:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46786.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46786.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A signboard warning people of bears is set up along a street in Gosen, Niigata Prefecture, early this month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/world/science-health-world/water-ice-moon-nasa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T09:56:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46873.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected, scientists reported Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/world/science-health-world/africa-warming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T10:27:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46877-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46877.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dead fish are seen as Lake St. Lucia is almost completely dry due to drought conditions in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, northeast of Durban, South Africa, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/national/japanese-young-adults-reading-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T12:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46813.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46813.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 25% of the teens surveyed by the Nippon Foundation said they read more now than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/asia-pacific/us-backs-taiwan-missile-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T13:18:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46869-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46869.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flames engulf a launch truck as soldiers fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center in the state of Washington. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/national/yoshihide-suga-carbon-pledge-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T13:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46790.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46790.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say Japan’s decision was largely influenced by recent climate pledges from China and the United States.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/business/corporate-business/jal-loss-%c2%a585-billion-july-september-period/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T13:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46759.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. is expected to post an operating loss of around ¥85 billion in the July-September quarter.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/business/corporate-business/japan-bonds-ntt-mergers-acquisitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T13:58:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46940.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT's huge buyout plan for its mobile unit is likely to spur more mergers and acquisitions in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/malaysias-embattled-premier-retains-support-key-ally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T14:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46967.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46967.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin attends a parliament session in Kuala Lumpur in July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/business/corporate-business/jack-ma-ant-biggest-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T18:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46916.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46916.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ant Group's mascot is displayed at the group's office in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/business/tech/japan-action-plan-mobile-phone-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T18:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47008.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47008.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Communications minister Ryota Takeda unveils the government's action plan to lower mobile phone fees at a news conference on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/26/business/british-companies-dread-brexit-border-breakdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T18:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46844.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man works at a construction site near Sevington Church for a lorry and freight park near the M20 motorway, as government's preparations for the Brexit post-transition period continue, in Ashford, Kent, Britain, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/27/national/science-health/japan-bill-residents-free-coronavirus-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T22:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government approved a bill Tuesday to offer COVID-19 vaccines free of charge to all residents in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iris Ohyama produces a range of home appliances, such as rice cookers and washing machines.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gakunan Electric Train seeks a buyer for its retired electric ED403 locomotive.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's strict internet censorship rules have been tightened numerous times in recent years. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi on Monday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca produces a robust immune response in older people, a report has said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Earning forecast upgrades by Canon Inc. and Nidec Corp. could be an early indication of a profit recovery among the nation’s blue chips.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All Nippon Airways has signed up for jet fuel made from renewable materials in Singapore.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy demonstrators gather outside the German Embassy in Bangkok on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks with people outside a voter service center on Monday in Chester, Pennsylvania. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sasha Jacquez tests A University of Texas at El Paso student is tested for COVID-19 on Friday. Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. are on the rise again. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nam Ha-jong, a public health doctor serving a 36-month duty after medical school instead of regular military service, works at a coronavirus testing clinic in Okcheon earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Real estate analyst Kazuyuki Yamashita says the latest data on land prices represents a dramatic change, and is a clear harbinger of weakening real estate prices in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-28T16:53:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With a record net loss of ¥510 billion projected for the current business year, ANA Holdings Inc.'s struggles are raising the need to further streamline its international operations.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Ishiba (left) and Fumio Kishida attend a meeting Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga responds to questions at the Lower House plenary session Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of Samsung smartphones jumped nearly 50% during the September quarter as the rollout of its latest Galaxy Note series and a new foldable device reignited demand for premium handsets that had flagged during the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AT-3 Advanced Jet Trainers perform maneuvers during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing masks printed with Taiwan's national flag during National Day celebrations in Taipei earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan cut its growth forecast for the current year while keeping its key interest rates unchanged Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Left to right (holding certificates), tea master Sotatsu Ota, digital artist Yoichi Ochiai, Ryukyuan dancer Maki Shida and calligraphy performance artist Juichi Yoshikawa pose for a photo in Tokyo on Thursday after being named cultural envoys.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers for the Olympic Games practice screening measures in Tokyo on Oct. 21.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump rallies with supporters at an airport in Goodyear, Arizona, on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T17:44:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a cafe Wednesday after COVID-19 restrictions were eased in Melbourne]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T18:34:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman casts her vote at a polling site in Milwaukee on Oct. 20. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T18:44:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47368.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T18:53:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47500.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists crowd the area around Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto earlier this month as people take advantage of the Go To Travel tourism campaign.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T22:21:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[b-nitori-b-20170601.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Competition with Ikea of Sweden, which launched its first shops in Japan in 2006, did not slow down Nitori.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/business/nitori-launch-rival-takeover-bid-shimachu-november/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T22:21:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47578.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nitori said it will launch a rival takeover bid in mid-November to make do-it-yourself and hardware goods chain Shimachu Co. a wholly owned subsidiary.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T22:27:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47465.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles bound for shipment sit at the Nagoya Port in August. Toyota's global output for September hit a record high.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kentaro Ito]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:11:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47359.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man works in a laboratory in China that is developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Three Chinese companies committed 250 million doses of vaccines to Indonesia.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/national/science-health/shionogi-coronavirus-vaccine-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47354.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isao Teshirogi, president and CEO at Shionogi &amp; Co., says the company will begin clinical trials by year-end for what may be Japan's first domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/business/corporate-business/sony-raises-profit-forecast-playstation5/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47294.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sony Corp.'s operating profit for the three-month period ended Sept. 30 rose 14% to ¥318 billion, outstripping expectations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:14:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47329.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hawaii Gov. David Ige meets with then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in June 2015.    ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/asia-pacific/philippines-ending-oil-exploration-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:15:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47355.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child holds national flags of China and the Philippines at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in October 2016. The end of a Philippine moratorium on oil exploration in the South China Sea puts the ball in China’s court, and what it does next will indicate whether tensions with the Philippines ease or worsen.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/28/world/social-issues-world/cannabis-divisive-draws-conservative-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:17:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds marijuana for sale at a store in West Hollywood, California, in January 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47218.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese and U.S. flags are placed for a meeting between U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce and Su Chia-chyuan, president of the Legislative Yuan, in Taipei in March 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/28/asia-pacific/thai-king-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47187.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy demonstrators march to the German Embassy in central Bangkok on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/28/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-brains-age-10-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:21:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47184.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 76-year-old COVID-19 patient wipes away tears at a public hospital in Caracas. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/28/business/ammonia-fuel-net-zero-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47143.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47143.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga gives his first policy speech in the Diet on Monday. In the speech, he set a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/28/world/science-health-world/covid19-antibodies-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47179.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher tests possible COVID-19 antibodies in a laboratory in Indianapolis, Indiana, in May. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/28/business/corporate-business/jal-fiscal-net-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:25:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47129.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. projects a net loss of between ¥200 billion and ¥250 billion for this fiscal year, turning unprofitable for the first time since relisting on the Tokyo stock market in 2012, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:25:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47128.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeki Takizaki enters South Korea's Foreign Ministry building in Seoul in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-29T23:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47106.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shares in Kura Sushi Inc., which runs more than 460 restaurants across Japan, have surged 14% this month and are trading near levels last seen in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/30/asia-pacific/trump-china-economic-relationship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T11:57:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47636.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/national/science-health/takeda-50-million-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T12:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47568.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. plans to supply 50 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. in Japan. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/national/s-korea-expresses-serious-concern-radioactive-water-dump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T12:42:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47577.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean environmentalists stage a rally against Japan's disposal of radioactive water plan at the Fukushima nuclear power, in Seoul on Oct. 26.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/29/national/specialist-cleaners-coronavirus-demand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T12:52:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47363.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryosuke Otake (right) and Kohei Mizoguchi, founders of cleaning company Unisons in Yokohama, say they hope the growing public appreciation of their profession amid the pandemic will contribute toward reducing lonely deaths among older people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/03/national/social-issues/japan-single-mothers-female-workers-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T13:47:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21654.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A single mother sits on a bench at a park in Sendai. Single moms and female nonregular workers have been hit hardest by the recent rise in unemployment.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graduating students of the Takarazuka Music School in black kimono receive flowers from junior-class students at a graduation ceremony in March 2018 in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-30T15:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47635.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen grab from a video provided by Hironaka Law Office shows Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn speaking before he was rearrested in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/30/world/crime-legal-world/canada-huawei-us-extradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T15:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her home in Vancouver on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/30/world/nice-terror-attacks/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47659.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People lights candles outside the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on Thursday in tribute to the three victims of a knife attacker inside a church in the city. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Essential workers in the health care and transportation sectors were increasingly required to work excessive hours during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomato-Atsuma coal-fired power plant in Atsuma, Hokkaido. Hokkaido Electric is one of the regional utilities most dependent on coal.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks holding water contaminated with radioactive tritium at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2019]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite high demand for nursing services in Japan due to its rapidly graying population, the number of care facility users fell sharply in May as older people refrained from visiting for fear of being infected with COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ Sakura Internet Inc.'s data center in Ishikari, Hokkaido]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Firefighters fly a drone over waters in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, in August as part of a rescue drill as no lifeguards were deployed during the swimming season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airline staff are seen at a boarding gate for international flights at Haneda Airport earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mount Fuji's first snowcap of the season is seen on Oct. 23, a week before a 47-year-old man from Tokyo livestreamed his fatal fall from the summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past the Arts Theatre in Nottingham, England, as the city headed into the highest level of coronavirus restrictions on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during her meeting with World Athletics president Sebastian Coe at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Oct. 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-31T15:13:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-10-31T15:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks a news conference on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/30/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-diet-science-council/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-31T15:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga responds to questions during the Lower House plenary session Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/media-national/suga-science-panel-background/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T00:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46396.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takaaki Kajita, president of the Science Council of Japan, speaks to reporters after meeting Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Tokyo on Oct. 16. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/spectators-yokohama-stadium-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T00:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47969.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A three-day high-tech experiment began Friday at a baseball stadium in Yokohama to study ways to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 at major events, with the cap on the number of spectators being raised above the current 50% for large venues.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/07/business/japanese-companies-subscription-services/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T00:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-subscription-a-20191108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido is providing skin moisturizers to be used with home dispensers for ¥10,800 a month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-01T11:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seven pro-democratic lawmakers were arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-01T12:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah attends a ceremony at Parliament Square in Kuala Lumpur in January 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speak outside the Freedom House on the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom in June 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-01T13:57:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48059.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ibaraki Prefecture is looking to promote camping to boost its economy. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-01T15:17:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump watch a video during a campaign event on Tuesday in Lansing, Michigan. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda's Clarity fuel cell car]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48022.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a mask of Pavin Chachavalpongpun, an exiled Thai academic and professor at Kyoto University, before a graduation ceremony at Thammasat University in Bangkok on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48166.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce new coronavirus lockdown measures  inside a pub in London on Saturday.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese officials have made arrangements to travel to the U.S. in "the coming days” to retrieve the two Americans accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn escape Tokyo, court records show.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in rally in Philadelphia on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co. Ltd. has joined up with artificial intelligence firm SixAI to develop and hire out quality control robots.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indian army convoy carrying reinforcements and supplies drives toward Leh on a highway bordering China in early September.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48225.