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			<image:caption><![CDATA[When U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917, he set in motion a process that killed tens of millions of people.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/26/editorials/stop-rethink-conspiracy-bill/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/u-n-milestone-road-nuclear-abolition/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/27/editorials/limiting-universities-tokyo/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takehiko Nakao, president of the Asian Development Bank, attends the bank's 50th Annual Meeting in Yokohama on May 5. The ADB and the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank cooperate more than compete, Nakao stated.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/28/editorials/questions-abes-article-9-pitch-will-raise/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/30/editorials/pair-threats-philippines/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-05-31T10:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/31/editorials/brazil-reaches-familiar-crossroads/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/stop-calling-indonesia-role-model/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demonstrate in March against Jakarta Gov. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian who was arrested on blasphemy charges and subsequently convicted and jailed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/01/editorials/amended-privacy-protection-law/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/say-goodbye-left-right-hello-digitalization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-04T16:48:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Technology has totally transformed the character and structure of modern societies and electorates, with which the politicians, and their advisers, are trying to relate.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/04/editorials/ldps-misguided-bill-assisting-home-education/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/04/22/commentary/japanese-revisionist-drivel-exposed-former-comfort-woman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T15:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo, who was abducted and forced to work at a Japanese military brothel in Taiwan during World War II, shouts slogans during a rally to mark the March 1 Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/05/editorials/donald-trump-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T19:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/05/commentary/japan-commentary/abes-clean-energy-opportunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-05T19:08:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/05/commentary/japan-commentary/ban-treaty-offers-chance-world-free-nuclear-arms/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli paratroopers Tzion Karasenti (left), Yitzhak Yifat (center) and Haim Oshri stand next to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in the Old City of Jerusalem, after it was captured on June 7, 1967, and re-create the scene 50 years later.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[King Hussein of Jordan (left) and Egyptian President Gamal Nasser smile after signing a mutual defense agreement in Cairo on June 1, 1967. Four days later, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egyptian forces as they mobilized on its border, starting a war that led to the defeat of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and changed the Middle  East forever.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rand Castle (center) and his wife chat with David Rockefeller during the "Horyu-ji: Temple of the Exalted Law" exhibition in New York in 1982.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/19/commentary/world-commentary/countering-chinas-high-altitude-land-grab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-19T19:43:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meet in the Kazakhstan capital of Astana on June 9. China's fast-growing trade surplus with India  has increased Xi 's territorial assertiveness.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/19/commentary/japan-commentary/prime-minister-still-loves-trump/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump developed a close rapport during their February U.S. summit, as seen in a photo taken during a Feb. 10 flight aboard the Marine One presidential helicopter that was later tweeted by Trump.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police detain an anti-Putin protester  in Moscow on June 12. Demonstrations organized by opposition leader  Alexei Navalny took place  across Russia last week to protest corruption.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/19/commentary/world-commentary/remembering-helmut-kohls-unfinished-business/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, a colossus of contemporary European history who was celebrated as the father of German reunification and an architect of European integration, died on June 16  at the age of 87. He is shown at a 1989 ECC summit in Strasbourg, Germany.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/19/editorials/french-voters-give-macron-blank-check/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front center) poses with members of his new Cabinet on Aug. 3 after the latest reshuffle.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/21/commentary/world-commentary/tower-inferno-shames-britain/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/20/commentary/japan-commentary/smoke-free-tokyo-olympic-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-22T10:17:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/22/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-russia-game-chicken-will-end-tears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-22T18:08:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/22/editorials/feasibility-koikes-tsukiji-market-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-22T18:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/22/commentary/world-commentary/north-koreas-real-strategy/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/23/reader-mail/let-north-korea-exchange-denuclearization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T14:06:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/23/reader-mail/japanese-government-upholds-freedom-press/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T14:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/23/commentary/world-commentary/iran-saudi-deflection-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T19:08:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/23/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-south-china-sea-policy-taking-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-23T19:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/24/cartoons/blackboard-dunce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-24T18:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/25/cartoons/rainy-rising-sun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T00:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/24/commentary/world-commentary/firms-need-new-strategies-new-world-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-24T18:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/24/editorials/japan-one-belt-one-road/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-24T18:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/24/commentary/politics-religious-hatemongering-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-24T22:42:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In India, the Bharatiya Janata Party banned the selling of cows, seen as sacred, for slaughter in 18 states in India, yet some critics, including historian Dwijendra Narayan Jha, claim that Hindus have in the past eaten beef.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/25/commentary/world-commentary/ok-disrupt-diplomacy-wisdom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T16:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The  Trump administration would do well to step up its "soft diplomacy" efforts  given the 2018 budget cuts it is proposing for the U.S. State Department, headed by Rex Tillerson.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/25/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-unraveling-korea-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T16:44:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/25/editorials/ldps-rush-revise-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-25T22:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/26/commentary/world-commentary/americas-russian-roulette-presidency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-26T19:14:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-06-26T19:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/26/commentary/world-commentary/dangers-putting-putin-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-26T19:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, shown attending a court hearing in Moscow on June 16, is ratcheting up the pressure against Russian President Vladimir Putin.