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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:04:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/16/commentary/world-commentary/the-enemies-of-a-digital-universal-library/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:07:03+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/16/editorials/north-koreas-chronic-crisis/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/17/editorials/foreign-students-since-the-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/17/commentary/u-s-need-more-advice-from-a-good-friend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:09:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/18/editorials/child-organ-transplants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:10:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/18/commentary/world-commentary/portugal-has-a-lesson-if-the-u-s-is-watching/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:12:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/20/editorials/wisdom-for-reconstruction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:13:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/21/editorials/the-libyan-wedge-in-nato/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:15:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/fukushima-no-1-and-derivative-meltdowns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:17:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/24/reader-mail/deeper-problem-than-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:18:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/23/editorials/bolster-disaster-assistance-fund/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:21:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/26/editorials/25-years-after-chernobyl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/mideast-unnerving-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:23:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/28/commentary/beijings-troubling-south-china-sea-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:25:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/28/editorials/economy-feels-the-effects/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:26:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/27/editorials/a-temple-tests-asean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:26:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/04/29/commentary/attacks-on-physicians-in-bahrain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/07/commentary/going-home-is-such-a-bittersweet-experience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:35:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/10/commentary/less-tolerance-forecast-in-the-netherlands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:37:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:39:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:42:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/17/commentary/world-commentary/european-middle-class-entitlements-r-i-p/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:43:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/18/editorials/measure-of-a-healthy-planet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/24/editorials/still-a-closed-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:49:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/27/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-fair-weather-friends-in-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:51:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/30/commentary/a-diet-for-britains-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:54:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/31/commentary/the-wests-mideast-obsession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:54:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/30/commentary/ebb-and-flow-of-hedging-in-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/27/commentary/world-commentary/metamorphosis-in-britain-reveals-empathizing-pope/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T11:58:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/25/editorials/adding-value-to-real-estate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/23/commentary/their-own-private-seabeds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:03:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/20/commentary/world-commentary/asean-has-come-of-age-as-a-market-and-producer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:04:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/14/editorials/jsa-must-live-up-to-its-words/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:07:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/14/commentary/higher-education-is-worse-since-policy-switch-in-1991/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:08:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/12/commentary/world-commentary/old-thinking-and-alliances-endanger-g20/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/09/06/commentary/the-australian-distance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:13:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/01/editorials/hard-times-for-mickey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:19:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/02/commentary/world-commentary/india-protects-kazakhstan-stake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:20:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/02/editorials/pushing-electric-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:20:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/03/commentary/world-commentary/brics-without-the-mortar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/03/editorials/mental-care-for-children/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:24:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/04/commentary/world-commentary/how-ecb-bailed-out-pigs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:25:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/05/editorials/death-of-bin-laden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/05/commentary/world-commentary/the-least-that-east-asians-can-do-to-cooperate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:28:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/07/commentary/hoping-for-a-return-to-normal-temperatures/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/09/editorials/first-extra-budget-moves/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/09/editorials/stimulating-the-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:32:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/11/commentary/world-commentary/britains-adversity-to-a-v/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/11/editorials/suspension-without-a-vision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:34:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/12/reader-mail/obama-trapped-by-his-rhetoric/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:35:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/the-long-road-to-arab-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:35:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/13/editorials/sumo-climbing-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:37:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/13/editorials/employing-disaster-survivors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:38:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/15/reader-mail/mad-if-not-broken-dont-fix-it/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T12:39:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/15/editorials/japans-rich-heritage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T13:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/12/07/editorials/reworking-the-bottom-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T13:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/11/12/editorials/20-years-on-the-imperial-throne/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T13:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/06/06/commentary/world-commentary/feud-over-u-s-debt-ceiling-risks-driving-off-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T13:24:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/07/12/commentary/world-commentary/china-is-pleased-with-kan-but-keeps-tabs-on-ozawa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T13:24:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/02/23/reader-mail/heart-of-japans-administration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T13:48:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/16/editorials/volunteer-force-declines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/16/commentary/world-commentary/when-prevention-is-more-effective-than-relief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/16/commentary/world-commentary/bin-laden-bled-u-s-of-a-cool-trillion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/17/editorials/acquittal-in-atago-collision-case/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/17/commentary/world-commentary/scottish-independence-closer-after-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:36:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/18/commentary/world-commentary/osama-bin-ladens-ghost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/18/editorials/u-s-envoy-gives-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:38:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/19/editorials/tepco-compensation-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/a-visit-to-libyas-front-line-of-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:41:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/21/commentary/world-commentary/mediterraneans-monumental-transformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:43:