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff at the Environment Ministry use blankets as the annual "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign kicked off Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/national/nagasaki-pushes-central-government-sign-ratify-u-n-nuke-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T00:09:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take photos of a special train with livery in the style of the movie of the popular "Demon Slayer" ("Kimetsu no Yaiba") manga series at Kumamoto Station on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AirAsia planes are seen parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Sepang, Malaysia, on Oct. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:20:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/business/alibaba-next-generation-factory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48217.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Pass" and "Fail" bins at quality control on the Xunxi production line in Hangzhou, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/business/corporate-business/carlos-ghosn-france-lebanon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:22:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, former chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co., poses for a photograph in Beirut in August.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/asia-pacific/women-taiwan-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister, has played a key role in the successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/world/science-health-world/us-science-life-after-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump displays a tracking forecast map for Hurricane Dorian as he receives a status report on the storm in the Oval Office of the White House in September last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/business/airlines-england-bans-overseas-leisure-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48167.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EasyJet Plc, Europe’s second-biggest discount carrier, said it will operate its planned flights until Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/business/corporate-business/boeing-737-max/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:31:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48138.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grounded Boeing 737 Max aircraft in Seattle in July last year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/national/kyoto-social-media-thailand-pavin-chachavalpongpun-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47477.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pavin Chachavalpongpun applied for refugee status in Japan after the Thai government revoked his passport for failing to appear at a military camp for "attitude adjustment."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/business/corporate-business/japan-zozo-new-body-measuring-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48201.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc. demonstrates the company's Zozosuit 2, a 3D body measurement suit, at its office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/business/hydrogen-wars-europe-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:34:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Linde AG hydrogen plant in Leuna, Germany. Governments, energy giants, automobile companies and lobbying groups say hydrogen use is pivotal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/national/halloween-shibuya-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:35:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48073.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large crowd of people gather in Tokyo's Shibuya for Halloween on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/stanford-statistical-model-700-coronavirus-deaths-trump-rallies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:36:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48065.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters wave as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at an airport in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/national/japanese-police-suspect-vietnamese-group-stole-hundreds-pigs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:39:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/national/crime-legal/woman-arrested-charge-abandoning-newborns-body-tokyo-park/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48223.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48223.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman has been arrested on a charge of abandoning the body of her newborn child in a park in central Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/national/china-japan-senkakus-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:43:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48222.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48222.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ownership of the Senkaku islands are the subject of a three-way dispute between Japan, China and Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/national/tokyo-tuna-auctions-public-viewing-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:48:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48211.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48211.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors watch a tuna auction at Toyosu fish market on Monday as public viewing of the event resumed after an eight-month hiatus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/national/japan-ship-aegis-ashore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:51:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48047.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/world/us-election-threat-of-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:52:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48049.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48049.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protest leader Mike Dunn gestures as he speaks during a rally in Richmond, Virginia, in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/world/europe-pandemic-lockdowns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48040.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual news conference on Saturday to announce new lockdown restrictions in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/media-national/dressing-online-meetings-covid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:55:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45083.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45083.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It’s no longer acceptable to log into an online meeting looking tired and disheveled.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/media-national/yukichi-fukuzawas-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46399.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46399.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukichi Fukuzawa ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/world/science-health-world/concerns-coronavirus-food-imports-real-expert-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:56:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47572.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47572.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The international trade in foods could be fueling the spread of COVID-19, one expert has said, with meat processing plants being a particular concern.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/compensation-fukushima-nuclear-plant-accidents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T01:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47772.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47772.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[To this day, about 4,000 people still work at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant every day, with many at risk of radiation exposure.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/sleep-coronavirus-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T02:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47957.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47957.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sleep deprivation has become a cause for concern among some people amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/chinese-sex-ed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T02:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47079.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47079.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sexuality remains a topic that has been treated with caution by the government and education authorities in China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/national/fukuoka-coronavirus-antibody-test-silkworms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T02:02:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47892.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47892.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coronavirus antibody test kit utilizing silkworms]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/31/business/corporate-business/jal-net-loss-fiscal-2020-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T02:03:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47883.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. said it logged a net loss of ¥161.23 billion in the first half of fiscal 2020.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/30/national/akita-bear-farms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T02:05:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mami Kondo was hired by Akita Prefecture to resolve the problem of bears eating crops and livestock.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/business/corporate-business/tokyo-earlier-last-trains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T03:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47812.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47812.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers install safety doors at Akabane Station in Tokyo in December 2017.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/02/world/white-house-coronavirus-outbreak/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T10:47:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48232.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48232.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump takes off his mask as he arrives at the White House upon his return from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he underwent treatment for COVID-19, on Oct. 5.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/business/japan-companies-april-september-net-profit-down/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T12:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48409.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The air transport sector logged a net loss of ¥349.7 billion ($3.3 billion) in the six-month period as stay-at-home requests aimed at curbing novel coronavirus infections dented travel demand.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/business/corporate-business/jack-ma-china-ant-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T12:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48394.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jack Ma, one of China’s most powerful businessmen, was summoned to a rare joint meeting on Monday with the country’s central bank and three other top financial regulators.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/democratic-presidential-hopeful-beto-orourke-back-campaign-trail-rival-john-hickenlooper-drops/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T13:34:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-betolooper-a-20190817.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-betolooper-a-20190817.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke addresses the nation in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/man-insulted-rally-trump-weight-says-love-guy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T13:34:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/f-trumpinsult-a-20190818.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-trumpinsult-a-20190818.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frank Dawson, a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, cheers after helping evict protesters during a Trump campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday. Trump believed Dawson was one of the protesters and mocked his looks, saying "That guy has a serious weight problem. Go home, start exercising! Get him out of here please."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/pete-buttigieg-democratic-presidential-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T13:40:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f-buttigieg-a-20200303.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[f-buttigieg-a-20200303.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg meets with former President Jimmy Carter at the Buffalo Cafe in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48992.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MV Wakashio ran aground off Mauritius on July 25, and began leaking 1,000 tons of oil on Aug. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. is aiming to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-05T23:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Post Holdings is considering selling the struggling courier division of its Australian logistics subsidiary.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in protective suits disinfect a chicken farm in the city of Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, on Thursday after an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed there.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48784.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[CMC Holdings operates over 240 Fancl stores across Asia outside Japan, including more than 190 in China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nissan Leaf may fall foul of local content tariffs in Europe as it has been deemed to have a "significant dependency" on parts sourced from Japan and other Asian countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-05T23:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47676.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the recent vote to select a new prime minister, lawmaker Takae Ito gained one vote, much to her surprise.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-05T23:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48787.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a Senate hearing in Washington last month. On Wednesday morning, shortly after Trump posted about the election being stolen from him, Facebook officials added labels to his posts explaining that results had not been finalized. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marijuana grows at the Harmony Dispensary in Secaucus, New Jersey. On Wednesday, U.S. voters approved a constitutional amendment to legalize cannabis in the state.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:03:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from the Washington area participate in a youth climate strike on Capitol Hill in March 2019. E]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48753.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker helps collect provisional ballots at the Erie County Courthouse on Tuesday in Erie, Pennsylvania. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:04:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48749.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Results come in for the U.S. presidential election as a customer shops in Sydney on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48748.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about early results from the 2020 U.S. presidential election in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:17:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48746.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to be one of the first from big pharma to be submitted for regulatory approval, along with Pfizer and BioNTech's candidate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/national/164-dogs-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48741.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dozens of dogs that an animal rights group said were malnourished and infected by parasites are crammed inside a tiny house in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, on Oct. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/national/science-health/tokyo-taxi-drivers-allowed-to-refuse-passengers-wearing-masks-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:19:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48744.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The transport ministry's approval to allow taxi drivers in Tokyo to refuse passengers who are not wearing face masks could also affect practices in other areas of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/national/japan-us-election-generation-z/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48705.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Temple University students and faculty members watch a live broadcast of the U.S. presidential election results on Wednesday at their university in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/national/crime-legal/japan-deportation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/business/corporate-business/ootoya-reshuffles-management/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ootoya Holdings Co. holds an extraordinary shareholders meeting in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/long-election-wait/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:21:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48588.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Susan Newsom, 56, looks over election material as she and other voters waited in line at the Desert Breeze Community Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/business/corporate-business/china-ant-ipo-suspension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:22:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48627.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma. The most recognizable face in Asian business, Jack Ma was set to see his wealth bulge in a record-breaking IPO of the group's financial arm Ant Group in Hong Kong and Shanghai on Wednesday, but Chinese regulators abruptly slammed on the brakes. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:22:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48574.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naval vessels take part in the Malabar exercise in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/business/economy-business/boj-coronavirus-europe-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48626.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (top left) attends an online conference with heads of companies in the Chubu region Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/election-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48638.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Poll workers and voters on Election Day in Lansing, Michigan, on Tuesday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/national/crime-legal/kyoto-governor-sued-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48622.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takatoshi Nishiwaki]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/national/nuclear-regulator-website-cyberattack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:25:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/election-trump-biden-voters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48599.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48599.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of President Donald Trump gather for a "Trump Train" caravan rally in San Antonio on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/chinese-coronavirus-vaccine-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48581.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A packaging facility of the Chinese vaccine-maker Sinovac Biotech. The company is developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/world/france-turkey-cartoon-religion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48552.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[France's President Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, England, in December 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/asia-pacific/china-new-hong-kong-communist-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48553.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48553.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hainan Island, on China's southern coast, has built a new container port, cut taxes and tariffs and introduced other policies that could help it compete with Hong Kong as a shopping and investment destination. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/twitter-facebook-suspend-accounts-us-election-misinformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:30:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48544.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48544.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social media sites including Facebook suspended several recently created right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting for violating their policies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/asia-pacific/us-drones-taiwan-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:31:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48542.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. State Department cleared the potential sale of four sophisticated U.S.-made aerial drones to Taiwan in a formal notification sent to Congress, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the last step before finalizing a weapons sale that will further anger China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/asia-pacific/north-korea-submarines-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:32:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48524.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean Pukkuksong 4a submarine-launched missile is displayed during a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Oct. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/business/economy-business/property-funds-tokyo-population-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:32:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48444.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian waits to cross a street in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/national/science-health/space-mice-aging-jaxa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48428.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mouse is kept at Japan's Kibo science module on the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/national/science-health/japan-healing-robots-isolation-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:34:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46838.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Groove X Inc.'s LOVOT home robots feature a 360-degree camera with which they can monitor an owner and their surroundings.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/business/toyota-record-second-half-output-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:35:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48502.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles bound for shipment are lined up at a port in Yokohama on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democrat Joe Biden, a past proponent of engagement with Beijing, has adopted a more critical tone during the U.S. campaign and pledged to enlist allies to a coordinated effort to check China’s rise.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49565.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hope that negotiations on nuclear disarmament will advance under a Joe Biden administration.