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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, in western China's Xinjiang region, on Nov. 4, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (left) and Vice President Mike Pence listen as President Donald Trump speaks at an event on religious freedom during the United Nations General Assembly Monday in New York.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scholar Ilham Tohti gives an interview at his home in Beijing in February 2013.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uighur women pray in a graveyard on the outskirts of Hotan in China's northwest Xinjiang region in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rebiya Kadeer]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:11:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo in July 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:13:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials say this building in Hotan, in China's Xinjiang autonomous region, is a high school but it is believed to house a detention center.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors are tracked by facial recognition technology from state-owned surveillance equipment manufacturer Hikvision at the Security China 2018 expo in Beijing in October 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Dabancheng, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, on Sept. 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ferkat Jawdat holds up a photo of his mother during a gathering to raise awareness about loved ones who have disappeared in China's far west, in Washington on Sunday. In recent years, Xinjiang has been subject to a severe security crackdown that the Chinese government says is necessary to fight latent religious extremism.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Surveillance cameras are mounted on a post at Tiananmen Square as snow falls in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese national flag flies outside the mosque at the Xinjiang International Grand Bazar during a government-organized trip in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, on Jan. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents perform for reporters and government officials during a government organized visit to the Hotan county vocational educational training center in Hotan county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai speaks during an interview in Washington on Nov. 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lu Guang poses for a photo in New York in July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paramilitary police patrol a Uighur neighborhood in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, China, in July 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/19/asia-pacific/chinese-city-urges-poisoned-extremism-follow-conservative-islam-confess-crimes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young Muslims read from official Chinese-language textbooks in classrooms at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, in this file image from undated video footage.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Uighur farmer stands outside a convenience store at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in the Xinjiang region of western China, on Sept. 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uighur men pray at a mosque in Hotan, in China's western Xinjiang region, in April 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers are seen in silhouette at the Korla railway station under construction in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, Oct. 31.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-educating-muslims-avoid-extremisms-spread-not-mistreating-beijing-official/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents watch a convoy of security personnel in a show of force through central Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region last fall. Two U.S. lawmakers are urging the extension of American export restrictions to prevent sales of equipment that could be used in China's massive security clampdown targeting the Xinjiang region's native Muslim population. Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Chris Smith said in a letter Wednesday to the U.S. commerce secretary that they want foreign entities, including businesses, research institutions, government and private organizations, and individuals seen as profiting from the clampdown added to a watch list.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:16:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor smiles behind her veil by Uighur hats on display for sale in Hetian, in China's Xinjiang province, in October 2006.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/11/asia-pacific/u-n-says-credible-reports-china-holding-1-million-uighurs-secret-camps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Uighur woman dries clothes on the ground south of Kashgar.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/31/asia-pacific/china-spend-300-million-improved-irrigation-southern-xinjiang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp.’s dominance in Japan’s markets is becoming more pronounced.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/06/business/emergency-extension-coronavirus-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T14:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Businesses in the Tokyo area have largely said Friday's extension of the coronavirus state of emergency was inevitable but are fretting over what they say is insufficient government aid.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/asia-pacific/myanmar-protests-raids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T15:20:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters near a blockade in Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday during a demonstration against the military coup]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/asia-pacific/myanmar-coup-un-ambassador/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T15:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74102.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar's ambassador to the U.N., near the U.N. building in New York in February. At the U.N., Kyaw Moe Tun declared his new military masters illegitimate. They fired him, but he has no intention of leaving. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/national/kyoto-un-crime-prevention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T17:20:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74105.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 14th U.N. Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice takes place at the Kyoto International Conference Center on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/asia-pacific/us-south-korea-military-exercises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T18:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74076.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74076.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of South Korea and U.S. Special forces board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a joint military exercise in Gangwon province, South Korea, in November 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/national/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-nobuo-kishi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T19:58:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74147.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator protests against the military coup in Myanmar on February 14 in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/world/science-health-world/china-covid-19-vaccines-vaccinations-2020-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T23:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74150.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74150.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's top government diplomat, Wang Yi, said China is preparing to set up regional vaccination sites for domestically produced vaccines in other countries and will provide services to compatriots who are overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/world/china-u-s-joe-biden-taiwan-wang-yi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T09:22:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74158-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74158.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media after delivering remarks in the State Dining Room of the White House on Saturday.
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/national/japan-may-approve-second-covid-19-vaccine-may-health-minister-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T09:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74080.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74080.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A syringe with a dose of the vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is displayed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital in Tokyo on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/05/world/atlantic-ocean-climate-mystery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T09:56:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73660.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73660.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Floodwater covers a highway in Louisiana in November after Hurricane Delta made landfall. The "Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” has been thought to influence the strength of Atlantic hurricanes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/world/microsoft-hack-cybersecurity-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T11:57:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74119.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74119.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An attack on Microsoft’s widely used business email software has so far claimed at least 60,000 known victims globally, according a former senior U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/08/business/economy-business/current-account-decline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T13:15:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74274.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74274.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's current account surplus for January dropped from a year earlier as the travel surplus continued to plunge amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/07/business/myanmar-japan-firms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T16:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74145.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74145.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in Yangon, Myanmar, protest against the military coup last month. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/08/national/sdf-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T18:28:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74251.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74251.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Fukushima, director of the Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital in Tokyo, receives a shot of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/social-issues/bullying-schools-keeps-youth-suicide-rate-high/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T19:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/n-bullying-a-20170429.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-bullying-a-20170429.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Go Kasai, father of Rima Kasai who killed herself, poses with his daughter's picture at his house during an interview in Fujisaki, Aomori Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/08/national/science-health/japan-disaster-tsunami-warnings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T20:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74253-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74253.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is flooded after an earthquake-triggered tsunami swept away the area on March 11, 2011, in this supplied photo. The meteorological agency's initial warning was criticized after the disaster for underestimating the size of the tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/14/national/social-issues/japanese-doctor-wages-war-internet-addiction-advising-rehab-online-gamers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T22:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-addiction-c-20190315.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-addiction-c-20190315.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Online gaming has become the fastest-growing form of addiction in the 21st century, and Dr. Susumu Higuchi, who treats addicts, says it is children who mainly fall prey to the "cyberdrug."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/business/tesla-texas-mega-battery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T09:28:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74433.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74433.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Gambit Energy Storage Park under construction in Angleton, Texas]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/asia-pacific/myanmar-protesters-international-alarm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T09:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74439-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74439.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold homemade shields during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday against the military coup.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/babysitting-new-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T10:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74432.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74432.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The welfare ministry will tighten guidelines for listing babysitter-matching site operators on its website.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/asia-pacific/china-turkey-uyghurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T11:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74461.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74461.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An ethnic Uyghur demonstrator holds a placard that reads: "Rape is crime against humanity" during a demonstration in Istanbul on Monday to protest China's treatment of Uyghurs.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/business/namba-keidanren-vice-chair/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T12:20:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74468-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74468.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomoko Namba, founder and chair of DeNA Co., has become first woman to be named vice chair of the powerful business lobby Keidanren. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/asia-pacific/thailand-vaccine-passports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T14:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74538.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74538.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists wave from an electric tour bus in the Sukhotai Historical Park in Sukhothai, Thailand, in February. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/asia-pacific/hong-kong-china-election-changes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T14:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74496.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74496.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner reading "the people support patriots ruling Hong Kong" in Hong Kong on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/business/economy-business/junko-nakagawa-boj-board/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T16:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74560.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74560.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Junko Nakagawa]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/science-health/covid-19-japan-south-korea-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T17:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74485.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74485.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech novel coronavirus vaccine at Tokyo Medical Center on Feb. 17, when Japan's inoculation drive began.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/world/science-health-world/climate-tropics-heat-humidity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T17:28:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74646.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74646.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People cool off in a fountain in Sao Paulo in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/08/national/tepco-president-vows-scrap-reactors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T17:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74417.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard opens a gate barring entry to parts of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Monday, as the government eased restrictions on short-term visits to the area.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/asia-pacific/myanmar-military-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T17:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74625.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74625.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shwe Yote Hlwar, 5, holds a portrait of her father, Zwe Htet Soe, 26, who was shot and killed while protesting on Wednesday, during his funeral in Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/reconstruction-fukushima-311/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T19:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74457.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A combo photo shows wreckage in Namie, Fukushima Pefecture (top), on May 26, 2011, and the same area pictured on Feb. 22, 2021, still deserted with grass and gravestones unattended.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/japan-coronavirus-variant-infections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T20:54:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74715.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74715.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers wait in line outside a coronavirus testing site in the Akihabara shopping district of Tokyo on Feb. 24.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/science-health/7-shot-insulin-syringes-covid19-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T21:11:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74586-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74586.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nurses at Uji-Tokushukai Medical Center in Kyoto Prefecture use insulin syringes to extract seven doses of COVID-19 vaccine from each vial on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/business/economy-business/japan-gdp-slower-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T01:09:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74436-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74436.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy expanded at a pace slower than that initially reported in the October-December period.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/09/national/covid-19-medicine-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T12:49:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74523.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74523.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Avigan did not receive domestic regulatory approval in December because clinical data showing a shortened recovery time for patients was deemed to be insufficient.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/10/world/surveillance-camera-tesla-hack/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T13:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74734.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74734.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Companies whose footage was exposed in a massive hack of surveillance footage include carmaker Tesla Inc. and software provider Cloudflare Inc.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/10/asia-pacific/myanmar-police-fled-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T13:10:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local fishermen catch octopus off the coast of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, during a trial operation in January.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ultra-cheap fares could help revive airlines by luring back customers who’ve been reluctant to fly due to border restrictions and lengthy quarantines.