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/26/commentary/world-commentary/saudi-arabian-heir-dangerous-man/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-26T19:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Defense Minister and then-Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 20.  Salman, who was named crown prince on June 21, has been responsible for a more aggressive Saudi stance in regional affairs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/26/editorials/syrian-war-winds-region-heats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-26T19:53:28+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/27/commentary/japan-commentary/vested-interests-behind-dearth-rural-doctors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/27/commentary/japan-commentary/ongoing-collapse-parliamentary-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cronyism scandals have caused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approval ratings to drop.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-inc-learn-takata/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T18:58:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigehisa Takada, chairman and chief executive officer of Takata Corp., attends a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. Takata filed for bankruptcy protection that day in the biggest corporate failure in postwar Japanese manufacturing.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/27/commentary/japan-commentary/regional-nuclear-free-weapon-zone-can-benefit-japan/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/27/commentary/world-commentary/global-needs-mental-health-remain-unmet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T19:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/27/editorials/bittersweet-two-decades-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-27T19:19:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/28/editorials/roles-individual-shareholders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T19:01:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/28/commentary/japan-commentary/toshiba-deal-repeats-japan-inc-s-old-mistakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T19:01:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou tears up a newspaper bearing a front-page article about Foxconn's losing bid for Toshiba Corp.'s chip unit on June 22, saying the pursuit isn't over.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/land-fear-vajiralongkorn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-06-28T21:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[King Vajiralongkorn has become increasingly assertive since acceding to the throne.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/28/commentary/japan-commentary/global-warming-nuclear-power/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coal-burning power plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi, belches a cloud of pollution in 2007. In China, electricity production still relies heavily on high-carbon sources including coal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/10/commentary/world-commentary/trump-putin-reconciliation-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-10T19:45:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/11/editorials/japan-eu-agreement-free-trade-pact/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:49:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/11/commentary/world-commentary/state-planners-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:49:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/11/commentary/japan-commentary/hosting-olympics-wont-raise-japans-economic-game/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[If Shinzo Abe had spent half the energy and political capital getting Abenomics across the finish line as he did securing the Olympics, Japan Inc. would be on the medal stand by now.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/11/commentary/japan-commentary/anti-conspiracy-legislation-fights-terrorism-organized-crime/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:58:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Upper House members cast their votes on the contentious amendment to the law against organized crimes in the early morning of June 15.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/11/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-anti-addiction-drive-may-ruin-video-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-11T19:58:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child plays "Honour of Kings" by Tencent at home in Dezhou, Shandong province, on July 2. Last week the video game, which is played by roughly one in seven Chinese, was singled out by the People's Daily for an unusually high-profile criticism.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/11/commentary/japan-commentary/donald-trumps-supporters-admire-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T11:53:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump, shown at last week's Group of 20 summit, took little time to build a personal rapport.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/12/commentary/japan-commentary/can-japan-eu-deal-prompt-u-s-trade-recalibration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T22:00:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/12/commentary/japan-commentary/yuriko-koike-new-face-brand-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T22:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's party Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First) played on the people's wish to see some change from the status quo that acts as a political straightjacket for too many critical issues, from security to privacy to the runaway costs of the 2020 Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/12/editorials/treaty-ban-nuclear-weapons-adopted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-12T22:07:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/13/commentary/world-commentary/learning-south-koreas-energy-breakthrough/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T21:48:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man fishes in front of the Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant in Gyeongju, South Korea. Last month, President Moon Jae-in promised to scrap plans for new nuclear plants, not extend the life of existing ones, shut down 10 old coal power plants and cancel new coal projects.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/13/editorials/democratic-partys-woes-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T21:48:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/13/commentary/world-commentary/north-korean-missile-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-13T21:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/14/reader-mail/u-s-must-define-end-military-presence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T13:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/14/reader-mail/educators-deserve-better-conditions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T14:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/islamic-state-remains-dangerous-defeat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T19:42:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/asias-hierarchies-humiliation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T19:42:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nepali human rights activists gather outside the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu on July 11 to protest tensions between India and China. Indian and Chinese troops are facing off on a section of land high in the Himalayas where Tibet, India and Bhutan meet.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/14/editorials/dentsu-karoshi-case-goes-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-14T19:43:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/16/cartoons/subway-fall-avoidance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-16T00:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/15/cartoons/kim-jong-un-laces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-15T18:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/15/commentary/decade-niigatas-nuclear-close-call/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-15T22:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees work in the central control room for the No.7 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Holdings'  Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture in 2009.