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Hisahito prepares to pose for a photo with his parents, Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, before attending the entrance ceremony for a junior high school affiliated with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Komuro and Princess Mako]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-09T20:59:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko board an airplane bound for Thailand on Dec. 12 at Tokyo's Haneda airport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/01/national/princes-right-free-speech-hot-topic-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T20:59:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, attend a news conference ahead of his 53rd birthday at the their residence in Tokyo on Nov. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/30/national/govt-finance-rite-new-emperor-despite-princes-questioning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T20:59:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Komuro, the boyfriend of Princess Mako, is seen at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture on Aug. 7, the day he left Japan to attend law school at Fordham University in New York.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/30/national/prince-akishino-questions-japanese-government-financing-shinto-linked-rite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino delivers a speech at the 59th Convention of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad in Honolulu in June.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/07/national/prince-akishino-wife-visit-cultural-site-learn-japanese-immigrants-hawaii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/n-prince-a-20180607.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20180607.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino (left), Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell (center) and Princess Kiko hold hands as they bless a tree after planting it at Thomas Square Park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Tuesday. The prince and princess are in Hawaii to mark the 150th anniversary of Japanese immigration to the islands.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/15/national/cabinet-approves-visit-hawaii-prince-akishino-june/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-akishino-a-20180516_v0.1.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino and his wife, Princess Kiko, will travel to Hawaii in early June to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first arrival of Japanese immigrants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/10/national/tokyo-firebombing-recalled-73-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:02:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-airraid-a-20180311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino lights incense during a ceremony at a hall in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday to honor the victims of the massive U.S. firebombing that devastated the capital on March 10, 1945.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/30/national/prince-akishino-turns-52-says-hes-relieved-abdication-law-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/n-akishino-a-20171201.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-akishino-a-20171201.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino gestures while strolling with his wife, Princess Kiko, in the garden with their children, Prince Hisahito and Princess Mako, at their residence in the Akasaka Imperial Grounds in Tokyo on Nov. 4.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/28/national/prince-akishino-princess-kiko-celebrate-120-years-ties-chile/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/n-prince-a-20170929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-prince-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino speaks with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as Princess Kiko looks on, at a ceremony commemorating the 120th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries in Santiago on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/09/national/japans-crown-princess-masako-vows-keep-efforts-succession-empress-looms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-masako-a-20171210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako look at a pamphlet about the Week of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/11/national/emperor-empress-welcome-belgian-royals-imperial-palace-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:05:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-belgian-a-20161012.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde are escorted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako look on during a welcoming ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/13/national/crown-princess-masako-attends-first-imperial-garden-party-12-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:06:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/n-masako-a-20151113.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-masako-a-20151113.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Princess Masako (third from left), accompanied by her husband Crown Prince Naruhito (second from left), attends an annual garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on Thursday. Crown Princess Masako, who has been receiving treatment for a stress-induced illness since December 2003, made her first appearance at the party in 12 years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/06/national/crown-princess-masako-may-attend-imperial-garden-party-for-first-time-in-12-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:06:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/n-masako-a-20151107.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-masako-a-20151107.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Princess Masako attends an Imperial garden party in October 2003 at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo. She has not attended the event since, but may do so next week.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/09/national/crown-princess-masako-turns-51-hopes-2015-year-reaffirm-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/n-masako-a-20141210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-masako-a-20141210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Princess Masako is flanked by Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Aiko for a photo in their residence, Togu Palace, in Tokyo on Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/27/national/crown-princess-masako-to-attend-first-imperial-banquet-in-11-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:07:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/18/national/crown-princess-to-visit-netherlands-in-first-overseas-trip-in-11-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nn20130419n1a.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130419n1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overseas assignment: Crown Princess Masako greets her husband, Crown Prince Naruhito, upon his return from New York at their residence in Togu Palace, Tokyo, in March.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/09/national/children-related-causes-a-major-interest-despite-health-problems-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p2-children-z-20131210-e1386596669992.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p2-children-z-20131210.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spirits up: Princess Masako waves as she heads to the Imperial Palace on Monday afternoon to greet the Emperor and the Empress on her 50th birthday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/29/national/prince-akishino-plans-hawaii-visit-mark-immigration-anniversary-princess-mako-eyes-brazil-last-imperial-jaunt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/n-royalfam-a-20180130.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-royalfam-a-20180130.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Akishino delivers a speech beside Princess Akishino during a ceremony to honor Japan's Winter Olympics team in Tokyo on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/business/japanese-business-leaders-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:12:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49538.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49538.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Large screens in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Sunday show Joe Biden's speech as he declares victory in the U.S. presidential election.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/business/japan-2050-carbon-neutrality-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49080.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49080.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency says that to put global carbon dioxide emissions on course for net zero by 2050, primary energy demand would need to fall by 17% by 2030, to a level similar to 2006, even though the global economy is twice as large now.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/national/vietnamese-trainee-nurses-japan-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:18:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49643.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnamese trainee nurses arrived in Japan on Monday after a six-month delay due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/national/crown-prince-akishino-vocal-member-japans-imperial-family/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:19:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49490.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49490.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crown Prince Akishino (center) is seen with his family in a photo taken in November last year at their residence in Tokyo's Akasaka district.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/national/japanese-opposition-parties-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:20:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49531.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49531.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large screen in Tokyo's Akihabara district Sunday shows news of Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshihide-suga-joe-biden-us-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:21:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49466.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49466.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference in Jakarta last month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/business/japanese-companies-early-retirement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:22:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49498.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49498.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job-seekers consult a Hello Work placement center in Tokyo. More companies are introducing early retirement programs to scale back their workforces amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49503.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49503.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen showing a news report on the 2020 U.S. presidential election is seen next to a Chinese national flag at the Jin Ban Cun barbershop in Beijing on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/national/suga-rejected-science-council/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49483.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49483.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga answers questions from Akira Koike, head of the Japanese Communist Party's secretariat, at the Upper House Budget Committee Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-concede/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49467.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump watches from the motorcade as he returns to the White House in Washington after playing golf on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-commander-in-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49455.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49455.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden, former vice president and now president-elect, speaks at a campaign rally in Coconut Creek, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/electoral-college-popular-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49313.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49313.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold up signs at a pro-Trump rally at the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/national/media-national/protecting-food-farmers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47905.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A documentary titled "Seeds Belong to Who?" stresses how specialized seed production actually is in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/national/media-national/coronavirus-second-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47912.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47912.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Bank's flexible four- or three-day working week gives staff more time to spend on other pursuits, including a second job.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/national/media-national/students-online-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47915.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many domestic universities have decided to continue holding classes online amid the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/national/tokyo-reports-294-new-coronavirus-cases-saturday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49394.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Graduates of Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo pose for a photograph at a graduation ceremony held on Tuesday. The ceremony was delayed due to the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/stacey-abrams-georgia-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as they wait for former President Barack Obama to arrive and speak at a rally on Monday at Turner Field in Atlanta. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/business/corporate-business/apple-sony-wondery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49330.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wondery is seeking $300 million to $400 million (about ¥31 billion to ¥41.3 billion) in a possible sale. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/fraud-donald-trump-legal-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T21:59:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of President Donald Trump gather with signs claiming a stolen election outside the Philadelphia Convention Center as they await general election tabulation results on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/news-media-us-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49300.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV screen at a restaurant shows U.S. President Donald Trump speaking after Election Day in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/libertarian-spoiler-us-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Luzerne County worker canvases ballots as vote-counting in the general election continues, Friday in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/dead-michigan-voters-claims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:03:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49295.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks on from the lobby as Detroit Department of Elections workers count absentee ballots in Detroit on Wednesday. Journalists have debunked most claims of voter fraud, but President Donald Trump’s supporters have not seemed to notice.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-legal-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49294.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49294.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner reading "Count the Legal Votes" and a U.S. and Trump flag hang from a pickup truck at a protest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/facebook-groups-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49293.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49293.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey of U.S.-based Facebook Groups between September and October conducted by digital intelligence firm CounterAction found rhetoric with violent overtones in thousands of politically oriented public groups with millions of members.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republicans-fundraising-donald-trump-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49292.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49292.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks about a court order granting President Donald Trump's campaign more access to vote-counting operations at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Thursday in Philadelphia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/world/politics-diplomacy-world/georgia-recount/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:05:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49282.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials process ballots at the Gwinnett County Voter Registration and Elections Headquarters, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/07/national/biden-burger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49280.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite an inconclusive U.S. presidential election, a restaurant in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, has jumped ahead of the game and added a Biden Burger to its menu. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/06/business/yamato-transport-parcel-delivery-figures-hit-record-high-october/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:07:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/04/business/japan-rural-urban-pop-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48598.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People head to work near Tokyo Station. As the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many companies to allow telecommuting, it has prompted many people to move out of the crowded capital.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/business/financial-markets/biden-victory-tokyo-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T10:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49571.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 225-issue Nikkei average rose to its highest level in 29 years Monday, as Joe Biden's win in the U.S. presidential election eased concerns over U.S. political uncertainties.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-opposition-quit-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T11:07:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49781.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49781.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democratic Hong Kong legislators including Wu Chi-wai, Alvin Yeung and Lam Cheuk Ting give a news conference Monday as they threaten mass resignation amid reports that Beijing plans to disqualify some opposition lawmakers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/national/suga-signals-readiness-new-stimulus-package/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T11:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49747.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49747.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-election-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T11:43:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49786.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49786.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a news conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company in Philadelphia on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/national/politics-diplomacy/yoshihide-suga-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T11:44:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49737.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49737.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen shows a live broadcast of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaking Sunday, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/donald-trump-china-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T12:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49795-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49795.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping greets Joe Biden, then the U.S. vice president, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-glaciers-melt-shocking-pace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T13:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49809.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49809.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meltwater from the Laohugou No. 12 glacier flows through the Qilian mountains in Subei Mongol Autonomous County in China's Gansu province.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/world/science-health-world/trumps-environment-legacy-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T14:25:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49817.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49817.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump after announcing his intention to abandon the Paris Agreement in June 2017. Most of Trump’s environmental policies, which erased or loosened nearly 100 rules and regulations on pollution in the air, water and atmosphere, can be reversed, though not immediately. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/world/science-health-world/china-vaccine-trial-halted-brazil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T14:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49820.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49820.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech at the Sao Lucas Hospital in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, in August. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/business/economy-business/april-september-current-account-surplus-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T14:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49814.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49814.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's current account surplus in the first half of fiscal 2020 plummeted to the lowest level in over five years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/national/japan-missile-defense-plan-end-of-year-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T16:15:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37299.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37299.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a television news broadcast showing file footage of a North Korean missile test at a railway station in Seoul on April 14.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/world/science-health-world/pfizers-ultracold-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T16:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49821.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49821.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This Pfizer "freezer farm," a football field-sized facility for storing finished COVID-19 vaccines, is under construction in Kalamazoo, Michigan. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/business/economy-business/yoshihide-suga-budget-coronavirus-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:10:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49946.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49946.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spectators wearing protective masks watch athletes' performances at a sporting event in Tokyo on Sunday. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday instructed Cabinet ministers to compile a third supplementary budget for fiscal 2020 to finance a fresh economic stimulus package to bolster the economy, which has been rocked by the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-us-troop-hosting-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:21:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49847-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49847.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan and the United States will launch formal negotiations later this week on cost-sharing for hosting American troops in Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/09/national/japan-jo-baiden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49614-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49614.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayor Yutaka Umeda's profile is posted to the website of Yamato, a small town of 15,000 people in Kumamoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/national/science-health/japan-astronaut-soichi-noguchi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49962.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49962.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Astronaut Soichi Noguchi speaks at an online news conference organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-land-minister-bashes-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:54:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49899.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49899.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Land minister Kazuyoshi Akaba posted, then deleted, a tweet criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's refusal to accept defeat in last week's election.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/national/science-health/prioritize-older-people-administering-coronavirus-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49799.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49799.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial is vaccinated at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore in May.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/national/japan-leaderless-us-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49954.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49954.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo should prepare for a "leaderless era" as U.S. global leadership gradually withers, an adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/business/economy-business/donald-trump-joe-biden-japan-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49762.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49762.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden is seen as preferring a more multilateral approach to trade, but experts see no immediate return of the U.S. to what is now the 11-member TPP trade framework.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/national/science-health/listening-deep-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T19:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49782.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49782.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tube worms cover a sulfide chimney deep underwater in the Pacific Ocean. To the untrained ear, a hydrothermal vent generates a viscous, muffled burbling that recalls an ominous pool of magma or a simmering pot of soup.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/business/corporate-business/mizuho-consumer-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T19:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49775.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49775.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Fujiwara, president and chief executive officer of Mizuho Bank, says the bank will start selling information on consumers' spending habits during an interview in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/10/world/science-health-world/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T19:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49751.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49751.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clinical research coordinator Tammy Lewis-McCauley administers an injection to Katelyn Evans, a trial participant, as part of the hospital’s clinical trial of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on Oct. 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper address the daily White House coronavirus response briefing as President Donald Trump listens at the White House in Washington in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as they pose for photos at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The diffusion index of confidence among "economy watchers," such as taxi drivers and restaurant staff, in their current conditions compared with three months ago rose 5.2 points from September to 54.5 for October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., delivers a keynote speech at the Junior Chamber International World Congress in Yokohama on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T10:56:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexandra Wong at a "Lennon Wall" with protest messages in Hong Kong]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 2-year-old German Shephard, Kureba-go, was discovered Tuesday, two days after escaping on Mount Nagusa in Hyogo Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A golden retriever trained to help child crime victims overcome the psychological burden of testifying in court]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akita dogs are known for their loyalty, as well as their appealing looks.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T13:38:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff sanitize seats at Takasaki Arena in Gunma Prefecture, where the All-Japan senior artistic gymnastics championships was held, in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T14:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House briefing room last Thursday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wear masks as they walk through a shopping arcade in Sapporo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T16:36:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi speaks to reporters at the ministry in October after agreeing over the phone with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper to work closely on finding an alternative to the scrapped deployment of the land-based Aegis Ashore missile interception system.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T17:10:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Liberal Democractic Party’s Seiko Noda, former internal affairs minister and the first female chair of the Lower House Budget Committee, tells The Japan Times about her ambitions to become the country’s next prime minister but points to old-school politics as one of the main obstacles impeding women’s chances.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An autonomous version of Acura's RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD undergoes testing at a facility in Concord, California, in 2016.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T22:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50231.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy in the three months to September likely saw the biggest expansion in 40 years, as business activities restarted despite the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T22:15:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T22:19:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50022.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Massive government and central bank aid has spurred lending and kept companies afloat during the pandemic-fueled recession, reducing the need to ramp up loan loss provisions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Industry minister Hiroshi Kajiyama attends an online meeting of ministers from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership member countries held Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-11T22:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin, in central China's Shanxi Province, in 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[CoronaVac is one of 11 experimental vaccines, produced by some of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical companies, currently in Phase 3 trials. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It is not immediately clear why there is so much changeover taking place at the Pentagon just one week after the U.S. election, with Trump contesting the results]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives for an extraordinary session at the Lower House in Tokyo on Oct. 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. is making a serious attempt to attract fans in Japan with its new Xbox consoles released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in the city of Osaka's Umeda district on Tuesday. In the past week, an abrupt increase in infections has been seen in Osaka, Nagoya, Aichi and Kanagawa prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-12T09:23:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy lawmakers join hands at the start of a news conference at a Legislative Council office in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff of a nonprofit organization in Tokyo that supports women offer online advice to those seeking help.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news report shown at a railway station in Seoul on Monday shows South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump leaves after speaking to reporters in the briefing room of the White House last Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen features Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki delivering a coronavirus public information message at a junction in Sapporo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial service for former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is held in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-12T16:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Core private-sector machinery orders dropped 4.4% in September, according to government data, as the pace of recovery in the auto sector slowed.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer is given the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidate in August in Detroit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Iris satellite during testing]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker administers a shot of Russia's experimental Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-12T17:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at an event in Brasilia on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-transition-teams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T17:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50581.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden departs following a brief news conference at the theater serving as his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/business/corporate-business/nissan-cuts-loss-estimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T17:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50466.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. posted a ¥4.83 billion operating loss in the three months ended Sept. 30 after sales fell due to the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/national/onagawa-reactor-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (center) hold talks Wednesday in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, with Yoshiaki Suda (left), mayor of the town of Onagawa in the prefecture and Hiroshi Kameyama, mayor of Ishinomaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/20/national/japanese-scientists-salt-resistant-rice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:31:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39082.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan-based team of biological scientists has developed a new rice variety that is salt-resistant.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:36:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in an Amazon rainforest reserve south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 15. During an election campaign debate, U.S. President-elect Biden proposed creating a $20 billion global fund to stop deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/business/development-banks-climate-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:38:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a demonstration to urge politicians to act against climate change in Paris in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/world/us-coronavirus-leadership-vacuum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50287.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump talks with advisers in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/world/thousands-flee-ethiopia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50557.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a media conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump speaks during an election night event in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/asia-pacific/hong-kong-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50352.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An estimated 1 million people gather for a June 2019 demonstration against a law proposed to extradite Hong Kong citizens to mainland China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/bidens-path-back-iran-nuclear-deal-wont-easy-fast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T23:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50586.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with Vice President Joe Biden at his side as he delivers a statement about the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six major world powers in July 2015. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japans-council-economic-fiscal-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T23:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50172.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on Oct. 6 that it would serve as his administration’s “command center” for economic policy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/national/biden-suga-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T23:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50305.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A large screen shows reports on Joe Biden's U.S. presidential election victory in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-s-korea-senior-officials-agree-cooperate-mend-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T09:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/national/suga-biden-phone-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T11:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50245.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo after holding telephone talks with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/corporate-business/disney-coronavirus-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T11:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50632.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor greets Disney characters during the reopening of Disneyland to the public, after a second closure due to COVID-19, in Hong Kong on Sept. 25.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/business/economy-business/tokyo-ramen-prices-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T11:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50261.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diners are spaced apart due to social distancing measures at a Ramen King Kouraku Honpo noodle store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/06/national/social-issues/online-nursery-hunting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T13:59:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41889.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kaori Suzuki, who heads a day care facility in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, responds to questions from prospective applicants in an online roundtable event in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/20/world/science-health-world/ghostly-particles-neutrinos-give-scientists-new-understanding-universe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T15:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[f-neutrino-a-20180721.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's impression of the active galactic nucleus shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the accretion disk sending a narrow high-energy jet of matter into space, perpendicular to the disc in this image by Science Communication Lab in Kiel Germany, released on July 12. In a study published in the journal Science, researchers have determined that a supermassive black hole like this one is the source of high-energy neutrinos detected on Earth.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/economy-business/japan-economic-losses-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T17:24:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50621.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50621.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nearly empty ramen shop in Yokohama in October. Economists estimate Japan's gross domestic product will have its biggest growth spurt since 1968 in the three months through September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/topix-stocks-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T17:28:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Helped by strong domestic earnings results as well as hopes for a rebound in the global economy, the 225-issue Nikkei average is trading at over 25,000 for the first time since 1991.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/corporate-business/japan-carmakers-bounce-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T18:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50734.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Struggling Nissan Motor Co. has cuts its annual estimated operating loss this business year from ¥470 billion to ¥340 billion.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/uk-dominic-cummings-quits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T19:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50796.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No. 10 Downing St. special advisor Dominic Cummings leaves his residence in London on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/asia-pacific/uk-china-envoy-hong-kong-lawmakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T19:20:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy legislator Claudia Mo (center) poses for photographers before handing in her resignation letters at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/world/chinese-military-eying-ai-gain-cyber-space-dominance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:14:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:22:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People look at Honda Motor Co.'s electric vehicle Honda e at the Tokyo Motor Show held in Tokyo in October last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/economy-business/japan-biden-bilateral-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:28:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50640.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (center) speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office after talking with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden over the phone Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/corporate-business/mitsubishi-aircrafts-spacejet-project/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49611.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From discussions with insiders and sources that were previously involved in the project, it seems clear that the pandemic is simply the final nail in the coffin for Mitsubishi's jet, putting an end to an endeavor that had already suffered a near terminal loss of momentum.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/national/masatoshi-koshiba-nobel-prize-obit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:31:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50689.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatoshi Koshiba was a co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/election-pm-suga-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:32:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50652.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in an interview at the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50645.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The FTI headquarters in Washington. FTI, a global consulting firm, helped design, staff and run organizations and websites funded by energy companies that appear to represent grassroots support for fossil-fuel initiatives.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50671.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People feed pigeons on a street in Goyang, South Korea, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/2020-us-election-polls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50641.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Voters cast their ballots in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 3. This year’s misleading polls had real-world effects for both political parties in the U.S. Presidential and Congressional races.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/world/harvard-race-admissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:34:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50639.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students and pedestrians walk through the Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/trump-bans-u-s-investments-chinese-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50634.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50634.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order on Thursday that will ban Americans from investing in Chinese firms that could help Beijing's military and security apparatus.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/coal-ships-china-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:35:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ship waits to be filled with a load of coal near Merewether Beach in Newcastle, north of Sydney, in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/asia-pacific/trump-taiwan-hong-kong-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:36:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee arranges bundles of the Apple Daily newspaper with news of the U.S. presidential election at the company's printing facility in Hong Kong on Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/business/corporate-business/tiktok-app-trump-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trump has made the fight over TikTok a central front in his broader efforts to crack down on the influence of China’s technology industry in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:37:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man works in a Beijing packaging facility of Chinese vaccine-maker Sinovac Biotech, which is developing an experimental coronavirus disease vaccine, during a government-organized media tour on Sept. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T07:41:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Marine Corps Raider with the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion performs close-quarters battle training at Eglin Range in Florida in May 2018. Taiwanese media reported Monday that the Marine Raiders, the branch’s special operations force, have begun annual training sessions for Taiwanese Marines on the island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/12/national/japan-spectator-cap-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T08:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of Japan's COVID-19 response (right), talks with Shigeru Omi, head of the coronavirus government panel, at the panel's meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/national/princess-mako-marriage-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T08:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Princess Mako (right) travels with her sister Princess Kako in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-vows-support-asean-virus-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T08:20:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Association of Southeast Asian Nations annual summit is held via videoconference on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T09:17:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50860.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People eat at a restaurant in Tokyo on Friday night. Japan saw a total of 1,704 new coronavirus cases the same day, topping the previous record high of 1,660 marked Thursday as experts warned of a possible "third wave" of infections.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T09:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50773.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wei Fenghe]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T11:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over 300 drones fly in the shape of people wearing face masks over Olympic Park in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T12:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50877.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Joe Biden walk down a red carpet on the tarmac during an arrival ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/business/financial-markets/japanese-banks-earnings-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T12:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s biggest banks on Friday warned of a bleaker outlook for the next six months as the resurgent pandemic slams economies. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T12:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50863.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nitori CEO Akio Nitori (right) and Shimachu President Takaaki Okano at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/nasa-japan-soichi-noguchi-spacex/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T12:49:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50875.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, wear SpaceX spacesuits during a dress rehearsal on Thursday in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a scheduled launch to the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/media-national/reaction-videos-youtube/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T19:55:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48523.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[George Japan is among a number of YouTubers who are producing reaction videos about Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/satellite-japanese-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T13:16:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50878.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A microsatellite co-developed by the Fukui Prefectural Government is scheduled to be launched in March 2021 from Kazakhstan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-biden-briefings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T13:25:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50635.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden participates in a Veterans Day ceremony at the Philadelphia Korean War Memorial on Wednesday. President Donald Trump’s refusal to allow Biden and his transition staff access to government offices, secure communications and classified briefings prompted growing warnings on Thursday, including from Republicans, that keeping Biden in the dark potentially endangers the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T13:43:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50906.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted to aides that he really defeated Joe Biden on Nov. 3, but it is unclear whether he actually believes it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/joe-biden-inauguration-70000-deaths-coronavirus-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T14:15:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A patient is wheeled into the hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T14:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dominic Cummings, a former top adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, leaves No. 10 Downing St. in London on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-14T17:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activist Theary Seng, pictured in 2012, is to appear at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Nov. 26 to stand trial for conspiracy to commit treason and incitement to commit a felony. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-15T02:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50869.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A robot capable of asking customers to wear masks at an Osaka store in October]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/13/national/social-issues/japans-next-novel-coronavirus-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-15T10:19:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women wearing kimono and masks walk in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-15T12:42:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken is interviewed in Paris in March 2016.    ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Labourers work at a fish market in Peshawar, Pakistan, last month. Fishermen in the country say a new government project on a pair of islands in Karachi would destroy their livelihoods. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators carry letters written to the king, as part of a rally to call for the ouster of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha's government and reforms for the monarchy, in Bangkok earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hanko seals no longer in use by companies are seen collected at a Tokyo temple for a "memorial service" in October before being discarded.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Green troubles: Medical marijauna grows in a American greenhouse. In Japan, use of the plant has been demonized.   Istock]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T09:15:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama attend an online signing ceremony for the RCEP regional trade pact on Sunday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/rcep-japan-asia-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T09:18:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaders of the Asia-Pacific nations attend the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) summit online on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/15/national/coronavirus-tokyo-255-sunday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T11:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51057.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 255 new coronaviurs cases on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at the recent 20th Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaders from 16 Asia-Pacific countries including Japan, China and India pose for a photo near Bangkok on Monday prior to a meeting of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/08/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-party-poll-plank-saying-give-medical-pot-chance/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Actress Saya Takagi, a candidate for Shinto Kaikaku (New Renaissance Party), talks with voters in Tokyo's Sugamo district, an area popular with elderly people, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gurney is returned to an ambulance outside the emergency entrance at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, on April 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women pose for photographs in front of maple leaves at a park in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T14:38:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attend a Make America Great Again rally near the White House on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T14:40:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A giant screen shows the tally near the end of the Singles’ Day shopping festival at the command center of Alibaba’s e-commerce platform Tmall in Hangzhou, eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T15:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito (center left) and other imperial family members wave to the crowd during a New Year greeting event at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T16:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to supporters outside her home, where she had been placed under house arrest for seven years, in Yangon in November 2010. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over 80% of respondents are concerned about a recent spike in coronavirus cases in Japan, a survey shows. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-unrest-conspiracies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:20:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of President Donald Trump and counterprotesters stand off during a rally in support of the president near Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/business/economy-business/japanese-economy-rebounds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:22:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51163.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy in the July-September period grew an annualized real 21.4% from the previous quarter, rebounding sharply from a record postwar slump.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/new-zealand-maori-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:23:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta attends a Cabinet meeting at Parliament House in Wellington on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:24:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51169.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office Sunday following an online summit meeting of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership members.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:25:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49644.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The charm wears off: Prostitutes are put on display in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo. The early days of the area are romanticized in the 1770 novel, "The Playboy Dialect."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/15/national/japan-checkup-system-ai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:33:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51002.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[East Asia Summit leaders hold an online meeting on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/business/corporate-business/walmart-stake-seiyu-rakuten-kkr/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:33:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51174.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Seiyu GK headquarters in Tokyo. Walmart Inc. is selling a majority stake in Seiyu to KKR &amp; Co. and Rakuten Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/japan-travel-coronavirus-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50908.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A crowd approaches Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba Prefecture on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/media-national/gender-parity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49277.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49277.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social studies textbooks in Japan's elementary schools typically show men as firefighters and office workers, and women as nurses and day care workers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/vietnam-typhoon-vamco/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50973.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50973.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man uses a plastic canister to float while negotiating rising floodwaters from Typhoon Vamco in Marikina, Philippines, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/15/national/japanese-firms-high-tech-face-shields-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:38:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51016.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51016.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sharp Corp.'s face shield made with a titanium frame]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/science-health-world/australia-climate-change-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:38:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49778.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49778.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A summer of deadly wildfires has prompted many Australians to demand greater action to tackle climate change, but their leader remains firmly set on the use of  fossil fuels.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/al-qaida-no-2-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50932.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50932.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The FBI wanted poster for Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, the second-highest official in al-Qaida, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri. He was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials from multiple countries have confirmed. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/science-health-world/uk-coronavirus-tests-care-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50930.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50930.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to care homes in parts of England will be able to get tested for COVID-19 under a new pilot plan aimed at reducing onerous restrictions in time for Christmas, the health ministry said Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-state-legislatures-donald-trump-electors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:40:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50873.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing on Nov. 7. Some Trump allies have suggested that Republican lawmakers should override the will of voters who elected Joe Biden the next president. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-prosecution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50879.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50879.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump visits Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday. When he leaves the White House in January, Trump will be more vulnerable than ever to a pending grand jury investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into the president’s family business and its practices, as well as his taxes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-us-defense-chiefs-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50874-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50874.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard vessel sails near Uotsuri Island, one of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, in August 2013. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/osaka-ishin-no-kai-nippon-ishin-no-kai-referendum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49807.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49807.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui (right) and Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura face reporters Nov. 2 after a referendum for a plan to merge Osaka's 24 wards was voted down.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/joe-biden-national-security-transition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:45:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50868.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50868.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/national/sapporo-residents-stay-home-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:56:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51257.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51257.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki (right) and Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto speak to reporters Monday at the prefectural government building.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/business/economy-business/japan-rcep-joe-biden-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T18:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51124.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a rally at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport on Nov. 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/15/national/social-issues/male-babysitters-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T18:25:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50047.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A male nursery teacher plays with children at a day care center in the city of Chiba. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/17/asia-pacific/south-korea-social-distancing-coronavirus-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T12:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51361.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street in Seoul on Monday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/17/world/who-cluster-coronavirus-staff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T13:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51398.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51398.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The World Health Organization said on Monday there had been 65 coronavirus infections among staff at its Geneva headquarters. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/30/national/north-korea-abducted-japanese-completely-resolved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T13:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41427.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41427.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (second from right), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday after meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga .]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/15/business/corporate-business/softbank-spacs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T13:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44324.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44324.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank has revealed it will set up a special purpose acquisition company to raise funds for investing in start-ups.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/13/business/corporate-business/softbank-vision-fund-blank-check-company/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T13:34:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43972.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43972.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rajeev Misra, head SoftBank's Vision Fund, says the fund will outline plans for a blank-check company in the next two weeks.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/business/corporate-business/softbank-privatization-bad-idea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T13:34:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42367.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42367.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Almost everyone except founder Masayoshi Son at Softbank Group opposes the idea of going private.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/17/national/meishi-mask/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T15:19:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51383.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51383.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese firm aims to make it easier to recognize and remember people by printing meishi (business cards) on masks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/17/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-near-concession/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in Washington in June. Trump began a tweet Sunday morning with the phrase "He won,” interpreted by even fellow Republicans as a possible concession.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A satellite image shows the Natanz nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, on Oct. 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The exchange rates and logos of Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash are displayed on a cryptocurrency ATM of blockchain payment service provider Vaerdex at the headquarters of Swiss Falcon Private Bank in Zurich in May 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akemi Shimada, chair of the Aotearoa-Ainu Mosir Exchange Program, says she has gained confidence as an Ainu since visiting New Zealand and experiencing Maori culture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the American economy in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ousted Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn attends a news conference at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, north of Beirut, on Sept. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-17T18:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama attends an online ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in the Susukino entertainment district of Sapporo this month. The central government has pledged to financially support shops and restaurants that are asked to shorten their business hours as coronavirus cases surge nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meltwater from the Laohugou No. 12 glacier flows past one of the faces of the glacier in the Qilian mountains in China's Gansu province. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher works in a lab run by Moderna Inc. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/17/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-vaccines-moderna-pfizer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T23:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51358.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researchers work in a lab run by Moderna Inc., who said Monday that its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/16/world/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T23:13:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse prepares a shot that is part of a possible COVID-19 vaccine developed by the National Institutes of Health and drugmaker Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, New York, in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51312.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials in Takikawa, Hokkaido, installed a “Monster Wolf” near a residential neighborhood after wild bears became a nuisance, increasing the risk of deadly encounters with humans.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-17T23:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photographer looks at pictures depicting the 2019 campus siege at the height of the city's pro-democracy protests at an exhibition in the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-white-house-team-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T10:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks with outside diplomatic, intelligence, and defense experts in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/business/tech/twitter-fleets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T11:10:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51732.