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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T11:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T12:21:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T13:45:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T14:25:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screenshot from a YouTube video by calligrapher Muga Nakasone shows how to write with a brush using the left hand. The top-left box shows how difficult it is to see the brush tip when holding a brush that way.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T15:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parents of unmarried children take part in a matchmaking event held in the city of Hiroshima in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T16:16:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean students take their College Scholastic Ability Test at a school in Seoul in November 2022.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-26T18:06:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Flowers in front of the home of 6-year-old Nao Hosaka, who was found dead nearby last week, in Kobe on Saturday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/national/herpangina-rs-virus-warning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-26T18:16:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children attend an entrance ceremony at an elementary school in Tokyo in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/world/plastic-waste-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-26T18:36:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker sorts plastic bottles at Sri Lanka's largest plastic recycling facility Eco Spindles, in Horana on June 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/business/financial-markets/japan-crypto-us-turmoil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-27T09:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. crypto sector has been rattled by moves from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which bolstered its crackdown through lawsuits against two of the world’s largest crypto exchange operators — Binance and Coinbase.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/national/japan-9th-covid-19-wave-virus-expert/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-27T12:50:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigeru Omi speaks to reporters on Monday after meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/crime-legal/ichikawa-ennosuke-arrested-assistance-mother-suicide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-27T18:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police car carrying Ichikawa Ennosuke IV enters the Meguro Police Station in Tokyo, where he was arrested, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/japan-research-grants-institutes-universities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-27T19:48:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The University of Tokyo and two other national universities were chosen as candidates for receiving substantial government funds for their research.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/science-health/morning-after-pill-trial-sale/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T10:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clinical trials conducted at home and abroad indicate that emergency contraception pills demonstrate an efficacy rate of 80%.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/japan-sdf-starlink/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T10:25:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ukrainian soldier disconnects a Starlink terminal in the front-line region of Kreminna, Ukraine, in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/asia-pacific/india-june-heat-wave-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T10:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women rest under a tree on a hot summer day in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-komeito-election-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T10:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi speaks to reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/25/business/financial-markets/yen-fall-focus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T11:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The yen is in the ¥143 zone to the U.S. dollar, far from around ¥130 that major Japanese firms expect the currency pair to average in the current business year to next March.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/business/tech/china-ai-us-catchup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T12:03:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese talent and financing flowing into AI mirrors a wave of activity convulsing Silicon Valley, which has deep implications for Beijing’s escalating conflict with Washington.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/world/deforestation-2022-loss/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T12:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Efforts to protect forests — vital to sequestering carbon and maintaining Earth’s biodiversity — from deforestation, fire and drought have not kept pace.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/asia-pacific/time-running-out-thai-prime-minister-pita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T13:48:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With parliament scheduled to convene on July 3 and lawmakers expected to vote on a new Thai prime minister in the days or weeks afterward, time is running out for Pita Limjaroenrat to make sure his victory was anything other than symbolic.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/world/us-heat-waves-dangerous-spread/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T15:39:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident cools off at Barton Creek on Tuesday in Austin, Texas. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/national/north-korea-abduction-issue-un-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T17:20:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hirokazu Matsuno, who is chief Cabinet secretary as well as minister in charge of the abduction issue, speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/business/fish-prices-older-people-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T18:28:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor at Nijo fish market in Sapporo in April. The price of fish in Japan had risen 14.8% in May compared to a year before.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/24/national/swatch-workplace-bullying/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T20:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An executive of Swatch Group (Japan) developed an adjustment disorder after being repeatedly reprimanded by the company's president, and labor authorities have recognized the case as an industrial accident.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/national/armed-gsdf-search-schools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T21:57:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force personnel take part in a drill at an exercise area in Hokkaido in August 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/national/crime-legal/avalanche-damages-tochigi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T21:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235766.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Families of the people killed in an avalanche during a mountaineering course in March 2017 walk to the Utsunomiya District Court in Tochigi Prefecture on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/world/us-cities-public-data-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T21:59:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235650.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235650.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Long Beach, California. While explaining the value of data-gathering tech in public spaces is complicated given that the benefits are communal rather than individual, efforts are still being made to boost trust in the technology.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/business/japan-megabank-ceos-paid-less/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235669.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's mega-banks are paying their CEOs much less than their global peers, even as they post some of their highest profits.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/business/weak-yen-boj-pivot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235647.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda is proving far more dovish than expected, but even without a move by the central bank to normalize its policy, analysts see the yen regaining some strength as the finale of the global tightening cycle plays out.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/asia-pacific/china-redefine-derisk-concept/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:04:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235655.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235655.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks at an event in Tianjin, China, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/business/ubs-to-halve-credit-suisse-workforce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235639.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235639.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The combined workforce of UBS and Credit Suisse jumped to about 120,000 when the emergency takeover of the latter was agreed, and UBS has said it aims to save some $6 billion in staff costs in the coming years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/world/lukashenko-feted-wagner-mutiny-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:06:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235636.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235636.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While the full extent of Alexander Lukashenko's role in defusing an armed mutiny by Wagner mercenaries remains unclear, the Belarusian leader — derided by Russian officials for years as a useful but volatile and demanding partner — is now being feted in Russia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/28/world/russian-general-knew-mutiny-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:07:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235657.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Gen. Sergei Surovikin meet at the Kremlin in Moscow in December 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/corporate-business/nissan-shareholders-election-chief-executive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:09:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235632.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235632.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[CEO of Nissan Makoto Uchida attends a news conference to unveil new agreement between Nissan and Renault in London, on Feb. 6. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/japanese-beer-red-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235625.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235625.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fishing port of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, is turned red Tuesday due to leaks of a coolant from an Orion Breweries's beer plant. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/national/crime-legal/yusuke-tsushima-first-hearing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:12:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235619.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235619.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescue workers with a gurney at Soshigaya-Okura Station in Tokyo in August 2021 after passengers were stabbed on an Odakyu Line train]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/world/science-health-world/el-nino-resurgent-deadly-viruses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:13:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235598.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235598.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer drinks water from a bottle in Selangor, Malaysia, in May.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/economy-business/japan-south-korea-trade-partner-restore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235559.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235559.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura says Japan has decided to restore South Korea to its list of preferred trading partners.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/chinese-new-businesses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:17:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_234787.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_234787.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sun Xiaojun, president of BionicM, which develops prosthetic legs that emphasize design, in May 2021]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/wind-industry-turbulence-explainer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:18:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235480.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235480.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite mounting pressure to fight climate change by moving to renewable sources of energy, financing such projects has been a challenge.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/corporate-business/mizuho-ai-access/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:19:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235482.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235482.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mizuho Financial Group is giving all of its bank employees in Japan access to Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service this week.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/financial-markets/boj-government-bonds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:19:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235499-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235499.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan has held more than half of the government’s debt for three straight quarters.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/financial-markets/oba-plaza-accord-died/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:20:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235464.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235464.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tomomitsu Oba, a key figure in shaping Japan's currency policy in the 1980s, speaks at his office in Tokyo in July 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/world/us-nato-deny-russia-uprising-involvement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235438.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235438.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden makes an announcement at the White House on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/world/covid-vaccine-initiative-billions-left-over/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:22:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235463.