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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Group: BusinessViews
Credit: EMMERSON 
Source: New Zealand Herald - Auckland, New Zealand
Keywords: COLOR CORONAVIRUS LIVING IN ISOLATION LOCKDOWN VIRUS COVID 19 PANDEMIC 040120
Provider: CartoonArts International]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Group: BusinessViews
Credit: EMMERSON 
Source: New Zealand Herald - Auckland, New Zealand
Keywords: COLOR CORONAVIRUS LIVING IN ISOLATION LOCKDOWN VIRUS COVID 19 PANDEMIC 040120
Provider: CartoonArts International]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to buy ice cream in Stockholm on Sunday. Sweden’s death rate from COVID-19 is considerably higher than that of its Nordic neighbors.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/20/commentary/world-commentary/science-wont-ace-covid-19-test/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/20/commentary/world-commentary/wisdom-age-coronavirus-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T13:22:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/china-who-should-fess-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:28:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/worlds-bad-actors-see-opportunity-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-21T19:28:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T17:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:58:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:57:29+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/16/reader-mail/watch-abes-vision-unity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:34:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/10/reader-mail/masculinity-brave-new-world-uncertainty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:36:47+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T16:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-04-22T20:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/irans-provocations-deadlier-without-sanctions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T20:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/funding-freeze-wont-fix-whos-china-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T20:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/debunking-myth-helicopter-money/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-22T20:52:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/23/commentary/world-commentary/oil-perfect-storm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-23T17:25:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/23/editorials/government-assistance-vital-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-23T17:27:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters walk through Shinagawa Station in Tokyo during rush hour Monday. Many people must work at their companies despite the national state of emergency declared by the government to fight the COVID-19 outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/22/commentary/japan-commentary/time-arms-talks-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-24T12:59:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Military vehicles carrying DF-5B intercontinental ballistic missiles travel past Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing on October 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/05/16/commentary/japan-commentary/understanding-peaks-valleys-japan-s-korea-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-24T14:13:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A TV news show featuring South Korean President Moon Jae-in is broadcast in Tokyo on May 10. To improve bilateral relations, Japan and South Korea have to take advantage of open doors to cooperation and the U.S. must continue opening some of those doors for them.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/05/09/commentary/japan-commentary/market-open-japan-n-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-24T14:13:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/24/reader-mail/collective-action-meet-individual-needs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-24T14:22:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/24/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-personal-diplomacy-dead-even-kim-isnt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-24T18:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stand on North Korean soil while walking to South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries on June 30.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/24/commentary/world-commentary/human-wisdom-needed-defeat-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-24T18:09:33+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/dangers-age-segregation-exposed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-25T18:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/pandemic-data-deadly-elderly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-25T18:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/17/editorials/regional-banks-merger-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-25T17:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-taken-us-fomo-romo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-27T19:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/really-werent-ready-work-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-28T18:26:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many people have discovered it was a myth they could do their job just as easily from the dining room table.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/kim-rumors-rekindle-fears-weak-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-28T20:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/30/reader-mail/consider-full-impact-changing-academic-calendar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:25:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/china-africa-land-grab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/chinese-health-organization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:34:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi jinping before a meeting in Beijing on Jan. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/japan-commentary/worlds-economic-visionaries-cant-see-past-tomorrow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:35:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/diplomacy-another-victim-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Ministry new spokesman Zhao Lijian gestures as he speaks during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing. From Asia to Africa, London to Berlin, Chinese envoys have set off diplomatic firestorms with a combative defense whenever their country is accused of not acting quickly enough to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/fog-covid-19-war-propaganda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/lockdown-lead-stronger-parliaments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:36:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British member of Parliament Wera Hobhouse works from her home in Bath on April 21. MPs are being encouraged to attend the lower chamber House of Commons via video link for the first time as a result of the pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-propaganda-efforts-often-backfire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:36:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-exposed-eus-creeping-irrelevance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:38:17+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/children-may-silent-victims-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:41:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Eli Illig, 10, studies his computer at home in Ebensburg, Pa. The frustration of parents is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of total distance learning. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-threatens-starve-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:42:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Community volunteers put the masks on as they prepare to distribute food packages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19 in a township in Cape Town, South Africa, on April 17. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-china-can-learn-live/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/26/commentary/world-commentary/modest-multilateralism-americas-interest-chinas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:44:16+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/26/commentary/world-commentary/go-back-office-get-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T15:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/30/reader-mail/disregard-state-emergency-inside-local-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T16:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/30/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-not-trumps-vietnam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-04-30T17:29:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/30/commentary/world-commentary/independent-covid-19-investigation-imperative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-01T18:10:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Climate Prediction and Application Center in Nairobi says locusts are "invading the Eastern Africa region in exceptionally large swarms like never seen before.”]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shannon Thompson looks through clothing items at the Northern Treasure thrift store last Monday in Roundup, Montana.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/10/17/commentary/japans-public-diplomacy-churlish-cluelessness/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looking back: People visit Yasukuni Shrine in August. The shrine's Yushukan Museum contains displays regarding Japan's era of imperialism.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[As technology improves, why aren't we getting sharper images of UFOs?]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demonstrate against Michigan's lockdown at the state capitol in Lansing on Thursday. More than 1.26 million state residents have filed for unemployment benefits since March 15.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-05T19:16:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Buddhist monks celebrate the Buddha's birthday in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-07T15:29:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-07T15:29:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-07T15:29:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-07T15:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former WeWork chief Adam Neumann's chances of extracting more money from the investment vehicle led by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son are greater than zero, which makes even the most unlikely lawsuit a good bet. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/05/25/editorials/china-japan-frictions-at-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-07T23:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:58:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smaller enterprises that do not have successors to continue the company offer may be able to find good candidates by offering internships.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A station passageway in Tokyo is crowded with commuters wearing masks during rush hour on April 20.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters transit Shinagawa station in Tokyo during rush hour on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/15/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-pandemic-prompts-digital-revolution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Box Inc. CEO Aaron Levie gives an interview via a video conference system in March.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his official residence in Tokyo on April 6 to address the media on the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A seasonal worker laughs as she takes part in a harvest of Lily of the Valley in Saint Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu, near Nantes, on April 14, 2020, on the twenty-ninth day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 disease.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Working from home]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during an Upper House session on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/25/commentary/japan-commentary/toward-2021-tokyo-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to journalists in front of his official residence Tuesday. He said the president of the International Olympic Committee agreed "100 percent" with postponing the Summer Olympics for about a year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-still-coronavirus-outlier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Crowds take in the the cherry blossoms at Ueno Park on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/17/commentary/japan-commentary/dont-asian-wear-face-mask-epidemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman  carries a tray in Rome on March 11, the second day of an unprecedented lockdown across the nation imposed to slow the outbreak of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/09/commentary/japan-commentary/diversity-gender-equality-matter-emergency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mayumi Iijima, shown on Friday, is fortunate that her Tokyo-based firm is allowing her to bring her young children to work while their school is closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/09/commentary/japan-commentary/forced-disruption-new-beginning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Koji Ishii works while his son, whose school closed down this month due to the outbreak of coronavirus, plays the piano at their home in Chiba Prefecture on March 4.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/04/commentary/japan-commentary/financial-fight-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/25/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-crisis-get-much-worse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/22/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-cant-run-clock-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health minister Katsunobu Kato delivers a speech at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Friday. Hundreds of people have been allowed to leave the ship after testing negative for the disease and many have returned to their home countries to face further quarantine.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/13/commentary/japan-commentary/outbreak-offers-chance-boost-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T10:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/reader-mail/japan-u-s-need-true-statesmen-handle-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/reader-mail/government-must-look-societys-vulnerable-especially-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:29:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/cartoons/roger-dahl-multitasking-mothers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_10363-e1588933995157.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10363.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Multitasking moms]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/cartoons/roger-dahl-covid-19-auto-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:37:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10365.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on COVID-19 and the auto industry]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/03/cartoons/roger-dahls-covid-19-haircut/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:37:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl's COVID-19 haircut]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/02/cartoons/roger-dahl-deflationary-quicksand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/26/cartoons/roger-dahl-haiku-feedback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:38:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7787.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on haiku feedback]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/25/cartoons/roger-dahl-real-heroes-fight-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:38:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_7784.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the real heroes in the fight against COVID-19]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/reader-mail/life-outweighs-paperwork/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/reader-mail/time-heed-warning-bell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-08T19:47:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/09/commentary/world-commentary/volunteered-vaccine-trial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-09T20:01:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11061.