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some tweets will disappear after 24 hours in a new Twitter feature. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/business/corporate-business/airasia-india-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T12:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51642.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[AirAsia Japan Co. filed for bankruptcy with the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic that’s wiped out travel globally took its toll.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/asia-pacific/hong-kong-lawmakers-arrested-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T13:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51741.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-lawmaker Eddie Chu is taken away by security guards during a Legislative Council session in Hong Kong in May. Police arrested Chu and two other former opposition lawmakers on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/09/national/morning-after-pill-without-prescription/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T13:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emergency contraceptive pills are currently available in Japan only with a doctor's prescription.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/31/national/global-warming-japanese-edible-kelp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T13:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kelp is dried in Nemuro, Hokkaido]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/11/national/tropical-coral-global-warming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T13:26:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A seaweed forest in November 2007 (top) in waters off Kyonan in Chiba Prefecture had disappeared by June this year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/14/business/japan-sustainable-tuna-fishing-label/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T13:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tuna festival is held in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/business/japan-graduate-job-offers-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T13:56:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Job-seeking students attend a job fair in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-18T15:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51588.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA flight test is conducted at the Point Mugu Sea Range on San Nicolas Island, California, in June 2015. On Tuesday, a U.S. Navy Aegis-equipped destroyer successfully intercepted a mock intercontinental ballistic missile in a first-of-its-kind test employing the SM-3 Block IIA weapon.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/national/japan-kim-jong-un-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T17:22:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51794.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The attendance of Kim Jong Un at the Tokyo Games has not been decided, a Japanese official said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/national/social-issues/nuclear-power-onagawa-restart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No. 2 reactor at Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa nuclear power plant]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/business/economy-business/japan-october-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:08:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51739.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sports utility vehicles bound for shipment are seen at a port in Yokohama in October. The rate of decline in Japan's exports slowed in October to just below the levels seen before the novel coronavirus pandemic, helped by expanding demand in the United States and China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/business/uk-green-plan-ban-gas-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:09:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51637.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The M6 motorway near Birmingham, England. The U.K. will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/business/corporate-business/softbank-masayoshi-son-ai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51734.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday that he has $80 billion in cash to buy back more shares and continue investing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51752.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden receives a briefing on national security via videoconference on Tuesday at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/asia-pacific/taiwan-grounds-f-16s-accident/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-rushed-corona-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:14:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51735.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese vaccine-maker Sinovac Biotech is developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/world/politics-diplomacy-world/corporations-lobby-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:14:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51733.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The dome of the U.S. Capitol rises behind the Washington Monument in Washington. Lobbyists and other advisers who help clients navigate Washington are quietly highlighting ties to President-elect Joe Biden and his team in pitches to prospective clients. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/sinovac-coronavirus-vaccine-immune-response/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sinovac Biotech packaging facility in Beijing]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Following 16 conflicting rulings from lower courts, the Supreme Court  rejected the demand of plaintiffs for the outcomes of the House of Councilors election held on July 21, 2019, to be nullified.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-19T18:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/19/business/tech/sony-microsoft-playstation-5-xbox-low-stock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T19:07:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A staff member plays a game using Microsoft's Xbox controller at the SK Telecom flagship store in Seoul on November 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/19/asia-pacific/typhoon-floods-submerge-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T19:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents with a pile of relief goods in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan Province, Philippines, on Monday. Torrential rains and back-to-back typhoons have ripped through the country in the past two weeks, turning a once picturesque river into a sea of murky brown, killing dozens and setting off deadly landslides.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/19/world/science-health-world/pfizer-biontech-coronavirus-vaccine-deliveries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T19:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51982.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was found to be consistent across different ages and ethnicities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/19/business/economy-business/green-digital-funding-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T23:00:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51981.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government needs to set up a new green fund in the upcoming extra budget, one of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's advisers has said.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/19/national/japan-another-coronavirus-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T10:57:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike attends a coronavirus meeting Thursday at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/corporate-business/south-korea-corporate-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T14:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Critics say the dominance of South Korea's conglomerates, such as Samsung, hampers fair business practices, stifles the competition crucial to economic growth and can facilitate the transfer of company power and wealth within families despite opposition from some shareholders.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/schoolchildren-rescued-seto-inland-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T15:12:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children wait for rescue on a sinking ship in the sea off Kagawa Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/hokkaido-mom-jailed-starving-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T16:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman lays flowers in front of the apartment building in Sapporo where two-year-old Kotori Ikeda died in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/china-defies-elon-musk-hydrogen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T16:35:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52333.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese officials are promoting the development of hydrogen-powered cars, trucks and buses, with Beijing offering to reward cities that achieve adoption targets. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/asia-pacific/china-debt-relief-poor-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T16:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese characters on a construction crane and scaffolding in Lusaka, Zambia, in December 2018]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/japan-private-digital-currency-tests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:15:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/asia-pacific/australia-digests-afghanistan-killings-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:18:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52313.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief of the Australian Defence Force General Angus Campbell delivers the findings from the inspector-general of the ADF Afghanistan Inquiry in Canberra on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/asia-pacific/hong-kong-police-campus-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52319.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A graduating student wearing a Guy Fawkes mask attends a protest at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a campus security officer observes with a video recorder on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/march-2011-victims-portraits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shuichi Abe (right) teaches students how to draw portraits for criminal cases at the police academy in Miyagi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/corporate-business/us-firms-upbeat-china-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52253.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take selfies of the Pudong skyline as they stand on the Bund in Shanghai on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/eu-leaders-no-deal-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:59:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52254.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brexit trade negotiations were suspended Thursday at a crucial stage because an EU negotiator tested positive for the coronavirus. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier (center) said that "we have decided to suspend the negotiations at our level for a short period.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/world/science-health-world/who-no-remdesivir-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:04:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52370.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52370.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bottle containing the drug Remdesivir is held by a health worker at the Institute of Infectology of Kenezy Gyula Teaching Hospital of the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary, on Oct. 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/soichi-noguchi-spacex-iss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52293.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi speaks to reporters from aboard the International Space Station on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/economy-business/october-cpi-falls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52245.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Go To Travel campaign poster is put up in front of a shop along the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa district Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/world/science-health-world/wildlife-migration-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52246.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climate change is already causing a surge in wildlife diseases, a study published in the journal Science notes, and people are already being infected with diseases coming from wildlife, including COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-leads-georgia-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:46:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52268.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Election workers process absentee ballots at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Nov. 3. Georgia’s statewide hand recount of more than five million ballots reaffirmed on Thursday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden notched an upset in a state that has long been considered a Republican stronghold.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/corporate-business/nissan-electric-pickup-truck-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52243.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. is considering buying a battery-electric powertrain from Detroit-based Hercules Electric Vehicles for its Titan pickup truck.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/world/facebook-hate-speech-estimate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:47:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52239.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power" in Washington on July 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/trump-will-join-apec-summit-u-s-official-tells-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52195.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52195.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Presidents Donald Trump will put in an appearance at the 2020 APEC summit, Malaysia has said, citing a U.S. official.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/business/selling-dog-as-mutton-mobile-carriers-dip-ministers-rebuke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T01:41:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52342.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryota Takeda]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-wartime-labor-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T10:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52236.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jin-pyo, a South Korean lawmaker who leads the South Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Association, met with Japanese politicians who are members of the counterpart Japan-South Korea Parliamentarians' Association at the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/japan-hospitals-stretched-coronavirus-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T10:06:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52339.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors treat a COVID-19 patient at an intensive care unit at Kyoto University Hospital. Parts of the image have been blurred by the hospital for privacy.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/hitoshi-oshitani-japan-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T10:15:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52221.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitoshi Oshitani, a virologist and infectious disease specialist, speaks during an interview in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-jr-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T10:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52474.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump Jr. delivers a pre-recorded speech to the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention from Washington on Aug. 24. Trump Jr., tested positive for coronavirus infection earlier this week and is isolating.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/asia-pacific/sandra-nathan-south-korea-coronavirus-peace-corps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T12:10:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52500.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A care package Sandra Nathan received from South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/politics-diplomacy/apec-trade-recovery-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T12:29:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52475.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivers a speech during a virtual meeting ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/business/economy-business/japan-coronavirus-economic-double-dip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T12:49:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52505.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians wait to cross a road in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. On Friday, the capital reported 522 new cases, topping 500 for a second straight day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/asia-pacific/south-korea-third-wave-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T13:31:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52519.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wearing a face mask walks past in front of a screen showing precautions against the coronavirus in Seoul on Friday. The letters read: "How to wear a mask." ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-taiwan-economic-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T15:36:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52499.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keith Krach]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/japan-go-to-travel-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T17:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52477.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A throng of travelers make their way through the departures lobby at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday morning amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/hong-kong-protest-families/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T18:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives and supporters of 12 Hong Kong people detained in mainland China prepare balloons before releasing them from a peak overlooking Yantian district in the neighboring city of Shenzhen. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/go-to-travel-coronavirus-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T07:07:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An advertisement for the Go To Travel campaign at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Moving forward, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said prefectural governors will decide whether the travel campaign should be suspended in their respective areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/asia-pacific/south-korea-300-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T11:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fans wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus cheer during the Game 4 of the Korean Series, the Korea Baseball Organization's championship round, between Doosan Bears and NC Dinos at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on  Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/hiroshima-nagasaki-urge-state-sign-ratify-u-n-nuke-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T14:07:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (center) hands a letter of request to senior vice foreign minister Eiichiro Washio along with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday at the Foreign Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/world/coronavirus-misinformation-us-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T14:39:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former top campaign aide and White House adviser]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/world/social-issues-world/coronavirus-europe-data-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T14:45:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds a sign reading "Say no to racism" during an anti-racism protest in Lisbon in July. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/national/japan-schools-foreign-nationals-multilingual-coronavirus-info/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T18:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/business/hong-kong-singapore-travel-delay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T09:54:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up outside a COVID-19 testing center in Hong Kong on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-us-official-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T10:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flight attendant is seen behind a plastic shield amid the coronavirus pandemic at Songshan Airport in Taipei on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/social-issues/mie-foreign-workers-suffer-downturn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T11:06:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Raquel Garcia, a third generation Japanese-Filipino who lost her job at a factory in Mie Prefecture earlier this month, studies Japanese at a labor union gathering on Nov. 11 in Matsusaka.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/asia-pacific/south-korea-restricts-restaurants-gatherings-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T11:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A store in the Yeonnam district of Seoul on Sunday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-multilateralism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T13:50:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52770.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's virtual speech is aired live at the media center for the 15th annual G20 Leaders' Summit in Riyadh on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/world/social-issues-world/two-child-policy-china-fertility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T16:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cross a street in Shanghai on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-south-korea-lawmaker-groups-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T23:18:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52851-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52851.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Japan and South Korea remain deeply divided over historical issues, parliamentarians’ associations from both countries are playing an important role in behind the scenes diplomacy on all aspects of the bilateral relationship for their respective governments. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-antony-blinken-secretary-of-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T23:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52751.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52751.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antony Blinken, a longtime adviser to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, is set to be named as secretary of state, sources have said. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/world/paris-climate-donald-trump-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T23:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52761.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52761.