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scramble crossing near Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Sunday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74689.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Proponents of bitcoin see it as a hedge against inflation at a time of unprecedented government stimulus, a falling dollar and record-low interest rates that make attractive high-yielding assets hard to find.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75037.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda. Some central bank officials want to generate more fluctuations in bond yields.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meet in Tokyo on Oct. 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kenichi Kurosawa painted his message of support a month after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed his home on March. 11, 2011, and killed around 3,700 of the city’s residents.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs after briefing Senators in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-stimulus-bill/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75210.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan, a package of economic relief measures to respond to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, walk their dog by the Ukedo river in the town. Fukushima Prefecture is still struggling to recover as the nuclear cleanup drags on.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-12T12:44:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75227.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Few people are seen at restaurants and bars in Tokyo's Shimbashi district on March 3 as the Tokyo area remains under a state of emergency.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cherry tree in bloom at Shukkeien Garden in Hiroshima on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/12/business/economy-business/kozo-yamamoto-fresh-stimulus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T16:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kozo Yamamoto]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/12/business/corporate-business/softbank-coupang-us-ipo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T16:39:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75224.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coupang Inc., whose biggest backer is SoftBank Group Corp., opened trading in New York Thursday at $63.50 a share, an 81% jump from the price in its upsized $4.6 billion initial public offering Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75293.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vials are filled with AstraZeneca PLC's COVID-19 vaccine at a factory of a Daiichi Sankyo Co. subsidiary in Kitamoto, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-12T16:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74997.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker talks on a phone near the No. 3 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, last week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/12/national/suga-us-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T17:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga plans to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/12/business/tohoku-business-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T18:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A marine research ship is repaired at shipbuilder Yamanishi Corp.'s dock in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/business/honda-cars-automakers-autonomous-driving/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T22:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73577.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda plans to offer 100 units of its Legend sedan equipped with "level-3" autonomous technology domestically for a suggested retail price of ¥11 million ($103,000) that will only be available on a three-year lease. However, there are no plans to sell the level-3 self-driving vehicle overseas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-defense-antony-blinken-lloyd-austin-toshimitsu-motegi-nobuo-kishi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T22:11:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antony Blinken]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/national/fukushima-greenpeace-radiation-health-3-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T22:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73575.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greenpeace has recommended that Japan suspend the current return policies, which it says "ignore science-based analysis, including potential lifetime exposure risks to the population” and abandon plans to lift evacuation orders in six municipalities.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/asia-pacific/thailand-coronavirus-tourism-2/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wat Mahathat in the Sukhothai Historical Park, some 430km north of Bangkok]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/04/national/ken-watanabe-miyagi/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Show of support: Actor Ken Watanabe’s decadelong efforts to offer hope to survivors of the March 11 disaster include opening a cafe in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, and launching websites to solicit donations and words of encouragement.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signage for SoftBank Corp. and WeWork Companies Inc. outside the Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba building, which houses SoftBank Group's headquarters, in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, holding their son in South Africa in 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vast back catalogs and exclusive strips have helped draw people away from paper comics to manga apps in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Feb. 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The surface of the newly discovered exoplanet called Gliese 486 b, a type of planet known as a "hot super-Earth," is seen in an undated artist's impression. With a surface temperature of about 430 degrees Celsius, astronomers suspect that the planet has a Venus-like hot and dry landscape interspersed with glowing lava rivers, possibly with a tenuous atmosphere.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Taniwaki (right), vice minister for policy coordination at the communications ministry, speaks at the Upper House Budget Committee on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/06/national/media-national/controversial-2019-aichi-triennale/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A petition to recall Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura over his role in the 2019 triennale committee has ended after a number of forged signatures were found to have been included in the count.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social media can sometimes seem like a cesspit of rage as users criticize whatever might be on their mind at any given time.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, which was crippled due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, on Feb. 13]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-13T06:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of detained pro-democracy activists stand outside West Kowloon court in Hong Kong on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-13T06:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-13T06:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiro Muto, CEO of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/china-nuclear-energy-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T07:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction takes place on the Taishan 1 Areva SA EPR reactor at the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co. atomic plant in Taishan, China, in July 2010. China is offering new backing for the development of nuclear power as a key tool in its drive to cut carbon emissions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea is seeking to iron out remaining differences and sign a deal with Washington on sharing costs for stationing 28,500 American troops in the country, its chief envoy has said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/06/asia-pacific/china-defense-budget-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T07:04:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military delegates leave at the end of 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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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government's response said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/06/national/tepco-nuclear-energy-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T07:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Bank President Koji Fujiwara bows in apology during over the firm's fourth system glitch in two weeks, during an urgently arranged news conference Friday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/national/crime-legal/sugawara-gift-scandal/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former trade minister Isshu Sugawara attends a Lower House plenary session in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-quad-china/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks while a monitor displays U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian leader Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or "Quad," meeting at his official residence in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aikitsu Tanakadate (left) became actively involved in military aviation ahead of World War II, and is seen here with military personnel at the site of an air crash in 1935.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants discuss gender inequality in the media sector at a symposium in Tokyo on Feb. 27.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over 60% of people in Japan feel its society favors men, according to a survey.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-14T03:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eco-bags carrying fresh food are laser scanned as they travel along a conveyor belt at a Coupang Corp. fulfillment center in Bucheon, South Korea, in February. South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. and that could raise billions of dollars to battle rivals and kick off a record year for IPOs in the Asian country.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-14T07:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Panasonic Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kazuhiro Tsuga speaks during an interview on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Denmark has put use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine shots on hold for two weeks after reports of cases of blood clots forming, including one death, Danish authorities said on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Noda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech in Sendai on Aug. 23, 2011. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen sort a catch of Japanese icefish at Ukedo fishing port in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. Japan renewed its calls Thursday for foreign countries to lift import restrictions for food from Fukushima. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Verkada Inc. security cameras at the company's headquarters in San Mateo, California]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-14T08:11:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) and Premier Li Keqiang (right) after the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-14T08:12:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74988.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antony Blinken, U.S. secretary of state, will visit Japan next week. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/11/asia-pacific/pacific-nations-rising-seas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-14T08:13:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young boys covered in reef mud walk toward their homes in the village of Ambo, on South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati, in 2013. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-14T08:14:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man says an early morning prayer atop Mount Hiyori, which overlooks the Kadonowakicho  coastal district  that was devastated by the 3/11 disasters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 31, 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/business/corporate-business/covid-19-japan-surveys-japanese-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-14T19:41:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75513.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Around 70% of Japanese companies are reviewing their overseas business strategies amid the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/national/china-says-exercising-self-restraint-japanese-ships-near-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-14T20:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese coast guard vessel sails near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/business/economy-business/boj-japanese-economy-negative-interest-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-14T20:19:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75502.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan is considering releasing an analysis of the potential impact of lowering its negative interest rate at this week's policy review, according to sources.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police detain a woman as people gather at a memorial site at the Clapham Common Bandstand, following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, in London on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/corporate-business/nomura-structured-finance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T11:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75569.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Next month Nomura Securities Co. will start operating a team to offer new ways for companies to raise funds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/economy-business/china-economic-activity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T12:43:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. factory in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/economy-business/january-machinery-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T13:37:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75622.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's machinery orders fell in January from the previous month, the first drop in four months, although sectors such as auto parts stayed on a recovery track.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/pineapples-china-taiwan-imports-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T14:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (second from right) holds a pineapple in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-15T14:26:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[AstraZeneca has defended its vaccine, saying in a Sunday statement that more than 17 million doses have been administered in Europe and the U.K., with no evidence that the shot increased the risk of blood clots. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-15T14:40:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75555.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester holds onto the shirt of a fallen comrade, during a crackdown by security forces on demonstrations against the military coup, in the Hlaing Tharyar township of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-15T14:56:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75644.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds after a vote on changes to Hong Kong's election system during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-15T16:28:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75533.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is asking nations to limit the number of staff accompanying high-ranking officials to the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-15T19:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses for a photo with military chief executive secretaries in Pyongyang in this undated photo released March 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-15T19:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A solar and vegetable farm in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb.17.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/national/suga-coronavirus-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T12:14:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/asia-pacific/britain-indo-pacific-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T13:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75843.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in London in December. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/national/coronavirus-vaccine-passports-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T13:07:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical workers receive COVID-19 vaccines at a hospital in Kyoto on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-16T13:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75837.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shopping arcade in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward is crowded on Saturday despite the capital being under a state of emergency. The pace of the decline in new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo has bottomed out, experts say.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-16T14:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators take cover behind a barricade during an anti-coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/national/suga-vaccine-first-dose/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75849.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga receives the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a Tokyo hospital on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/business/volkswagen-europe-batteries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T15:49:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75842.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, eastern Germany. The carmaker said Monday that it would set up six battery factories in Europe by 2030 as it ramps up its shift into electric vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-16T21:54:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota, mother of Megumi Yokota, one of the Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, and others submit a request for U.S. assistance in resolving the abduction issue in a meeting with Joseph Young (left), charge d'affaires ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk to work near Tokyo Station on Jan. 8, a day after the government issued a fresh state of emergency.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/09/business/economy-business/japan-overtime-pay-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T10:14:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wages, especially the overtime pay, dropped sharply in 2020 as businesses cut operating hours amid the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-17T11:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles parked at a port in the Keihin industrial area in Kawasaki in February. Japan’s exports fell 4.5% from a year earlier in February, marking the first decline in three months, as U.S. demand for items such as cars remained sluggish. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is assisted by his sister, Kim Yo Jong, as he signs documents at the truce village of Panmunjom in South Korea, inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in April 2018.   ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (left) elbow bumps Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi as Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken watch after a joint news conference following their "two-plus-two" meeting at the Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese government wants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to sell some of its media assets, including the South China Morning Post, because of growing concerns about the technology giant’s influence over public opinion in the country, according to a person familiar with the matter.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference following a luncheon for Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People rally for LGBT rights at an event outside the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center on May 17, 2019, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A report released by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence has revealed new findings that Russian President Vladimir Putin either oversaw or at least approved of election meddling to benefit then-U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hana Kimura had been the target of a barrage of abusive messages prior to her death last year.