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/23/commentary/world-commentary/france-stages-judicial-revolution-as-citizens-challenge-legislation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/23/commentary/health-in-hand-with-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:47:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/24/editorials/difficulty-awaits-in-reconstruction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:50:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/24/editorials/japans-gdp-takes-a-hit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/25/editorials/another-middle-east-standoff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:54:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/25/commentary/risky-business-imf-style/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/turkey-serves-as-a-role-model-for-arab-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:57:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/26/editorials/helping-hands-to-mr-kan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T15:58:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/05/29/reader-mail/jtas-questionable-use-of-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-18T16:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/21/commentary/japan-commentary/kake-gakuens-application-process-bucked-norm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-21T17:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p7-sawa-a-20170922.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-sawa-a-20170922.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[School operator Kake Gakuen is at the center of a scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his close friend Kotaro Kake.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/reader-mail/keep-good-work-yamao/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T15:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/reader-mail/kingston-left-historic-facts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T15:32:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/09/commentary/abes-extremism-undermines-japans-interests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T15:33:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p16-cp-a-20170910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-cp-a-20170910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Living proof: Former "comfort women" live out their remaining years at the House of Sharing, a nursing home, in Toechon, South Korea, for women who were forced to provide sex for Japanese troops before and during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/reader-mail/kudos-kono-english-ability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T15:35:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/reader-mail/belligerence-wont-resolve-north-korean-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T15:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/commentary/world-commentary/dangerous-idiotic-national-conversation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T18:27:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-will-a-20170923.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-faces-consequential-decision-possible-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T18:27:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-nagy-a-20170923.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-nagy-a-20170923.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is widely expected to call a snap election next month.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/22/editorials/keeping-land-prices-steady-across-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-22T18:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/23/editorials/folly-quake-predictions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-23T18:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/literary-magic-harry-potter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-23T18:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/23/cartoons/psyched-psychiatrist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-23T18:04:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ca20170924eda.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ca20170924eda.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/24/cartoons/pandoras-bento-box/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-24T00:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ca20170924rda.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ca20170924rda.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/23/commentary/japan-shinzo-abe-power-pm-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-23T22:42:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p16-cp-a-20170924.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p16-cp-a-20170924.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eyes right: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waits for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Palace Hotel in New York on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/24/editorials/whats-stake-chinese-communist-party-convention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-24T16:09:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/24/commentary/japan-commentary/even-missile-alert-stop-japanese-going-office/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-24T16:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p7-shirakawa-a-20170925.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-shirakawa-a-20170925.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mere 2.7 percent of Japan's total labor force telecommutes at least once a week.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/24/commentary/world-commentary/junckers-road-map-european-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-24T16:16:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p7-sinn-a-20170925.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7 sinn-a 20170925]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/breaking-barriers-peace-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:42:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-chalala-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-chalala-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/americas-engine-slowed-complacency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:42:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p8-will-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-will-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/counting-really-counts-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T18:43:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-jahan-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-jahan-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/ukraine-something-happening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T19:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p8-courtis-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-courtis-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko's approval rating has sunk to a dismal level.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/whats-next-emmanuel-macron/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T19:02:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-macshane-a-20170926.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-macshane-a-20170926.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York last Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/25/editorials/merkel-wins-fourth-straight-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-25T19:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/26/editorials/abes-hardly-convincing-reason-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:32:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/26/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-can-rohingya/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:32:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p8-pavin-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-pavin-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/26/commentary/japan-commentary/high-noon-u-n-u-s-japan-south-korea-vs-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:33:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p8-ching-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-ching-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho addresses the media outside the U.N. Plaza Hotel in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/26/commentary/japan-commentary/education-japan-really-bad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:33:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-tsuboya-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-tsuboya-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite complaints by many parents, Japan's schools are first-rate.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/26/commentary/world-commentary/gaydar-shows-just-creepy-computer-algorithms-can-get/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/26/commentary/japan-commentary/illusion-chinas-economy-good-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-26T18:36:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-sentaku-a-20170927.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-sentaku-a-20170927.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction cranes and partially completed buildings stand at Country Garden Holdings Co.'s Forest City development site in the Iskandar economic zone in Malaysia. Country Garden Holdings, a leading Chinese property developer, has reportedly drawn the ire of Beijing for siphoning money out of China's  domestic economy.