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump used his address to the second day of the Group of 20 virtual summit  to again slam the Paris deal, justifying his decision to walk away from the accord "to protect American workers.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/world/us-first-vaccinations-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T23:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52758.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lab technician sorts blood samples for COVID-19 vaccination study at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, in August. The United States hopes to begin a sweeping program of COVID-19 vaccinations in early December. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/national/suga-says-japan-lead-international-efforts-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T23:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52748.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52748.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a  news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 17. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/national/earthquake-ibaraki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T23:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The epicenter of the earthquake that occurred on Nov. 22 at 7:06 p.m. is located in Ibaraki Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/national/social-issues/coronavirus-clusters-foreign-nationals-japan-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:01:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52473.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52473.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical personnel consult with foreign residents in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/asia-pacific/kimchi-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52680-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52680.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Entertainers at a kimchi making competition during the Kimjang festival in Goesan county in South Korea on Nov. 7. Families that have grown weary of eating commercial kimchi in big cities have started making pilgrimages to the countryside where they can learn how to prepare it on their own. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-moon-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:02:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52676.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52676.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Long March-5 rocket is seen at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province in July. China on Tuesday moved the massive rocket into place in preparation for launching a mission to bring back materials from the moon for the first time in four decades. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/business/china-german-companies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:03:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52660.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee works on an industrial robot at Hahn Automation in Rheinboellen.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/business/nuclear-power-uk-green-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:04:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52657.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52657.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nuclear reactors A and B at the Hinkley Point nuclear power station near Cannington, southwest England]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/world/sexuality-poland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52629.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52629.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators take part in protest in front of the Education Ministry in Warsaw earlier this month as part of a wave of demonstrations against Poland's near-total ban on abortion and worsening LGBT rights. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/national/yoshihide-suga-surnames-married-couples/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52619.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52619.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-loses-pennsylvania-suit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:07:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52589.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52589.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump listens during an event in the briefing room of the White House on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/japan-msdf-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52568.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52568.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial view of Chinese-occupied Subi Reef in the Spratly Island chain of the disputed South China Sea is seen in April 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/media-national/u-s-election-fake-news-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:09:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50904.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50904.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tweets by Japanese social media users that include pro-Donald Trump hashtags often contain references to QAnon, a conspiracy theory that has gained prominence over the past 12 months.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/world/social-issues-world/youtube-education-videos-ads/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51767.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51767.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[YouTube has set up a service, YouTube Kids, which it recommends parents use if allowing their children to watch videos unsupervised.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/world/science-health-world/vaccines-effective-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:14:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52524.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52524.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts say it’s easy to misconstrue early results because the language vaccine researchers use to talk about their trials can be hard for outsiders to understand.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/business/corporate-business/ana-share-offering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:14:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52506.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52506.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, ANA Holdings Inc. plans to issue new shares following a board meeting as early as next week to raise around ¥200 billion. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/10-year-cancer-survival-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:15:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52502.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52502.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 10-year survival rate for cancer patients between 2004 and 2007 in Japan was up 1.1. percentage points to 58.3% from the previous survey, according to the National Cancer Center Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/japan-couples-relationship-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52497.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52497.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a survey of couples, 19.6% of 1,080 respondents aged in their 20s through 50s said their relationships had "improved" or "improved somewhat."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/world/science-health-world/climate-change-winter-ice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52503.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52503.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boy plays on the frozen lake at Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge outside of Ely, Minnesota, in April 2019. New research on the connection between climate change and winter drownings has found that reported drowning deaths are increasing exponentially in areas with warmer winters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/captain-arrested-ship-sinks-kagawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:17:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-surfaces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:19:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52461.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52461.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People buy disinfectant at a shopping mall in Hong Kong in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/christmas-display-santa-chatting-online/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:19:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52336.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A styrofoam display of Santa Claus dressed in blue to show gratitude to medical workers, along with other newsworthy figures, is seen on the roof of Uroko House in Kobe on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/20/national/fines-25-parking-offense-diplomats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:20:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/world/politics-diplomacy-world/g20-coronavirus-vaccine-distribution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T08:31:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga addresses the virtual G20 summit on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/asia-pacific/singapore-smiley-face-activist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T11:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52922.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jolovan Wham with his smiley face sign in Singapore in March. On Monday, Wham was charged with illegal public assembly. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/asia-pacific/year-after-hong-kong-campus-siege/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T11:55:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52934.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters run for cover after riot police fired tear gas as they tried to escape from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus and police in November last year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/business/financial-markets/japan-investors-global-stock-rally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T11:56:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52920.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investors in Japan bought the largest amount of the nation’s sovereign debt in seven years during the six months ended in September.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/asia-pacific/uk-british-judges-hong-kong-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T13:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52977.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has repeatedly spoken of the role of leading foreign judges in highlighting Hong Kong’s judicial independence.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/business/ghosns-repeated-arrests-extrajudicial-abuse-u-n/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T14:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52896.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn holds a news conference at the Maronite Christian Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/asia-pacific/china-40-year-plan-carbon-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T17:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52762.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Shanghai Waigaoqiao Power Generator Company coal power plant. Experts who specialize in the intricacies of emissions policy in China were stunned by Xi Jinping's U.N. speech, where he outlined the country's goal of carbon neutrality by 2060. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/business/keidanren-female-executives-2030/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T17:59:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52783.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, aims to have women occupying more than 30% of the executive positions at major companies by 2030.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/business/economy-business/china-japan-high-speed-rail-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T18:40:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52910.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A maglev test vehicle is on display at an exhibition center in Yamanashi Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/national/japan-imperial-family-women-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T18:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Female members of the imperial family may get a new honorific title after marriage to enable them to engage in public duties, government sources say.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/donald-trump-joe-biden-china-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T22:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53035.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53035.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks in the city of Kaohsiung on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/world/science-health-world/carbon-pricing-rises-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T23:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53090.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53090.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fridays for Future activists protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, in September. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/national/wild-bear-attacks-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T23:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52252.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52252.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Between April and September this year, wild bears were spotted 13,670 times across Japan, the highest six-month figure in five years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/national/japan-shut-schools-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T23:27:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53023.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53023.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education Minister Koichi Hagiuda said the government does not plan to ask schools to close despite the recent surge in coronavirus infections.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/world/science-health-world/which-of-these-faces-is-real/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T23:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52928.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52928.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Simulated people are starting to show up around the internet, used as masks by real people with nefarious intent.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/world/science-health-world/behind-oxford-vaccine-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T23:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52907.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52907.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, works on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/world/monolith-utah-desert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T10:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53133.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53133.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker inspects a metal monolith that was found installed in the ground in a remote area of red rock in Utah on Nov. 18. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/national/politics-diplomacy/china-japan-wang-yi-toshimitsu-motegi-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T10:42:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53122.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53122.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and his Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu Motegi, bump elbows as they meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/24/national/social-issues/sapporo-osaka-suspended-go-travel-destinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T13:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53085.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53085.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign for the Go To Travel campaign hangs on a shopping street in Sapporo. The government announced Tuesday Sapporo and Osaka will be temporarily removed from the campaign.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/hong-kong-carrie-lam-beijing-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T14:21:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53204.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam delivers her annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/business/boj-local-bank-aid-interest-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T15:44:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53140.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53140.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Atsushi Miyanoya]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/business/flying-safety-airlines-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T16:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53187.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53187.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security line at San Francisco International Airport on Monday ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/joe-biden-coronavirus-kim-jong-un-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T18:14:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52847.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52847.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his granddaughter Finnegan Biden look through binoculars to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette during a tour of the Demilitarized Zone, the military border separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, in December 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/yoshihide-suga-shinzo-abe-parties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T19:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53288.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53288.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga answers questions at the Lower House Budget Committee on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/crime-legal/zama-murders-appeal-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:04:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53249.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53249.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takahiro Shiraishi]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/go-to-travel-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:08:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53192.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53192.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at the Lower House Budget Committee on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/business/japan-tax-breaks-foreign-nationals-finance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:10:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53185.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53185.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government plans to introduce new tax breaks to encourage highly skilled financial professionals from abroad to stay in the country longer.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/world/science-health-world/climate-change-mount-everest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:11:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53191.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53191.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For two months last year, 34 scientists (along with sherpas and aides) turned Mount Everest into a scientific laboratory. The results were published in 16 papers last week in the journal One Earth.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/world/donald-trump-pardon-michael-flynn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53188.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53188.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, arrives at federal court in Washington in December 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/japan-afghanistan-reconstruction-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:13:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53148.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar (left) and Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis bump elbows prior to the plenary session of the 2020 Afghanistan Conference at the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/world/science-health-world/evidence-mutation-coronavirus-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53138.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A COVID-19 intensive care ward at at Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, Italy, in March. Multiple new findings suggest that a mutation near the beginning of the pandemic helped the virus spread more easily from person to person.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-hospitals-us-heartland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T22:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53144.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53144.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teresa Nguyen, a respiratory therapist, treats a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in Hutchinson, Kansas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-china-national-security-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T01:20:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53225.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53225.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, speaks to the media at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/tokyo-shorter-store-hours-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T09:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53239.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during a coronavirus meeting Wednesday at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/science-health/japan-experts-coronavirus-vaccines-safety/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T09:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53114.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53114.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer is given the Moderna mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Efficacy vaccine in Detroit on Aug. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-26T11:12:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Ginza district on Monday. Japan’s manufacturing and service sectors worsened at a faster pace in November, early purchasing managers’ indexes showed, adding to concern over the strength of the nation's economic recovery. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi holds space food items he brought from Japan to the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sales clerk at the Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. department store in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, conducts a demonstration Wednesday of an app that enables customers to chat via videoconference with sales clerks and see products in the store.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-xi-congratulates-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T15:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping attends an inauguration ceremony in Macao on Dec. 20, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/national/crime-legal/death-penalty-zama-murders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T15:39:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53393.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, who pleaded guilty to murdering, dismembering and storing the bodies of nine people in his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/business/tech/nintendo-switch-sharp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T16:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53364.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co.'s Switch and Switch Lite game consoles are displayed inside a Nintendo store in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/asia-pacific/thailand-protests-lese-majeste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T19:04:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators in Bangkok on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/national/ldp-lawmakers-back-aegis-ships-land-based-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T23:44:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53315.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducts a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System in Hawaii in November 2014. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/asia-pacific/coronavirus-us-prisons-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T23:58:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53436.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new emergency care facility that was erected to treat inmates infected with COVID-19 at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abereceipts-cherry-blossom-party-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is surrounded by reporters in the Diet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/national/suisen-microsatellite-fukui/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53408.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The microsatellite Suisen (front) and three other compact observational satellites are presented to the media in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/world/science-health-world/astrazeneca-corona-vaccine-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:13:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53517.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53517.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Since unveiling preliminary trial results, AstraZeneca has acknowledged having made a key mistake in the vaccine dosage received by some study participants, adding to questions about whether the vaccine’s apparently spectacular efficacy will hold up under additional testing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/asia-pacific/new-delhi-air-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:15:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53445.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a Delhi government anti-pollution squad report the status of a fire as smoke billows from burning garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/uk-hong-kong-china-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:16:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53375.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for a Cabinet meeting in July. 