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Televisions at an electronics store in Tokyo in November 2017 display a news report on North Korea's launch of the Hwasong-12 missile in September 2017.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his administration will be hoping to avoid any operational or logistical issues that could hamper the vaccination rollout.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76234.jpeg]]></image:title>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The revision to the immigration law opens the possibility of criminalizing reapplication if the applicant is subject to a deportation order.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A makeshift barrier set up on a street of an area under lockdown in Manila]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-19T09:50:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Online Home Doctor services were launched by Joes Corp. earlier this year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-19T09:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials from Japan and Australia participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a project to produce liquefied hydrogen from brown coal in the Latrobe Valley, Australia, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/world/crime-legal-world/meng-wanzhou-canada-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T09:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meng Wanzhou]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/world/microsoft-hacking-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T09:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/world/astrazeneca-us-coronavirus-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T09:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[AstraZeneca PLC is preparing to file for U.S. emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine later this month or early April, sources have said.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/world/crime-legal-world/george-floyd-settlement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T09:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers help organize a makeshift memorial to George Floyd on June 2 at the spot where he died in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd's family has settled a lawsuit against Minneapolis for $27 million, city officials said Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:01:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold up the three finger salute and placards with an image of detained Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi while using their mobile phones as lights during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/cuomo-sexual-harassment-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:02:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo walks on the grounds of the Governor's Mansion following allegations that he had sexually harassed young women, in Albany, New York, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers gesture next to the Chinese and Hong Kong flags at a flag-raising ceremony in the city on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/world/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccines-covid-19-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An IDT Biologika production facility in Dessau Rosslau, Germany]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/business/corporate-business/japanese-economy-covid-19-japan-sony-panasonic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More companies have made upward revisions for their fiscal 2020 earnings than those that made downward revisions, survey shows.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/national/us-japan-china-blinken-austin-motegi-kishi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:08:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin disembarks from a plane upon his arrival at the Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/world/us-plastic-waste-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trash pickers search for recyclable plastic and other items of value at a landfill in Bantar Gebang, Indonesia, in February 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/14/national/science-health/covid-19-japan-vaccinations-vaccines-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:09:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75500.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many prefectures will begin COVID-19 vaccinations for older people amid limited supplies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/national/forest-fire-put-out-three-weeks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:37:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/corporate-business/nintendo-targets-record-year-switch-game-sales/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co.'s partners and suppliers say the firm is planning for sales of its signature Switch game console to be flat or slightly higher in the next fiscal year, although analysts forecast a decline in sales.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/asia-pacific/china-vaccine-capacity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:39:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker prepares to administer a Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine at a community vaccination center in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/corporate-business/coronavirus-japanese-firms-supply-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75603.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75603.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers assemble outdoor air conditioner units on the production line of Daikin Industries Ltd.'s plant in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/national/myanmar-japan-satellite/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:43:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People take to the streets in Mandalay, Myanmar, to protest against the military coup on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/15/business/corporate-business/rakuten-shares-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:45:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75582.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hiroshi Mikitani (left) and Japan Post Holdings Co. President Hiroya Masuda pose for a photo at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/asia-pacific/south-korea-demographic-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75982.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75982.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lyoo Chan-hee, 10, rides a swing before going to school on the first day of the new semester, at his home on Nokdo island in Boryeong, South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/business/economy-business/us-beef-tariff-hike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75943.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Packages of U.S. beef are on sale at a supermarket in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/national/politics-diplomacy/yasuhiko-taniwaki-resignation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75917.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75917.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Taniwaki, a senior communications ministry official with close ties to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, resigned Tuesday over a wining and dining scandal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/national/imperial-succession-panel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:52:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75901.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito poses for a photograph with Empress Masako at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo ahead of the Emperor's 61st birthday on Feb. 23. Japan will set up an advisory panel next week on stable imperial succession.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/asia-pacific/hong-kong-coronavirus-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75841-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75841.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers arrive at a locked-down part of Sai Ying Pun to contain a new outbreak of COVID-19 in Hong Kong on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/national/same-sex-marriage-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:54:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75827.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A female plaintiff (right) puts her hand beside her partner's in Sapporo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/business/corporate-business/sapporo-us-brewery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75826.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75826.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sapporo Holdings Ltd. is planning to set up a brewery in the U.S. by the end of 2024 as it seeks to expand its market share there.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/business/china-tech-excess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:57:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping is shown on a public screen in Beijing attending the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/world/science-health-world/virus-vaccine-boosters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:57:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75867.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75867.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists work at a laboratory where they sequence novel coronavirus genomes at COVID-19 Genomics UK, on the Wellcome Sanger Institute's campus south of Cambridge, England.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/business/europe-post-pandemic-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T10:58:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75899.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A grave-digging instructor looks on as actor Tomas Novotny opens an empty grave at a training cemetery in Prague on March 9. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/16/world/astrazeneca-vaccine-france-germany/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75836.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Berlin on March 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/17/national/visitor-numbers-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:13:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/17/business/tech/clubhouse-founder-paul-davison/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76223.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76223.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul Davison in San Francisco in 2012. Over the past 15 years in Silicon Valley, the Clubhouse chief executive officer has explored the depths of how technology can be used to connect people in new ways.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/17/national/crime-legal/same-sex-marriage-landmark-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lawyers and supporters of plaintiffs hold signs and flags outside the Sapporo District Court on Wednesday hailing a court decision that said Japan's failure to recognize same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The sign says that the ruling is a "big step forward for marriage equality." ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/17/business/lowest-pay-rises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:22:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76084.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official of Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions writes down the results of labor talks in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/17/business/corporate-business/jal-flight-attendants-hours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:24:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76044.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Airlines Co. plans to let its flight attendants age 50 or older choose fewer working hours with salary cuts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/asia-pacific/north-korea-malaysia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T11:48:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walks with participants at an event in Pyongyang in a photo released earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with journalists as he attends a concert marking the seventh anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea at a stadium in Moscow on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-19T12:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors flock to Sensoji temple in Tokyo on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People flash a three-finger salute as they take part in an anti-coup protest in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/18/national/coronavirus-emergency-impact-tokyo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stroll through Yoyogi Park, where orange fencing has been installed to prevent people from holding drinking parties under the cherry blossom trees once they bloom, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/corporate-business/ana-chip-shortage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T16:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiaki Toyama, president of ANA Cargo Inc., speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/national/crime-legal/kawai-to-resign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T16:53:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76600.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuyuki Kawai is accused of handing out a total of about ¥29 million to 100 individuals in a vote-buying scheme.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/national/virus-center-cyberattacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T16:58:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76642.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cyberattacks against the National Center for Global Health and Medicine quadrupled in 2020 compared with the previous year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/economy-business/japan-cpi-february/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T17:16:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Major wireless carriers' plans to lower mobile phone fees by the end of March are expected to put further downward pressure on prices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/national/fukushima-evacuees-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T17:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents at a housing complex for victims of the the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, gather for a chat twice a week, allowing them to bond.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/economy-business/boj-policy-flexibility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T17:54:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76611.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan unveiled a set of tweaks to its policy framework to secure more flexibility as the coronavirus pandemic raises the prospect of protracted monetary easing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/asia-pacific/solar-biden-china-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T08:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A solar-panel production line at a plant in Suzhou, China. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-us-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T08:33:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan opened their meeting with China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi and State Councilor Wang Yi in Anchorage by sparring in a highly unusual extended back-and-forth in front of cameras. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/business/corporate-business/ubiome-fraud-us-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T10:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jessica Richman]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-china-talks-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T11:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76775.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan exit the ballroom used for a closed-door morning session of talks between the United States and China after the conclusion of their two days of meetings in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-china-blinken-sullivan-alaska/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T11:13:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76738.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yang Jiechi (right), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office for China, and Wang Yi, China's state councilor and foreign minister, arrive for a meeting with their U.S. counterparts at the opening session of U.S.-China talks in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/world/science-health-world/astrazeneca-vaccine-blod-clots-probe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T13:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76838.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson receives a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in London on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/asia-pacific/australia-rains-floods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T13:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76844.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV crew provide coverage of the overflowing Parramatta River during heavy rain in Sydney on Saturday amid mass evacuations being ordered in low-lying areas along Australia's east coast as torrential rains caused potentially "life-threatening" floods across a region already soaked by an unusually wet summer.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-fires-marijuana-staff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T13:27:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76845.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday five employees had been fired over marijuana use, even after announcing a more lenient policy toward past use of the drug a few weeks ago.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/national/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-dome-preservation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T13:35:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76830.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76830.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima was unveiled Friday, as six months of preservation work is nearly complete. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/national/vaccine-passports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T14:18:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds his smartphone as he presents a COVID-19 vaccination certificate before entering a restaurant in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/asia-pacific/tesla-china-military-pla/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T15:46:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man wearing a face mask walks by Tesla Model 3 sedans and a Tesla Model X sport utility vehicle at a showroom in Shanghai in May 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/national/politics-diplomacy/hyogo-gubernatorial-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T16:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido attends a meeting with Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura in Osaka in February.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/business/corporate-business/musk-tesla-spying-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T20:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76881.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk attends via video link a session at the China Development Forum held in Beijing on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/national/media-national/dining-scandals-ethics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T20:09:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75228.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75228.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Makiko Yamada attends a news conference by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Tokyo in December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/21/asia-pacific/myanmar-coup-defiant-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T11:45:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76914.