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235463.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With demand for COVID-19 vaccines dwindling, partners of the COVAX initiative are now working out how best to use the remaining cash — a significant sum in global health — alongside the donors who originally pledged it.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/world/putin-blasts-wagner-traitors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:22:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235415.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235415.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a televised address in Moscow on Monday, in which he condemned leaders of the Wagner mercenary group as traitors to Russia.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/canada-wildfire-forest-carbon-offset-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:23:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235421.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235421.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smoke from Canada wildfires blankets New York on June 7. Climate experts and offset developers are concerned Canada's wildfire could be a harbinger of what’s to come.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/world/marine-food-climate-environment-risk-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:23:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235432.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235432.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fish for sale at a fishmongers shop in south east London. Overproduction in the marine food industry has caused significant environmental damage but other "stressors" are also impacting the quantity and quality of blue foods.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/ev-batteries-second-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235419.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235419.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Zenobe's Founder Director Steven Meersman shows off one of the company's second-life battery energy storage units that contains part of a battery pack previously used on an electric bus at the startup's innovation center in Portsmouth, Britain, in February.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/business/ai-investment-stock-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:24:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235418.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235418.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wide range of businesses are now under portfolio managers' microscopes to assess the potential for AI disruption.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/business/jsr-privatization-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235388.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[JSR's bioscience and informatics research and development center in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/national/crime-legal/joker-trial-murder-intent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235393.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235393.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist rendering of Kyota Hattori (left), who is being tried for allegedly stabbing and lighting a fire on a Keio Line train in 2021, at a Tokyo court on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/national/female-suicides-increase-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235286.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People ride on an escalator at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on June 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/business/mitsubishi-ufj-buy-indonesia-mandala/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235259.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ plans to expand its auto loan business into Indonesia, which boasts Southeast Asia's largest GDP. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/asia-pacific/india-dalits-archive-caste-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:35:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235263.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235263.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protestors hold placards depicting B.R. Ambedkar (left), an Indian politician who was involved in drafting the constitution, and of other leaders, in New Delhi in January 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/asia-pacific/bangladesh-water-crisis-coping-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:36:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235209.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235209.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers in a vegetable garden in Satkhira, southwestern Bangladesh, part of the Sundarbans forest area. Bangladesh, a river delta nation, is on the front line of climate change. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/asia-pacific/new-zealand-seeks-china-trade-diversity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235188.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235188.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has begun a six-day visit to China, seeking to drum up demand for a wider array of goods and services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/world/belarus-public-relations-victory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:38:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235202.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, Russia, on June 9.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/world/putin-historic-threat-grip-on-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-28T22:40:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_235186.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_235186.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin had been confident that he could manage the ambitions of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, a man who once served him soup.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[For French President Emmanuel Macron, who likes to place himself at the centrist fulcrum of French politics but does not have an absolute majority in Parliament, the episode has forced him into a delicate balancing act.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prices of baby products including diapers, baby formula and dolls are going up more than those for other consumer products in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a reception at the Kremlin in Moscow in March. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tekigaiso on Dec. 17, 1945, the day after Prince Konoe took his own life at the property. On Dec. 16, he had been due to report to Allied Occupation authorities to answer charges of war crimes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians pass the emergency room at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna, India, on June 22. Deaths in the country were reported to have spiked as a result of sustained high temperatures. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians in Hong Kong under the flags of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region marking the 26th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[My Number cards have been linked to numerous technical errors in recent months.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. guitar maker Fender's flagship store in Tokyo's Harajuku area on Thursday, a day ahead of its scheduled opening]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor in Tokyo shows the yen falling through ¥145 per dollar on Friday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sega's co-Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi said the company maintains a close relationship with Microsoft but will remain within Sega Sammy Holdings for now.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-30T22:41:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Toyota Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Ground Self-Defense Force member Rina Gonoi (right) at the Fukushima District Court during the first hearing on Thursday of the trial of three former colleagues accused of sexual indecency against her]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-30T22:46:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brazil is blessed with wide-open spaces in the windiest parts of the country and an interconnected national power grid.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-30T22:47:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236223.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gen. Sergei Surovikin was quizzed by officials representing military prosecutors over several days about his links to Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-06-30T22:47:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236176.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wagner fighters pull out of the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to base, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/30/world/russian-support-ukraine-peace-talks-grow-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-30T22:48:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236183.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A local resident speaks with a member of the Wagner group in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/30/world/eastern-europe-wagner-belarus-alarm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-06-30T22:49:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/30/asia-pacific/china-spy-balloon-us-pentagon-data/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-01T09:48:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot looks down at a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovers over the central part of the continental United States on Feb. 3 before later being shot down by the U.S. off the coast of South Carolina. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-01T10:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists stroll along Kokusai-dori, the main shopping street in Naha, in May.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to members of the media in Brasilia on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-01T22:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-01T22:28:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236357.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ASML is one of the most important parts of the semiconductor supply chain, with a near-monopoly on the machines that chipmakers need to produce the most advanced chips.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Apple store in New York on Friday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-01T22:32:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An observation floor at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building last month]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-01T22:33:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Wind turbines in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. Japan's offshore wind power market is set to grow as the government aims to install up to 10 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/01/asia-pacific/taipei-hong-kong-commemoration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-01T23:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Images of demonstrators who died in Hong Kong during a wave of protests in 2019 are displayed in Taipei on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The front page of The Japan Times on July 14, 1923, included news on the arrest of a lecturer at Waseda University. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin tours an exhibition in Moscow on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-02T12:58:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on June 21. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/01/business/china-espionage-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-02T13:07:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236405.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paramilitary police officers at the Forbidden City in Beijing. An updated espionage law obligates all citizens to report on spying activities and allows authorities to inspect the belongings of suspects.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-02T15:41:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Officers from the RAID tactical unit of the French National Police patrol a street in Lille on Friday]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-02T22:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The scene where a mass shooting took place in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An underground shelter in Kyiv]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robert O'Brien, who was national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, takes part in an online interview with Kyodo News on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Small modular reactors are designed to generate less than 300 megawatts, compared with over 1,000 megawatts or more at large plants. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pan Gongsheng’s appointment as party chief of the People’s Bank of China indicates the bank will stay the course.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at a news conference on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ruling coalition is prioritizing defense spending in next year’s budget.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (center) and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend an Okinawa Memorial Day event in Okinawa Prefecture on June 23.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Young-min, 38, has a seafood meal with her children at her house in Seongnam, South Korea, on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong's Chief Superintendent of Police Li Kwai-wah speaks during a news conference on Monday to issue arrest warrants for eight activists.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:38:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in February 2019. The online retailer has seen its shares tumble to a 14-year low during the first half of 2023.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/iaea-fukushima-water-release-endorsement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:39:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, presents Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with the IAEA's comprehensive report on the plan to release treated water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/world/el-nino-weather-pattern-return/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at a construction site in Selangor, Malaysia, in May]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/asia-pacific/thailand-drought-rice-sugar-supply/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236904.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer plants rice in Sisaket province, Thailand. Thai authorities have asked farmers to restrict rice planting to a single crop to conserve water, and sugar producers see output falling for the first time in three years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/asia-pacific/barbie-movie-banned-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:43:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian actress Margot Robbie poses for a photo during an event to promote her new film "Barbie" in Seoul on Sunday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/kazuo-masuda-vice-defense-minister-appointment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:44:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236848.