]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/business/corporate-business/kirin-australia-bega-cheese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:19:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53400.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirin Holdings Co. will sell its Australian dairy and beverage business to Bega Cheese Ltd. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/climate-change-john-kerry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:22:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53412.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at an event of the World War Zero climate coalition during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Madrid in December 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/national/science-health/japans-new-ambassador-china-quarantined-two-weeks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53322.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paramilitary policemen stand guard in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing in December 2013. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/national/aichi-restaurants-close-early-corona/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T00:47:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53538.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in the Sakae entertainment district of Nagoya last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/donald-trump-electoral-college-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T10:27:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53592.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a videoconference with members of military in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/business/corporate-business/internet-banking-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T11:41:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53642.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Sumitomo Mitsui Bank employee hands out a paper slip with a QR code that will allow a customer to withdraw cash at the ATM, on Tuesday at its Chuorinkan branch in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/world/science-health-world/astrazeneca-global-vaccine-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T12:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53602.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A researcher in a laboratory at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, works on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/asia-pacific/yang-asha-monument/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T13:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53606.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A still-unfinished plaza in front of the statue of Yang Asha, a mythical ancestress, in the Chinese province of Guizhou, on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/26/business/financial-markets/esg-bonds-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T13:43:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53367.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The market's reception for so-called sustainability-linked bonds has been underwhelming.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/hungary-poland-eu-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T14:08:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53603.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brussels is investigating Hungary and Poland over democratic backsliding, making them prime candidates for cuts to funding that could top a combined €180 billion ($215 billion) in the coming years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/asia-pacific/covid-19-vaccine-china-black-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T14:33:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53658.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Technicians process COVID-19 coronavirus tests at a laboratory in Tianjin, China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/asia-climate-change-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T14:46:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53638.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Various products manufactured by Olam International Ltd. are displayed along a corridor at the company's office in Singapore in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-biden-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T14:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53605.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un views a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in a photo provided by the North Korean government on Nov. 29, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/asia-pacific/covid-19-vaccine-indonesia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T14:48:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53655.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor sits at a beach waiting for customers in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/asia-pacific/south-korea-corona-spike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T15:11:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53703.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High school students and staff wait in line to receive coronavirus tests at a makeshift clinic set up on a playground of a school in Sejong, South Korea, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/financial-markets/bond-market-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T16:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53594.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As the government prepares a third extra budget to pump up the COVID-19-hit economy, the bond market is trying to gauge how much additional debt will be issued.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/corporate-business/mitsui-fudosan-oasis-managment-tokyo-dome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T16:31:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53595.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsui Fudosan Co. is preparing to make a tender offer of about ¥100 billion for Tokyo Dome Corp.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/china-targets-australian-wine-latest-trade-retaliation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T16:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53687.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's new duties on Australian wine come just three months after the country started an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into Australian wine, and follows a raft of other measures barring imports from coal to copper to barley this year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/coronavirus-antibodies-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T17:04:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53705.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse takes a blood sample from a resident in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 1 as part of a program to test people for COVID-19 antibodies.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/new-fish-hokkaido/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T17:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51347.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen unload and sort out yellowtails by size at the Osatsube fishing port in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in October.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/muslim-kyushu-cemetery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T17:36:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50575.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muhammad Tahir Abbas Khan, a professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, points to the planned site for Islamic burials in the town of Hiji, Oita Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/crime-legal/shoplifting-plastic-bag-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T17:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supermarket in Hiroshima offers baskets of a different color to shoppers as they browse the aisles, so they will stand out if they pack their groceries into personal bags without going through cashiers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/emperors-new-year-event-corona/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T18:07:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 2 to see Emperor Naruhito and his family to greet the public at New Year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/government-digital-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T18:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takuya Hirai, minister in charge of digitalization, speaks Thursday in Tokyo at a task force meeting to prepare for the creation of the digital agency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/corporate-business/shimadzu-corona-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T18:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53769.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimadzu Corp. has started selling an automated COVID-19 test device at ¥2 million, which it says is much cheaper than similar products sold by other companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/go-to-travel-campaign-debate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T19:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers go through ticket gates at Gora Station in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/corporate-business/toyotas-october-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T01:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53712.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles bound for shipment at a port in Yokohama in October. The firm's global production rose 9.0% from a year earlier in October, when it saw the highest output on record for the month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/science-health/high-ratio-doctors-nurses-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T01:11:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53683.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor wears a protective gown at a newly built hospital for infectious diseases in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, in October. An OECD report says Japan has a greater capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic relative to other Asia-Pacific countries, as it has more doctors and nurses and better infrastructure.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/national/social-issues/osaka-restaurant-hours-covid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T01:15:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53679.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restaurants and bars in the Dotonbori district of Osaka. Eateries in the popular nightlife district are being asked to shorten their hours at a time when many had hoped traditional year-end parties would provide a much-needed boost.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/asia-pacific/hong-kong-coronavirus-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T12:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors eat and drink in an open restaurant in the Lan Kwai Fong nightlife area in Hong Kong on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/media-national/spa-magazine-sensitivity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T19:52:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52454.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Spa magazine claims that oversensitivity afflicts one person in five in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/fukushima-evacuees-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T14:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53899.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoko Saito, associate professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, listens to a female voluntary evacuee who moved to Osaka from Fukushima, in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/collision-fishing-boat-cargo-ship-east-japan-leaves-one-person-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T15:16:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53895.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fishing vessel capsizes on Saturday morning after colliding with a cargo vessel at a port in Ibaraki Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/suga-40-trillion-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T15:50:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53859.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Japan has already budgeted about ¥58 trillion to fight the coronavirus crisis, more than many other governments relative to the economy’s size.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/social-issues/female-politicians-quota/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T15:52:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53936.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A civic group submits a petition that calls for more female parliamentary representation to ruling party lawmaker Seiko Noda (center) in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/asia-pacific/beijing-himalayas-territory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T16:33:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Border Security Force soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint along a highway leading to Ladakh, in Kashmir's Ganderbal district in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/toshimitsu-motegi-china-senkaku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T18:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and his counterpart, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/japan-go-to-travel-osaka-sapporo-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T23:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53848.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sapporo's Susukino district on Thursday. Hokkaido recorded 252 new COVID-19 cases on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/world/iran-assassination-nuclear-scientist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T23:47:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53898.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scene of the attack that killed prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh outside Tehran on Friday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/27/business/corporate-business/jal-ana-coronavirus-funding/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T23:48:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53776.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53776.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA Holdings Inc. will raise as much as ¥332.1 billion via an overseas share placement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/world/science-health-world/uk-pfizer-biontech-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T10:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_54005.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54005.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE could see approval in the U.K. within days. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/world/killings-expose-iran-vulnerabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T10:51:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54010.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather in front of the Iranian Foreign Ministry in Tehran on Saturday, a day after the killing of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/world/macron-french-police-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T12:54:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54032.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators in Paris protest against a security bill that rights groups say would make it a crime to circulate an image of a police officer's face and would infringe journalists' freedom. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/business/apple-suppliers-china-exodus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T12:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54007.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mobile phones are tested at Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt., a unit of Foxconn Technology Co., in Sriperumbudur, India, last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/business/middle-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T13:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54058.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As the Indian economy bounces back from the pandemic, farmers are lapping up tractors while demand for personal vehicles, due to a lack of public transport and the need for safer travel options, has boosted sales of cars and motorcycles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/national/man-reaches-settlement-tokyo-company-boss-outed-gay/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T17:38:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54015.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man has reached a rare out-of-court settlement with his former company after a superior revealed his sexual orientation without his consent.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/13/national/social-issues/japans-bosozoku-bikers-a-vanishing-rebel-breed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T21:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former "bosozoku" biker Shotaro Nagasawa, 20, poses at his home in Osaka on Nov. 6. Embroidered on his "tokkofuku" fighting jacket is a four-letter slogan that reads "gaishu isshoku," meaning "vanquish your enemy with a single blow."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/18/national/documentary-chronicles-disappearing-world-of-bosozoku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T22:02:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Born to be mild: Film director Jamie Morris (left) and former "bosozoku" biker gang leader Kazuhiro Hazuki talk about the documentary "Sayonara Speed Tribes" after it was screened in Tokyo on April 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-11-29T22:09:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moviegoers line up for a screening of "Demon Slayer" outside a theater in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/national/science-health/ispace-colorado-lunar-lander/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T22:11:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyle Acierno (R), CEO of Ispace Technologies U.S., a subsidiary of Japanese space startup Ispace Inc., and Kursten O'Neill, Ispace's U.S. lander program director, in Denver, Colorado, on Nov. 9, 2020]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/28/national/social-issues/job-for-life-part-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T03:55:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53990.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Setsuko Hikita at her home in Tokyo on Nov. 15. Hikita sued her employer for paying her less than many of her co-workers and denying her a retirement allowance.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/national/politics-diplomacy/cherry-blossom-parties-abe-qa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T08:06:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe's 2019 cherry blossom viewing party, his last, was held in the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/asia-pacific/china-hong-kong-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T08:06:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students pose during a news conference to support anti-government protests before their graduation ceremony at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/national/tokyo-restaurants-close-early-corona/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T08:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Taiwanese restaurant in Shimbashi that decided to comply with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's call to shorten business hours to help combat a recent resurgence of coronavirus infections.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-drugs-regeneron-lilly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T08:07:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Regeneron Pharmaceuticals lab in Tarrytown, New York]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/29/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-election-fundraising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T08:08:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54018.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a Thanksgiving video teleconference with members of the military at the White House on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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