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather at a makeshift barricade ahead of a crackdown by security forces in the Thaketa township of Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/21/national/japan-us-taiwan-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T13:46:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (left) and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi (second from right) do elbow bumps following a joint news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/21/national/us-china-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T14:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76935.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese delegation led by Yang Jiechi (center), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (second from left), China's state councilor and foreign minister, speak with their U.S. counterparts at the opening session of U.S.-China talks in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/world/science-health-world/pfizer-employee-anti-vaxxer-covid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T18:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker receives the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in Seoul on March 20. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/national/media-national/reality-check-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T18:31:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75391.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nun Ann Rose Nu Tawng kneels in front of police officers as she asks security forces to refrain from violence against children and residents amid protests in Myitkyina, Myanmar, on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/08/national/diet-coronavirus-vaccines-rollout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T18:42:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68195.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68195.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee session Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/21/world/science-health-world/coronavirus-sleep-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T21:33:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76941.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76941.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The average daily sleeping time in 14 countries, including Japan, increased nearly 10 minutes in 2020 from the previous year, as people spent more time at home instead of staying out late amid the coronavirus pandemic, a recent study has shown.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/22/national/japan-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-22T10:28:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77068.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medical worker gets a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a Tokyo hospital on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/22/asia-pacific/philippines-china-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-22T11:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77093.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77093.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filipino activists and opposition leaders march to protest against the presence of Chinese vessels in South China Sea at the Chinese Embassy in Makati City, Philippines, in April 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/22/asia-pacific/myanmar-protest-bloodshed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-22T11:34:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77098.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters take cover behind barricades during a demonstration against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/22/business/corporate-business/tokio-marine-greensill-exposure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-22T13:12:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. is facing a larger-than-expected exposure to the Greensill Capital meltdown.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dr. Kirsten Thompson, a lecturer in ecology at the University of Exeter, conducts a sighting survey aboard  Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship at the Saya de Malha Bank within the Mascarene Plateau on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keidanren Director General Masakazu Kubota delivers Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi's remarks on his behalf at a management-labor union forum in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents release balloons on Monday bearing messages calling for international help following the coup in Myanmar, in Yangon's Hlaing township. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks on March 17 at the first meeting in Tokyo of a third-party panel set up to look into a wining-and-dining scandal that involved senior bureaucrats of the ministry and companies they supervise.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People belonging to a group using a traditional Japanese swimming method swim in the Motoyasu River in Hiroshima on Jan. 13, 2020. Across the river is the Atomic Bomb Dome.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Daiichi Sankyo Co. aims to speed up the schedule for commercialization of its COVID-19 vaccine, but the official launch is expected to be 2022 at the earliest.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters holding placards with the image of detained Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi sit along a street before a candlelight vigil during a demonstration against the military coup, in Yangon on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commercial land prices nationwide fell 0.8% in 2020, the first decline in seven years, as demand took a hit after hotels and stores in tourist destinations saw profits plunge as people refrained from going out.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Continuing a series of calls with her international counterparts, Katherine Tai has spoken with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and economy minister Hiroshi Kajiyama.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom activists hold a candlelight vigil in front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in October 2019 to mark the anniversary of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian tea pickers arrive for work at a tea estate in the northeastern Indian state of West Bengal. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bangladeshi laborers work at a factory where they make various machinery parts from melted metals, in Dhaka on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of China's Muslim Uyghur minority wave flags of East Turkestan in Istanbul in October. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Yoshihide Suga speaks during the annual party convention in Tokyo on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photograph captured early Monday by a Meteorological Agency camera in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, shows Mount Otake erupting on Suwanose Island in the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The accident scene on the Tohoku Expressway on Tuesday ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Nadeshiko Japan, the women's national soccer team, lead the torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda and Isuzu Motors Ltd. President Masanori Katayama pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-25T10:54:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers next to a container ship that was hit by strong wind and ran aground in the Suez Canal, Egypt, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health workers assist COVID-19 patients at the intensive care unit of the Clinics Hospital in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, on March 16.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[India's 104 million indigenous people — also known as Adivasis, or "original inhabitants" — make up less than 10% of the country's population, and are among its most impoverished.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/business/tech/samsung-next-gen-ai-computers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T18:42:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77897.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[DDR5 memory will be twice as fast as the current DDR4 while reducing leakage and using about 13% less power, Samsung Electronics Co. wrote in its announcement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/world/politics-diplomacy-world/merkel-covid-19-crisis/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses delegates at the Bundestag in Berlin on Thursday ahead of an EU summit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77543.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A production line at Renesas Electronics Corp.'s plant in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, was seriously damaged by a fire on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters look for military forces in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77738.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Restaurants and bars will be asked to close by 9 p.m. until April 21 in the Tokyo metropolitan region, amid fears of a novel coronavirus resurgence.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-25T23:48:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77949.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Chief Information Security Officer Christopher DeRusha said he is working with U.S. government agencies to implement zero trust because it "prevents adversaries from the kind of privilege escalation that was demonstrated in the SolarWinds incident.” ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77786.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto attend the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/business/boj-kuroda-climate-risks/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/asia-pacific/australia-climate-adaptation/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stand by a flooded road in Richmond, a suburb outside Sydney, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/business/financial-markets/tse-new-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T17:02:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. has unveiled new rules for swiftly restarting trading in the event of a system failure.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/asia-pacific/taiwan-us-coast-guard/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Anping coast guard ship at its commissioning ceremony in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Dec. 11]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/national/my-number-cards-health-insurance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T19:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77279.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new facial recognition system can identify patients who have their My Number cards combined with their health insurance cards. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/national/nagoya-palliative-care/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mihoko Hoshihara, a 62-year-old nurse, presents a traditional doll made of origami paper to a patient undergoing palliative care at Minami Seikyo Hospital in Nagoya.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-26T20:07:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden addresses his news conference at the White House in Washington on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/asia-pacific/myanmar-india-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T20:07:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Champhai town in India's northeastern state of Mizoram near the India-Myanmar border]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/business/diet-enacts-record-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T21:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fiscal 2021 budget is approved at the Upper House budget committee Friday before being passed at the Upper House plenary session.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/national/imperial-family-poetry-ceremony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T00:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78064.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The New Year Poetry Reading Ceremony takes place Friday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, attended by imperial family members.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/business/financial-markets/tokyo-stock-exchange-revamp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T08:01:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As a result of the Tokyo Stock Exchange's once-in-a-generation makeover, the bloated First Section will be replaced by a trimmer Prime segment, creating a headache for companies.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/national/foreign-land-military-bases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T09:20:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Air Self-Defense Force's Unishima sub-base in the city of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/redfield-coronavirus-lab-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T10:40:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert Redfield]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/china-japan-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T10:50:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78174.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship sails around one of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea in September 2012.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/business/ever-given-ship-suez-canal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T11:34:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tug boats and dredgers attempt to free the MV Ever Given from the Suez Canal in this satellite image taken Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-27T11:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff members stand at the Eva Air counter at Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/business/biden-johnson-belt-and-road-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T12:12:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson points at bananas as he draws them during a visit to Monkey Puzzle Nursery in Greenford, England, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/world/hospice-care-covid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T12:16:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78197.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical workers intubate a coronavirus disease patient in in Mission Viejo, California, earlier this year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-north-korea-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T12:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits an area home to riverside terraced houses around the Pothong Gate in Pyongyang on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/science-health/allergic-reaction-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T13:11:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78188.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor receives his second vaccine shot earlier this month in Tokyo. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/asia-pacific/myanmar-protests-junta-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T13:17:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78213-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78213.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar armed forces chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing attends an annual parade put on by the military to mark Armed Forced Day in the capital, Naypyidaw, in a screenshot taken from Myawaddy TV on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/tokyo-olympics-halve-visitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T14:19:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78168.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is considering cutting the number of official Olympic-related travelers to Japan for the games this summer in half to around 30,000 as a countermeasure against the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/18/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/five-asian-scientists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T01:38:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/18/business/corporate-business/toshiba-probe-vote/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T01:42:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76270.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. held an extraordinary shareholders meeting Thursday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/18/world/trawler-fishing-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T01:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researchers have calculated for the first time the climate impacts of bottom trawling and found its average yearly carbon emissions  exceeds the annual emissions of all countries except China, the United States, India, Russia and Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/18/business/uber-uk-ruling-gig-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T01:46:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76284.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Uber, for many years staunchly opposed to changing workers' independent contractor status, in recent years began to advocate for a new compromise model under the leadership of Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/18/world/atlanta-shooting-asian-american-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T01:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76275.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman pays her respects by a makeshift memorial outside of Gold Spa following the deadly shootings in Atlanta on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/national/tokyo-business-closure-orders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T03:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76658.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer waits for seating at an alley shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Jan. 8, the day after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency for the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/olympics-without-foreigners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past empty tables at restaurants underneath Miyashita Park in Shibuya, Tokyo, on March 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/hokkaido-local-skiers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:02:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Sapporo Teine ski resort is seeing an increase in local visitors amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/corporate-business/side-job-hazards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:03:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroaki Taniguchi (second from left), an employee at Kagome Co., holds a meeting at a construction consulting company in Sendai where he has a side job.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/coronavirus-emergency-restaurants-theaters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:05:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76504.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A yakitori restaurant in Tokyo's Shimbashi district is empty on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/business/china-media-patriotic-voices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:07:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76624.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman is seen in front of the headquarters of the state-run broadcaster China Central Television in Beijing on March 15. Some bloggers are finding big audiences among Chinese citizens who are skeptical of both Western narratives and state-run mouthpieces.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/world/asian-american-lawmakers-atlanta-shooting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:08:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76595.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds a sign during a march against anti-Asian hate on Thursday in Minneapolis. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-second-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:09:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76505.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference held at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday after the government decided to end the state of emergency for the Tokyo metropolitan region on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/world/social-issues-world/asian-american-women-sexism-racism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76587.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple embrace outside Gold Spa, one of the sites of a deadly shooting Tuesday, near Acworth, Georgia, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/19/world/science-health-world/eu-backs-astrazeneca/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:10:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76535.