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Masuda has been appointed vice defense minister, effective from July 14, and will replace Atsuo Suzuki as the Defense Ministry's top bureaucrat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/asia-pacific/china-buzzes-taiwan-strait-again/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong during what Beijing described as a combat readiness patrol and military exercises around Taiwan on April 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/china-europe-trade-war-green-transition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:46:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236797.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236797.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China is the largest global producer of gallium and germanium — two minerals crucial to the semiconductor, telecommunications and electric-vehicle industries. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/taiwan-yilan-yonaguni-ferry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236814.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (left) and others depart Tuesday on a trial run of a ferry service set to run from a port in Suao in Taiwan to Japan's Yonaguni island.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/financial-markets/japan-yen-dollar-us-dialogue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236796.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236796.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masato Kanda, Japan's top financial diplomat, says authorities are in close contact with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other overseas officials regarding currencies and broader financial markets.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/economy-business/japan-ai-strategy-eu-gap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:51:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236788.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236788.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EU industry chief Thierry Breton speaks about AI rule-making and cooperation on semiconductors during his visit to Tokyo on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/asia-pacific/north-korea-covid-maskless/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:51:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236810.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting in Pyongyang, in this undated photo released on June 19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/world/israel-tensions-escalate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:52:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236773.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinians run for cover during clashes with Israeli forces amid an Israeli military operation in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/first-half-2023-top-selling-products/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:53:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236698.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoppers in the Harajuku district of Tokyo on June 17]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/corporate-business/mizuho-u-s-hiring-spree-top-10-underwriting-goal-sight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236767.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236767.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Hamamoto, chief executive officer of Mizuho Securities, says the firm's U.S. unit plans to recruit more than 100 people by the end of March next year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/economy-business/fund-quality-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236779.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236779.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A top-performing equity fund in Japan is buying "high quality” defensive stocks such as those of noodle-maker Nissin Foods.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/world/prigozhin-public-support-stays-high-poll/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:56:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236769-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236769.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/world/jens-stoltenberg-term-extension-likely-tuesday/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:56:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236776.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236776.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Paris on June 28]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/china-chipmaking-export-restriction-us-clash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-04T22:57:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236762.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236762.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Semiconductor equipment displayed at a trade fair in Shanghai on June 29]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/29/national/crime-legal/kiyoto-imamura-luffy-robbery-charges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T01:36:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_236033.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236033.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kiyoto Imamura is the first to be charged with robbery among suspected senior members of a group that ran scams in Japan from the Philippines and used the pseudonyms "Luffy" and "Kim."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/science-health/lecanemab-japan-approval-expectations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T07:14:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236806.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236806.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Japan, Leqembi is undergoing priority review by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, which means it could be approved in the country as early as this fall.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/crime-legal/headless-body-sapporo-hotel-person-sought/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T11:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236860.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236860.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A hotel in Sapporo where a headless body has been found]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/tech/instagram-threads-app-twitter-rival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T11:44:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236778-1-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236778.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Meta will soon launch a new app, called Threads, that functions similarly to Twitter, with text-based posts that can be liked, commented on and shared.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/tech/schools-students-ai-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T13:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236845.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236845.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Education minister Keiko Nagaoka attends a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/crime-legal/gsdf-shooting-second-murder-charge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T13:32:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236898.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236898.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman prays for victims in a shooting incident at the Ground Self-Defense Force's shooting range in the city of Gifu last month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/30/business/financial-markets/japan-warren-buffett-investment-trends/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T15:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236354.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has risen in the estimations of foreign investors, but there are deeper trends at play than prominent endorsements from people such as Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, with the weak yen and geopolitical tensions looming large.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/business/asia-fund-pivot-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T15:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236983.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236983.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan could be a good investment alternative to China thanks to rising consumer spending and a weakening yen that may help draw in more tourists from abroad, said a Seoul-based co-manager of Midas International Asset Management's Asia Leaders Growth fund.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-presidential-peace-with-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T15:50:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236990.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236990.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwanese Vice President William Lai in Taipei on Jan. 18]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/business/jal-sumitomo-rental-clothing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Japan boarding Japan Airlines-operated flights will soon be able to rent clothing needed during their stays.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/01/17/business/ilo-pandemic-unemployment-2023/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:13:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unemployed men queue for food handouts from concerned local residents after they lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Dubai in July 2020.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:14:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The operator of Uniqlo will provide $1.8 million (¥191 million) in funding over a two-year period for International Labour Organization research on the labor markets and social security systems in several Asian countries.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:26:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A handout picture shows part of what is believed to be a space launch vehicle that North Korea said crashed into the sea off the west coast of the divided peninsula, and which the South Korean military had salvaged, on June 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong's outflow of bankers and other professionals is showing signs of starting to reverse.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:36:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An emergency services vehicle passes by as Israeli troops start withdrawing from Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-05T16:37:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters ride on a train bearing graffiti reading "Nael, Rest in Peace" in Paris on July 4. The killing of Nahel M. has revived longstanding accusations of institutional racism within the French police, which rights groups say single out minorities during stops.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/asia-pacific/extreme-weather-china-climate-resilience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T17:14:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shields herself from the sun as she walks on a street, using a hat, mask and umbrella, amid a heat wave alert in Shanghai on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/national/ldp-komeito-group-export-defense-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T17:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[LDP policy chief Koichi Hagiuda (center right) and Komeito policy chief Yosuke Takagi (center left) receive proposal from the parties' working group in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-group-leadership-abe-faction-cracks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T17:45:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to his faction's members in Tokyo in 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/business/corporate-business/japanese-firms-celebrities-boost-female-executives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T17:46:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[From left: Kyoko Uchida, Naoko Takahashi and Minako Nakano are among the celebrities Japanese companies are tapping to increase the number of female executives.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/business/wages-fastest-rise-30-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T17:47:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a speech during the annual May Day rally in Tokyo in April, organized by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, commonly known as Rengo, to demand higher pay and better working conditions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met during the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-05T22:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hitomi Soga meets with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his office in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/national/pokemon-cards-burglaries-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T22:38:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pokemon trading cards have been around since 1996, but store owners say the craze has been heating up in the past two years or so.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/national/crime-legal/yasuo-mori-bid-rigging-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T22:39:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuo Mori, former operations executive on the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, enters the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-wang-yi-us-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-05T22:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's top diplomat, Wang Yi (right), speaks at a trilateral forum in Qingdao, China, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-foreign-relations-law-explainer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T12:24:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236966.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese and Hong Kong flags are strung between buildings in Hong Kong on June 27. China’s decision to enact a new law governing the country’s foreign relations last weekend lays the groundwork for a stronger pushback by Beijing in response to measures that it views as hindering its rise.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/how-judge-japan-international-schools/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T14:22:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236785.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ A professional shogi player explains the rules of the game in English to students at St. Mary’s International School in Tokyo in October 2014. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/business/powerchip-sbi-foundry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T14:59:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237141.