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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Edano (front), leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T04:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T08:33:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean firm SK bioscience is working on a technology transfer deal with Novavax that will allow it to produce and sell the vaccine on its own, the drugmaker arm of SK Chemicals said. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be treasury secretary]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T08:40:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T08:47:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[King Maha Vajiralongkorn has boosted his presence in Thailand since unrest broke out, returning in October from Germany, where he had spent much of his reign.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/20/business/economy-business/keidanren-pay-hikes-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T08:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuji Ohashi, vice chairman of the lobby known as Keidanren, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T08:48:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People display their vaccination cards Monday in Rio de Janeiro after they were inoculated with a vaccine by China's Sinovac Biotech.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/04/national/mothers-child-abuse-victims-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T09:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T09:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden delivers a speech after being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States in Washington on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/bide-taiwan-us-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T10:48:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antony Blinken, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, speaks as Biden announces his national security nominees and appointees at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Nov. 24.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/beijing-coronavirus-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T11:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police guard a blocked-off street in the Tiangongyuan area of Beijing's Daxing district on Wednesday following new cases of COVID-19. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/business/economy-business/japan-exports-down-11-percent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T12:44:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars for export are lined up at Yokohama port. Japan's exports plunged in 2020 as global demand for vehicles dropped amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/biden-us-paris-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T13:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-trump-us-inauguration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T13:55:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States as his wife, Jill, holds a bible on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T14:47:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan forecasts the economy will shrink 5.6% in the fiscal year through March, compared with its October forecast for a 5.5% contraction, but grow 3.9% in fiscal 2021, up from an earlier forecast of 3.6%.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/vietnam-communist-party/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T15:27:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With just over 1,500 infections and 35 deaths in total, Vietnam has seen its economy outstrip much of Asia in the past year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/20/business/corporate-business/mitsui-fudosan-tokyo-dome/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T15:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A baseball game between Yomiuri Giants and Hiroshima Toyo Carp is held without spectators at Tokyo Dome in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T15:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man and woman take a selfie at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Jan. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/national/tokyo-jan-20-corona-cases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T16:28:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in Tokyo's Harajuku district on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-21T16:59:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holding an umbrella walks past Subaru cars displayed outside a showroom at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/19/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/big-oil-plastic-waste/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T18:39:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wheelbarrow and a garbage are stored outside the locked office of Renew Oceans in Varanasi, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, in December. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/business/corporate-business/panasonic-vaccine-box/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T18:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp.'s cold boxes are capable of storing and transporting COVID-19 vaccines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/20/national/science-health/japans-vaccine-program-chief-denies-may-roll-out/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T19:07:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/mongolia-pm-resignation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T20:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mongolia's Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa gives his resignation statement to the media in Ulaanbaatar on Thursday, following protests.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/national/crime-legal/japan-dual-nationality-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T21:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo District Court has ruled in favor of Japan's ban on dual nationality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/business/corporate-business/dentsu-weighs-selling-headquarters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T21:42:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu's head office in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-biden-executive-actions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T21:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, after his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/03/business/corporate-business/renown-liquidation-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T10:37:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A building that houses failed apparel maker Renown Inc.'s head office in Tokyo is seen in June.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/business/china-australia-trade-row-cost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T11:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64736.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian commodities from copper and coal to wine and lobsters are now subject to trade restrictions by Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/world/climate-change-adaptation-scientists-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T12:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles are submerged at a plot in La Lima, Honduras, that was flooded by the Chamelecon River in November due to heavy rain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/senate-leader-trump-trial-delay-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T13:29:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republicans have argued that former U.S. President Donald Trump needs time to prepare a defense against charges of inciting insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/congress-waiver-lloyd-austin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T13:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64735.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, the Biden's administration's nominee for defense secretary, at confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. The House and Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a special waiver that will allow Austin to join Biden's Cabinet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/national/virus-measures-punishment-bill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T13:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (second from left) is seen with other ministers at the Prime Minister's Office before a Cabinet meeting on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/national/japan-marijuana-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T17:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64728.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is looking to stiffen what is already one of the world’s most draconian anti-cannabis laws.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/business/chinas-covid19-foreign-food/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T17:22:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supermarket in Shanghai on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/business/corporate-business/nissan-batteries-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T17:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64759.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor Co. will source more batteries from Britain used for electric cars produced at its plant in Sunderland, England.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/business/economy-business/japan-retains-economic-view-january/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T20:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64931.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in December. The government said in its monthly economic assessment report for January that private consumption was picking up.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/world/national-guard-coronavirus-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T12:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64989.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo provided to The New York Times shows National Guard soldiers resting in the parking garage of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington on Thursday. National Guard troops brought in to protect President Joe Biden’s inauguration were ordered to sleep in the unheated garage hours after being booted from the Capitol on Thursday, prompting an uproar among lawmakers who scrambled to move them back. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/national/media-national/social-media-influencers-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T19:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62741.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social media video platforms such as YouTube helped many escape the repetitiveness of homebound life during the state of emergency in spring last year.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/national/olympics-cancellation-denied/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T14:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sun sets on the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, on Thursday. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has reiterated that the delayed Tokyo Games will not be canceled or postponed.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/asia-pacific/hong-kong-imposes-citys-first-covid-19-lockdown-kowloon-area/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T15:05:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65036.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65036.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health workers are seen in protective gear inside a locked-down portion of the Jordan residential area to contain a new coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/asia-pacific/north-korea-biden-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T16:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65070.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65070.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A military parade celebrating a congress of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea is held in Pyongyang on Jan. 14.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/national/cybersecurity-talent-search/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T16:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65031-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65031.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi is hopeful a contest will help his ministry discover high-quality recruits in the area of cybersecurity. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/asia-pacific/china-virus-villages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T17:29:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64124.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64124.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars were stopped from leaving Qiqihar, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, after new coronavirus cases were detected in the city earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/24/world/russia-navalny-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T10:32:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65094.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on Saturday ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/asia-pacific/wuhan-china-coronavirus-one-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T10:33:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64991.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64991.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students drink and sing to usher in the new year at a restaurant in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31. A year ago, Wuhan offered a warning about the coronavirus. Now, it heralds a world where relief at the recovery conceals the emotional aftershocks. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/23/world/uk-coronavirus-variant-deadly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T10:33:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64985.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64985.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves after speaking at a coronavirus news conference at No. 10 Downing Street in London on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/24/world/chile-mistaken-tsunami-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T11:51:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65109.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65109.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are seen on a beach in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Saturday amid a warning over tsunami threat that was later called an error. 

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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/national/olympics-no-plan-b/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:32:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64674.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor takes a photograph of illuminated Olympic rings floating in the waters off Odaiba island in Tokyo on Jan. 14.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/national/nuclear-ban-treaty-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:46:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/national/crime-legal/government-denies-fukushima-responsibility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64664-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64664.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decommissioning work is under way at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/national/crime-legal/anri-kawai-guilty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:49:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64583.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anri Kawai and her husband, Katsuyuki Kawai, take the stage during a political fundraising party in Hiroshima in September 2019. Anri Kawai was found guilty Thursday of vote-buying in that year's Upper House election.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/joe-biden-asia-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64566.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64566.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, after being sworn in on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-biden-trump-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64567.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64567.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden watch fireworks from the White House after his inauguration as president of the United States on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/business/economy-business/japan-keidanren-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64497.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64497.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese business leaders expects U.S. President Joe Biden to take a multilateral approach to trade.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/business/japan-biden-trade-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:52:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64481.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64481.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden signs executive orders during his first minutes in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/vietnam-crackdown-communist-party-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64538.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64538.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police officers patrol on an armored vehicle past a poster for the upcoming 13th national congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam on a street in Hanoi on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/vaccine-diplomacy-china-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64511-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64511.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker prepares to administer a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Shanghai on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/joe-biden-qanon-reels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:54:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64487.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64487.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters wearing shirts with the QAnon logo chat before U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage for a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in August 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/business/tech/marketing-sports-apps-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64472.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64472.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitachi's 3D LiDAR solution tracking visitors' movements and providing data in real time is displayed at its booth during the Wearable Expo in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/australia-zero-emissions-goal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64457.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demanding action on climate change gather in Melbourne in March 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-mutations-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T12:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64464.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coronavirus testing site in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday.  Two new studies suggest that some variants of COVID-19 may pose unexpected challenges to the immune system, even in those who have been vaccinated.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/world/trump-asia-policy-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T13:01:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Furukawa Gakuen in Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture, canceled its entrance exams a day before they were due to be held due to a COVID-19 scare. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Estate Co. plans to accelerate its renewable energy shift for its properties in Tokyo's Marunouchi district, including the Marunouchi Building and the Shin Marunouchi Building.