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse fills a syringe with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Vigo, Spain, earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/national/watanabe-frustration-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:27:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Naomi Watanabe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/20/national/media-national/oral-hygiene-habits-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the same household are being a lot more careful about mixing oral hygiene tools amid the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:32:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A civic group submits a petition to increase the number of female politicians to lawmakers at the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blinking red light is seen on a phone to notify an incoming call at the Tokyo Befrienders call center, a Tokyo's suicide hotline center, during the spread of the coronavirus disease, in Tokyo last May. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:36:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker administers the Covishield vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca Plc. and the University of Oxford and manufactured by Serum Institute of India Ltd., in New Delhi on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese Navy's Renhai-class destroyer is seen sailing in waters near Japan recently.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:45:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man undergoes a coronavirus test at at a temporary site set up at Seoul's City Hall Plaza last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:46:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An information placard is pictured as tourists from Germany arrive to Palma de Mallorca Airport following Berlin's lifted quarantine requirement for travelers returning from the Balearic Islands amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T04:51:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris, attends a forum with Georgia Asian American and Pacific Islander community leaders at Emory University in Atlanta on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:22:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A same-sex couple play with their four year old adopted son at a playground in Budapest in November.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:27:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga addresses a Liberal Democratic Party convention held in Tokyo Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Abu Sayyaf rebels are seen in the Philippines in this video grab from February 2009.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:29:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fire on Friday at the Naka plant in Ibaraki Prefecture could have "a very large impact" on the companies ability to supply chips to automakers, which are already grappling with a global chip shortage, the president and CEO of Renesas Electronics said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:31:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mushroom cloud rises above Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, during a nuclear weapons test in 1946. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/21/national/olympic-volunteers-lives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:32:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics take part in a training session in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/21/national/suga-sdf-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivers a commencement address at a graduation ceremony at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo Organising Committee member (far right) receives a lantern with the Olympic flame in Athens in March 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday along with Shigeru Omi, head of the government's COVID-19 subcommittee.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers take part in the disinfection of the Huanan seafood market, where the novel coronavirus is believed to have first surfaced, in Wuhan, China, in March 2020]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T06:39:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China and the United States will set up a joint working group on climate change, Chinese state-run media has said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T07:07:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police vehicles block off a road in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on March 14, as demonstrations by protesters against the military coup continue across the country.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T07:10:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker pushes a crate of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at a cold storage facility in Karachi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T07:12:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers, already under strain from global chip shortages, now face unexpected production issues due to a fire at a semiconductor factory in Japan and cold weather in North America.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T07:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lin Fang-yu, president of the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, gets a COVID-19 vaccine in New Taipei City on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T07:19:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stylish stroll: Young "moga" (modern girls) walk down a street in Tokyo's Ginza district in 1928.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting in Washington in October. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine in Rome on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks for treated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, on March 1]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Global-Dining Inc. President Kozo Hasegawa (second from left) and lawyer Rintaro Kuramochi (second from right) hold a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/23/national/crime-legal/vote-buying-guilty-plea/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai enters the Tokyo District Court for his trial on vote-buying on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People stage a protest in Los Angeles against anti-Asian hate crimes on March 13.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman receives an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:51:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A customer shops at a Workman Plus store in Tokyo. Workman’s shares have more than quadrupled since the start of 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Le Anh Hao prays for his daughter, Le Thi Nhat Linh, at his home in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, on Saturday ahead of a high court ruling Tuesday which upheld a life term for a man who murdered the girl.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kirk Taray, a bat ecologist, untangles a bat caught in a mist net that was set up in front of a building with a bat roost at the University of the Philippines Los Banos in Los Banos, Laguna province, on Feb. 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:53:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77321.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Group worked with Morgan Stanley to set up the Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. joint venture in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/23/asia-pacific/hong-kong-china-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:54:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77338.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carrie Lam receives a dose of the Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/23/national/virus-reserve-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:55:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77299.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a meeting of Cabinet ministers on additional spending for COVID-19 measures on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/23/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australia-parliament-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rally to protest against sexual violence is held at Treasury Gardens in Melbourne on March 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/23/business/tech/nintendo-niantic-ar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:57:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77280.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nintendo Co. has struck a deal to develop augmented reality smartphone apps with Pokemon Go developer Niantic Inc.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/23/world/astrazeneca-trial-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T08:58:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77277.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for patients at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-scores-killed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T14:03:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78320.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demonstrate against the military coup in Dawei on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/asia-pacific/myanmar-muslims-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T10:33:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78489.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees are relocated to the controversial flood-prone island Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 29.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/world/us-who-coronavirus-origin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T11:04:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78503.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press briefing in Brussels on March 24. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/asia-pacific/myanmar-army-soldiers-protesters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T14:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters use slingshots during a clash with security forces in the township of Thaketa in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/asia-pacific/myanmar-protests-violence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T14:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78566.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78566.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester injured during a clash with security forces arrives at a hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/world/deborah-birx-trump-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T14:27:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78577.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78577.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx (second from left) attends a briefing with White House coronavirus task force members Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health (left), Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield (second from right) and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams at the White House in Washington in April 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/business/suez-canal-dredgers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T15:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78485.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, on Sunday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/national/crime-legal/casino-trial-akimoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T16:36:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78600.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78600.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsukasa Akimoto has been indicted for receiving bribes worth ¥7.6 million from a Chinese gambling operator.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/business/economy-business/coronavirus-extra-budgets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T16:44:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78522.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78522.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in Tokyo's Shibuya district on March 22 following the lifting of a state of emergency in the capital and surrounding areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-south-korea-north-korea-nuclear-weapons-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:36:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78452.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea and China are expected to be high on the agenda if foreign ministers from the United States, Japan and South Korea meet in April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/national/translated-vaccine-form/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78599.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78599.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry has released in 12 languages basic information on the COVID-19 vaccination, including who can get inoculated, the possible side effects and how a person can get the shot.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/asia-pacific/taiwan-china-scramble-fighters-missiles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78634.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78634.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter jet is pictured at an air force base in Tainan, Taiwan, in January.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/national/japan-coronavirus-tracking-app/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:54:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78527.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78527.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official checks to see if a person entering Japan has installed a location-tracking app on her smartphone at Narita Airport on March 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/business/osaka-financial-center/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:57:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78609.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78609.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Matsumoto (left), chairman of the Kansai Economic Federation, addresses a meeting to promote Osaka as a new international financial center held in the city on Monday, as Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (center) and Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui look on.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/national/japan-vaccinations-accelerate-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T00:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78582-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78582.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono, minister in charge of Japan's vaccine rollout, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/14/business/corporate-business/sapporo-lagar-beer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T07:13:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63153-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63153.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sapporo Breweries Ltd.'s new beer, which has "lagar" printed on its can, will go on sale on, despite the misspelling.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/business/economy-business/february-jobs-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T14:48:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78697.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78697.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's job-to-applicant ratio worsened in January amid the second state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/asia-pacific/hong-kong-electoral-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T14:49:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78766.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A government advertisement promoting electoral reforms in Hong Kong]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/asia-pacific/myanmar-civil-war-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T18:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78678.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-coup protesters clash with security forces in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/business/suez-shipping-impact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T18:20:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78745.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ever Given on Monday after it was partially refloated in Egypt's Suez Canal]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/world/daphne-caruana-galizia-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T19:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78846.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People gather at the Great Siege Square in Valletta, Malta, in November 2019 to call for the resignation of Joseph Muscat following the arrest of one of the country's most prominent businessmen as part of an investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/world/who-chief-wuhan-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T12:26:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78886.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a virtual news conference from Brussels on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/business/imf-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T12:56:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78904.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva speaks during an online interview Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/business/financial-markets/worlds-top-pension-fund-faces-moment-truth-china-debt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T16:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78903.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investing Japanese pension money in Chinese government debt is likely to be a politically unpopular decision for the ¥178 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/asia-pacific/north-korea-tactical-nukes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T16:47:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A suspected missile is fired in a photo released by North Korea's state news agency in March 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/national/south-korea-japan-official-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T17:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79016.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong speaks to reporters in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/business/economy-business/february-industrial-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T18:34:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78922.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A gate of a house collapses on a street in Koori, Fukushima Prefecture, after a major earthquake struck northeastern Japan late on Feb. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/01/asia-pacific/hong-kong-public-information/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T12:18:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79124.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Legislative Council building in Hong Kong]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/national/tokyo-olympics-coronavirus-superspreader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T12:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78884.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Athlete's Village for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/01/asia-pacific/hong-kong-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T12:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-04T04:34:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cryptocurrency mining farm in Bratsk, Russia]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/national/politics-diplomacy/katsuyuki-kawai-ldp-anri-kawai-corruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T06:40:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katsuyuki Kawai]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/national/north-korea-missiles-u-s-sea-of-japan-east-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T06:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Manabu Sakai said that Tokyo filed a request with Washington over the "East Sea" reference the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command made when it announced Pyongyang launched missiles Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/national/science-health/japanese-uk-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T06:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wait to get the coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Westfield Stratford City shopping center in London on Feb. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-04T06:48:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A store of the Swedish fashion retailer H&amp;M at a shopping mall in Beijing on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-04T06:53:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of Uyghur minority holds a placard during a demonstration near the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/25/national/torch-relay-opinions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T06:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing face masks wait under blooming cherry blossom trees along the route of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay, amid the coronavirus pandemic in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/business/corporate-business/muji-tumble-boycott/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T07:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryohin Keikaku Co. which operates the Muji brand stores and advertises items using cotton made in Xinjiang, China, issued a statement saying it was "deeply concerned” about reports of human rights abuses in the region.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/national/suga-biden-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T07:07:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78010.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden are planning to issue a joint statement after their talks next month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/26/world/pandemic-wealth-backlash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T07:07:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pedestrian walks past a Maserati in London on March 7.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/media-national/compensation-decontamination-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:18:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers carry out decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture in 2017.