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer is injected April 25 with either an experimental COVID-19 vaccine or a placebo shot as part of the first human trials in Britain to test a potential vaccine. About 100 research groups worldwide are pursuing vaccines against the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/america-can-make-semiconductors-not-swabs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-10T19:04:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_10958.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10958.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs and workers has had a broader impact than most Americans realize.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/11/commentary/world-commentary/wild-west-covid-19-antibody-tests-needs-sheriff/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-11T19:06:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11396.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11396.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health worker collects a man's blood sample for a coronavirus antibody test in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/11/commentary/world-commentary/little-predictability-go-long-way-working-moms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-11T19:06:07+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/11/commentary/japan-commentary/remembering-yukio-okamoto/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-12T11:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11306.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11306.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yukio Okamoto, a former diplomat and special adviser to prime ministers, speaks to the foreign media in Tokyo on July 22, 2015. Okamoto died April 24 of pneumonia brought on by COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-chance-demonstrate-leadership-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-12T19:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11562.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned his Southeast Asian counterparts that China is taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to push its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-also-needs-centralized-medical-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-12T19:18:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11591.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11591.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health care workers wait for patients at the Brightpoint Health and UJA Federation for NY free pop-up coronavirus testing site on May 8 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/nato-flotilla-sails-back-cold-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-12T19:18:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11543.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11543.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy ships conduct joint operations in the Barents Sea to ensure maritime security in the Arctic Ocean on May 5.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/13/commentary/world-commentary/can-broke-america-fight-cold-war-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-13T19:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11777.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11777.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/13/commentary/japan-commentary/keeping-up-with-the-fed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-13T19:25:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11771.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11771.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Monetary policy can reshape exchange rate dynamics.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/world-faces-moment-truth-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-13T20:13:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_10723.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10723.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/14/commentary/world-commentary/trump-unmasks-obama-administrations-unmaskers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-14T20:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12009-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12009.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn arrives for his sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Court in Washington on Dec. 18, 2018. The U.S. Justice Department withdrew its case against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn on May 7, handing President Donald Trump a major political victory.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/reader-mail/patahara-married-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T13:57:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/reader-mail/japan-red-cross-lacks-english-ability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T13:58:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/reader-mail/covid-19-japan-east-asia-edge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T13:59:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/reader-mail/face-masks-better-safe-sorry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T13:59:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/reader-mail/case-speedy-covid-19-policy-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T14:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/commentary/japan-commentary/trouble-linking-covid-19-hikikomori/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T18:22:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12084.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12084.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The experiences of long-term "hikikomori" are vastly different from the majority who are now socially isolated only temporarily.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/commentary/japan-commentary/rise-japans-governors-central-local-relations-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-15T18:23:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12104.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12104.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki (right) declares a state of emergency in the prefecture during a meeting on the coronavirus Feb. 28.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/17/commentary/world-commentary/women-make-better-crisis-leaders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-17T19:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12189.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other female national leaders have received high  praise for their leadership during the COVID-19 crisis. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/17/commentary/world-commentary/skirmish-won-war-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-17T19:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11789-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11789.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When cancers are caught early, they’re often more treatable.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/17/commentary/world-commentary/china-rivalry-may-put-u-s-back-coup-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-17T19:29:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12062-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12062.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shows the passports of two U.S. citizens arrested by security forces during a meeting with international media May 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/14/editorials/prosecutor-retirement-revision-dangerous-step/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-18T12:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_11924.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should sincerely address the public's concerns over the proposed revision of the public prosecutor’s office law.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/18/commentary/japan-commentary/central-banks-let-genie-bottle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-18T19:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12603.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12603.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Successive BOJ governors, including Haruhiko Kuroda, have found it almost impossible to extricate themselves from ever-more innovative measures to spur economic growth and prices. The slump caused by COVID-19 will reinforce this trend.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/18/commentary/world-commentary/endangered-species-may-yet-another-virus-victim/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-18T19:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12631.