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Newly confirmed U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (right) is greeted by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist as Austin arrives to begin his first day in office at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Steam rises from the five brown coal-fired power units of RWE, one of Europe's biggest electricity companies in Neurath, Germany, in March 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passersby look at a statue symbolizing the so-called comfort women, who suffered under Japan’s military brothel system before and during World War II, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[About 30 people have been charged for allegedly exchanging NEM cryptocurrency for other digital currencies while knowing the assets had been stolen from its operator Coincheck Inc.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer responds to an incoming call at the Tokyo Befrienders call center, a suicide hotline center, on May 26, 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co. has been revamping its portfolio as the coronavirus pandemic has changed cosmetic and personal care routines.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/25/national/gsdf-marines-okinawa-plan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[School lunches for students at elementary and junior high schools in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, have been provided for free since 2018 due to the city's hosting of fighter jets at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-26T09:11:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks across a usually busy bridge after lockdown restrictions were implemented in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus in Melbourne in July 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-26T09:12:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government agricultural officer collects urine samples from pigs arriving at a slaughterhouse in Wuyi county, Zhejiang province, China, in July 2020. Although the known infections are limited now, if the strains spread widely, they could slash pork output in the world's top consumer and producer; two years ago, swine fever wiped out half of China's 400 million-head pig herd.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-left-reaction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-26T09:13:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters burn a Biden campaign flag in Portland, Oregon, after the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-26T09:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow in March 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazilian indigenous people wait in Sao Paulo last Wednesday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac. Brazilian officials have complained that Chinese companies have been slow to ship the doses and ingredients. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mehikari robot developed by a team at Fukushima College]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-27T06:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son is stepping down as chairman of the mobile unit at his SoftBank Group.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[House impeachment managers walk through Statuary Hall to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate in Washington on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses an all-virtual World Economic Forum on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Fugaku supercomputer has retained its position as the world's fastest.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Campaigners have noted improvements in gender equality in Cambodia, but a series of events in the Southeast Asian nation in 2020 drew condemnation from advocates around the world.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden. His administration has signaled it will approach Beijing with "patience" as it reviews its policy on China in consultation with allies.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shipping industry officials say many sailors are at breaking point, and many have been at sea for longer than an 11-month limit laid out in a maritime labor convention.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-28T09:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends a meeting on the coronavirus at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/27/national/koike-yoshimura-hina-dolls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T09:39:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65709.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hina dolls depicting Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris are displayed at doll maker Kyugetsu Co.'s headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/asia-pacific/xi-hong-kong-patriots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T11:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65927.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a news conference at the government headquarters on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/business/corporate-business/softbank-bond-market-comeback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T12:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65936.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. plans to sell more bonds in 2021 after a hiatus. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/asia-pacific/philippines-vaccine-rumors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T15:14:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66024.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman transfers saliva to a vial for COVID-19 testing at a Philippine Red Cross lab in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/27/national/lawmakers-hostess-bars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T15:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65708.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at the Upper House Budget Committee Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/27/national/japan-vaccine-hurdles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T17:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65807.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mock inoculation exercise is held at a college gym in Kawasaki on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/27/business/financial-markets/japan-stock-rally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T17:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65684.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65684.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan was the largest domestic entity to purchase local equities last year, with an expert saying the market is becoming more resilient to foreign outflows.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/world/brazil-coronavirus-vaccine-delays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T18:23:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65920.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Estevao Portela receives the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at the FioCruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/asia-pacific/india-farmers-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T18:24:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65910.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer holds swords during a protest in New Delhi on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/27/asia-pacific/indonesia-climate-boost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T18:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65819.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A team of Indonesian forest rangers makes its way along the Alas River, with signs of deforestation visible in the background.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-diet-coronavirus-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T21:47:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65940.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lower House approved a third supplementary budget for fiscal 2020 on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/world/biden-aggressive-climate-moves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T21:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House on Wednesday about his administration's response to climate change.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/business/gamestop-stock-frenzy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T11:54:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65915.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65915.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A GameStop store in Manhattan on Wednesday. GameStop shares have soared 1,500% as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall Street tactic to put the squeeze — on Wall Street.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/corporate-business/ghosn-accomplices-extradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T13:09:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66117.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66117.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn was concealed in a box for musical equipment and smuggled onto a plane during his escape from Japan to Lebanon.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/financial-markets/gamestop-social-media-squawk-box/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T13:36:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66118.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66118.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The idea of using social media for investing is far from new, but the recent phenomenon takes the medium further because of a generational shift where people feel more comfortable touting investments online, as well as the existence of trading apps like Robinhood geared towards first-time investors.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/world/social-issues-world/poland-abortion-protest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T15:34:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66214.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66214.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators hold placards during a protest against a verdict restricting abortion rights, in Warsaw on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/corporate-business/alibaba-crackdown-uneasy-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T15:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66132.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66132.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alibaba is projected to unveil its slowest pace of third-quarter sales growth in five years on Tuesday while it confronts potentially the biggest crisis of its two-decade existence.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/myanmar-vote-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T15:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66247.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66247.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing salutes during the Martyrs' Day ceremony in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 19, 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/economic-indicators-industrial-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T16:08:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66204.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles bound for shipment sit parked at a port in Yokohama in July. The auto sector showed a strong recovery from June and contributed to overall gains in industrial output, but its upward momentum eased in November and December.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/financial-markets/gamestop-things-to-know/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66205.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A GameStop store in New York on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/corporate-business/rakuten-cuts-mobile-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:24:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66251.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66251.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani speaks about a new price plan for Rakuten Mobile users on Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/financial-markets/gamestop-robinhood-trading-curbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:28:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66142.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66142.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[GameStop shares recovered some losses to end the day down 44%. The shares then rebounded significantly in the after-hours trading session, after Robinhood said it would "allow limited buys of these securities” on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/national/fukushima-business-struggles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64927.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64927.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rokutaro Kurihara, managing director of a company that runs a shopping complex in Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture, is struggling to keep his business afloat.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/asia-pacific/china-who-virus-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T20:26:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66126.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66126.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese officials arrive for meetings with the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Hilton Wuhan Optics Valley Hotel in Wuhan, China, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/national/japan-vaccination-rollout-cautious-approach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T10:31:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66168.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social distancing measures are taken, with partitions set up to separate participants, during a coronavirus vaccination simulation held at a university gymnasium in Kawasaki on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/business/social-media-stocks-gamestop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T11:40:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66339.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66339.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Users of a Reddit group, in which 5 million members exchange investment ideas, generated significant profits by gorging on shares of GameStop Corp. and other out-of-favor companies that had been shorted by big hedge funds.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/science-health-world/climate-change-offsets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T13:06:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66350.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66350.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Critics of efforts to scale up problem-plagued markets for carbon offsets say they threaten to undermine lagging emissions-cutting efforts further and will be hard to operate in a transparent and effective way, despite planned reforms.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-white-house-quiet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T13:07:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66342.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66342.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The White House in Washington on Wednesday. Life in the West Wing has become disciplined, partly because of the way President Joe Biden’s team wants to work, but mostly because of the strict rules the administration has put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/national/japan-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T15:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66329.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/national/suga-coronavirus-penalties-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T15:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66282.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66282.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends a Lower House plenary session Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/national/spacex-japan-astronaut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T17:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66373-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66373.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NASA is targeting April 20 at the earliest for another launch of a SpaceX ship that will carry Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and three other astronauts to the International Space Station.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/national/anime-short-films/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T20:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66364.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66364.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students from three arts universities in Japan, China and South Korea worked online on a joint project to produce short films amid the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/world/politics-diplomacy-world/navalny-ally-urges-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T11:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66458.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66458.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators with banners reading "Don’t be afraid. Don’t be silent,” protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/asia-pacific/bangladesh-rohingya-refugees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T12:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66475.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66475.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees on a navy ship in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Friday ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/national/justice-minister-kamikawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T18:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65789.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65789.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks during an interview on Jan. 19 about her mission to restore public trust in the nation’s justice system]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/world/coronavirus-variants-vaccine-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T13:11:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci addresses a news briefing at the White House on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/world/nobel-peace-prize-nominees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T18:31:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters march in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on Jan. 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/asia-pacific/genetics-firm-china-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T18:33:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Technicians work at a genetic testing laboratory of BGI in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, in 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/31/business/gamestop-pain-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T18:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A GameStop location in New York. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/taiwan-germany-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:14:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Taipei 101 building and other buildings are illuminated at dusk in Taipei on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/business/four-day-workweek/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:16:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65348.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unilever New Zealand has allowed some staff members to reduce their working week by one day with no cut in salary, to see if a four-day workweek can be beneficial.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/national/japan-sdf-brigade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:21:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65911.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[GSDF troops conduct an amphibious drill with the U.S. Marines at the Blue Beach training area in Kin, Okinawa Prefecture, in February 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/business/corporate-business/nissan-spending-big/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65929.