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Frank Huang (left), chairman of Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., shakes hands with SBI President Yoshitaka Kitao at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/business/financial-markets/japan-ipos-top-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T15:09:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_237229.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237229.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past an electronic board showing the closing numbers on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/shizuoka-bridge-girder-deaths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T18:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_237241.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237241.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bridge girder fell from a raised platform at a construction site in the city of Shizuoka on Thursday, killing two people who were working at the site.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/world/spain-green-energy-hub-too-fast/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iberdola's green hydrogen plant, Europe's largest, in Puertollano, Spain]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/china-economic-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:16:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A passenger waits for a flight at Yuezhao Airport — which now only has one flight a day, 4 days out of the week — in Guizhou province, China, on June 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/wang-yi-japan-taiwan-trade-mission/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:17:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237334.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yohei Kono (left), who is heading a Japanese delegation to China, meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Wednesday. Wang Yi, China's top diplomat, criticized Japan on Thursday for claims by some that a Taiwan contingency would be an emergency for Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/nagoya-port-hack-resume-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:18:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cargo trucks line up at a container terminal at the Port of Nagoya in Tobishima, Aichi Prefecture, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/income-disparity-extracurricular-activities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children play in a river in the city of Kyoto on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/japan-italy-defense-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:23:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Italian Navy's offshore patrol vessel Francesco Morosini makes a call at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on June 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/business/moderna-mrna-vaccines-chinese-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:27:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237244.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine. The company is under pressure to elevate sales of COVID-19 vaccines after dismal uptake of boosters last year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A farmer plants rice saplings in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/yellen-china-visit-talks-amid-tensions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:30:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237227.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen travels to Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a high-level visit aimed at improving communication and stabilizing the tense relationship between the world's top two economies. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/south-korean-doctors-low-birth-rate/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pediatrician Song Jong-geun gets ready at his clinic in Seoul on June 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/asia-pacific/international-school-ceo-multimillionaire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:32:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An SISB school campus in Bangkok. The school, which provides the Singapore curriculum specializing in mathematics and science, has seen the number of students at its four campuses increase about 25% to 3,284 in March from a year earlier.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/business/economy-business/fukushima-waste-damage-export-risks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:34:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishermen unload their catch in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/china-japan-asean-foreign-minister-meet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-06T21:35:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237190.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (left) meets with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing on April 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/business/tech/instagram-threads-musk-twitter/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a "friendly" refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said the new Nuclear Consultative Group had upgraded the alliance with the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite new restrictions from the Chinese government, U.S. chipmaker Micron recently announced that it would increase its existing investments in China.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ant Group Co. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Monday. Chinese authorities told the nation's biggest state-owned firms and banks to start a fresh round of checks on their financial exposure and other links to Ant Group, renewing scrutiny of billionaire Jack Ma's financial empire, according to people familiar with the matter.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks at a news conference at the American Embassy in Beijing on Sunday. 

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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo on Nov. 19 topped 500 for the first time since the pandemic began.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Land minister Tetsuo Saito (center) holds a news conference with Klara Geywitz, German federal minister for housing, urban development and building (left) and Gianluigi Benedetti, the Italian ambassador to Japan, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rafael Grossi (right), the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks during a meeting with officials from South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party in Seoul on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than 700 firearms have been seized in a five-year operation by U.K and Spanish authorities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Criminal gangs began exploiting Revolut's payment systems early in 2022, encouraging individuals to make large transactions that would be declined, then withdraw the refunded sums via ATMs.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greg Kelly]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a memorial service for late leader Shinzo Abe on Saturday, the first anniversary of his assassination, in Tokyo's Minato Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat is surrounded by supporters in Bangkok on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security force on the Indian side of the Attari-Wagah border post, with Pakistani forces in the background, near Amritsar, India. In both countries, interfaith relations have become somewhat of a minefield.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk in front of the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo. The central bank raised its economic assessment for three of the country's nine regions on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incarcerated people are especially vulnerable to high temperatures not just because they lack air conditioning but because prison architecture makes staying cool difficult.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's current account surplus more than doubled year-on-year in May, as the country's trade deficit narrowed and income gains from its overseas investment expanded.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.K. is set to sign a Pacific trade deal in Auckland next weekend, formally becoming the first new member since the framework came into force, and shifting attention to a list of other applicant countries headed by China. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The health ministry takes the total number of Japanese children born in a year — which includes those born to a Japanese and a foreign parent — and divides that by the number of Japanese women between ages 15 and 49.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks to representatives from the media in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foxconn said it had worked with Vedanta for more than a year to bring "a great semiconductor idea to reality," but that the companies had mutually decided to end their joint venture.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eisai announces Keisuke Naito, the son of the firm's CEO, will become the acting global Alzheimer’s officer.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mercury rose to 43 degrees Celsius in Bilbao, Spain, in June 2022.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat is mobbed by supporters in Bangkok on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visit the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/11/asia-pacific/nathan-law-family-questioned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-11T23:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238321.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democracy activist Nathan Law is interviewed outside the Final Court of Appeal after being granted bail in Hong Kong in October 2017. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/11/asia-pacific/hong-kong-plans-widespread-ban-japan-seafood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-11T23:39:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238234.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238234.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong leader John Lee]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/08/national/science-health/multiple-chemical-sensitivity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T01:56:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/np_file_230953.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_230953.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsuo Yanagida (left) and a vendor discuss special wallpaper for people with multiple chemical sensitivity, at a property undergoing renovation in Kobe in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/turkey-western-tilt-foreign-policy-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T12:30:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238338.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238338.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda welcome Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday. NATO leaders will grapple with Ukraine's membership ambitions at their summit on Tuesday, their determination to face down Russia boosted by a breakthrough in Sweden's bid to join the alliance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/mitsui-fudosan-top-real-estate-developer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T13:53:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238379.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miyashita Park, a complex comprising a park, shopping mall and a hotel, jointly developed by Mitsui Fudosan and Tokyo's Shibuya Ward]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/cabinet-reshuffle-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T16:28:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238335.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238335.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday prior to his trip to Europe.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/defense-recruitment-principles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T16:43:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238522.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238522.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kimi Onoda (second from right), parliamentary vice minister of defense, receives a report from an expert panel on Wednesday at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/north-korea-missile-launch-july-12/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T17:27:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238380.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238380.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV monitor shows a news broadcast of an apparent long-range North Korean missile launch, in Osaka's Umeda area on Wednesday morning.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/yen-strengthens-bulls-eyeing-gains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T18:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238358.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238358.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monitor in Tokyo shows the yen strengthening past the closely-watched psychological ¥140 per dollar level on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/politics-diplomacy/my-number-troubles-government-headache/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T19:03:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238398.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238398.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Digital Minister Taro Kono attends an event in Tokyo in June. How the woes over My Number will affect Kono's standing as a candidate for prime minister in a potential post-Kishida era remains to be seen.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/tech/evs-auto-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:36:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238462.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238462.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicle charges while parked at a charging station in a garage owned by the City of Baltimore, on March 23.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/philippines-activists-online-threats-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:38:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238440.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238440.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters on the EDSA, a major highway in Manila, on Tuesday. Online threats are rising in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations, highlighting a lack of resources and expertise to fight them, according to experts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/science-health/generic-drug-shortage-scandals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:40:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238362-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has been experiencing a significant drug shortage, impacting pharmacies and medical institutions nationwide.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/asia-pacific/china-internet-regulations-self-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:42:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238483.