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12631.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A ranger observes the last remaining two northern white rhinos at the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new alertness to anti-poaching patrols in Africa, and a new fear: With no tourist revenue coming in, protecting endangered wildlife has become that much more challenging.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/18/commentary/world-commentary/managing-coming-global-debt-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-18T19:15:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12633.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A malnourished boy waits to receive treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. children’s agency has appealed for an additional $92.4 million to help fight the coronavirus in the Middle East and North Africa. The conflict-battered region had 25 million children in need of aid before the pandemic, the highest number anywhere. The economic downturn linked to the outbreak is expected to push an additional 4 million children into poverty. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/30/editorials/extend-support-foreign-students-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-18T19:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a closure of Japanese universities and a loss of part-time jobs for many students. gettyimages.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/09/editorials/crucial-time-keep-coronavirus-crisis-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-18T19:42:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man riding a bicycle passes a crossing at Tokyo's shoppig district Ginza on April 8, 2020, on the first day of a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. AFP]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/18/commentary/world-commentary/critical-moment-wto-loses-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-19T18:49:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Director-General of World Trade Organization Roberto Azevedo, shown at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, announced last week that he would resign his post a year early.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/pandemics-gender-bias-needs-urgent-fixing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-19T19:19:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A women looks at signs on a store in Niles, Illinois, on May 13. From leisure to hospitality to retail, entire industries in which women make up a greater share of the workforce have been brought to a halt by the pandemic as more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs in April alone.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/google-twitter-right-workers-stay-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-19T19:18:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Following an explosion in remote working owing to the coronavirus pandemic, some businesses are now allowing staff to work from home on a permanent basis — a move that increases employee satisfaction and lowers operating costs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-lessons-xenophobia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-19T19:20:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Korean-American actor Daniel Dae Kim faced racist trolling when he shared his COVID-19 diagnosis online in March. Hate crimes have surged against Asian Americans during the coronavirus crisis.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/new-empty-argument-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-19T19:21:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. supply chain for meat has run into problems because of the new coronavirus, causing shortages in some parts of the country.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/universal-basic-income-done-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-19T19:21:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's name is printed on a stimulus check issued by the U.S. government to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/11/commentary/japan-commentary/communication-apps-english-key-global-reach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-20T12:19:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/20/commentary/world-commentary/putins-russia-bungled-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-20T20:17:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emergency doctors wearing protective equipment transport a man to a hospital for COVID-19 patients in St.Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday. Russia has continued to see a steady rise of new infections, and new hot spots have emerged across the vast country of 147 million people that ranks second in the world behind the U.S. in the number of coronavirus cases.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/20/commentary/sharpening-knives-huawei/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-20T20:46:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13062.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Huawei rotating Chairman Guo Ping speaks at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2020 on Monday. That day Huawei assailed the latest U.S. move to cut it off from semiconductor suppliers as a "pernicious" attack that will put the Chinese technology giant in "survival" mode and sow chaos in the global technology sector.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/20/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-safety-can-fun/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-20T20:47:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern injected an element of fun into New Zealand's lockdown, describing the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy as "essential workers.”]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/20/commentary/world-commentary/britain-doesnt-want-come-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-20T20:47:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12990.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A commuter rides a subway during the evening rush hour in central London on May 14. The government has been accused of putting workers' lives at risk by easing lockdown restrictions in England last week while the daily death toll was still hovering around 500. Britain has had more than 35,000 deaths in the outbreak — the second-most in the world.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/20/commentary/world-commentary/big-failure-small-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-20T20:47:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nurses who work at central London hospitals hold a protest outside Downing Street in central London on May 13 to call for improved conditions and pay. Since 2015, the U.K.’s National Health Service has endured massive budget cuts.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/16/commentary/japan-commentary/bad-english-conspiracy-theory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T11:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[English is taught at an elementary school in Niigata Prefecture in March.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/reader-mail/noncompliance-pandemic-deserves-shaming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T15:02:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/reader-mail/paternity-leave-wont-work-unless-government-steps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T15:03:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/reader-mail/lack-testing-real-reason-behind-low-covid-19-numbers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T15:03:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/reader-mail/not-everyone-japan-needs-learn-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T15:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/reader-mail/culturally-constructed-prejudice-english-language-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T15:05:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/commentary/japan-commentary/threat-robots-taking-jobs-gets-real/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T19:26:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13319.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13319.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fanuc Corp., a maker of robots used in factories for companies ranging from Apple to Amazon, saw orders in the fourth quarter to March climb 7 percent.