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/27/editorials/moment-truth-iran-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/27/commentary/japan-commentary/stakes-high-coming-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:52:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p8-yamaguchi-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-yamaguchi-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces at his office in Tokyo on Monday that he will dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/27/commentary/japan-commentary/strategy-eliminate-north-koreas-nuclear-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-27T19:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p8-zumwalt-a-20170928.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-zumwalt-a-20170928.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/28/editorials/great-unwinding-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T18:01:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/28/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-ready-koikenomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T18:01:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-pesek-a-20170929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-pesek-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announces the launch of Kibo no To (Party of Hope) on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/28/commentary/world-commentary/quantitative-easing-good/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-28T18:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-smith-a-20170929.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-smith-a-20170929.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, exits a news conference in Washington after announcing that the Fed will begin shrinking a $4.5 trillion stockpile of assets, moving to unwind a pillar of crisis-era economic support.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/reader-mail/election-waste-taxpayer-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T18:43:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/reader-mail/visitor-hiroshima-says-thank-kind-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T18:44:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/reader-mail/jeff-kingstons-column-will-missed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T18:46:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/commentary/world-commentary/americas-new-world-order-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T18:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-brands-a-20170930.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-brands-a-20170930.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rather than embracing political liberalization, both Russia and China have grown more authoritarian over the last couple of decades.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/editorials/opposition-realigns-ahead-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T18:53:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/reader-mail/defending-abe-administration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T18:56:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/29/commentary/world-commentary/test-europes-german-anchor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-29T19:17:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p9-schwarzer-a-20170930.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-schwarzer-a-20170930.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/tech-regulators-can-find-common-ground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T18:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/30/editorials/damages-nuclear-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T18:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/30/cartoons/no-exit-maze/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-09-30T18:04:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ca20171001eda.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ca20171001eda.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/01/cartoons/dogfood-presentation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T00:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ca20171001rda.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ca20171001rda.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/01/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-demographic-sweet-spot/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T17:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/p11-koll-a-20171002.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-koll-a-20171002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[University students line up for a job fair at the Makuhari Messe convention center in the city of Chiba on March 1. Japan's demographics are forcing the nation's corporations to become global front-runners in designing the future of work, and the current young generation is poised to be better off than their parents.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/01/editorials/ending-life-threatening-overwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T17:04:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/01/commentary/world-commentary/well-get-flying-cars-go-140-characters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-01T17:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/p11-smith-a-20171002.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-smith-a-20171002.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/02/editorials/deferred-target-fiscal-consolidation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T19:44:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/02/commentary/world-commentary/myanmars-decades-old-jihadi-curse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-10-02T19:44:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/p9-chellaney-a-20171003.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-chellaney-a-20171003.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A policeman stands guard on Sept. 27 near a military transport helicopter at Ye Baw Kyaw village in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, where the Myanmar Army claims Rohingya militants massacred scores of Hindu villagers.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has a lot of old people and not many young people — 27 percent of the population is over 65, higher than any other country.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pundits have been saying last rites for the dollar's global dominance since the 1960s. They may finally be right.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Filling stations featuring charging plugs  are becoming an increasingly familiar sight in many countries as governments push the sales of electric vehicles to  reduce air pollution.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-03T16:06:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-11-04T18:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[After Brexit and the Trump presidential victory, the English-speaking world is losing intellectual legitimacy in the eyes of Europeans.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump needs to realize that the "unfair" deals his predecessors struck with America's regional partners serve higher U.S. interests.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Roadster 2 during a presentation in Hawthorne, California, on Nov. 16.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses both Japanese and Philippine media during a news conference following the conclusion of the 31st ASEAN Summit on Nov. 14 in Manila.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan, China and a number of other Asian countries hold trillions of dollars worth of U.S. Treasury securities.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Corporate Japan has liberated itself from the group-ownership straitjacket, and has turned from a membership-only closed club to an open-for-business structure.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/03/editorials/justice-former-yugoslavia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-03T16:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/03/commentary/japan-commentary/make-giving-birth-easier-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-03T16:58:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-helble-takeda-a-20171204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Having a child in Japan is a costly and often an unnecessarily painful experience.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/04/editorials/continue-talks-imperial-succession-rules/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-04T19:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-04T19:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/dont-worry-china-isnt-taking-world-just-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-04T19:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mobile payments are ubiquitous in China in part due to the archaic banking system.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/beware-u-s-economic-boom-really/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-04T19:25:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/cake-food-not-speech-bully-baker/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T11:31:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baker Jack Phillips decorates a cake in his shop in Lakewood, Colorado, on Sept. 21. Phillips refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/putting-democracys-troubles-context/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T14:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/05/commentary/japan-commentary/lets-make-2018-year-wage-surge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-05T19:08:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-pesek-a-20171206.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mercer's annual global  compensation report forecasts Japan will come in dead last in nominal wage gains among Asian nations in 2018, despite the extremely tight labor market.