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238483.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite its widespread use, self-media has been criticized for being a source of sensational news and misinformation because it lacks a standardized editorial process.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/japan-households-inflation-survey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238513.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238513.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Bank of Japan survey showed that the ratio of Japanese households expecting prices to rise a year from now stood at 86.3% in June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/startups-tax-breaks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:43:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238484.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238484.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors walk by exhibition booths during a global event for startups led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government at the Tokyo International Forum in February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/canada-probes-nike-forced-labor-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:44:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238452.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238452.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past a Nike store in Beijing in March 2021.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/tiktok-content-taiwan-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:45:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238418.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238418.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A political advertisement in the Wanhua District of Taipei]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/world/sibling-around-the-world-youth-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:46:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238488.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238488.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mack and Zara Rutherford are the youngest winners of the Royal Automobile Club's Segrave Trophy, first awarded in 1930 and featuring a roll call of aviation pioneers and motorsport greats.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/crime-legal/adk-president-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:46:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238354.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shinichi Ueno, former president of ADK Holdings, enters the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/world/canadian-lake-earth-anthropocene-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:47:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238389.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238389.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Distinct years of sediment deposits are visible in this section of sediment collected from the bottom of Canada's Crawford Lake near Milton, Ontario, Canada, on April 12. Scientists believe the lake's exceptionally well-preserved sediment layers serve as a reference point for a proposed new geological chapter in the planet's history, defined by the considerable changes wrought by human activity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/business/china-huawei-overcome-us-ban-5g-phones/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:48:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238381.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238381.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A return to the 5G phone market would mark a victory for Huawei after almost three years of being in "survival" mode.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/world/portugal-bans-tourist-boats-orcas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238356.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238356.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A series of incidents involving orcas and mostly sailboats have been reported since 2020 off the Iberian Peninsula coast and the Strait of Gibraltar.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/world/politics-diplomacy-world/ai-deepfakes-politics-danger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238360.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238360.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A statement from the head of security policy at Meta Platforms, with a fake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/world/nato-ukraine-fast-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-12T22:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238323.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238323.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuanian, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/chinas-us-envoy-pentagon-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T11:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238607.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238607.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Xie Feng, China's ambassador to the U.S.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-nato-new-cooperation-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T12:26:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238501.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238501.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meet during a NATO leaders' summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/11/business/financial-markets/japan-stock-splits-beat-market-topix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T13:49:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238102-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238102.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese companies that conducted stock splits recently have seen their shares outperform the market. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/economy-business/market-reflects-rising-speculation-boj-policy-tweak-ahead-july-meeting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T14:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238642.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238642.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some in the market are showing they anticipate a possible tweak of the Bank of Japan's yield curve control policy at the end of July.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/02/national/japan-trains-cars-carbon-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T15:06:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_236085.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_236085.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bullet train heads into central Tokyo in April 2021. Per data from Central Japan Railway, one passenger traveling between Tokyo and Osaka on the Nozomi service of the Tokaido Shinkansen will emit 4.2 kilograms of carbon dioxide.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/10/national/dispute-fukushima-radioactive-soil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T21:03:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/np_file_214720.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_214720.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A soil dump zone at the Interim Storage Facility in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, where radioactive soil collected from across the prefecture is buried]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/11/national/japan-heat-wave-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T21:08:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238229-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238229.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People use parasols in Tokyo on Monday, when temperatures rose above 35 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest day so far this year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/10/national/southern-japan-heavy-rain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T21:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_237865.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vehicles on a flooded road in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Monday morning]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/world/jamaica-fate-of-deep-ocean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238369.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238369.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding an end to deep sea mining in front of the Ministry of Industry in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 1. The banner reads: "The seabed is my home. Do not destroy it."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/corporate-business/fast-retailing-record-profit-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:30:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238780.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238780.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Uniqlo store in Shanghai. Fast Retailing has 925 Uniqlo outlets in mainland China — more than in Japan — making it a bellwether for a retail market that was hammered by tough COVID-19 restrictions in recent years.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/national/sea-of-japan-rain-mudslides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:30:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mudslide occurred at Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, early Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Move Forward Party Leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks during a voting session for a new prime minister at the parliament in Bangkok on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen and her cabinet are expected to greenlight significantly tougher measures against sexual harassment on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:33:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokaido Shinkansen train arrives at Shizuoka Station after completing an automatic operation trial run in May.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's transport delivery capacity is expected to drop when new regulations starting in April limits truck drivers' overtime to 960 hours a year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/ford-ev-production-contract-talks-uaw/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:34:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker fits wheel hub badges on the Ford Focus automobile assembly line inside the Ford Motor Co. factory in Saarlouis, Germany, in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:35:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237429.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Company officials participate in a Michelin AM Atelier training program in Ota, Gunma Prefecture. The firm combines 3D metal printers with unique additive manufacturing technology to create objects through a process of layering material.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:36:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238639.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chatbots like Bard use computer intelligence to respond almost instantly to a large range of queries, but some question the need to present them as "everything machines.”]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/tech/elon-musk-xai-chatgpt-alternative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:37:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk, billionaire and CEO of Tesla, at the Viva Tech fair in Paris on June 16]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The severed heads of wild boars were found in a schoolyard in the city of Kobe on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Envoys from 12 Western and Asian delegations have noticed increased attempts by Chinese authorities to disrupt civic outreach endeavors, including LGBTQ and gender-themed events.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dairy farmer Michiyo Nishioka introduces her cows at a milk campaign in Chiba Prefecture on June 4.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/record-heat-burning-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:41:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A church at sunset as a heat wave hits Sancourt, France, on Wednesday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/corporate-business/sapporo-anchor-liquidation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:43:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sapporo Holdings will liquidate Anchor Brewing after failing to revive sales at the U.S. unit.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children receive medical treatment at a field hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. The lingering fallout from the pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine means about 735 million people went undernourished in 2022.
]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/national/nato-japan-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meet during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/business/financial-markets/credit-suisse-japan-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:46:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238615.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SBI Holdings, Rakuten Group and Monex Group are among brokerages in Japan that have sold Credit Suisse’s riskiest bonds to retail investors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/world/politics-diplomacy-world/biden-successful-nato-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:47:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Vilnius University during a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/kishida-yoon-fukushima-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:48:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238575.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands ahead of talks in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/12/national/johnnys-un-investigation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-13T22:48:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238569.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238569.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The allegations surrounding Johnny Kitagawa, who died in 2019, have garnered international attention after the BBC aired a documentary in March about the sex abuse scandal that included interviews with alleged victims.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/01/30/national/overseas-sperm-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T01:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_207684.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiromi Ito, the head of Cryos International's Japan operations, at an academic conference on fertility treatments in Kobe in November 2019]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/11/national/fukushima-fishermen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T09:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tetsu Nozaki, head of the Fukushima fisheries associations (left), meets with industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/10/national/seibu-railway-new-translation-device/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T10:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237966.