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/media-national/japanese-universities-celebrate-new-year-amid-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76038.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The University of Tokyo has announced that an in-person entrance ceremony will be held at Nippon Budokan Hall on April 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/anime-museum-opens/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78295.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A museum on the "Attack on Titan" manga series that opened Saturday features early works by author Hajime Isayama.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/asia-pacific/china-apps-xinjiang-forced-labor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:25:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A traffic officer patrols the street in front of an H&amp;M store in Shanghai on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/business/netflix-anime-investment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:27:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78224.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Netflix Inc. plans on nearly doubling its number of anime releases this year to attract Asian viewers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/business/job-losses-wealthy-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:28:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78202.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People seeking jobs at a Hello Work job placement center in Tokyo's Minato Ward last November.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/world/variant-english-island/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:29:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78248.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78248.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pallbearers in Sheerness carry the coffin of a person who died after contracting the coronavirus, on the Isle of Sheppey, England, on March 19. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/asia-pacific/china-pla-warplanes-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:31:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78175.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78175.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during her inspection of the Taiwanese Navy fleet in Keelung on March 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/business/tokyo-disney-inclusive-greeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78201.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78201.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Since March 18, the two Tokyo Disney parks have been greeting guests via their in-park announcements with "hello, everyone" to be more inclusive.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/mori-sexist-remark-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:38:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78172.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78172.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori announces his resignation after facing widespread criticism over sexist comments he delvered, in Tokyo on Feb. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-lower-house-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78169.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78169.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who is also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during the party's annual convention in Tokyo on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/national/indonesia-china-south-china-sea-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78454.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nobuo Kishi]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/national/science-health/covid-19-vaccine-japan-passports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:47:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78451.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78451.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mock-up of China's new digital health certificate, the first known implementation of the "virus passport" concept]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/asia-pacific/pompeo-us-myanmar-genocide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:49:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78447.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, in 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/business/women-financial-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77624.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rie Nishihara, senior analyst at JPMorgan Securities Japan Co.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/asia-pacific/indonesia-church-blast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:56:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Indonesian policeman stands guard after an explosion outside a church in Makassar on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/north-korea-denuclearization-peninsula/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78303-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78303.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a ballistic missile at an unknown location in the nuclear-armed country on July 31, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/national/fukushima-updates-website/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78318.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78318.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Work is underway on Wednesday to decontaminate and dismantle the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant crippled in the March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/asia-pacific/china-us-canada-xinjiang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T08:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78382.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker unloads cotton picked from Xinjiang at a railway station in Jiujiang, in China's central Jiangxi province, on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/28/business/desert-wind-blew-10-billion-global-trade-off-course/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T09:04:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78324.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78324.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The stranded container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/04/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-gun-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T12:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79568.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A makeshift memorial for the eight people who were killed during attacks on three Atlanta-area spas, on March 21. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/04/national/sdf-coronavirus-djibouti/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T13:46:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79566.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel attend a ceremony in January 2020 before departing for Djibouti for the SDF's first long-term intelligence-gathering mission abroad.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/05/asia-pacific/china-vaccine-push/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T11:53:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79734.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Residents of Wuhan, China, receive a COVID-19 vaccine on March 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/05/asia-pacific/thailand-phuket-vaccine-drive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T12:17:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79731.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79731.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man receives the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday as the Thai resort island of Phuket rushes to vaccinate its population.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/04/national/japanese-school-open-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T13:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79359.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students at Funabori Elementary School in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, clap their hands during a music class in March. Singing is not allowed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/05/asia-pacific/australia-koala-ark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T13:48:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79746.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A koala on Australia's Kangaroo Island. More than 41,000 koalas were killed or injured in the 2019-20 fires that burned about half of the island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/03/business/economy-business/biden-economy-rebuild/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T15:06:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toshiba Corp. headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman for an antigen test in New Delhi on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-08T21:45:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coal conveyor from the Australia's Loy Yang coal mine, the source of coal for the Japanese Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project.   ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Komuro met Princess Mako in 2012.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu speaks during a news conference for foreign journalists in Taipei on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp.'s new Lexus LS (left) and Mirai with drive-assist technologies]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran at the start of talks at the Grand Hotel in Vienna on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Model, actor and singer Paing Takhon takes part in a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Chinese embassy in Yangon in February. He was arrested Thursday as the junta seeks to arrest more than 100 actors, singers, artists and other personalities who are known to be social media influencers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-09T14:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the rape and murder of a law student in the southern state of Kerala, in Mumbai in May 2016. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/08/business/myanmar-garment-sector/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-09T16:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers iron and arrange clothing at a garment factory in the Hlaing Taryar industrial zone in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/09/world/vaccines-wealthy-countries/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man in Gibraltar receives his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/08/national/olympic-athletes-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-09T19:18:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mio Watanabe, who performs in a ninja show, leads the Olympic torch relay in Iga, Mie Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/09/world/politics-diplomacy-world/covid-vaccines-passport/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-09T19:19:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80572.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As the U.S. struggles to emerge from the worst public health crisis in a century, the arrival of digital vaccine verification apps — a modern version of the World Health Organization’s "yellow card” that provides international proof of yellow fever vaccination — has generated intense debate over whether proof of vaccination can be required at all.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-09T22:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Philip attends a parade to mark the finale of the 1664 Global Challenge on the Buckingham Palace Forecourt in central London on Aug. 2, 2017. Philip, who had recently been hospitalized, died on Friday at age 99, Buckingham Palace announced.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-09T22:13:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80515.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fast Retailing Co., which operates the Uniqlo chain, has said its operating profit in the September-February period rose 22.9% from a year earlier, thanks to strong sales in China and Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/09/national/science-health/covid-19-in-japan-tokyo-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-10T06:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80477.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/10/world/politics-diplomacy-world/us-supreme-court-expand-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-10T10:34:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80716.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden will set up an expert commission on reform of the powerful Supreme Court, the White House announced Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-10T11:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flags flutter in the wind in front of the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna last December.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/10/business/bank-of-japan-kuroda-longevity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-10T12:39:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-10T12:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese vessels are seen anchored in a satellite image taken on March 23 at Whitsun Reef, around 320 km west of Bataraza, in Palawan, the Philippines, in the South China Sea.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-10T13:15:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renesas remains on track to resume production within a month from the March 19 fire, it said.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-10T14:36:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks through a shopping mall in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-10T15:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese air force sent a fleet of aircraft close to Taiwan for the second time this week in the latest sign of military intimidation against the separately ruled island.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara speaks during an interview at the headquarters of San Isidro Movement in Havana on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-10T22:52:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An H&amp;M store, whose sign is covered, at a shopping mall in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/29/business/economy-business/ever-given-suez-canal-refloated/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ever Given container ship is seen stuck in the Suez Canal on Sunday morning in a satellite image. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea launched a new type of tactical short-range ballistic missile last week, prompting Washington to request a gathering of the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels attend a rally in Sanaa on Friday marking the sixth anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga gestures as he meets with Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (left) and Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman holds an infant at the Adiha secondary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the city of Mekelle, in Ethiopia's Tigray region, on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of health ministry officials partied at a restaurant in Tokyo's posh Ginza district until around midnight while the metropolitan government's request was in place for eateries to shorten business hours to curb the spread of the coronavirus, a ministry official has revealed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/national/politics-diplomacy/suga-biden-kim-meeting/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/30/business/tech/japan-taiwan-semiconductor-chips/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-10T23:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees works at Renesas Electronics Naka wafer fabrication factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, in June 2011.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden area expected to hold talks in Washington on April 9.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Akihito declares the opening of an ordinary session of parliament in Tokyo in January 2019. South Korea decided ahead of its president's 1990 Japan visit to call for a stronger apology from the emperor than given by his predecessor for the 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, according to diplomatic records declassified in Seoul on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line Corp. CEO Takeshi Idezawa (center) apologizes for its handling of user data at a news conference on March 23 in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renesas Electronics Corp.'s Naka plant in Ibaraki Prefecture caught fire due to a power surge, with its clean room area sustaining smoke damage.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on Tuesday. The Biden administration is trying to calibrate a policy that protects democratic, technology-rich Taiwan without inciting a disastrous armed conflict. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, speaks during an interview at his office in the city of Ismailia, Egypt, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-11T20:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-11T20:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78913.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just days before Kentaro Okuda’s first anniversary as head of Japan’s biggest brokerage, the company warned of a "significant” loss from an unnamed U.S. client.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78502.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nomura Holdings Inc. said it may have incurred a "significant” loss arising from transactions with a U.S. client.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/01/national/politics-diplomacy/ryota-takeda-no-confidence-motion/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big Japanese manufacturers' sentiment improved to pre-pandemic levels in the January-March quarter, according to a key Bank of Japan survey. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79123.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking to remove Japanese tariffs and other trade barriers affecting U.S. products.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan speaks with Malaysia's Senior Minister and Minister of International Trade and Industry Dato‘ Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali in Malaysia on March 24.