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/05/commentary/world-commentary/madness-king-donald/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-06T19:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-06T19:05:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police use water cannons to drive back demonstrators protesting against the Alternative for Germany far-right party in Hannover, northern Germany, last Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/07/commentary/world-commentary/2018-outlook-major-central-banks/</loc>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-el-erian-a-20171208.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The greatest monetary policy uncertainty facing the global economy is what would happen if all central banks were to decide to reduce their monetary stimulus at the same time.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/07/editorials/victory-clean-sports/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-07T18:55:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-08T20:11:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/09/editorials/reclaiming-nihonbashis-sky/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T18:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/09/commentary/world-commentary/technophobes-future-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-09T18:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-09T18:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-10T00:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/11/editorials/trump-shakes-middle-east/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T19:06:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-11T19:06:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/11/commentary/world-commentary/south-korea-curse-geopolitics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-11T19:07:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/07/commentary/world-commentary/australia-charts-flawed-foreign-policy-course/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T14:24:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Marc H. Dalton (left), commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 7, and Navy Adm. Harry Harris salute aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at a June 29 ceremony marking the start of Talisman Saber, a biennial joint military exercise between alliance partners Australia and the United States.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/12/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-versus-middle-east-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:06:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:18:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians are reflected in an electronic stock board outside a Tokyo securities firm in October. Japan' stock market has finally pierced the "iron coffin lid" otherwise known as 1,800 on the benchmark Topix index.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/12/editorials/two-decades-japans-financial-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:18:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:18:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/12/commentary/world-commentary/not-get-fooled-worlds-randomness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-12T19:41:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/13/commentary/world-commentary/brexit-bubbles-illusion/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-13T19:35:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/13/editorials/a-brexit-breakthrough/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-13T19:36:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/14/commentary/japan-commentary/quad-cooperation-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-14T19:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[SOUTH CHINA SEA (May 27, 2017) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) transits the South China Sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship JS Izumo (DDH 183). Dewey is part of the Sterett-Dewey Surface Action Group and is the third deploying group operating under the command and control construct called 3rd Fleet Forward. U.S. 3rd Fleet operating forward offers additional options to the Pacific Fleet commander by leveraging the capabilities of 3rd and 7th Fleets. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kryzentia Weiermann/ Released)]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T19:48:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-14T19:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Dec. 4 the Tokyo Metropolitan Government signed a preliminary four-year agreement with the City of London, the British capital's financial district (above). The move is part of Gov. Yuriko Koike's effort to make Tokyo once again Asia's leading financial hub.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:45:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:45:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:45:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2017-12-15T18:46:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/15/editorials/get-bottom-maglev-project-contracts/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has succeeded in improving Japan's economy, but serious challenges remain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/nurture-important-nature-success/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Top executives of Toray Industries Inc. hold a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 28 to admit the company falsified data on its products for more than eight years]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only a tiny minority of Japanese fathers take advantage of paternity leave — just 3.16 percent in 2016, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has plenty to celebrate as 2017 winds down.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The University of Tokyo long occupied the top position in the rankings of Asian universities, but has now dropped to sixth place in the latest survey.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/27/editorials/consensus-needed-revising-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-27T18:50:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-nuclear-exports-carry-risks-rewards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-27T18:49:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on April 1, 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/27/commentary/world-commentary/2017-year-ignorance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-27T18:48:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/28/commentary/japan-commentary/kurodanomics-2018s-biggest-question-mark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-28T19:25:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/p7-pesek-a-20171229.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-pesek-a-20171229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will be the man to watch in 2018 if he's reappointed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/28/editorials/preparing-putin-round-five/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-28T19:27:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/28/commentary/world-commentary/science-stories-might-missed-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-28T19:27:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-flam-a-20171229.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ravens are capable of cause-and-effect reasoning, planning ahead and bartering.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/29/reader-mail/climate-change-denial-criminal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-29T17:10:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/29/reader-mail/moniker-land-paradox-fits-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-29T17:10:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/29/reader-mail/wise-australia-suspicious-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-29T17:11:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/29/commentary/japan-commentary/time-bring-japanese-schools-21st-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-29T17:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/29/commentary/world-commentary/best-worst-asia-2017/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-29T18:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rohingya refugees arrive on the Bangladeshi side of the NafRiver after crossing from Myanmar on Oct. 16. Over 600,000 Rohinyga have fled to Bangladesh this year following rapes, murders and the burning of their villages.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/29/editorials/2017-year-awakening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-29T18:16:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/30/commentary/world-commentary/benjamin-franklins-guide-spotting-quacks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-30T18:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/30/editorials/revising-medical-fees/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-30T18:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/30/cartoons/new-year-baby-helmet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-30T18:04:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/31/cartoons/new-year-dog-collar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-31T00:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/31/editorials/prepare-year-confrontation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-31T17:47:02+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/31/commentary/world-commentary/2017-didnt-see-trade-war-flashpoints-remain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-31T17:47:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p13-moss-a-20180101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It will take more than a few tweets from  you-know-who to slow exports from China.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/12/31/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-2018-10-possible-surprises/</loc>