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A big draw for the Voice Biz UCDisplay is the transparent interface, which allows users to look at each other's faces as they talk to one another.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/11/national/crime-legal/trans-official-bathroom-use-supreme-court/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T10:07:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A transgender woman speaks at a news conference alongside her lawyers in Tokyo on Tuesday after a Supreme Court ruling that said it was unlawful to restrict her use of bathrooms at her workplace.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/national/japan-cybersecurity-improvements-ransomware/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T12:36:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238725.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts data on a device or system and holds it hostage in exchange for payment, is used all across the world — which makes it difficult to identify who is behind such attacks and whether they are random or targeted.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/world/germany-first-china-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T12:49:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during an event in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thai-senate-blocks-pita-prime-minister-bid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T14:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the Move Forward Party, speaks to the media following the vote for the new prime minister at the Thai Parliament in Bangkok on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/business/mitsubishi-motors-china-business-suspension/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T15:18:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Mitsubishi Motors e-Evolution concept sports utility vehicle is displayed at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing in April 2018. The company's annual China sales peaked in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/asia-pacific/china-chiplet-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T16:39:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238830.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demo chips made with chiplets by Silicon Valley startup zGlue in Richmond, California.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/world/zelenskyy-nato-gains-analysis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T16:40:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238857.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a news conference on the closing day of the annual NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/business/boj-yield-curve-adjust-july/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238867.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. BOJ watchers and traders are positioning for a policy decision on July 28 from the last global anchor of low interest rates.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/business/signs-of-crypto-winter-lift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T18:08:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitcoin is up more than 90% for the year so far and nearly 30% in a month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/kishida-middle-east-tour-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T20:53:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, in Tokyo on June 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/politics-diplomacy/hayashi-china-meeting-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_239070.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi meets with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Friday in Jakarta. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/business/japanese-utilities-business-improvement-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:31:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Kansai Electric Power Co. nuclear plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/business/us-dollar-decline-risk-assets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:33:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238948.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238948.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the world of monetary policy, the U.S. dollar's decline may be a relief to some countries — including Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[(From left) Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee Wang Yi, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son after a group photo session during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/japan-eu-deeper-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:39:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Council President Charles Michel (left), Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (center) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the EU-Japan Summit at the European Union Building in Brussels on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/world/sudan-war-struggles-for-attention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:40:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men sit and lie outside shelters at the Hasahisa secondary school on Monday, which has been made into a make-shift camp to house people fleeing violence in war-torn Sudan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/world/ukraine-receives-us-cluster-bombs/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238863.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ukrainian military serviceman holds a defused cluster bomb from an MSLR missile in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/icbm-cooperation-sk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:41:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) and his South Korean counterpart, Park Jin, in Jakarta on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/business/ap-openai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238821.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Associates Press did not reveal how it would integrate OpenAI's technology in its news operations. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/asia-pacific/hong-kong-scrambles-replace-japan-seafood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Freshly-caught fish at a wharf outside the Onahama Fish Market in Fukushima Prefecture on July 5. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/world/science-health-world/artificial-sweetener-aspartame-possibly-carcinogenic-who-says/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:44:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238842.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238842.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A chemical-based sweetener that is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, aspartame is packaged and sold under names such as Equal.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/world/science-health-world/us-birth-control-over-the-counter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:45:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238797.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Opill oral contraceptive. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research approved Opill as the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/national/european-union-to-lift-japan-food-curbs-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-14T22:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238796.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An official measures the radiation levels of a fish imported from Japan as they conduct a radioactivity check, which have been conducted regularly since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, at Noryangjin fisheries wholesale market in Seoul on July 6.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/business/tech/western-digital-kioxia-merger-plans-august/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T10:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239080.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Western Digital and Kioxia Holdings — after months of talks — aim to reach a merger agreement by August, according to people familiar with the matter. Western Digital shareholders would own slightly more than 50% of the merged entity.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/world/biden-student-debt-relief-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T11:19:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239084.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Joe Biden's s plans for student debt relief march near the White House after a U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking the president's plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt, in Washington, on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/sensoji-temple-painting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T13:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A painting is seen hanging from a ceiling at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo on July 8.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/crime-legal/tokyo-train-sentencing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T14:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239063.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A police officer stands guard at Soshigaya-Okura Station in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Aug. 6, 2021, following a stabbing incident on a train. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/world/politics-diplomacy-world/olaf-scholz-germany-struggle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T17:56:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239123.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at a summer news conference on domestic policy and diplomacy in Berlin on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/pita-limjaroenrat-could-step-aside/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T19:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239129.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks in parliament in Bangkok on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/world/crime-legal-world/gambia-children-lawsuit-cough-syrup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T22:28:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239126.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ebrima Saidy prays at the graveside of his daughter Adama, 3, in Tanji, Gambia. Adama died in September 2022 of acute kidney injury that global health officials have linked to cough syrups made in India.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/world/sudan-rape-women-girls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T22:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in their home country wait to receive food rations from the World Food Programme near the border between Sudan and Chad in May. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/national/politics-diplomacy/trilateral-condemnation-south-korea-japan-us-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-15T22:35:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_239086.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239086.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi pose for a photo during their meeting in Jakarta on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-15T22:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239083.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The chief executive officers of Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia are planning to lobby against extending restrictions on the sale to China of certain chips and the equipment to manufacture the semiconductors that the Biden administration is set to roll out in the coming weeks.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/business/south-korea-whisky-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T08:13:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239117.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Johnnie Walker House in the Gangnam district of Seoul. In South Korea, pricey whisky brands and rare bottles have become as much of a status marker as a new luxury handbag or shoes, especially on social media.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/asia-pacific/seoul-poland-ukraine-defense-exports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T10:26:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_238633.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_238633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A K-9 self propelled howitzer is seen at Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon, South Korea, on March 16.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/15/reference/nintendo-brought-arcade-games-into-homes-30-years-ago/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T14:54:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20130716i1a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Game changer: Children play a "Famicom" game console linked to a TV in 1986.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/national/us-japan-south-korea-trilateral-missile-defense-exercises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T16:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_239329.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese, South Korean and U.S. naval destroyers hold a rare joint missile defense exercise Sunday in the Sea of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/john-kerry-visit-china-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T16:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239088.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and China's chief climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua take part in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2022. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/national/north-korea-japan-negotiations-focus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T18:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239116.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A North Korean Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile — launched from an undisclosed location in the country — is seen in this image released Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/world/science-health-world/medical-assistance-in-dying-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T21:52:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/np_file_239156.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239156.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lisa Pauli, 47, who says she wants to apply for medical assistance in dying when she is eligible because of her severe anorexia, in Toronto in June]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/national/china-russia-sea-drills/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T22:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's Liaoning aircraft carrier   ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/national/history/japans-nero-shogun-dabbled-art-kyoto-burned/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T22:15:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237905.