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan's Note e-Power vehicles on display at the company's global headquarters in Yokohama on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/business/corporate-business/toyota-tops-global-auto-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:24:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66019.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66019.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles await shipment at Yokohama port in October. Toyota overtook Volkswagen AG in 2020 to become the world’s top-selling automaker.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/business/china-fintech-crackdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65937.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65937.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tencent logo is displayed during the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, in November. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/national/politics-diplomacy/uk-g7-japan-pushback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:27:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65925.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65925.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan pushed back strongly against British proposals to invite Australia, India and South Korea to a meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers, according to a diplomatic cable.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-rights-emotion-recognition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:28:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65932.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65932.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveillance cameras in Shanghai. Technology marketed as being able to measure human emotions is increasingly being offered in China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/world/social-issues-world/eu-remote-work-burnout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65888.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65888.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman uses her smartphone while walking into an underpass in Kyiv, Ukraine, in October last year. European lawmakers voted last week for the creation of new legal rights for employees to switch off from work-related tasks and electronic communication outside of office hours without facing consequences.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/national/japan-coronavirus-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65923.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65923.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Like their global peers, younger Japanese are increasingly hit with virus fatigue and are not convinced by old politicians' messages to stay home.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/world/eu-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:31:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65913.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65913.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stella Kyriakides, the European commissioner in charge of health, gives a news conference on AstraZeneca vaccines at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/28/world/pfizer-vaccine-south-africa-variant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:32:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65904.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65904.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker prepares to administer a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine a nursing home in Szombathely, Hungary, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/tech/zozo-offers-tech-glasses-help-cosmetics-buyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66305.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66305.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc. demonstrates the smartphone application for "Zozoglass," used to measure skin tone for ordering cosmetics online, at the company's office in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/economy-business/boj-long-term-rates-minutes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66206.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66206.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has said the current framework of monetary easing will be maintained and that fine-tuning will be more likely.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/national/home-coronavirus-quarantines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:38:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66279.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66279.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman of Sapporo recalls Thursday how the whole family was infected by COVID-19 although they took all possible prevention measures.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/economy-business/okinawa-tourism-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:39:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65403.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are scarce in the main shopping district in Naha in November amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/corporate-business/ana-record-net-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:40:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66259.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The outlook for travel demand for the rest of fiscal 2020 and beyond remains uncertain as the pandemic is expected to take more time to be brought under control.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/world/novavax-results/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66120.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66120.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer in Novavax’s South Africa trial is examined by a doctor before receiving an injection at Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre, in Johannesburg, in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/world/coronavirus-vaccine-variants-challenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66154.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66154.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers pack boxes of Covishield, the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, in Pune, India, earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/world/eu-vaccine-export-controls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:45:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66122.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66122.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A box containing doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE is stored in a freezer at the Cent Quatre cultural center in Paris on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/national/eu-travel-ban-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66131.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66131.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An almost empty departure lobby for international flights is seen at Narita airport on Dec. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/29/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-mona-lisa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66127.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66127.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wearing a Uniqlo T-shirt carrying the image of the Mona Lisa]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/national/media-national/covid-19-survivors-return-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64920.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64920.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry has released detailed guidelines for companies that are struggling to deal with new cases of infection among their employees, placing as much emphasis on those who have recovered as they do on implementing prevention measures.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/storm-damage-warming-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:57:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65723.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65723.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A social media image obtained by Reuters shows some of the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Eloise in Beira, Mozambique, on Jan 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/asia-pacific/china-hong-kong-exodus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65553.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65553.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Jan. 31, the U.K. will begin accepting visa applications from holders of British National (Overseas) passports in Hong Kong, but authorities are unconcerned over a possible exodus from the territory.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/coronavirus-vaccinations-shots-efficacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T20:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66336.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A patient receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine​​ in Santa Barbara, California, on Tuesday. Though the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine has a somewhat lower overall efficacy rate, it is still 85% effective at preventing severe COVID-19 cases — "still pretty darn high," according to Dr. William Schaffner.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/cdc-us-transportation-mask-mandate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T21:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66399.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66399.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers wearing protective face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus reclaim their luggage at the airport in Denver in November.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/national/masks-japanese-news-anchors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T21:02:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66376.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66376.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from TV Tokyo's homepage shows news anchor Mariko Oe wearing a face mask.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/asia-pacific/vietnam-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T21:03:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66392.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66392.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical workers in protective suits stand outside a quarantined building amid a fresh coronavirus  outbreak in Hanoi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/asia-pacific/us-china-military-taiwan-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T21:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66374.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier enters the port in Da Nang, Vietnam, in March last year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-congress-cori-bush-majorie-taylor-greene/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T21:09:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66344.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cori Bush]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/30/world/social-issues-world/coronavirus-single-relationships/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-31T21:12:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66343.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66343.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lone swimmer is seen during a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Trat province, Koh Chang Island, Thailand, on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayors of municipalities recognized as "Sharing Cities" gather during Share Summit 2017 in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines President Yoshiharu Ueki (center right) and Hawaiian Airlines President and CEO Mark Dunkerley (center left) hold up a board announcing a partnership between the two carriers at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Guitarist Shin Sasakubo photographs Mount Buko in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. The mountain, considered a sacred symbol of the region, is being mined by cement companies for its limestone.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work in progress: A student works on a project at Tokyo Animator College.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Musca plans to sell fish meal and fertilizer produced from maggots and maggot excrement.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farewell: People take a last look at the Kabuki-za in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on April 30 before it closed for renovation. The venue is set to reopen in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Changle, chief operating officer of Chinese home-sharing giant Tujia, announces a plan to expand its business in Japan by partnering with Rakuten Inc. at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/08/18/national/miharas-fight-for-womens-health-is-personal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents walk along a mud-covered road in a neighborhood in Nagano Prefecture that was devastated by Typhoon Hagibis on Oct. 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/02/national/tokyo-soft-power-olympic-legacy/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the age of climate change, organizers have been working to make the games the most environmentally friendly in Olympics history.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/02/world/politics-diplomacy-world/putin-navalny-protests-economics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters raise their fists during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-02T12:30:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People demonstrate a drive-thru funeral service allowing the bereaved to give their final farewells from their car.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/26/national/pop-star-tatsuya-yamaguchi-take-hard-look-apologizes-forcibly-kissing-teen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T12:38:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[All-male pop idol group Tokio member Tatsuya Yamaguchi speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel on Thursday over his alleged indecent acts with a high school girl.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/04/15/national/military-flexes-relief-might-gains-newfound-esteem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T12:42:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teamwork: Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers remove a damaged car in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/14/business/corporate-business/rakuten-mulls-new-cell-phone-venture-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T12:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/02/asia-pacific/hong-kong-coronavirus-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T13:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a news conference Tuesday. The city is threatening to knock down the doors of residents who don't respond to authorities conducting mandatory-testing blitzes as Hong Kong tries to end a persistent winter wave of coronavirus cases. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/01/national/science-health/cocoa-tracing-troubles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T13:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlike some of its more authoritarian peers, Japan’s contact-tracing app does not allow the government to centralize data, use GPS to track people, or harvest information such as phone numbers and names.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/01/national/politics-diplomacy/komeito-lawmaker-kiyohiko-toyama-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T13:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito lawmaker Kiyohiko Toyama bows at the Diet building Monday as he offers to quit after admitting that he visited a hostess bar late at night last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/01/business/corporate-business/nintendo-raises-outlook-high-expectations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T13:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66800.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. raised its annual earnings forecast for the second time on the back of a surge in sales of the Switch console.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/01/business/corporate-business/zozotown-founder-yusaku-maezawa-follows-eclectic-path/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T14:44:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yusaku Maezawa, the chief executive officer of Start Today Co., speaks at his company's headquarters in Chiba on March 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12/17/national/aussies-recall-pow-ordeals-forgive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T15:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20111217f1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tales of suffering: Alfred Ellwood (second from right) and fellow Australian POWs, including Lorna Johnston, discuss their wartime experiences at the hands of Imperial Japanese forces in Tokyo on Nov. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/08/business/japans-fledgling-bike-sharing-scene-race-market-share-heats/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors gather at Chinese bike-sharing service Mobike's booth at the Bicycle City Expo 2017 in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/business/freeze-dried-food-guru-engages-decadeslong-quest-take-fare-new-heights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T15:44:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masato Shimamura, technical adviser for Amano Foods, a brand owned by Asahi Group Foods, poses with a package of freeze-dried chicken cutlet curry and grilled salmon at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/08/national/tohoku-communities-slow-regroup-tsunami-hit-cities-rebuild-higher-ground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T15:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work to elevate land devastated by tsunami in March 2011 progresses in Rikuzentakata in February. Millions of tons of soil brought in from higher ground is being used to raise the city's center by as much as 12 meters to mitigate future disasters.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/02/national/lower-house-passes-bills-to-introduce-fines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T15:52:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66955.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends a plenary session of the Upper House on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/05/national/one-year-deadly-flooding-western-japan-disaster-resonates-vulnerable-areas-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T15:52:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-hazardmap-c-20190706.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The walls of a home in Soja, Okayama Prefecture, are still worn away on June 8, nearly a year after flooding due to heavy rain last July.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/28/national/pandemic-restaurants-ventilation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T15:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58892.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese-style pub operates with its windows open in Osaka in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/19/national/campaign-help-elderly-disabled-passengers-launched-tokyo-area-train-companies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T16:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-train-a-20170920.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Railway company staff hand out packets of pocket tissues Tuesday at Yokohama station as part of a campaign asking the public to offer help to fellow commuters in need.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/japans-glut-abandoned-homes-hard-sell-bargains-opportunity-knocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T16:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-emptyhomes-a-20171227.