		<lastmod>2017-12-31T19:21:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/p13-koll-a-20180101-e1514709685515.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p13-koll-a-20180101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As the new year dawns, Japan faces a full load of interesting decisions in the realm of public policy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/03/editorials/political-landscape-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-03T18:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/03/commentary/world-commentary/brace-trump-new-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-03T17:59:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-drew-a-20180104.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/03/commentary/world-commentary/tillerson-didnt-admit-u-s-no-leverage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-03T17:58:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-feldman-a-20180104.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/what-to-watch-in-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-02T16:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/imagine-palestinian-movement-led-gandhi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-02T16:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/p9-feldman-a-20180103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-feldman-a-20180103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank on Dec. 22.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/verdict-clear-putin-won/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-02T16:50:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/p9-glosserman-a-20180103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-glosserman-a-20180103.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/meaty-side-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-02T16:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/p9-sharma-a-20180103.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-sharma-a-20180103.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mitigating the effects of climate change will require new curbs on the global meat and dairy industries.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/world-failing-generation-iraqi-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-02T16:50:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/02/editorials/scrutiny-needed-expanding-defense-spending/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-02T16:51:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/04/commentary/japan-commentary/dont-renegotiate-comfort-women-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-04T18:44:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-easton-a-20180105.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman in Seoul on Dec. 27 puts a scarf on a statue in an installation symbolizing "comfort women." The following day, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said the country's 2015 agreement with Japan to settle the decadeslong impasse over the issue was seriously flawed.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/2018-year-rescuing-planet-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-04T18:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/p7-light-a-20180105.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-light-a-20180105.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/04/editorials/long-awaited-gambit-pyongyang/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-04T18:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/19/commentary/world-commentary/new-front-opens-asias-water-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-05T16:34:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-chellaney-a-20171020.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rhinos seek refuge on a hill in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, in July. The state saw severe flooding this summer as the Brahmaputra River overflowed its banks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/05/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-defense-policy-decisions-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-05T18:29:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-tatsumi-a-20180106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Two Air Self-Defense Force F-2 fighters and a U.S. F/A-18 Hornet participate in a joint training exercise Nov. 13 over the Sea of Japan. The rapidly worsening security environment in Northeast Asia is prompting the government to rethink Japan's defense policy.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/05/commentary/world-commentary/giving-democracy-finger-washington/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-05T18:29:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/05/editorials/comfort-women-deal-honored-seoul/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-05T18:29:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/indias-culture-war-comes-bollywood/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-06T18:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/06/editorials/economic-relations-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-06T18:02:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/06/cartoons/abe-on-ice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-06T18:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ca20180107eda.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ca20180107eda.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/07/cartoons/masks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-07T00:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ca20180107rda.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[ca20180107rda.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/07/commentary/japan-commentary/corporate-japan-slow-grasp-metoo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-07T16:59:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-shirakawa-a-20180108.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/07/commentary/japan-commentary/abenomics-follow-masayoshi-sons-lead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-07T16:58:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/p7-pesek-a-20180108.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-pesek-a-20180108.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son is discarding the groupthink that deadened Japan's innovative mojo, generating fresh growth and wealth,  and putting the Japan brand back on the global radar screen.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/07/editorials/wage-hikes-needed-fuel-economic-growth/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-07T17:00:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/08/editorials/the-roles-of-the-emperor/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-08T18:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/search-progress-2018/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-08T17:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/p8-samuelson-a-20180109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-samuelson-a-20180109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pairs of 2018 glasses sit on display for sale in a vendor's booth ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations in the Times Square area of New York City on Dec. 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/europe-caught-u-s-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-08T17:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/p9-laidi-a-20180109.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-laidi-a-20180109.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese and U.S. Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, shown at the Group of 20 summit in July in Germany, both have designs on Europe and not all of their plans are friendly.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/no-iceland-hasnt-solved-gender-pay-gap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-08T17:56:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/food-science-caught-head-heart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-08T17:55:08+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/09/editorials/revive-japans-scientific-research/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-09T19:52:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-embrace-digital-leninism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-09T19:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese government is developing a national reputation system that will assign a social credit rating to every citizen based on government data regarding their economic and social status.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/nuclear-arms-look-ahead-2018-hope-not-back-2017-anger/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-09T19:56:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/key-lesson-wolff-book-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-09T19:57:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump talks to then-chief strategist Steve Bannon during a swearing-in ceremony for senior staff at the White House last Jan. 22.