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Liberal Democratic Party policymaker Taku Otsuka (standing), who heads the party's panel on defense issues, speaks at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami (right) receives an award for his distinguished service in the arts from Waseda University President Aiji Tanaka, at the university in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/02/asia-pacific/indonesia-birthrate/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang's appetite for huge bets on technology, media and other company stocks in the United States and Asia proved too lucrative for Nomura to resist. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-11T21:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters gather outside of the Georgia State Capitol to protest HB 531, which would place tougher restrictions on voting in Georgia, in Atlanta on March 4. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thai army soldiers gather at a checkpoint in Mae Sam Laep, near where Myanmar refugees had attempted to cross the Thai border after air strikes in Karen state. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Bulgaria, the poorest and least vaccinated nation in the EU, the more expensive vaccines were used to inoculate priority groups such as doctors and teachers.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-11T21:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pharmacist prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with a syringe in a pharmacy, in Savenay, western France, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-11T21:06:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the U.S. National Guard secure the streets and grounds around the Capitol in Washington on Friday after a car rammed into a security barrier at the northern entrance to the Capitol.  ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79471.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Halmat Rozi, a Uyghur Muslim living in Japan, protests China's Uyghur policies outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo on March 23. Public awareness of China's repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang  is growing in Japan, spurred in part by the work of Uyghur activists, and that is increasing pressure on the government to take action. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-11T21:11:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78148.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[“Sane” society is pervaded by lies, most of them innocent enough.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/03/national/kansai-classic-movies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-11T21:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78569.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thanks to streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu, watching old classics has become much easier.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79462.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Physicist Isamu Akasaki (left), physicist Hiroshi Amano (center), a professor at the University of Nagoya, and Japan-born American Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, hold their 2014 Nobel Prizes in physics for inventing the world's first efficient blue light-emitting diodes in December of that year in Stockholm. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79461.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A newly developed tactical guided missile in tested at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 25. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/04/national/crime-legal/crime-in-japan-lowest-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:35:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of crimes in Japan hit a record low in 2020, but consultations on domestic violence and cybercrime reached record-high levels.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/04/national/f-35b-sdf-asdf-security-miyazaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:46:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79697.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's fiscal 2019-2023 midterm defense buildup program has already included a plan to buy 18 F-35B jets and introduce them by fiscal 2023.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/07/national/japan-us-joint-military-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps prepare for the exercise Forest Light in Japan on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/02/national/japan-u-s-britain-developing-next-fighter-jet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:50:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Air Self-Defense Force's F-2 fighter jet takes off from the airbase at Misawa in Aomori Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/10/national/japan-india-sign-military-supply-sharing-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:51:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi attend a regional summit on the outskirts of Bangkok in November 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/07/national/japan-ban-drones-us-bases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:52:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29257.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan will ban drone flights over U.S. military facilities, including those facing protests in the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa, starting next month. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/20/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-opposition-bill-scrap-casino-laws/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emperor Naruhito addresses the Diet at the opening of the regular session Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/14/national/politics-diplomacy/masashi-ishibashi-japan-socialist-party-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:53:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masashi Ishibashi]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/12/09/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-oks-plan-iranian-president-visit-tokyo-tehran-seeks-break-impasse-nuclear-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:53:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/n-rouhani-a-20191209.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a welcoming ceremony in Tehran on June 12. Abe visited Iran in hopes of brokering dialogue between Tehran and Washington.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/03/national/ministry-step-monitoring-defense-firms-business-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/n-defense-a-20191104.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20191104.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry plans to strengthen its surveillance of the financial conditions of domestic equipment suppliers, trying to stabilize the defense industry and thereby promote joint development and prevent the leakage of military secrets to other countries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/24/national/politics-diplomacy/56-japanese-oppose-amending-constitution-abe-government-poll-shows/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, gestures during a news conference a day after Sunday's Upper House election at LDP headquarters in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/12/national/sdf-chief-says-japan-communicating-u-s-coalition-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:54:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Yamazaki, the chief of the Self-Defense Forces' Joint Staff, speaks at a news conference in April in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/11/national/japan-consider-options-u-s-seeks-cooperation-middle-east-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:54:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-mideast-a-20190712.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous oil tanker burns in the Gulf of Oman on June 13 after an attack.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/11/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-send-msdf-head-destroyer-chinese-navys-fleet-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/n-msdf-a-20190412.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-msdf-a-20190412.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshi Yamamura, Maritime Self-Defense Force chief of staff, speaks during a news conference at the Defense Ministry on April 2.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/japan-use-osprey-aircraft-overseas-rescue-operations-sources/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:56:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-osprey-a-20190325.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-osprey-a-20190325.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A CV-22 Osprey at U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2018]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/24/national/japan-plans-develop-home-made-long-range-anti-ship-missile-counter-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:56:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/n-defense-a-20190324.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[n-defense-a-20190324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Defense Ministry reportedly plans to develop a domestically produced long-range anti-ship missile to counter threats posed by improved Chinese air-defense capabilities.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/26/national/politics-diplomacy/political-poster-hinting-death-sdf-member-stirs-controversy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[n-sdpposter-a-20140727.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The top three lines of this poster (top right) by the Social Democratic Party read, "Since that day, my dad has not come back," and the line immediately below, in smaller characters, "A future like this is unbearably sad." The line in the middle of the poster reads, "No to the right to collective self-defense, now."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/05/national/funds-gripe-snags-sdf-isle-defense-deployment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-12T07:02:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79696.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pope Francis delivers his Urbi et Orbi Blessing, after celebrating Easter Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in The Vatican on on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/04/asia-pacific/taiwan-train-accident-questions/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79636.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives of victims who died in Friday's train derailment in Taiwan pray at the accident site in Hualien on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[LDP candidate Hidenori Nishita (left) and Haruko Miyaguchi, who is backed by opposition parties, aim to secure an Upper House seat in Hiroshima Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-13T10:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sachika Sato, a teacher at Funabori Elementary School in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, teaches her class of 33 fifth graders. Sato says the pandemic has fundamentally changed the way she runs her classes, with any group activity among students discouraged to minimize infection risks.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot Monday at a care facility for older people in the city of Tsu, in Mie Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A former Bank of Japan board member says the central bank is highly unlikely to deepen its negative interest rate without a fresh economic crisis.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/12/national/coronavirus-variants-tokyo-osaka/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike approaches reporters on April 1, just hours after the central government announced stricter coronavirus measures would be taken in Osaka, Miyagi and Hyogo prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a clinic in the village of Kitaaiki, Nagano Prefecture, on Monday as Japan begins vaccinating people aged 65 or older.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters test molotov cocktails in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 16. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vaccine rollout minister Taro Kono warns against wasting COVID-19 vaccine shots during a news conference on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-13T17:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kei Komuro (right), boyfriend of Princess Mako, walks to his law school at Fordham University in New York in August 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-13T17:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a virtual summit on the semiconductor supply chain from the White House in Washington on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-13T17:51:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signage for the digital yuan at a self check-out counter at a supermarket in Shenzhen, China]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-13T17:53:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People sit in an observation room on Monday while they are monitored for any adverse effects after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at the Hachioji Municipal Government building in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-13T19:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81231.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beijing deployed 14 J-16 and four J-10 fighters, four H-6K bombers, two Y-8 anti-sub warfare planes and one KJ-500 early warning aircraft into the southwest section of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone Monday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has said in a statement.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/13/national/earthquake-island-kagoshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-13T21:24:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masashi Higo, mayor of Toshima village, holds a news conference in Kagoshima on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/14/national/germany-japan-2plus2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T05:45:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi attend a video conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (top left on screen) and Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (top right) at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/20/national/france-north-korea-surveillance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T09:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Navy frigate Prairial arrives in preparation for Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in June 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/03/12/national/ruling-bloc-dpj-to-mull-diet-pension-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T09:23:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-14T12:25:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81233.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Six recipients in the United States developed a rare disorder involving blood clots within about two weeks of the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/14/asia-pacific/new-zealand-finance-firms-climate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T13:30:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81301.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called climate change the "nuclear free moment of our generation."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/14/asia-pacific/us-taiwan-china-biden-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T14:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of former U.S. officials will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen and senior national security officials during a three-day stay.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-14T14:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nomura Holdings Inc. is taking steps to reduce risk at its prime brokerage unit in the wake of the Archegos Capital Management LP fiasco.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/14/world/facebook-climate-change-fake-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T16:22:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Climate change has emerged as a key priority in Facebook’s quest to stomp out misinformation, a complicated effort that involves policing user posts while simultaneously defending free speech.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bias against LGBTQ students has been a contentious point among U.S. lawmakers debating the Equality Act.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only 100 fans are admitted to the BMX freestyle park national championships in September to watch the event within the city hall complex in Okayama amid worries over COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man receives the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Chicago on April 6. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An image shows ispace's robotic lunar lander which is scheduled to launch in 2022.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of Nepal's army try to control a fire on Sunday at Shivapuri National Park, overlooking Kathmandu, as forest fires have raged many areas in Nepal.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura speaks at a press conference at his prefectural office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo topped the list in the economy category and came in second in research and development, but ranked a lowly 17th in livability, ninth in environment and 10th in accessibility.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A flyer from the Reconstruction Agency features a cute character representing the radioactive substance tritium.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Artist Beeple's "Everydays: The first 5,000 days" ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ever Given, one of the world's largest containerships, is seen after it was fully floated in the Suez Canal, Egypt, on March 29.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a number of schools in Egypt, children are being schooled in the Japanese way, which includes taking an active role in cleaning classrooms.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Globally, scheduled capacity is stuck at about 58% of pre-pandemic levels, says John Grant, chief analyst at aviation data specialist OAG. For every market that grows, another seems to fall back, he said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China imposed a fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) on Alibaba Group after an anti-monopoly probe, part of a regulatory crackdown that has raised concerns about the future of Jack Ma’s tech empire.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 26.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese government has created a Cabinet-level post to deal with loneliness in the country. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi (center) attend the Japan-U.S. "two-plus-two" meeting in Tokyo last month. The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and India are planning to hold their own two-plus-two talks in Tokyo later this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Veterinary Medical Assistance Team of Fukuoka Prefecture conducts rescue activities in Nishihara, Kumamoto Prefecture, in April 2016 after a series of major earthquakes hit Kumamoto that month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local newspaper of Kumamoto Prefecture published online an English photo book showing damage from the major earthquakes that hit the region in April.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clockwise from left: U.S. President Barack Obama confers with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27. Obama hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori. Survivor Hiroshi Harada speaks ahead of Obama's visit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officials scramble to gather information at the Kumamoto Prefectural Government office Thursday evening after a strong earthquake hit the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, attends an event in Tokyo in February 2014.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists look at Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture on Oct. 9, a day after it erupted and spewed volcanic ash up to 10,000 meters into the air.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Evacuees line up for food distributed by Self-Defense Forces personnel on Friday at the town office in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/21/national/kumamon-mascot-to-visit-france/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-17T21:01:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A home in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, sits precariously after a magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit the area Thursday evening. The number of aftershocks logged within 12 hours of a quake is the third-highest since 1995.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This satellite photo shows Iran's Natanz nuclear facility located south of Tehran in January 2020