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436-90) is said to have hated war and loved art. However, he was also indifferent to the plight of the masses living in starvation and war around him. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/world/phoenix-brutal-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T22:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A notice for free water at a Salvation Army heat relief station in Phoenix on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/world/home-design-heat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T22:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239170.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hotter countries use overhangs like awnings and balconies to block sunlight, like this one seen in Seville, Spain. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/business/germany-firms-china-warn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T22:24:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239154.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Volkswagen electric sedan at the Shanghai Auto Show earlier this year. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/world/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-16T22:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239146.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recruits with Ukraine’s 3rd Brigade during a training exercise in the eastern Donetsk region on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/national/rain-floods-akita/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T09:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk on a flooded road in the city of Akita on Sunday morning after heavy rains hit the area. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/business/economy-business/g7-interest-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T09:17:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars and motorbikes in Hanoi in 2021]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mazda CEO Masahiro Moro speaks in an interview in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists during high temperatures in the Old Town district of Seville, Spain, on Wednesday. Global temperatures hit a record on Monday, underscoring the dangers of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions generated from burning fossil fuels.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hold talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference as part of the EU-Japan Summit at the European Union Building in Brussels on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-17T15:49:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The Japanese government plans to release the water from the plant soon after favorable report from the IAEA.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese government employees filed a record number of work-related complaints in FY 2022.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taxi drivers are currently required to display a driver's certificate inside their vehicle that shows their name and a photograph of their face.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/business/twitter-turbulence-japan-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T16:43:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twitter headquarters in San Francisco]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-17T18:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People with parasols cross the street in downtown Tokyo on Monday amid scorching heat.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/china-typhoon-talim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T18:55:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fishing boats are seen anchored at Tanmen port before Typhoon Talim is expected to make landfall, in Qionghai, Hainan province, China, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_97344.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The discovery of a new species of bird, the Okinawa rail, took place 40 years ago in June. It remains an endangered species.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/world/ukraine-grain-deal-collapse/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bulk carrier carrying grain under the U.N.'s Black Sea Grain Initiative waits in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus in Istanbul on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/world/science-health-world/alzheimers-disease-progression-assessment-revamp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:38:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The proposed guidelines embrace a numerical staging system assessing Alzheimer's disease progression similar to the one used in cancer diagnoses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/china-russia-military-drills-intensify/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese soldiers from the People's Liberation Army on a tank during the International Army Games 2019 in Korla, the Xinjiang region, China, in August 2019]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:40:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An armed ship sails next to Crimean bridge connecting the Russian mainland with the peninsula across the Kerch Strait, Crimea, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/china-extreme-heat-rewrites-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:41:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239461.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians cross a road on a hot day amid an orange alert for heat wave, in Beijing, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/world/u-s-china-climate-progress-methane/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Gas is extracted from a coalbed methane well in Jincheng, Shanxi province, China, in November 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/business/economy-business/micron-hiroshima-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:45:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_237337.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A job consultation session for former workers of Micron Memory Japan’s Hiroshima plant in May]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/india-tourists-south-east-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Travelers at the departure area of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi in December 2022]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/business/china-gdp-loses-steam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:47:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239396.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians in Shanghai in June. Compared to the first quarter, China's GDP growth slowed to 0.8% from 2.2% in the first three months of the year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/sanctioned-china-military-us-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An AVIC model plane on display at the Paris Air Show in June]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/world/israel-quietly-embeds-ai-military-systems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:49:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239381.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While details of the army’s operational use of AI remain largely classified, statements from military officials suggest that the Israel Defense Forces has gained battlefield experience with the controversial systems through periodic flare-ups in the Gaza Strip.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/hun-sen-content-moderation-facebook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person uses a smartphone to look at the Facebook page of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in October 2015. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/asia-pacific/jake-sullivan-north-korea-nuclear-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-17T22:51:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV in Seoul broadcasts a news report on the dismantling of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear testing site in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/business/china-offshore-solar-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T11:16:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239118.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A floating solar power plant in Singapore. Even with investments in solar forecast to surpass spending on oil production for the first time this year, many regions face challenges in finding land on which to install vast arrays of panels]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/16/national/tokyo-bay-ecology-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T12:32:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239203.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sun sets over Tokyo Bay and the capital's skyline. Against a history of environmental degradation, a recent initiative by the metropolitan government conjures up images of lush parks and biodiverse seashores in the bay's future.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/world/putin-cluster-bombs-use-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T14:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239374.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting in Moscow on Friday. Putin has said Russia would use cluster bombs if they’re used against his troops, while denying that Kremlin forces have already used the controversial munitions in Ukraine.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/national/kishida-united-arab-emirates-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T14:09:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan meets with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Abu Dhabi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/national/kyoto-boat-tours/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T16:42:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers wave from a boat as tours on the Katsura River, also known as the Hozu River, in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, resume on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/17/national/japan-china-defense-officers-exchange/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T18:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A delegation of Self-Defense Forces officers (left) participate in an exchange with officials from the China Institute for International Strategic Studies, a think tank related to the People's Liberation Army, in Beijing on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/18/national/joker-train-attacker-copycat/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police officers inspect a Keio Line train on Nov. 1, 2021, following a stabbing and arson attack on the train the previous night.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man who threw what appears to be a bomb is subdued by others on Saturday in the city of Wakayama, where Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was about to give a speech.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/18/world/crime-legal-world/trump-jan-6-target-letter/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Donald Trump has said he received a target letter in connection with the criminal investigation into his efforts to hold onto power after he lost the 2020 election.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-18T23:33:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Renault-Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn takes part in a news conference with his lawyer at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo via video link on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/18/national/japan-temperatures-heat-july-18/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-18T23:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People pass by JR Tokyo Station on Monday afternoon. In central Tokyo on Tuesday, the temperature rose at a fast pace from the morning, rising above 30 degrees Celsius just after 6 a.m.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-18T23:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a televised meeting with officials to assess the consequences of an attack on the Crimean Bridge, in Moscow on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-18T23:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen presides over a ceremony for the official opening of a key ASEAN cybersecurity center at Changi Naval Base on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T08:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A street in Tokyo on Monday. The number of new hospital admissions for COVID-19 is rising, standing at 6,096 in the week through July 9 — up from 5,494 a week before.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/19/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/thailand-not-ready-for-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-19T12:11:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Move Forward Party Leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks during an interview in Bangkok on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/18/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/john-kerry-china-climate-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-19T12:54:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi greet each other before a meeting at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T12:54:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. National Security Council Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell speaks as principal deputy national security adviser Kim Tae-hyo looks on during a news conference at the Presidential Office in Seoul on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/18/business/tech/detroit-of-asia-battery-makers-ev-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-19T12:56:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Great Wall Motor's Ora Good Cat electric vehicle on display at the company's Experience Center at the Iconsiam shopping mall in Bangkok on Jan. 18. Thailand’s use of electric vehicles have risen continuously, with battery electric vehicle registration at 15,423 units in the first 10 months of 2022.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T12:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vehicle carrying kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke leaves a police station in Tokyo to be taken to prosecutors on June 29. He was arrested again on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T13:04:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Ukrainian worker cleans up after grain is unloaded at the Continental Farmers Group facility on the outskirts of Ternopil, Ukraine, in July 2022. Russia said on Monday that it was withdrawing from a wartime agreement to allow grain exports]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton speaks at a media conference on the EU approach to Artificial Intelligence following a weekly meeting of the EU Commission in Brussels in April 2021.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T13:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An $880 billion fund is betting it’s only a matter of time before the Bank of Japan tightens monetary policy.