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/putin-un-wolffable-thats-no-compliment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-09T19:59:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds a copy of the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff after buying it at a bookstore in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/china-ready-turn-green-opportunity-major-industrial-advantage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-09T20:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/10/editorials/reminders-digital-dangers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-10T19:06:59+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/10/commentary/japan-commentary/can-indo-pacific-compete-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-10T19:07:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on his national security strategy, which labels China as a "strategic competitor," in Washington on Dec. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/10/commentary/world-commentary/brexit-planning-fresh-start-national-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-10T19:07:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/08/commentary/japan-commentary/tpp-sows-fear-japans-agriculture-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-11T16:04:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many Japanese farmers are concerned about the impact the TPP will have on their livelihoods, and consumer groups fear the impact that the trade pact will have  on the content and quality of food sold in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/11/editorials/fire-fury-white-house/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-11T19:13:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/11/commentary/japan-commentary/people-japan-take-clear-stance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-11T19:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.N. Security Council members vote on an Egyptian-drafted resolution calling on the U.S. to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a rare instance where Japan took a clear position on the world stage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/11/commentary/world-commentary/toward-new-global-compact-migration/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Large numbers of migrants transit through the city of Zakany in Hungary on their way to seek work in Germany and other European nations in 2015.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/12/reader-mail/trumps-truman-show/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People participate in a "MeToo" protest march for survivors of sexual harassment and their supporters in the Hollywood area in Los Angeles on Nov. 12.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/12/editorials/resuming-north-south-dialogue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-12T18:35:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/13/editorials/need-sustain-local-autonomy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-13T18:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/13/commentary/world-commentary/international-politics-pain-relief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-13T18:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/14/cartoons/frozen-fork-tongue/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/13/cartoons/sloth-inc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-13T18:04:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/14/editorials/failing-grade-universities-entrance-exams/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-14T19:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/14/commentary/world-commentary/need-talk-bubble/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/14/commentary/world-commentary/warning-trumps-baby-sitters-head-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-14T19:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (left) confers with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster during a panel discussion at the United Nations on Sept. 18.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/12/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-quiet-metoo-movement-says-everything/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-15T19:13:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey galvanizes the Golden Globes awards ceremony last Sunday with a call to arms against sexual harassment.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/15/editorials/ballistic-missile-panic-hawaii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-15T19:40:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/15/commentary/world-commentary/fed-need-new-playbook/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-15T19:37:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-15T19:37:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-15T19:37:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/16/editorials/increasing-inbound-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-16T19:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/16/commentary/world-commentary/ready-not-next-recession/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-16T19:29:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-16T19:26:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/16/commentary/world-commentary/facebooks-new-mission-may-impossible/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/16/commentary/world-commentary/trump-par-course-u-s-presidents/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-16T19:29:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-17T12:21:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An East Japan Railway Co. shinkansen departs from Tokyo Station in May 2015. Last month, State Minister of Transport Takao Makino presented his Thai counterpart with a report for a 670 km bullet train running from Bangkok to Chiang Mai.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/17/editorials/revamping-nations-basic-energy-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-17T19:42:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/17/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-eu-trade-agreement-freedom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-17T19:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/17/commentary/world-commentary/while-germany-slept/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-17T19:42:40+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-18T16:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-18T16:10:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/05/reader-mail/youtube-stars-deserve-censure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-18T16:23:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/18/editorials/different-surnames-choice-spouses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-18T18:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-18T18:26:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/18/commentary/world-commentary/time-ticks-closer-nuclear-midnight/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-19T16:11:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-19T16:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/19/reader-mail/compassion-year-dog/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-19T16:18:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/19/commentary/japan-commentary/energy-neglect-holds-japan-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-19T19:36:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Sunday criticized the government's energy policy as "lamentable" and pledged to promote renewable energy sources in line with global trends.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/19/commentary/japan-commentary/asias-metropolises-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-19T19:37:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/19/editorials/keidanrens-challenges-new-chief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-19T19:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-20T18:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/20/editorials/lowering-age-adulthood/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/21/editorials/controlling-wireless-devices/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-21T17:40:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/21/commentary/world-commentary/todays-newspapers-wouldnt-publish-pentagon-papers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-21T17:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tom Hanks plays Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep portrays publisher Katharine Graham in a scene from "The Post."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has surpassed the U.S. as a country of the middle class.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/22/editorials/costly-message-sanchi/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha bows during a briefing on the 2015 South Korea-Japan "comfort women" agreement  on Jan. 9 in Seoul.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bonfire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speech by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, burns on the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, on Feb. 1. The university to cancel the event after protests turned violent.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on Jan. 15. Serbia was the only non-EU member state on Abe's latest European tour.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/23/editorials/brief-still-worrisome-u-s-shutdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-23T18:19:13+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-23T18:18:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-23T18:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With Japan's economic sunny patch extending and inflation headed the right way, it's not a stretch to see Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda ease up a little on the stimulus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/23/commentary/world-commentary/great-davos-face-off-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-23T18:17:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/24/editorials/aum-trials-leave-many-questions-unanswered/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-24T19:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/24/commentary/world-commentary/toward-zero-marginal-cost-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-24T19:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power have near-zero marginal cost.