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unoccupied homes are permeating suburbs and worming into crowded cities at an alarming rate. This house in Omiya Ward, Saitama, has blocked construction of a new street.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/14/national/social-issues/diagnosis-treatment-lacking-ocd-nonprofit-strives-raise-awareness-illness-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T16:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-ocd-a-20190615.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant of the OCD Walk held in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on June 2 holds a fan with a logo of the event.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/30/national/stigmatized-properties-living-homes-ghastly-pasts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T17:29:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/n-haunted-z-20181031.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-haunted-z-20181031.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of stigmatized properties are listed in and around Tokyo on www.oshimaland.co.jp, a website run by Teru Oshima that maps properties with macabre histories.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/02/22/national/politics-diplomacy/tokyo-washington-arranging-abe-address-u-s-congress-spring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T17:37:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abecongress-a-20150222.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a policy speech at the Lower House of the Diet on Feb. 12 in Tokyo. Tokyo and Washington are arranging for Abe to address Congress during a visit to the United States this spring, a Japanese government official said Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-pledges-50-million-in-humanitarian-aid-to-stem-islamic-state-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T17:38:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/n-abeaddress-a-20140927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-abeaddress-a-20140927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the 69th U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/06/national/642-register-disputed-isles-as-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T17:38:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130306a1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinotori, which is Japan's southernmost point, has seen 281 people register their official addresses last year, up from 262 in 2011, according to the village of Ogasawara in the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The restored Tokiwa Bridge, Tokyo's oldest remaining stone bridge from the late 1800s, on Jan. 26]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[GameStop's shares, whose wild gyrations have made or lost billions of dollars for hedge funds and other investors in recent weeks, closed down 60% Tuesday at $90.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Turbines at a wind farm in Suttsu, Hokkaido. The town was the site of Japan’s first onshore wind plant.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga bows during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday as he announces the government has approved a monthlong extension of its coronavirus state of emergency, less than six months before the pandemic-postponed Olympic Games open.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura answers questions at the Upper House committee meeting Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during the World Economic Forum on Jan. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers are stacked at terminals in Vancouver in March 2020. A shipping container shortage has left everything from Thai curry to Canadian peas idling in ports.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 734 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A House of Councilors plenary session passed and enacted revisions to the coronavirus special measures law and the infectious disease law on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-04T16:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi hold a videoconference with their British counterparts Dominic Raab (right on the screen) and Ben Wallace on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An alley of bars in Tokyo in January. Owners of hotels, bars and restaurants in Japan are reeling from a halt on travel and emergency measures.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A waiting area at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture. With the latest extension of the state of emergency, foreign travelers looking to enter Japan will have to wait at least another month, as a total ban on new entries will remain in place through March 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/04/business/meat-buying-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-04T22:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junko Katane, owner of online meat shop Oniku Japan, regularly shows off her available products on her company website and Facebook page.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-05T16:42:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the State Department in Washington on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-05T16:43:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-05T17:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/05/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-diet-budget-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-05T18:02:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga raises his hand during a Lower House Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67770.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ANA Holdings Inc. plans to reduce its workforce in the aviation business by roughly 20% over the next five years through natural attrition to cut costs and cope with the COVID-19 crisis. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-06T13:39:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67579.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People make noise to show support for the National League for Democracy on Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-06T13:41:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Buddhist monk prayed for the souls of the airmen when the engine was brought down from the mountain in 2007.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takayuki Miyazawa, a virologist from Kyoto University, says sporting events pose little risk of spreading COVID-19 and talk of canceling the Olympics is “nonsense.”]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-06T17:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Cmdr. Joseph Gunta, the executive officer of the USS John S. McCain destroyer, observes a ship from the vessel's bridge near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A makeshift memorial for Li Wenliang, a doctor who issued an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak before it was officially recognized, is seen after Li died of the virus, at an entrance to the Central Hospital of Wuhan, China on Feb. 7, 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters attend a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-06T19:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A healthcare worker holds an empty syringe during a vaccination simulation in Kawasaki in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/national/politics-diplomacy/quad-online-meeting-us-china-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T16:36:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67893.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/06/business/economy-business/wto-trade-ngozi-okonjo-iweala/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T16:37:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68000.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka's Minami district on Tuesday. Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura is likely to decide as early as Tuesday whether to ask the central government to cancel the state of emergency for Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68024.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An online seminar is held in August to give advice to people who will serve as volunteers for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67536.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sale of its Texas shale oil stake follows Sumitomo's offloading of its share of a Pennsylvania shale gas project, seen here in 2013.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/04/national/kamo-aquarium-crowdfunding/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67390.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kamo Aquarium is promoting a crowdfunding campaign to feed its record-setting collection of jellyfish.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Lajpat Nagar market in New Delhi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, attends an event during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Madrid in 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shiseido Co. will shift to focus on high-end skin products by selling its affordable skin-care business to CVC Capital Partners.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67338.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. has tapped a star Silicon Valley engineer for its technology drive.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated image shows one component of a wave dispersal system used at Sea Forest Waterway, the Tokyo Olympic rowing and canoe venue.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A branch of ANZ Bank in Wellington]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign workers study Japanese in a class held by a labor union in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, on Jan. 19. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A development plan for an area in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, involved leveling the city’s Mount Atago to create a “dream town” for its residents. Unfortunately, due to flaws in the project’s profitability, the land was eventually repurposed for a U.S. base.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Terra Space President Sadahiro Kitagawa and Daigoji Temple chief priest Junna Nakada]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this supplied photo, marine products such as sea urchin shipped from Japan are sold at a store in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori, head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Red ribbons are placed on seats to maintain social distancing as a man sits alone ahead of a soccer match in Leipzig, Germany, in October. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/05/business/corporate-business/netflix-climbs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T10:41:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67581.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asia is Netflix’s second-fastest growing region, with Japan and South Korea fueling the expansion.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/05/business/corporate-business/mazda-chip-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T10:41:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67592.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mazda Motor Corp. said Thursday it will cut its global production in February amid the chip supply crunch.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/05/asia-pacific/france-vaccine-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T10:42:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67564.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on China to be more transparent about its vaccines. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/08/world/uk-coronavirus-annual-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T11:06:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nadhim Zahawi ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/08/business/financial-markets/pension-fund-esg/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T11:48:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68102.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has has boosted investments in ESG-related stocks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/national/covid-aftereffects-long-lasting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T11:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67919.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Harajuku district, a popular shopping spot for young people, in January. Doctors are warning that many people who contract the coronavirus, especially younger patients, are suffering aftereffects for a lengthy period of time despite subsequently testing negative for the virus.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T13:10:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/national/social-issues/suicides-rise-japan-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T13:46:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67266.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Japan, a nation that has long struggled with one of the highest suicide rates in the world, the emotional strain of the pandemic is manifesting itself in a disturbing trend.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T13:48:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peter Daszak (left) and Hung Nguyen-Viet (right), members of the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19, stand on the balcony of their hotel in Wuhan, China, on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T13:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cheng Lei ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T15:36:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A departure lobby at Narita Airport is deserted in June .]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T16:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68226.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sally Flavill shows a photograph of her nephew, Joseph Flavill, in Nottingham, England, on Friday. Joseph, 19, is slowly emerging from a coma, but has no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic, which erupted after he was injured in a car accident in March last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T18:05:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68050.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nearly 60% of people in Japan believe Tokyo Olympic chief Yoshiro Mori, who recently came under fire for sexist remarks, is "not qualified" to serve in the top post, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-08T19:55:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Wylfa nuclear power station in northern Wales ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/national/mori-stay-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T19:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68023.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020 head Yoshiro Mori speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/national/china-japan-senkakus-coast-guard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T20:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67916.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan's territorial waters near the China-claimed Senkaku Islands for the second day in a row on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/national/history/japan-times-1971-crown-prince-opens-pre-olympic-games-sapporo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T20:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[1971]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/world/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-favorite/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67908.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People receive doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine at River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/07/world/science-health-world/astrazeneca-oxford-vaccine-variant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T20:08:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67902.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker is injected with the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, France, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/06/national/media-national/marijuana-law-reform-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T20:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66243.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese authorities have demonstrated a strong resistance to trends in other countries to decriminalize and even commercialize the drug's medicinal and recreational consumption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/06/national/mori-tokyo-olympics-petition/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori takes off his face mask during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65617.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many people breathe through their mouth when wearing a mask, a habit that should be avoided, says Aera.dot.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/06/national/china-senkakus-coast-guard-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T20:21:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67798.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A China Coast Guard vessel sails in the East China Sea near the disputed Senkaku Islands in this file photo from August 2013.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman is placed in an ambulance outside the Sienna St. George long term care home in Toronto, as frontline care workers hold a rally to demand better investment in resident care and staff safety.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Exchange Group Inc. (JPX) is planning a major overhaul of its Tokyo Stock Exchange, but skepticism is abound whether it will lead to real reform.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite sexist comments by Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori, the government and sporting establishment in Japan have refrained from joining calls for his resignation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protest in Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono (left) speaks with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga before a plenary session of the Lower House on Jan. 18, the day Suga gave Kono a new role as Japan's vaccine rollout minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-10T12:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mural featuring Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, in Los Angeles.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Valero St. Charles oil refinery in Norco, Louisiana. Rising heat and more intense flooding are increasing the stress on all sorts of aging American infrastructure, from stormwater runoff systems and levees to power plants and transmission lines.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo reported 412 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kobayashi Kako Co. President Hiroyuki Kobayashi (center) apologizes at a news conference in Awara, Fukui Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Opposition female lawmakers enter the Lower House Tuesday, wearing white clothing and white roses in protest against sexist remarks by Yoshiro Mori, head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-10T20:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cosmo will invest as much as $145 million in the exploration phase at Offshore Block 4, government-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. said Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/10/business/economy-business/japanese-economy-gdp-forecast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-10T22:04:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The growth in the Japanese economy is largely due to exports of goods and services estimated to rise 9.06%, according to the average projection, as economic activities restarted gradually after the country's first coronavirus state of emergency was fully lifted in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-10T22:28:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The iPhone-only Clubhouse app topped Japan’s charts with more than 440,000 new downloads last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/10/national/japan-emergency-lifting-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-11T11:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T12:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women wearing ball gowns protest against the military coup and to demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday.  