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/15/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-abandon-nuclear-umbrella/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-15T18:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/15/editorials/volvos-electrifying-decision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-15T18:03:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/16/editorials/reducing-cost-hosting-olympic-games/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T14:10:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti (left), International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during a press conference after the IOC Extraordinary Session, at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 11.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/18/commentary/world-commentary/time-constructive-engagement-kim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:09:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/18/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-learns-intervention-isnt-cost-free/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:09:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/18/commentary/world-commentary/trust-falling-western-democratic-institutions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:09:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/16/commentary/world-commentary/one-year-south-china-sea-ruling-deceiving-calm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:14:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Izumo (left) is refueled by the MSDF destroyer Sazanami during a military exercise in the South China Sea on June 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/18/editorials/tireless-advocate-human-rights-china-dies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:17:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-07-18T19:17:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/19/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-climate-decision-wont-matter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T19:10:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/19/commentary/japan-commentary/bank-japans-three-communications-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T19:10:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan is expected to maintain its ambiguous monetary easing framework and communications strategies at least until Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's term ends next April.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/19/editorials/abrupt-fall-political-hero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-19T19:11:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/20/commentary/world-commentary/will-doklam-standoff-lead-second-sino-indian-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T18:37:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hindu right-wing activists burn portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest in New Delhi on July 4  as tensions rise along the Sino-Indian border.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/20/commentary/world-commentary/filling-gap-left-americas-decline/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/20/editorials/another-nail-hong-kongs-coffin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T18:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/20/editorials/gay-purge-chechnya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-20T18:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/21/commentary/japan-commentary/championing-tpp-2-0-give-abe-global-moment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T19:37:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a meeting July 14 in Tokyo on measures to address the impact of the TPP and other free trade deals on domestic farmers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/21/editorials/learning-lapses-corporate-governance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T19:42:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/21/commentary/world-commentary/hypocrisy-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-21T19:44:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Dewey, shown in the South China Sea in May, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef, a China-occupied territory, on May 24 as part of the first freedom of navigation operation under the Trump administration.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/22/cartoons/abe-water-ski/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/cartoons/tea-pachinko/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T00:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/london-cabbie-learned-uber/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-22T18:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/22/commentary/reset-abes-constitutional-revision-agenda/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Forces solders hold a minute's silence for victims prior to beginning search operations in a flooded area of Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday, two weeks after heavy rains and flooding in Kyushu. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hope of enshrining the constitutionality of the SDF in the nation's top law is looking increasingly difficult to achieve as his support drops.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/22/editorials/protecting-marine-environment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-22T18:03:40+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/commentary/world-commentary/indias-botched-tax-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T16:47:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A banner depicting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in prison is displayed during a protest against the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) in New Delhi  on July 18.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/commentary/world-commentary/afghanistan-morally-corrupting-catastrophe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T16:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A British soldier lets Afghan children look through the sights on his rifle during a patrol through a neighborhood in central Kabul in July 2006.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/commentary/world-commentary/high-noon-himalayas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T16:47:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese troops hold a banner that reads "You've crossed the border, please go back" in Ladakh, India, in this May 2013 file photo. India announced Thursday that it is ready to hold talks with China if both sides pull back their forces to end a standoff over disputed territory high in the Himalayas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/editorials/best-tool-fight-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T16:50:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/commentary/world-commentary/theres-no-brain-science-u-s-college-free-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T16:50:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/23/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-struggles-hardly-unique/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-23T16:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-moss-a-20170724.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is far from alone. All across the developed world, the problem of sluggish inflation is confounding central bankers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/24/editorials/north-korea-faces-famine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/british-pragmatism-now-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:43:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-himalayan-warmongering-reveals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:50:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese defense ministry spokesman Wu Qian speaks at a news conference in Beijing on Monday. China is warning India not to underestimate its determination to safeguard what it considers sovereign territory amid a standoff over a contested region in the Himalayas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/putins-no-good-wheres-alternative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:50:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/americas-liberals-want-republicans-not-republicans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-24T20:50:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/25/editorials/confrontation-in-the-himalayas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-25T20:57:53+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/25/commentary/japan-commentary/not-give-bojs-governor-promotion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-25T20:57:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, shown at a July 20 news conference at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo,  has been waging an uphill battle against deflation  since April 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/25/commentary/world-commentary/trump-secure-looks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-25T20:58:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/25/commentary/japan-commentary/abe-stumbling-no-challenger-exists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-25T21:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, appearing July 24 in the Diet, has seen his Cabinet's popularity ratings plummet in the wake of several scandals, but the troubled Democratic Party has been unable to capitalize on the administration's woes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/25/commentary/world-commentary/democrats-lost-cause/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-25T21:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/25/commentary/world-commentary/1929-dispute-frames-temple-mount-conflict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-25T21:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Palestinian boy runs for cover from tear gas on Sunday during clashes between demonstrators and Israeli security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.  