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80816.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of bankruptcies in Japan's eatery industry for fiscal 2020 was the third largest in 20 years.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wojciech Wilk, the mayor of Krasnik, Poland, at his office]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Rubzhnoye Cemetery in Samara, Russia]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The menswear section at Meitetsu Department Store offers suits made of stretchable materials.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fukushima Prefectural Government started surveying expecting mothers and women who had just given birth in December 2011 as part of its annual health survey.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80926.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a time when the pandemic has accelerated a global push toward environmental, social and governance themes, the ¥178 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund has largely been quiet on impact investing.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-17T21:22:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80925.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Inquiries for private charters are increasing compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to ANA Business Jet Inc.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman receives a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Melbourne on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/blinken-china-taiwan-serious-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-17T21:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80922.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antony Blinken]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor looks at pictures of victims of Khmer Rouge regime at the former notorious Tuol Sleng prison that is now the Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh in August 2014. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An H&amp;M store in Beijing]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80856.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rice farmers Huang Shui-ho (left) and Yang Kuei-chuan in Tainan, Taiwan. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/12/asia-pacific/china-vaccines-mix-protection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-17T21:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80853.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80853.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines, as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81232.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Based on multiple experiments and simulations, Keidanren found the risk of infection from water drops and microdroplets in the air after handwashing is "extremely low" even when hand dryers are used.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuki Muraoka, a fishing aficionado, says there are many anglers frequenting Tokyo's fishing spots amid the pandemic.
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishing boats are seen at sunrise at a port in Soma, near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, in Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first successfully flown HondaJet will be displayed at Misawa Aviation &amp; Science Museum in Aomori Prefecture from April 20.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid is tested for a study on emissions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso was challenged to drink treated water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after claiming it would be safe to do so.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has said that it won’t ask allies to choose sides in the growing Sino-American rivalry, but Washington is expected to use the meeting to at least nudge Tokyo in the direction of a stronger position on a number of issues involving Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Leaders of Germany's Green Party Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock after being re-elected as party leaders in November 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a closing address at a political conference in Pyongyang on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshiba Corp. President and CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani (left) has stepped down and will be succeeded by Chairman Satoshi Tsunakawa.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese investors were on track to be net sellers of Treasuries for the sixth year in seven in their fiscal year to March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mootral, based in Switzerland and the U.K., says its garlic-and-citrus feed can cut methane emissions from livestock by an average of 30%.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists confront law enforcement personnel following a march for Daunte Wright, 20, who was shot and killed by a police officer, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-17T23:52:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators protest against the Japanese government's plan to release treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, in Tokyo on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has been trying to strengthen the Self-Defense Forces' abilities to defend remote islands in the face of increased maritime actions by China, especially around the Senkaku Islands.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kashmiri man walks past Indian security force personnel standing guard during a cordon and search operation in the city of Srinagar, in the region of Jammu and Kashmir, in February.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Horse racing is held without spectators at a racecourse in Kawasaki in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A boat believed to be from North Korea is washed ashore on the coast of Aomori Prefecture in November 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakie Yokota (center), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, poses with Kim Eun Gyong (left), Megumi's daughter, in Ulaanbaatar in March 2014. Sakie is holding Kim Eun Gyong's infant daughter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kawasaki Kisen’s LNG-fueled car carrier “Century Highway Green” ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80914.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is facing increasing pressure to introduce LGBTQ equality legislation.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A note written by a nursery school child describes the bullying he has received from other children.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:11:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parked car on an illegal road in a deforested area of the Yari plains in Caqueta, Colombia ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/15/world/crime-legal-world/bernie-madoff-victims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff arrives at Federal Court in downtown Manhattan in March 2009.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/15/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/us-emissaries-taiwan-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd (left) and Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu at Songshan Airport in Taipei on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/15/business/corporate-business/grab-anthony-tan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:17:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81525.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Grab's CEO Anthony Tan speaks during a news conference in Singapore for his company's fifth anniversary in June 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/15/national/science-health/faq-coronavirus-vaccinations-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-18T00:20:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81529.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coinbase employees spray champagne during the company's initial public offering outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laura Garcia Velez in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in 2017]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-18T12:16:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82042.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An older resident in the city of Kitakyushu gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/17/national/japan-carbon-goals-2030/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T12:17:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82032.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese government is proving to be slow to change its stance on the cost-effectiveness and reliability of renewables despite the emergence of more efficient and technology-based solutions to traditional challenges.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-19T11:21:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82232.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The value of overseas shipments jumped 16.1% from a year ago, for the biggest increase since November 2017, led by exports of cars, plastics, semi-conductors and chip-making equipment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/19/business/japan-hiring-grads-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-19T13:11:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Company officials in charge of hiring new graduates (left) speak at an online job fair held in March.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) apologizes to a group of family members of former leprosy patients at the Prime Minister's Office in July 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-19T14:34:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taro Kono]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Career consulting firms have mushroomed in recent years, enlisting what they say are thousands of finance professionals to help open doors to Wall Street for students who can afford it.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/14/business/electric-vehicles-metals-prices/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demand for lithium-ion batteries is expected to surge tenfold by 2030, according to BloombergNEF.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Matsuki Kamoshita (center) speaks during a news conference in Paris in March 2019 after meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/19/national/japan-childrens-agency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-19T17:15:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/19/business/economy-business/japan-covid-19-pfizer-vaccines/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British digital minister Oliver Dowden said Monday he had issued a so-called intervention notice over the sale of Arm by SoftBank to Nvidia.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, captured by cameras aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on Monday after the mini-chopper completed the first powered, controlled flight on another planet]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about climate change at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patients in an ambulance wait to enter a COVID-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Marisol Gerardo, 9, is held by her mother as she gets the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a clinical trial for children at Duke Health in Durham, North Carolina, on April 12.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura said Monday he will ask the central government to impose a new state of emergency in the prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed on a screen at a media center as he delivers a speech at the Boao Forum for Asia, in the town of Boao, in China's Hainan province, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi bump elbows during the signing ceremony of a 25-year cooperation agreement, in Tehran on March 27. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsai Ming-yao, deputy head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/19/national/journalist-detained-myanmar/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yuki Kitazumi is a former reporter for the Tokyo-based Nikkei business daily.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China’s military is thought to have instructed a hacker group to conduct cyberattacks on Japanese companies and research institutes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government is seeking to create a system that would allow companies to pay salaries in digital money.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook's incursion into the audio market comes as the sudden explosion of interest in Clubhouse could be waning. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (right) extends his hand to Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale (left) at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo as U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry looks on in December 1996.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chadian President Idriss Deby attends the plenary session of the Paris Peace Forum in November 2019.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75001.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuyo Takazato, co-chair of Okinawan Women Act Against Military Violence, has helped gather details of around 350 sex crimes for the booklet "Postwar U.S. Military Crimes Against Women in Okinawa."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his supporters stage a rally in Tokyo before the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election last Sept. 8. Abe was re-elected unopposed later that day.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-21T11:22:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82777.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that the United States intends to cut planet-warming emissions nearly in half by the end of the decade, a target that would require Americans to transform the way they drive, heat their homes and manufacture goods.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-21T11:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Among 227 countries and regions surveyed, Taiwan ranks last at 1.07 children per woman, far below the 2.1 replacement rate needed to maintain the population.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/21/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/xi-biden-china-us-climate-summit/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Journalists watch a screen showing Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivering a speech during the opening of the Boao Forum for Asia in south China's Hainan province on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) during a news conference in Washington Tuesday that reintroduced the Green New Deal to fight climate change. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fukui prefecture is home to 11 Kepco nuclear reactors at three plants, one of which is the Takahama plant, which hosts some of Japan’s oldest reactors. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SBI Holdings Inc. will implement a series of campaigns that will virtually eliminate commission fees for spot trading in equities to boost younger customers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Metropolitan Government asks a pachinko parlor to close on April 28 to cooperate with the state of emergency declared for the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One journalist worries that the pandemic has triggered a "baby shock," that will further exacerbate Japan's population decline.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While March 2020 brought snow to Tokyo, the capital had yet to feel the full force of the coronavirus and its effects on visitor numbers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideo Hayakawa, former senior official of the Bank of Japan, says Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda is set to ride out the rest of his term without any major policy changes. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Motorists commute past a road infrastructure project in Melbourne on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Human resources firm Visional Inc. became the biggest new listing in two years on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Democratic Party lawmaker is taken away by security as he protests against new security laws during the Legislative Council’s House Committee meeting in Hong Kong in May last year. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Critics say that calling for the closure of department stores and theme parks — where few cluster infections of the coronavirus have been reported, if any — is unscientific and merely symbolic.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T15:11:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Toyota Motor Corp. "Beyond Zero" bZ4X electric SUV is displayed at the Shanghai auto show on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T16:19:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives mourn a man who died from COVID-19, at a crematorium in New Delhi on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T16:19:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of hackers have executed a ransomware attack on Hoya Corp., marking the second successful attack on the Japanese firm in two years.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T17:31:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Line's data management drew flak last month after it was revealed the firm had allowed a Chinese software company to access users’ personal information. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T17:40:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks in a videoconference with U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or "Quad" meeting in Tokyo on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T18:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a ceremony to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Independence Movement against Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, in Seoul on March 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T19:24:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People visit Semicon China, a trade fair for semiconductor technology, in Shanghai on March 17.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-22T19:42:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T09:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T09:26:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden during the climate summit on Thursday ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T09:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A patient with breathing problems waits to enter a COVID-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:17:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in conducted a sweeping reshuffle of his Cabinet after recent local election defeats. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Olympic Rings are unveiled Wednesday at the summit of Mount Takao in the city of Hachioji, in Tokyo, to mark 100 days before the start of the games.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patients suffering from COVID-19 get treatment at the casualty ward of a hospital in New Delhi on April 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:20:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxes containing Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine arrive at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture on April 5.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:22:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Thursday night. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees working on an assembly line at a Dongfeng Honda auto plant in Wuhan on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:26:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81815.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund profit may reach an unprecedented $30 billion in the March quarter under Masayoshi Son's strategy of pouring massive amounts of cash into mature startups.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T10:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SoftBank Group Corp. is investing in Indian food delivery startup Swiggy as global investors see growing opportunity in the country’s startup scene.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-04-23T11:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga hopes to raise Japan's minimum wage to help support households affected by COVID-19, boost competitiveness and spur inflation.]]></image:caption>
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