February 10, 2021. in this still image obtained from social media. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T13:07:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese coast guard ships give chase to Vietnamese coast guard vessels (not pictured) after they came within 10 nautical miles of the Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig, known in Vietnam as HD-981, in the South China Sea in July 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T13:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T17:17:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yumeshima (forefront), an artificial island in Osaka Bay that has been considered as a location for a casino project in the city of Osaka, on Dec. 2]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T18:13:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68542.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami attends a news conference in Tokyo in June 2006. Murakami has recently become increasingly active almost a decade after an insider trading scandal forced him to close his multibillion-dollar fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/11/business/corporate-business/ghosn-exit-2018-discussion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-11T18:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan and Renault chief executive, speaks during a news conference at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, in Jounieh, Lebanon, in September 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T19:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping toast during a State Luncheon for China hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-11T19:34:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and President Joe Biden bump fists in greeting at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/12/national/crime-legal/rakuten-softbank-5g-secrets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T09:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62549.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A former SoftBank Corp. employee has been arrested on suspicion of illegally disclosing 5G trade secrets to his new employer, Rakuten Mobile Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/republican-party-breakaway/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T11:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump march to the Capitol in Washington after hearing him speak at a rally outside the White House on Jan. 6. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An armed Army National Guard soldier patrols outside the Capitol in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-12T13:10:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest the recent military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/business/corporate-business/citigroup-esg-experts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T14:04:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Citigroup Japan Holdings GK is setting up a team of specialists in environmental, social and governance factors to advise its clients.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-new-year-gala-blackface/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T15:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People watch the Lunar New Year gala after having dinner at a hot pot restaurant in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/business/corporate-business/toyota-factory-closing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T17:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68103.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers at Toyota Motor Corp.'s Altona plant on the outskirts of Melbourne attend a ceremony to mark the closing of the factory in October 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/business/financial-markets/london-brexit-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T17:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69036.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The City of London has lost its crown to Amsterdam as Europe’s top place to buy and sell stocks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-impeachment-lawyers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T10:06:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69316.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense lawyers Michael van der Veen and Bruce Castor Jr. (right) leave after the fourth day of former U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment trial before the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/business/corporate-business/ghosn-helpers-extradition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T11:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68997.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Ghosn was awaiting trial on charges that he engaged in financial wrongdoing when he fled Japan in December 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/national/science-health/japan-approval-pfizer-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T13:56:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69088.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aircraft carrying Japan's first batch of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine from Brussels arrives at Narita International Airport on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/national/japan-emergency-remains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T13:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister leading the government's COVID-19 response, attends a meeting in Tokyo on Friday of the government’s advisory panel on tackling the virus that causes the disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/national/mori-influence-politics-sport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T14:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68996.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organising Committee, holds a news conference in Tokyo in July last year after giving a presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about progress toward the rescheduled Summer Games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/13/national/outside-hospitals-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T23:39:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward. A total of 132 people with the coronavirus died in places other than hospitals in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/13/asia-pacific/who-coronavirus-china-wuhan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T23:42:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker stands on the balcony of a hotel where members of the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19 were staying in Wuhan, China, on Feb. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/08/national/science-health/truth-nankai-trough-quake-figures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-14T01:53:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22290.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A calculation method seismologists believed wasn’t credible was applied for estimates about the probability of a Nankai Trough earthquake and the damage it could cause to settlements in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-escape-exoneration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-14T13:37:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s economy marked a better-than-expected growth in the October-December quarter, signaling potential for a solid recovery.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[If a spat isn't resolved, Australia could stand out as a westernized democracy without access to Google, and the company’s departure could set the nation back years in terms of fast access to information.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook is building an audio chat product similar to Clubhouse.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sponsors are saying advertising at the games could do more harm than good, as Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori’s comments continue to draw domestic and international criticism.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville, which collided with the Ehime Maru in 2001, apologized in a letter to the families of those killed in the accident.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite condemnation over sexist remarks, 83-year-old Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori remains insulated within the organization he leads, sources say, with officials fearing that his resignation would imperil the games.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai backed Tokyo Olympic chief Yoshiro Mori despite a wave of criticism over his sexist remarks toward women.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators check the damage to the Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Soryu off Kochi port on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Telefonica SA telecommunication network mast in Barcelona houses 5G and 4G apparatus. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. has reported a record profit in its Vision Fund.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshimitsu Motegi]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters Friday after a government task force meeting on coronavirus at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The ground floor of a building in a prime downtown location in Nagoya has remained empty for more than six months. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan is taking measures to propel reorganizations of struggling regional banks hit by the novel coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lebanese prosecutors have confiscated the passport of Carlos Ghosn and imposed a travel ban, but have not placed any other limits on his movements.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Johnny Chiang, chairman of the Kuomintang, displays his party's app at their headquarters in Taipei on Jan. 28. The Beijing-friendly party, which long held an iron grip on the island, is struggling to stay relevant at a time when many residents are wary of China's ambitions. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Utilities and independent power providers got a jolt at the weekend when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture and sent plants into automatic shutdown, briefly knocking out power for nearly 1 million people.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The McLaren 765LT at its launch at the McLaren headquarters]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-16T22:37:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Potential candidates under consideration to succeed Yoshiro Mori as president of the Tokyo Organising Committee include Yasuhiro Yamashita (top left), Seiko Hashimoto (top center), Shinzo Abe (top right), Koji Murofushi (bottom left), Mikako Kotani (bottom center) and Tamayo Marukawa (bottom right).]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ceramic figures used to smuggle illegal drugs into Japan are displayed at a Tokyo Customs office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69952.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Analysts suggest bitcoin's limited supply could boost further gains for the virtual asset, rose above $50,000 on Tuesday to a new record high.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/08/national/first-south-korean-court-comfort-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T09:36:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Gang-won, lawyer for the plaintiffs of a lawsuit demanding compensation from the Japanese government for women who worked in Japanese wartime brothels, speaks to reporters Friday in Seoul after the Seoul Central District Court ordered the Japanese government to pay damages.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-17T09:39:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kikuo Kojima, in a wheelchair, and supporters on their way to the Sapporo District Court on Friday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/national/coronavirus-vaccine-syringes-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T09:56:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69783.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is scrambling to secure special syringes that can draw six shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shots from each vial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/national/health-care-worker-vaccination-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T10:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono, minister in charge of COVID-19 vaccinations, speaks during a news conference on the planned launch of the vaccine in Tokyo on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media in Washington on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70007.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell parted ways in the weeks after the Nov. 3 presidential election, with Trump irked that McConnell had recognized Democrat Joe Biden as the winner in mid-December.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70028.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Donald Trump administration’s removal of independent scientists from advisory panels at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency helped push scientists to take action in the world of politics. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's vaccination program chief Taro Kono speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70016.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 225-issue Nikkei stock average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange passed 30,000, an event which first took place in December 1988.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Machinery orders from manufacturers rose 12.2% in December, with sectors such as semiconductor-makers advancing on the back of growing demand for chips amid a global shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-17T16:18:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Komati coal-fired power station, operated by Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., in Mpumalanga, South Africa. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-17T16:57:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker is given a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday at the National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo's Meguro Ward.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/national/shimane-olympic-relay-cancellation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T18:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shimane Gov. Tatsuya Maruyama speaks to the press in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/business/koo-india-twitter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T18:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koo, whose logo of a yellow chick bears a resemblance to Twitter’s blue-and-white bird, was founded just a year ago.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks to his friend's home in a neighborhood without electricity as snow covers Pflugerville, Texas, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, watch a performance at the Mansudae Art Theater in Pyongyang on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/national/politics-diplomacy/women-meetings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T07:12:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiro Nikai, the Liberal Democratic Party's secretary-general, speaks at a news conference at the party's headquarters Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/business/tech/clubhouse-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:43:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69913.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clubhouse, an 11-month-old audio chat app has exploded in popularity, even as it grapples with harassment, misinformation and privacy issues. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/business/tech/tiktok-rebound/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:43:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69938.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trump's defeat in the election was the turning point for many advertisers who were previously "on the fence" about TikTok.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/business/sauna-industry-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:50:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68717.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Solo Sauna Tune in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward offers private rooms for customers which include a resting space and a shower for a cold splashdown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/asia-pacific/china-rare-earths-us-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rare earth oxides praseodymium and neodymium are pictured in the final stage of production at Lynas' Advanced Materials Plant in Gebeng, Malaysia, in July 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/business/corporate-business/bangladesh-investment-japanese-firms-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:52:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69763.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An increasing number of Japanese firms are relocating manufacturing facilities from China to Bangladesh to diversify supply chains.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/business/lunar-shopping-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:55:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68938.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laox has had to tailor what it sells and how it promotes its goods to a different customer base in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/national/science-health/hay-fever-japan-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69871.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As of Sunday, the cedar pollen season — triggered by a rise in temperatures — had started in 34 of the nation's 47 prefectures stretching from the Kyushu region in the southwest to the Tokyo metropolitan area, according to Weathernews Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/asia-pacific/north-korea-south-korea-defector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T08:58:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69822.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elderly couple drink coffee next to a barbed wire fence at the Imjingak tourist park beside the civilian buffer zone that leads to the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/asia-pacific/south-korea-coronavirus-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69818.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69818.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse takes part in a coronavirus vaccination drill at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Seoul on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/business/corporate-business/dentsu-record-net-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69728.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69728.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dentsu reported a record net loss in fiscal 2020 as advertising revenue plunged amid the coronavirus pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/world/astrazeneca-oxford-who-approval/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69770.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico City on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/18/asia-pacific/hong-kong-uk-visa-applicants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70272.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70272.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-democracy demonstrator takes part in a lunchtime protest against the national security law at a shopping mall in Hong Kong in July 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/16/world/politics-diplomacy-world/capitol-riot-call-for-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:06:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69764.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69764.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, alongside House impeachment managers, speaks to the media in Washington on Saturday after the Senate voted to acquit former U.S. President Donald Trump.