The violent protests were triggered by new Israeli security measures implemented at Al-Aqsa mosque plaza, also know as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/26/commentary/japan-commentary/stockbreeding-industry-interests-kake-gakuen-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-26T19:44:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nation's first new veterinary medical department in 50 years is shown under construction in May at Okayama University of Science, which is run by school operator Kake Gakuen.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/26/commentary/japan-commentary/bojs-lips-remain-sealed-exit-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-26T19:44:46+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/26/editorials/kake-gakuen-questions-still-unanswered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-26T19:45:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/27/commentary/world-commentary/wild-blue-yonder-aint-used/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T17:17:01+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/27/editorials/fighting-invasion-fire-ants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-27T17:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-weaponization-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T18:03:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-chellaney-a-20170729.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning sails past a container ship near Hong Kong on July 7. China is utilizing its considerable economic clout and growing military might to advance its foreign policy objectives.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/editorials/renho-exit-not-enough-dp-defuse-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T18:05:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/reader-mail/finding-comfort-dna-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:19:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/reader-mail/japan-taiwan-okinotorishima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:20:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/reader-mail/scoffing-trump-isnt-helping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:24:16+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/reader-mail/bolster-corporate-governance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:26:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/reader-mail/remembering-life-work-serving-others/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-28T19:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/29/cartoons/back2future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T18:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/30/cartoons/sleepless-transfer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T00:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/asteroid-mining-finds-unlikely-champion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T18:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/29/editorials/land-plots-unknown-owners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-29T18:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/29/commentary/labor-reforms-come-short-japans-precariat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T08:42:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Isn't it time to ask what Abenomics can do for less privileged Japanese?]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/30/commentary/world-commentary/high-noon-roof-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T17:22:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Goa, India, last Oct. 16. India and China have faced off frequently since fighting a bloody 1962 war that ended with China seizing control of some territory.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/30/commentary/world-commentary/government-promises-wont-kill-combustion-engine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T17:22:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-Bershidsky-a-20170731.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Electric vehicles sit parked at charging stations in Oslo on Nov. 21, 2016, but consumers are still a long  way from completely ditching gasoline-powered cars.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/30/editorials/preventing-accidents-elderly-drivers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-30T17:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/28/commentary/japan-commentary/make-japan-inc-great/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T11:02:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-solomon-a-20170729.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Big Japanese firms lack the in-house talent needed to find and make good startup acquisitions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/31/editorials/nawaz-sharifs-exit-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T19:09:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/31/commentary/world-commentary/time-tighten-screws-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T19:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/31/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-can-get-pyongyangs-attention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-07-31T19:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/01/commentary/world-commentary/reservoir-dogs-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:24:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/01/commentary/world-commentary/time-rethink-perspective-jobs-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:24:55+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/01/commentary/world-commentary/difficult-die-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:25:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The power to make "end-of-life" care more compassionate is limited in the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/01/editorials/u-s-president-donald-trumps-worst-week-ever-far/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/01/commentary/world-commentary/east-asias-challenge-resisting-hyper-nationalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:31:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/01/commentary/world-commentary/big-data-offers-big-promise-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-01T19:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese leader Gen.  Chiang Kai-shek, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Winston Churchill in November 1943 at the Cairo Conference, which outlined the Allied  wartime policy against Japan and the shape of postwar Asia]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party  Secretary-General Yukio Edano, shown talking to reporters on July 29, has his work cut out.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-quality-bubble-explains-flat-lined-gdp/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's domestic services are superior to almost any other first world economy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/21/editorials/u-s-presidents-extraordinary-failure/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-21T18:48:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-22T19:01:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/22/commentary/world-commentary/great-trumps-magic-twitter-mantra/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's mindless, but it works.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mob rule used to be limited by geography.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Henry Mcvey, head of macro and asset allocation for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co., discusses opportunities in Japan during a Bloomberg Television interview last October.