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/25/editorials/annual-labor-management-wage-talks-begin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-25T18:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/26/reader-mail/blackface-worrying-lack-awareness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-26T15:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-26T15:14:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-26T17:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/26/editorials/trump-takes-hard-line-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-26T18:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-26T18:55:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a Tuesday news conference, BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda announced that the central bank isn't in a position to consider exiting its current policy and will keep interest rates and asset purchases at current levels.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/27/editorials/monitoring-use-secret-funds/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-27T18:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/scientists-solve-harder-problems-first/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-27T18:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/27/cartoons/sumo-self-hold/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-27T18:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/28/cartoons/surgical-chopsticks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-28T00:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-01-28T17:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/28/commentary/world-commentary/better-plastics-healthier-seas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-28T17:28:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An injured seal with a plastic toy caught on its neck lies on the beach in Horsey, England. Traditional plastics  that are not disposed of properly continue to pose a serious environmental threat for decades, but new "bioplastics" can be assimilated back into the environment.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/28/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-shocking-decline-rural-doctors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-28T17:30:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new system to certify doctors as specialists in internal medicine and surgery, which is time-consuming and requires them to work in remote areas, is causing an increasing number of young physicians to shun these fields.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/29/editorials/cape-town-approaches-day-zero/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-29T18:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/29/commentary/world-commentary/making-migration-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-29T18:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to attend the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics opening ceremony will help Tokyo and Seoul move the cycle of action and reaction that has impeded Japan-South Korea relations for far too long..]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/29/commentary/world-commentary/global-takeaways-trumps-davos-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-29T18:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/29/commentary/world-commentary/hostage-stock-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-29T18:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Specialist Michael Pistillo works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 17, the day the Dow closed above 26,000 for the first time.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/30/editorials/tightening-cryptocurrency-regulations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-30T18:59:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/30/commentary/japan-commentary/kuroda-deserves-second-term/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-30T18:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda can give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the support he needs to run the economy hot for several more years.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/30/commentary/world-commentary/gold-medal-brinkmanship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-30T18:59:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/30/commentary/japan-commentary/prologue-work-style-reforms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-30T19:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters crowd a train station in Tokyo. Japan's working-age population is forecast to shrink by about 20 million between now and 2050 — a number equivalent to roughly 30 percent of the nation's current workforce.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/31/commentary/japan-commentary/wanted-u-s-nuclear-strategy-tailored-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-31T19:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis poses Sept. 14 with Strategic Command head Gen. John E. Hyten, who would be in command of U.S. nuclear forces in the event the president orders them into combat. Mattis received classified briefings to aid his nuclear posture review, a reassessment of U.S. nuclear weapons policy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/31/editorials/meteorological-agency-needs-beef-volcano-monitoring-alert-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-31T18:59:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/31/commentary/world-commentary/asias-central-banks-prepare-raise-interest-rates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-01-31T18:58:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Korea Gov. Lee Ju-yeol starts a monetary policy meeting in Seoul on Nov. 30, the day that the BOK raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2011, underscoring its confidence in the nation's economic recovery and inflation.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/02/01/editorials/realistic-fiscal-consolidation-target-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-01T18:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/02/01/commentary/japan-commentary/will-ceo-activism-take-hold-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-02-01T18:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cybozu President Yoshihisa Aono addresses the media Jan. 9 in Tokyo after filing a lawsuit against the government seeking the right to use his premarital name. Aono took his wife's surname upon marriage.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star, commissioned in 1976, is America’s only operational heavy icebreaker and is nearing the end of its service life.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alibaba founder Jack Ma has a vision.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming appointment of the next governor of the Bank of Japan will be the key executive decision to define the future of Abenomics.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Universities in Japan have  certain advantages in attracting overseas students, including reasonable tuition rates, access to good public transportation and low crime rates.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a Lower House budget committee session in the Diet on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono addresses the crew of the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yamagiri in Singapore on Sunday. Kono emphasized Japan's interest in ensuring the South China Sea remains "free and open."]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Public opposition to experiments on animals has been growing for decades.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haruhiko Kuroda's tenure as Bank of Japan governor has been a testament to the powers of determined, committed monetary easing.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a recent Cabinet Office poll, 42.5 percent  of respondents said married couples should be allowed to use different surnames, while 53.7 percent supported the  status quo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the  Upper House Budget Committee on March 1, where he promised the government would look again at the impact of the discretionary work system on people's work hours.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school teachers in Japan work an average of over 57 hours a week, and junior high teachers more than 63 hours. Many work over 80 hours of overtime a month.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/20/commentary/world-commentary/putins-hawks-got-result-wanted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/20/commentary/world-commentary/double-helix-chinese-history-powerful-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:14:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/20/commentary/japan-commentary/abolition-main-crop-seeds-law-puts-nation-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese farmer tends his crops. Japan's food security may be put at risk with the abolition — effective April 1 — of the the Main Crop Seeds Law.