]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/15/national/putin-russia-territories-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69687.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69687.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin has indicated Moscow will not engage Tokyo in negotiations over the long-running territorial dispute.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/15/business/corporate-business/tokyo-olympics-surveys-cancel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69705.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69705.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters call for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to be cancelled, during a rally Friday in front of the offices of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/15/national/earthquakes-fukushima-miyagi-tohoku-shinkansen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69608.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a damaged gate in the town of Kori, Fukushima Prefecture, in the rain on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/15/asia-pacific/illegal-logging-sensors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:32:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69643.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A tropical rainforest in Borneo, Indonesia. A new system developed by a nonprofit group monitors sounds in the forest to alert local authorities about possible illegal logging. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/asia-pacific/china-us-south-china-sea-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:35:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70210.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Russell operates in the South China Sea on Wednesday.

]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/national/crime-legal/amnesty-international-taro-osullivan-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70207.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70207.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amnesty International, a nongovernmental organization focused on ending abuses of human rights, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/world/science-health-world/philadelphia-oil-refinery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70106.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A general view of the PES Refinery in Philadelphia in October last year. Clean-up work at the refinery offers a glimpse of what lies ahead if the United States hopes to wean itself off fossil fuels and clean up the toxic legacy of oil, gas and coal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/world/covid-struggle-grieve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:40:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70010.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fiana Tulip poses for a portrait with a photo of her mom on her phone in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/business/japans-exports-grow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:42:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70032.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Containers at a shipping terminal in Yokohama in December. Japan's exports rose 6.4% from a year earlier in January driven by brisk demand in China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/world/science-health-world/texas-power-grid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T09:45:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69973.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street in without power in Austin, Texas, on Monday evening, after a storm dropped several inches of snow across the city. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/18/world/texas-blackout-multifaceted-failure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T11:47:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A snow covered road near the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin on Wednesday ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/18/business/tech/mundane-startups-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T12:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70279.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shares in tech startups have surged in the past year as Japan has pushed for digitalization.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/18/asia-pacific/hong-kong-uk-disinformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T12:52:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70313.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A caricature of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is displayed by pro-Beijing activists as they gather outside the British Consulate-General to protest against the use of the British National (Overseas) passport in Hong Kong on Feb. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/18/national/hashimoto-tokyo-olympics-mori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T12:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto arrives to speak to journalists in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/18/world/texas-frozen-weather/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T15:41:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70277.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents shovel snow in East Austin, Texas, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/national/japan-us-troop-cost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T15:42:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70153.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan and the U.S. have settled on an unusual one-year agreement on Tokyo’s share of the costs for hosting American troops.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers and agricultural workers attend a rally against farm laws in Barnala, in India's northern state of Punjab, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An unidentified user was able to stream Clubhouse audio feeds this weekend into their own third-party website, the company said. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Zerodha Commodities Pvt. office in Bengaluru, India. Zerodha said recently that it has added half a million accounts every quarter from April onward, compared with just 280,000 in the first quarter of 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Engine debris from a United Airlines airplane's engine in the neighborhood of Broomfield, outside Denver, on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Representatives from Iran and world powers meet during a U.N. session in Vienna on July 14, 2015, the day the Iran nuclear deal was reached. 
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a conversation earlier this week, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to garner support for the Tokyo Games and cooperation from other members of the G7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T07:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has traditionally been a cash society, although the nation's banks are moving towards electronic payments and digitalization.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Americans charged with helping former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee Japan have asked the U.S. State Department to halt their extradition to Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new Facebook policy blocks those in Australia from sharing news stories and stops users globally from sharing articles from Australian publishers. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T07:16:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Confederation of All India Traders protest in January 2020 against a visit to India by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T07:18:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:14:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait at an All Nippon Airways counter in an international airport in Yangon on Friday to board the first direct flight to Japan from Myanmar since the recent coup.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:16:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in the capital's Minato Ward]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/19/business/corporate-business/uniqlo-nikkei-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:22:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some market observers are expressing caution over the ever-increasing influence of Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing Co. on the 225-issue Nikkei average.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/19/national/momoko-nojo-yoshiro-mori-ldp-womens-issues-discrimination-seiko-hashimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momoko Nojo speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday after collecting more than 150,000 signatures protesting sexist remarks by Yoshiro Mori, former president of the Tokyo Organising Committee.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army soldiers and tanks carry out military disengagement along the Line of Actual Control at the India-China border in Ladakh in an undated handout photograph released Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/19/national/media-national/clubhouse-explainer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:27:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69958.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Part of the charm of the Clubhouse experience is seeing how people find novel uses for the audio-only format amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/19/business/whisky-nikka-suntory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:27:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70596.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the first time, consumers are going to have a clear concept of what Japanese whisky is: whisky actually made in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/19/national/quad-nations-china-indo-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:29:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi speaks to reporters Thursday at the ministry following an online meeting of foreign ministers from Quad group countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/20/national/media-national/covid-19-japan-isolation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:37:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than half of the nationwide hikikomori population of 1.15 million are between 40 and 64 years old.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/20/business/economy-business/japan-downgrades-key-economic-assessment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:40:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's Marunouchi business district on Feb. 2. The government's view on consumer spending was revised downward for the third straight month, with the office saying it has shown recent weakness.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70798.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A computer image of a Tokyo skyscraper that is set to become Japan's tallest residential building in 2023]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/20/national/osaka-mori-insult/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many Osakans never quite forgave Yoshiro Mori, who resigned last week as president of the Tokyo Organising Committee after making sexist comments, for disparaging remarks he'd made about the city.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-g7-questions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:51:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A fruit stall owner watches news footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping reflected from a projector in the town of Majuqiao, a suburb of Beijing, on Feb. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a Cabinet meeting in Tehran.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70756.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bernie Delgado prepares doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a cold storage room set up at Pratt &amp; Whitney Stadium in East Hartford, Connecticut, on Feb. 4. New studies show that one shot of a vaccine can greatly amplify antibody levels in those who have recovered from the coronavirus. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:53:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jessica Watkins (left) and Donovan Crowl (center), both from Ohio, march down the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol with the Oath Keepers militia group among supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump protesting against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the Congress, in Washington on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Screens display the suspension of operations of the Tohoku Shinkansen Line at JR Tokyo Station in the capital on Feb. 14.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers online remarks as he takes part in a Munich Security Conference virtual event from the East Room at the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/20/world/science-health-world/pfizer-vaccine-coronavirus-one-dose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T08:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the COVID-19 vaccine Pfizer Kalamazoo Manufacturing Site on Friday in Portage, Michigan. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/21/national/science-health/fujifilm-covid-19-japan-health-medicine-vaccinations-avigan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has approved Avigan as an emergency flu medicine. But concerns remain, as the drug has been shown to cause birth defects in animal studies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/21/national/senkakus-china-japan-relations-disputed-islands-japan-coast-guard/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga made his pledge for Japan to be carbon neutral by 2050 in a pre-recorded video to world leaders for the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement on Dec. 13, 2020.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, pause for a moment of silence at the White House on Monday to mark the grim milestone of 500,000 U.S. deaths from COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura speaks at a news conference at the Osaka Prefectural Government office on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Benny Tai, a pro-democracy activist, arrives at Ma On Shan police station in Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hurricane Irma destroyed 90% of homes on the Caribbean island of Barbuda in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan temporarily suspended exemptions allowing foreign athletes to train in the country ahead of the Tokyo Games as it closed its borders to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hanko is a personal seal used as the legal method of identification]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc. is considering selling its 48-story headquarters building in Tokyo for some ¥300 billion ($2.9 billion),]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adam Neumann]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Experts have said at-home video calls, which have become the norm during the pandemic, have created additional stress for many some minority women.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stewart Loo, who leads the New York City Police Department’s Asian Hate Crime Task Force, speaks on Monday at an event in front of Queens Borough Hall to raise awareness of a spike in crimes against Asian Americans.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mining machine is seen at the Bayan Obo rare earth mine in Inner Mongolia, China, in July 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hironori Ezaki, Director of Nagasaki Medical Center, receives a coronavirus vaccine in Nagasaki on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard vessel sails in front of Uotsuri Island, one of the disputed Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, in August 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Momoko Nojo, an economics student and co-author of a petition that helped force out the octogenarian leader of the Tokyo Olympics over sexist remarks, in Tokyo, on Friday. In a country where the young are taught to keep quiet and defer to their elders, the furor showed how social media has become a key outlet for generational change.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T06:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Nissan Note, which uses the carmaker's e-Power system, in the showroom at the carmaker's headquarters in Yokohama]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T06:19:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paramilitary police officer talks next to a screen showing frontier soldiers of the People's Liberation Army during an event to educate students about national defense at a primary school in Wuzhishan, China, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. signaled it currently intends to go ahead with a Trump administration-proposed rule to secure the information-technology supply chain next month, a move that gives the Department of Commerce broad authority to prohibit transactions involving "foreign adversaries.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Makiko Yamada returns to her seat after answering questions during a House of Representatives committee meeting on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T06:57:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators rally against the military coup and show their support to local residents Friday in the Tamwe neighborhood of Yangon, after riot police officers used teargas the previous night to disperse a crowd of protesters.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T06:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vials of Covishield on the production line at the Serum Institute in India]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A poster at a supermarket checkout in Tokyo warns against scams linked to novel coronavirus vaccines on Feb.10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers decontaminate a road in a special reconstruction district in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/26/business/economy-business/australia-economy-after-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:05:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers and pedestrians are reflected in a store window at Rundle Mall in Adelaide, Australia, on Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hana Kimura]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/world/israeli-unvaccinated-exclusion-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A concert in Tel Aviv on Feb. 24. People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country can access certain events and facilities by showing a "Green Pass." ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold posters with the image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in Naypyidaw on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72102.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sticker across a Go To Travel campaign poster at Nagoya Station on Dec. 29 shows the campaign has been temporarily halted.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden talks during an executive order signing ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. The United States on Thursday carried out an airstrike in eastern Syria against structures belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militias responsible for recent attacks against American and allied personnel in Iraq.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/26/world/politics-diplomacy-world/eu-vaccine-passports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:47:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers line up at a COVID-19 test center at Frankfurt International Airport on Dec. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:47:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/26/asia-pacific/china-five-year-plan-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:49:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72068.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's ruling Communist Party's politburo said in November that the five-year plan should promote low-carbon energy and support efforts to quickly bring emissions to a peak in some regions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/26/business/corporate-business/facebook-empire-australia-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T07:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While it’s too early to declare a clear winner from the confrontation over Australia's new law, Facebook is walking away satisfied that it didn’t have to cede too much ground.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/business/jal-ana-airlines-travel-covid-19-japan-japanese-economy/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines halted recruitment activities in the middle of the year in the wake of the pandemic and decided to hire only 200 new graduates in the 2021 business year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/national/senkakus-east-china-sea-japan-coast-guard-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese marine surveillance ship cruises next to a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship in the East China Sea near the disputed isles known as Senkaku Islands in Japan and Diaoyu Islands in China, in February 2013.