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/24/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-renewable-energy-revolution-well-underway/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/24/editorials/cambridge-university-press-retains-honor/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-25T18:04:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Theresa May is leading a business delegation to Japan on Wednesday. Her primary interest will be to expand exports and remove trade barriers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/25/commentary/world-commentary/war-afghanistan-goes-forever/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Populist power couple: Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu presents seasonal hina dolls modeled after U.S. President Donald Trump and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in January.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/27/editorials/national-energy-plan-needs-major-review/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banks have many lines of business in a wide variety of jurisdictions. Given this complexity, they are unlikely to comprehend the overall risks they face.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan tends to be less wary of automation, even in nursing homes.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has angered organizers of this year's annual memorial service for Koreans massacred in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake by abandoning the traditional practice of Tokyo governors sending an eulogy to the Sept. 1 ceremony.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/30/editorials/crisis-conscience-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-30T18:45:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-08-30T18:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/31/editorials/crisis-japans-scientific-research-output/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T19:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/31/commentary/world-commentary/india-china-provide-rare-glimmer-hope/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese and Indian soldiers install a barbed wire fence at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China in India's Sikkim state in June 2006. On Monday, India and China said their troops were disengaging from a standoff on the Doklam plateau, a strategically important disputed territory in the area where the borders of  China and Bhutan meet.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/31/commentary/japan-commentary/time-abe-put-eggs-china-basket/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-08-31T19:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/01/reader-mail/obamas-death-fell-sky-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-01T17:21:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/01/reader-mail/abe-top-dog-will-always-get-last-bark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-01T17:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-01T18:58:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will face a tough decision on when to unwind stimulus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/01/editorials/defense-spending-requests-need-close-scrutiny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-01T18:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/02/commentary/world-commentary/glimmer-good-news-fake-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-02T18:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/02/editorials/changing-juvenile-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-02T18:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/02/cartoons/wonder-woman-koike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-02T18:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/03/cartoons/dog-juku/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-03T00:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/02/commentary/happy-history-china-land-politically-repressed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-02T22:42:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman reads a book at the Cambridge University Press stand at the Beijing International Book Fair last month. The publisher quietly removed over 300 China Quarterly articles from its archive in the country at the government's request earlier this year. However, CUP bowed to pressure and reposted them last month after news of the withdrawal broke.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/03/commentary/world-commentary/key-winning-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-03T17:37:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pakistani men shout anti-American slogans during an Aug. 28 rally in Torkham, a border town along the Afghanistan border. The Pakistani protesters reject President Donald Trump's allegation that Islamabad is harboring militants who battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/03/editorials/maeharas-task-new-democratic-party-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-03T17:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/03/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-invisible-influence-global-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-03T17:37:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T14:27:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's chief trade negotiator, Kazuyoshi Umemoto (left) speaks at the Trans-Pacific Partnership seniors leaders meeting in Sydney on Thursday. Had the United States stayed in the TPP, it would have been the first true 21st century trade agreement.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/04/editorials/pyongyang-ratchets-provocations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-04T19:07:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T19:07:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T19:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/04/commentary/world-commentary/trump-administrations-economic-potential/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-04T19:19:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-04T19:19:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-storage facilities, such as this one in central London, are increasingly seen as moneymakers by investors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/05/editorials/rohingya-crisis-explodes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-05T19:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T19:18:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-05T19:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shops at a supermarket for Brazilian residents in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in this 2008 file photo. Instead of assuming that foreign workers are temporary residents who will eventually depart, Japan's leaders should plan for the reality that many will stay.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/06/editorials/fine-words-brics/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Across the ages, the so-called Thucydides Trap has appeared repeatedly, fueling tensions between rising and reigning powers that caused otherwise manageable events to end in war.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:39:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/the-false-panacea-of-workforce-flexibility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:39:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/unrequited-hope-for-kan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/03/30/commentary/world-commentary/japans-crisis-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/03/30/editorials/portugals-problems/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/02/editorials/relocation-of-evacuees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:45:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/02/editorials/funding-reconstruction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/03/reader-mail/leaders-must-anticipate-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:47:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/paint-thailand-yellow-and-red-with-a-caveat-to-compromise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:48:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/russian-alienation-and-the-cost-of-freedom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:49:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/03/commentary/world-commentary/yen-for-a-new-global-currency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:49:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:50:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:52:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/06/commentary/world-commentary/a-cure-for-fiscal-failure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:52:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/fallout-of-nuclear-and-financial-meltdowns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/07/editorials/overcoming-the-nuclear-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:53:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/07/commentary/west-is-on-a-slippery-slope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:54:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:55:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T10:56:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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