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/20/commentary/world-commentary/didnt-learn-bear-stearns-collapse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:16:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/20/commentary/world-commentary/social-networking-key-food-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T16:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/21/editorials/false-perceptions-cloud-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T17:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/21/commentary/world-commentary/pros-cons-trumps-randomness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-21T17:29:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2018-03-21T17:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/22/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-cant-win-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-22T17:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[By overestimating American economic power, President Donald Trump is also greatly overestimating his chances of compelling China to change its trade practices.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/22/commentary/world-commentary/ask-voters-want-driverless-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-22T17:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this photo provided by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, investigators examine a driverless Uber SUV that fatally struck a woman in Tempe, Arizona, last Sunday night.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/22/editorials/data-mining-profit-manipulation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-22T17:36:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/16/reader-mail/nourish-peace-possibilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T13:36:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/16/reader-mail/pro-summit-view-fatally-flawed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T13:36:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/16/reader-mail/societys-lack-dialogue-disease/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T13:36:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/23/reader-mail/getting-full-moritomo-story/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T14:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/23/reader-mail/trump-kim-talks-beat-alternative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T14:41:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/23/commentary/japan-commentary/unleash-japans-animal-spirits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T19:11:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-solomon-a-20180324.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new career track should be created in Japan, consisting of top potential talent who would be recruited, developed and empowered early in their careers to become corporate change-makers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/23/editorials/bidding-troubles-maglev/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T19:12:01+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/23/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-tariffs-may-playing-xis-hands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-23T23:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping chat during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/23/reader-mail/japan-not-give-nuclear-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-24T10:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/24/commentary/world-commentary/losing-control-uber-facebook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-24T18:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/24/editorials/insufficient-wage-gains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-24T18:02:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/24/cartoons/elephant-scandal-room/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-24T18:04:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/25/cartoons/zg56-cherry-karaoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-25T00:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/25/editorials/chinas-coming-propaganda-offensive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-25T17:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/25/commentary/world-commentary/controlling-web-dream-nightmare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-25T16:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Regimes like Egypt, China and Iran have found it surprising easy to shut off their people's access to the web.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/26/editorials/another-troubling-replacement-trump-team/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T19:40:35+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/26/commentary/world-commentary/hiring-bolton-trumps-dangerous-decision-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T19:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/26/commentary/world-commentary/time-tech-revolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T19:36:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/26/commentary/japan-commentary/nuclear-power-plant-construction-britain-bottomless-swamp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T19:35:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doubts about the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant's enormous costs and related technological problems present a serious threat to Hitachi Ltd. and other Japanese firms that are betting their future on nuclear power plant construction in Britain.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/26/commentary/world-commentary/south-china-sea-critical-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-26T20:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/25/commentary/japan-commentary/elderly-dominating-japans-fitness-clubs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T13:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A steep rise in gym memberships by senior citizens has coincided with growing enthusiasm among the elderly to prevent metabolic syndrome and lifestyle-related illnesses.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/27/commentary/japan-commentary/abes-right-time-codify-sdf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T19:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/27/editorials/introducing-plea-bargaining/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T19:19:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/27/commentary/world-commentary/poisoning-demonstrates-brexits-threat-security-britain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T19:17:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/27/commentary/world-commentary/nras-blunders-fueled-gun-safety-marches/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T19:15:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students feign death at a March For Our Lives rally in Los Angeles on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/27/commentary/world-commentary/case-counting-calories/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-27T19:16:38+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/28/editorials/kims-china-visit-means-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T19:35:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/28/commentary/world-commentary/scoring-goal-chinas-belt-road-funding-terms-spark-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T19:33:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-skripal-poisoning-u-k-s-fair-weather-friend/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-28T22:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Taro Kono shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after a news conference following their meeting at Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on March 21.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/28/commentary/japan-commentary/theres-smoke-theres-death/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T17:29:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/29/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-u-s-economic-relations-can-overcome-protectionism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T18:31:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker assembles cars at a Honda plant in Ohio. Japanese companies have long invested in America and their U.S. subsidiaries  employed 856,000 workers as of 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/elon-musk-todays-henry-ford-thats-bad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T18:33:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla Motors Inc. Chairman and CEO Elon Musk is thumbing his nose at all the lessons Toyota taught Detroit about the importance of the manufacturing process.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/29/editorials/japan-must-take-unified-stance-terrorism-u-k/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-29T18:33:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/30/reader-mail/lawson-makes-lot-money-cigarettes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T16:12:35+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/30/reader-mail/bad-taste-abound-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T16:13:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/30/reader-mail/returning-taiwans-quake-generosity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T16:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/30/reader-mail/long-airport-lines-cast-poor-first-impression/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T16:15:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/30/commentary/japan-commentary/tip-toeing-around-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2018-03-30T19:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leave the State Guesthouse in Akasaka, Tokyo, following their summit on Nov. 6, in this official White House photo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aziza, a Syrian refugee and former child bride, tends to her baby in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon on Feb. 2.]]></image:caption>
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