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/business/cars-carmakers-japanese-economy-semiconductors-mazda-toyota-suzuki-honda-mitsubishi-nissan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:03:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71995.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nissan Motor's Iwaki factory ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/business/economy-business/japans-january-department-store-sales-fall-29-virus-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71994.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sales of 196 department stores run by 73 operators totaled ¥326.51 billion ($3 billion) in the 16th consecutive monthly fall, the Japan Department Stores Association said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/business/investors-climate-change-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:06:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71967.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg (center) takes part in a climate strike protest during the 50th World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/national/politics-diplomacy/separate-surnames-group/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:07:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71771.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71771.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers, including Olympic minister Tamayo Marukawa, had urged local party assembly members to not to support separate surnames for married couples.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/national/japan-older-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:08:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71682.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's older residents will receive COVID-19 vaccinations from April 12, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/national/politics-diplomacy/inada-ldp-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:08:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71754.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71754.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada says only a crisis will make room for a woman in the Liberal Democratic Party's top job.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/national/politics-diplomacy/makiko-yamada-yoshihide-suga-seigo-suga-diet-internal-affairs-and-communications-ministry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Makiko Yamada answers questions during a meeting of the Lower House Budget Committee on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/business/biden-us-semiconductors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71755.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71755.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden displays a semiconductor at the White House on Wednesday before signing an executive order intended to insulate the American economy from future shortages of critical imported components.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/asia-pacific/india-hydropower-conflicts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71929.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71929.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kundan Singh poses near his home after a flash flood swept down a mountain valley, destroying dams and bridges, in Raini village in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, on Feb. 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/asia-pacific/asia-coronavirus-vaccine-rollouts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71779.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam receives China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/business/nordic-banks-gender-diversity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:24:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71676.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Svenska Handelsbanken CEO Carina Akerstrom arrives for a news conference at the bank's headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2019. Diversity advances at Nordic banks are positive both for their franchise and reputation, according to ratings firm DBRS Morningstar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/25/world/pfizer-vaccine-israel-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:32:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71762.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71762.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paramedic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/national/science-health/novavax-vaccine-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:46:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71675.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71675.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takeda plans to domestically produce and supply Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine in the second half of 2021]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/national/crime-legal/okinawa-temple-land/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:47:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71674.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The waiver of land usage fees for a Confucian temple in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, was found to have violated the constitutional separation of religion and state. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/world/science-health-world/thailand-china-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:48:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71673.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A container with Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines arrives at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/business/economy-business/us-china-supply-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:51:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71608.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71608.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks before signing a "Made in America" executive order at the White House in Washington on Jan. 25. In a bid to build supply chains less reliant on China, Biden is expected to sign another executive order in the coming days that lays out a new strategy for securing supply chains.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/asia-pacific/myanmar-envoy-thailand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71602.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71602.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin has arrived for talks on diplomatic efforts by the Association of South East Asian Nations, a Thai source said. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/business/corporate-business/jtb-capital-cut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:52:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71495.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71495.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Go To Travel campaign poster at Nagoya Station in December says the campaign was suspended. JTB Corp. will reduce its capital to ¥100 million, making it eligible to gain a tax advantage at a time when it is facing a severe business environment due to the sharp pandemic-induced decline in travel demand.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/asia-pacific/australia-facebook-google-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:55:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71564.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71564.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australia's Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg hold a news conference in Canberra on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/24/world/us-masks-households/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T08:58:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71493.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71493.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to deliver remarks on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/world/trudeau-xinjiang-genocide-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:04:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71445.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a news conference in Ottawa on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/national/crisis-communication-foreign-community-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71070.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71070.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Omi, head of a government panel of coronavirus experts, speaks to the media in Tokyo on Jan. 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/world/jet-engine-failure-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:12:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71303.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The damaged starboard engine of United Airlines Flight 328 is inspected in a hangar at Denver International Airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/business/israel-vaccines-normalcy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:13:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71356.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shows her "green pass," proof that she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, before entering a gym and pool facility in Tel Aviv on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/national/politics-diplomacy/seigo-suga-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71212.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Taniwaki (right) and Mabito Yoshida, both vice ministers for policy coordination at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, attend a Lower House Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/asia-pacific/myanmar-protests-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:16:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71296.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People protest in Yangon on Monday against the recent military coup.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/national/japan-loans-mauritius-oil-spill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:21:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71287.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MV Wakashio bulk carrier vessel, operated by Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd., sits partially submerged in the ocean after running aground close to Pointe d'Esny, Mauritius, in August last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/world/boeing-engine-explosion-alarm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:24:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71285.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Airlines flight 328 returns to Denver International Airport with its starboard engine on fire on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/22/national/japanese-man-freed-from-chinese-prison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/22/national/crime-legal/osaka-firm-accused-helping-vietnamese-work-illegally/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/22/national/matsue-takeshima-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Takeshima Day ceremony is held in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/22/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-us-biden-wang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:36:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71130.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71130.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi chats with a guest after the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum on China-U.S. relations in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/22/world/pfizer-vaccine-stops-spread/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71054.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health care worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine in Tel Aviv on Feb. 16. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/21/national/crime-legal/philippines-murder-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T09:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/27/national/media-national/remote-work-harassment-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T10:33:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68482.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68482.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An increasing number of employees are believed to be experiencing harassment while working in a remote capacity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/18/business/corporate-business/china-nissan-auto-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T11:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Mizuho Bank stopped service at some of its automated teller machines (ATMs) on Sunday after the machines devoured customers' cash cards and bank books.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan's policy review this month will likely center on flexible stock-fund buying, bond yield movements and the potency of negative rates.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was already under pressure over the workplace culture at Parliament House after a former government media adviser said last month that in 2019 she was raped by a fellow staffer in a minister’s office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of Workman Co. stores in Japan reached 902 as of the end of January, surpassing even the 809 stores run by Fast Retailing Co.'s Uniqlo casual clothing chain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The third batch of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Narita Airport on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive officer of Coinbase Inc., speaks during The Players Technology Summit in San Francisco on Aug. 14, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72775.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NTT Docomo will lower its new 20-gigabyte monthly mobile plan to ¥2,700.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Union Pacific Corp. train yard in Fort Worth, Texas]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68913.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The solar power industry relies on China's Xinjiang region and its cheap coal power to produce half of its key raw material.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese national flag is flown outside the mosque at the Xinjiang International Grand Bazar during a government organized trip in Urumqi, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in January 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-02T10:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72852.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nippon Steel Corp. is shifting its focus from blast furnaces to less polluting electric furnaces in a race to develop cleaner steel.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The MP Materials rare earth open-pit mine in Mountain Pass, California]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72859.jpeg]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide in a Crew Dragon craft during training]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-02T16:22:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72868.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Capital spending by firms in Japan fell for the third straight quarter in October-December as manufacturers cut costs.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/02/national/social-issues/japan-animators-poverty/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuya Akutsu, a freelance animator, at work in his apartment in Tokyo on Jan. 14. Akutsu wants to start a family, but on his wages, he says, "it’s impossible to get married and to raise a child."]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-02T16:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72805.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at a court in Paris to hear the final verdict in his corruption trial on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Taylor, who was implicated in enabling the dramatic escape of former Nissan Motor Co. boss Carlos Ghosn, is seen in a booking photograph from October 2012 on unrelated charges.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial service for the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan was held on March 11, 2019, in Tokyo. The government will hold one this year, after skipping it last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators flash the three-finger salute during a protest in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday against the military coup.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Older people wait in a queue before being inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hikariko Ono joined the Foreign Ministry in 1988, and has served in various posts.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic at the White House on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials hold plastic covers as a man (center) believed to be Peter Taylor, who allegedly helped his father Michael stage an operation to fly former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in 2019, gets on a bus after arriving at Narita airport on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games shop in Tokyo in February]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Decorations for the Lunar New Year in Melbourne's deserted Chinatown on Feb. 13. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A quarantine officer checks a saliva sample from an overseas passenger who arrived at Narita International Airport in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-04T00:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Hashimoto, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, speaks during a media briefing after a council meeting in Tokyo, Japan March 3, 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/02/national/tokyo-coronavirus-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T00:23:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The streets of Ameyoko, a shopping district in Tokyo's Taito Ward, on Sunday. The government is set to discuss whether the state of emergency for the Tokyo metropolitan area can be lifted.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/06/business/tokyo-stock-exchange-sustainable-investing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T07:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. and its parent company have issued steps for companies to identify and disclose their ethical credentials as more market players take into account environmental, social and corporate governance standards in making investments.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noriyuki Suzuki, who lost his 12-year-old daughter Mai in the 2011 tsunami that hit Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks about the disaster on a hill overlooking the school in September.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/25/national/tsunami-school-memorial-miyagi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T07:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65316.