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sung Kim (from left), Takehiro Funakoshi and Kim Gunn, diplomats from the U.S., Japan and South Korea in charge of dealing with North Korea meet in Tokyo in September 2022. They are set to meet in Nagano Prefecture on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk near Tokyo Station on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T14:15:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neon signs in the shapes of luxury brand names illuminate the facade of David Plaza, a shopping mall in Zhengzhou, China, in 2019.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T14:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_239853.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. Market participants remain unconvinced about the central bank's stance that price gains will slip below its goal of 2%, as economic data continues to hint at an emerging cycle supporting inflation.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-19T14:36:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat attends a voting session on the day of the second vote for a new prime minister at the parliament in Bangkok on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a rally in Sydney on May 23, 2023. Modi has tried to fuse his image to the economic and political power of Indians abroad. They voice both pride and worry in return.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[International passengers check in at Terminal 2 at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese flag flies in front of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong. Beijing has tapped a former top official from its secret intelligence agency to lead China's national security office in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. A senior Japanese diplomat in Oregon was attacked by a woman last month and sustained injuries, the ministry has said.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Akie Abe (left) meets with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Josep Borrell, vice president of the European Commission, arrives for the European Union (EU) and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Brussels on Monday. The EU sees the summit as a key chance to reboot the bloc's relationship with the sub-continent as it competes for influence with China, tries to broaden support for Kyiv in its defense against Russia, and seeks to secure access to critical raw materials needed for its digital and green energy transitions.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The author (front row, second from right) with his squad of fellow ex-student trainees and their formidable petty officer instructor (front row, center) at Otake Marine Corp, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Jan. 3, 1944.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As society increasingly acknowledges depression as a disease, more doors to treatment are now beginning to open.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the Move Forward Party, speaks inside Thailand's Parliament in Bangkok on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In Japan, 35% of students graduate with a degree in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — compared with 38% in the U.S., 42% in South Korea and Germany and 45% in Britain.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paramilitary police officers in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in March. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-22T10:05:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/21/business/working-women-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-22T14:14:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey showed the employment rate among women hit a record high of 53.2%, partly attributed to government efforts to help mothers work while raising children.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-22T15:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The total number of items that will have seen price hikes, including those in the coming months, has already eclipsed the 2022 amount of 25,768 items, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said in its report in mid-July.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves No. 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-23T10:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-23T11:47:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen casts his vote at a polling station in Kandal province on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-23T11:47:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the ASEAN summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, in May]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coal picker carries coal at an open cast mining site on the outskirts of Dhanbad, India, earlier this month. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High temperatures make air less dense, reducing airplane engine performance and the amount of lift produced at a given speed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:21:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 1975 perform at the Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London in 2019]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/business/corporate-business/toyota-moon-rover/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:21:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An artist's conception of a manned lunar rover using regenerative fuel cell technology ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/asia-pacific/north-korea-cruise-missiles-july-22/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:24:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/national/rainy-season-ends-kanto-koshin-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk with umbrellas to shade against the sun in Tokyo's Ginza area on Saturday. The Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season was believed to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin and Tohoku regions.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/world/us-trinity-test-radiation-study/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:27:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The mushroom cloud caused by the Trinity nuclear test is seen on July 16, 1945. A new study, released on Thursday ahead of submission to a scientific journal for peer review, shows that the cloud and its fallout went farther than anyone in the Manhattan Project had imagined in 1945.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/asia-pacific/north-korea-china-sanctions-evasion-un/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:28:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese national flag flutters near the Friendship Bridge and Broken Bridge over the Yalu River, which separates North Korea's Sinuiju from Dandong, China, in April 2021. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/asia-pacific/us-north-korea-travis-king-communication/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:31:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean and United Nations Command soldiers stand guard near the Military Demarcation Line separating North and South Korea at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone in the truce village of Panmunjom last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/asia-pacific/china-private-tutoring/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T13:55:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students take an examination outdoors at a high school in Yichuan, China, in 2015.  ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/20/business/made-in-russia-chinese-cars-drive-a-revival-of-russias-auto-factories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T15:13:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An X90 Plus crossover — produced by Chinese automaker Jetour — sits ready for sale at a dealership in the Moscow Region on July 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/national/crime-legal/stabbing-osaka-train-station-leaves-three-injured/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T15:56:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A photo supplied by a passenger shows police officers taking down a stabbing suspect on a platform of Rinku Town Station in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/national/japan-sdf-antiship-missile-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T17:25:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers launch a Type-12 anti-ship missile at Beecroft Weapons Range, in Australia's New South Wales, during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023 on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/22/asia-pacific/inspired-ukraine-war-taiwan-launches-drone-blitz-counter-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T18:49:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff members carry Thunder Tiger Group's unmanned aerial vehicles during a demonstration at a government-led Asia UAV AI Innovation Application R&amp;D Center in Chiayi, Taiwan, on March 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/world/offshore-wind-struggle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T18:53:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A survey vessel sails past wind turbines at the Burbo Bank offshore wind farm near New Brighton, England, in January. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/asia-pacific/philippines-prepares-strong-storm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T21:14:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_241084.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers plant rice in Los Banos, south of Manila, on Wednesday. Doksuri, which has intensified into a severe tropical storm, may strengthen to a typhoon in the coming days, prompting the Philippines to scale back activity in the capital on Monday before it’s forecast to head toward China.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/national/top-chinese-diplomat-proposes-trilateral-talks-japan-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T22:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (left) and top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi (fourth from right) hold talks in Jakarta on July 14.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/business/markets-boj-change-ultraloose-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T22:12:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. More economists think the likelihood of the central bank modifying its yield curve control program is dropping, while some market participants consider the time ripe for a policy shift.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/business/musk-twitter-logo-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T22:12:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_241081.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk said he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: "And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds."]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/national/benesse-ai-service-kids-research-projects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T22:13:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_241001.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A parent and child use Benesse's new artificial intelligence service at its trial event in Tokyo on July 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/world/belarus-repression-dissent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T22:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_240962.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Okrestina detention facility in Minsk, Belarus, earlier this month. In Belarus, widespread protests were three years ago, but a crushing crackdown is still happening now. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/business/chip-export-curbs-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-23T22:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_241000.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstration of wafer inspection using Sony Semiconductor Solutions' image sensor at the Semicon Japan exhibition in Tokyo in December. Japan's restrictions on exports of advanced chip-manufacturing equipment including those for cleaning, checkups and lithography, took effect Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/asia-pacific/china-geopolitics-russia-ukraine-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-24T09:24:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a welcome ceremony before talks at the Kremlin in Moscow in March. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/23/business/average-minimum-wage-hike-japanese-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-24T10:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some economists hope the labor ministry panel will make an annual average minimum wage proposal of above ¥1,000 this week.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/24/business/financial-markets/yen-bond-oasis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2023-07-24T11:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_241281.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investors have scooped up yen debt from issuers outside Japan, fueling the busiest July since 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/24/world/sudan-war-day-100/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The company formerly known as Twitter could face myriad legal issues defending its X brand in the future.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk has changed Twitter's logo, replacing its signature blue bird with a stylized X as part of the billionaire's vision of transforming the 17-year-old service into an "everything app."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While the U.S. referenced China 20 times in its October announcement of semiconductor export controls targeting Chinese companies, Japan has chosen broad equipment controls not specifically aimed at its bigger neighbor.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With the coronavirus pandemic further fading from public consciousness, Tokyo's nighttime economy is tentatively getting back on the road to normality.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-09-12T18:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The population of Japanese nationals fell 801,000 in 2022 from a year earlier to 122,423,038, marking the largest drop since the survey began in 1968, government data showed Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[More organizations across Japan are placing sanitary bins in men's toilet stalls to help those with incontinence issues dispose of used pads.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2023-09-21T07:48:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese police will launch a new unit to investigate a rising number of scams nationwide that often target the elderly.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A majority of Japanese universities have bolstered measures against cults recruiting on campus after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot a year ago.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinians protest the death of veteran Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead while covering an Israeli army raid in Jenin, in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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