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The tsunami-hit building of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, will be turned to a memorial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/01/national/japanese-shrine-charms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T07:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48157.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nihon Daiichi Kumano Shrine in Okayama Prefecture offers more than 50 varieties of charms for different parts of the body or symptoms.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-vaccine-mrna-lipids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T11:53:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73352.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is manufactured at a facility in Marburg, Germany, in January. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-2024-mike-pence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T12:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73365.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-xi-east-rising/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T12:55:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73384.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with local residents in the Guanshanhu District of Guiyang, the capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Feb. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/business/economy-business/tokyo-emergency-economic-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T13:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73382.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese retail sales could rise this month, even if the state of emergency is extended, economists say.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/asia-pacific/india-coronavirus-covaxin-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T14:04:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73369.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73369.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a dose of Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by India's Bharat Biotech and the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research, at a hospital in New Delhi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/national/fisheries-groups-membership-3-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T16:44:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73457.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishing boats are docked at a port in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture. Membership in fisheries cooperatives in the Tohoku region have tumbled in the 10 years since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/asia-pacific/biden-us-north-korea-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T17:34:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73493.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, attends a meeting in Hanoi in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/national/border-control-measures-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T19:17:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture last month. All people coming from abroad are required to undergo tests for COVID-19 prior to their departure for Japan, submit proof they have tested negative upon arrival and observe a 14-day quarantine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/business/financial-markets/bonds-stock-japanese-economy-global-economy-u-s-treasuries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T21:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73579.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73579.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Japanese funds sold a record $34 billion of foreign bonds in the two weeks ended Feb. 26 as the nation’s fiscal year-end in March approaches — enough to cause reverberations in U.S. repurchase markets for 10-year Treasuries.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/03/business/corporate-business/many-japanese-lenders-refuse-invest-companies-linked-nuclear-arms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T09:17:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_10204-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than a dozen Japanese financial institutions say they refrain from investing in and extending loans to companies involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/05/world/iceland-quakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T10:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73615.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An aerial view from Feb. 28 shows the lighthouse and the geothermal energy plant near the town of Grindavik on the Reykjanes peninsula.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/national/vaccines-foreign-languages/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T11:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73420.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in February in Tokyo. The mammoth scale of the nationwide vaccine program has swamped some municipal officials to the point that they barely have enough human resources left to be able to work on multilingual services.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/05/world/biden-border-crisis-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T13:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A migrant girl from Central America looks out of a bus window in El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 26 as she is taken to a shelter after crossing from Mexico into the U.S. to continue her asylum request in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-05T13:15:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Nak-yon, a former South Korean prime minister, speaks at a campaign rally in Seoul in April 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/05/business/economy-business/china-gdp-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T16:13:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73629.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leaders and delegates attend the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/05/business/corporate-business/hokkaido-airports-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T17:21:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72160.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the COVID-19 pandemic having nearly annihilated air passenger demand, Hakodate Airport has been forced to change its investment plan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/world/coronavirus-evolving-views/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T17:42:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker treats a patient suffering from COVID-19 at the Clinical Hospital Center in Nis, Serbia, on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/business/corporate-business/ricoh-print-digital/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T18:15:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73487.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ricoh Co., best known for its copiers, printers and fax machines, is making a bold shift away from paper and into the digital realm.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/05/national/tokyo-virus-emergency-recommendation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T18:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait for train on a platform in Tokyo on March 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/asia-pacific/slain-myanmar-protester/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T20:05:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters lie on the ground after police opened fire to disperse an anti-coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Wednesday. Among them, Angel (bottom left), also known as Kyal Sin, took cover before she was shot and killed. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/business/financial-markets/boj-tse-stocks-jasdaq-nikkei-225/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T20:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73576.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard walks in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. A surge in BOJ shares has confused market participants, as its stock pays a tiny dividend and holds no voting rights.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/national/pandemic-rice-stockpile/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71242.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's government constantly keeps a stockpile of 1 million tons of rice in warehouses around the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/business/hyundai-semiconductor-supplies/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer looks at a Hyundai Motor Co. Genesis G70 sedan at the company's Motorstudio showroom in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/business/us-biden-semiconductor-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T08:49:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor chip as he speaks at the White House on Feb. 24 prior to signing an executive order aimed at addressing a global semiconductor chip shortage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/world/uk-coroanvirus-variant-trackers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T08:51:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of NHS Test and Trace staff sets up a mobile COVID-19 testing center in the Moston area of Manchester, Britain, on Feb. 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/asia-pacific/china-defense-budget-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T08:56:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army soldiers stand before a giant screen as Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China on Oct. 1, 2019, in Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/28/asia-pacific/new-zealand-auckland-coronavirus-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T08:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A social distancing sign in Auckland in August last year]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-06T10:41:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many wealthy Americans are poised to emerge from the pandemic in better shape than they entered it, widening the gulf between the rich and the poor, a new study suggests. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/06/business/tech/twitter-undo-tweet-feature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T10:58:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twitter Inc. is testing an "undo send" function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-06T10:59:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Delegates applaud as Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives for the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-06T11:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a meeting of the novel coronavirus infection control task force at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-06T12:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and other Chinese officials applaud as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/08/asia-pacific/clubhouse-china-censorship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68077.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. app Clubhouse has grown in popularity among some Chinese social-media, with thousands joining recent discussions on contentious subjects such as Taiwan and Xinjiang undisturbed by Beijing’s censors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-us-yang-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Jiechi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/twitter-chinese-embassy-uighurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:09:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64455.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Security guards stand at the gates of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Huocheng County, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-us-trump-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:09:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64452.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/20/asia-pacific/us-xinjiang-genocide-declaration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64168.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A facility believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, in Artux in China's western Xinjiang region]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/14/asia-pacific/us-xinjiang-cotton-tomato-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:12:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63000.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63000.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A housing compound in Yangisar, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region. The U.S. will seize all imports of tomato and cotton products from China's Xinjiang region due to the use of forced labor, the American Customs and Border protection agency announced Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/15/asia-pacific/china-genocide-xinjiang-u-s-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:12:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63232.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese police officer stands near what is officially described as a vocational education center in Yining in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, in September 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/29/national/china-uighurs-japan-five-eyes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:12:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60337.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping after a special event at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/17/asia-pacific/china-muslims-alibaba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:12:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uighur men gather near a police station in the main square of Hotan, China, in December 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/03/world/us-bans-xinjiang-cotton-imports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T23:13:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street in Hotan, a city in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/25/asia-pacific/pope-uighurs-persecuted-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:01:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53135.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis meets a group of Rohingya refugees in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in December 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/14/national/politics-diplomacy/us-japan-south-korea-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50861.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The unusually blunt comments directed at close U.S. allies Japan and South Korea came as Tokyo and Seoul were set to join 13 other Asia Pacific economies this weekend in signing a China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which could become the world's largest free trade agreement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/27/asia-pacific/china-xi-jinping-xinjiang-policies-totally-correct/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:04:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40515.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40515.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A lone Uighur man walks to a mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, in August last year. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/24/asia-pacific/china-expanding-xinjiang-re-education-camps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39884.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39884.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Muslims work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/22/asia-pacific/china-mass-labor-program-tibet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:04:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39555.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39555.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in 2015. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/11/asia-pacific/uighur-wants-disney-apology-mulan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:04:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37144.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37144.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti, a Uighur economist and human rights activist, attends the award ceremony for his 2019 EU Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/09/business/mulan-disney-film-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36618.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["Mulan," which was made available for purchase online in the U.S. and Europe last week and is set to open in China on Friday, has stumbled from one controversy to another — all while the coronavirus knocked out its chances of getting a successful run in theaters.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/06/national/social-issues/uighurs-japan-forced-labor-xinjiang-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35644.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Uighur child plays alone in the courtyard of a home at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:06:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka in June last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/29/asia-pacific/china-coronavirus-cases-highest-april/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:06:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People sit on socially distanced chairs as they wait to undergo COVID-19 tests at a makeshift testing center in Dalian, China, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/21/asia-pacific/us-blacklist-china-uighurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:06:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25378.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A masked Uighur boy takes part in a protest against China at a mosque in Istanbul in November 2018. The U.S. added 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it called human rights violations in connection with China's treatment of its Uighurs in Xinjiang, China, to the U.S. economic blacklist.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/10/asia-pacific/u-s-sanctions-highest-ranking-chinese-official-yet-uighur-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:06:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on senior Chinese officials, including Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, as it demanded an end to "horrific" abuses against Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/02/asia-pacific/u-s-harsh-sanctions-china-xinjiang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:06:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21524.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a further sign of the U.S.’s determination to call China out over abuses in Xinjiang, the administration issued a new business advisory Wednesday warning companies about the risks of running their supply chains through firms which "engage in human rights abuses, including forced labor in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:09:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds a sign during a rally to show support for Uighurs and their fight for human rights, in Hong Kong in December.]]></image:caption>
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