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/commentary/mitigating-chinas-economic-coercion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T19:26:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13251.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Monday welcomed international support for an independent investigation of the coronavirus, which has been condemned by China and blamed for a bilateral trade rift.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/21/editorials/save-jobs-businesses-endangered-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-21T23:31:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13281.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13281.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economic growth plunged into recession in the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic squelched production, exports and spending, and fears are growing worse times may lie ahead, according to a report on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/reader-mail/building-bridges-foreign-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T13:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/reader-mail/japans-english-language-proficiency-not-poor-purported/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T13:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/reader-mail/ineffective-english-education-thought-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T13:57:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/reader-mail/entry-ban-harming-international-business-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T13:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/reader-mail/asia-indeed-needs-megaphone-long-remains-independent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T13:59:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/commentary/world-commentary/china-really-want-dominate-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T19:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13407.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13407.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed that by 2049, China would “become a global leader in terms of composite national strength and international influence.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-recovery-doomed-even-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-22T19:22:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13473.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13473.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tourists walk along Hua Hin beach in Thailand on Tuesday. Thailand's economy is expected to shrink more than 6 percent this year as the coronavirus outbreak shatters the country's crucial tourism industry, with all flights into the country banned until the end of June.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/23/commentary/world-commentary/great-depression-paradox-children-survived-thrived/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-23T18:02:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13152.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13152.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Studies confirm that material deprivation has far less of an impact on children than we instinctively believe.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/24/commentary/world-commentary/good-riddance-chinas-scrapped-growth-target/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-24T20:28:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13577.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At the opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Friday, Premier Li Keqiang (right) announced that China took the rare move of not setting an annual growth target this year after the coronavirus battered the world's second-largest economy and ravaged global growth.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/24/commentary/japan-commentary/time-face-real-risks-posed-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-24T20:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the Japanese economy into its first recession since 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/beijing-draws-line-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-25T20:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13996.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13996.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy protesters are arrested by police in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on Sunday ahead of planned protests against a proposal to enact new security legislation in Hong Kong. The proposed legislation is expected to ban treason, subversion and sedition, and follows repeated warnings from Beijing that it will no longer tolerate dissent in Hong Kong, which was shaken by months of massive, sometimes violent anti-government protests last year. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/nasa-beware-viruses-outer-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-25T20:40:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13982.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sun sets over Mars on April 15, 2015. This summer NASA will launch a rover to collect samples of the Martian surface that will eventually be brought back to Earth.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/germany-contained-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-25T20:40:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13975.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13975.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The German Bundesliga became the world's first major soccer league to resume play with the holding of matches on Sunday in empty stadiums.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/impact-covid-19-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-25T20:40:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_14017.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14017.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of people line up to receive food handouts in the Olievenhoutbos township of Midrand, South Africa. The country with the Africa’s most developed economy also has its highest number of infections with more than 22,500.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/china-tests-global-diplomacy-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-25T20:40:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13963.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13963.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy protesters gather in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on Sunday ahead of planned protests against a proposal to enact new security legislation in Hong Kong. The legislation is expected to ban treason, subversion and sedition, and follows repeated warnings from Beijing that it will no longer tolerate dissent in Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-calamity-will-play/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-26T20:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_14118.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14118.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police clear up debris left by protesters attending a pro-democracy rally against a proposed new security law in Hong Kong on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/china-worst-enemy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-26T20:07:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_14125.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers  march past a banner depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping inside the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing during a plenary session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/israels-michael-jordan-shots/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-26T20:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks with his lawyer inside a courtroom at the district court of Jerusalem on Monday during the first day of his corruption trial.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/pandemic-exposing-limits-science/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-26T20:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/hong-kong-went-wrong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-26T20:38:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrator wears a colonial-era Hong Kong flag during a protest against a planned national security law held in the International Finance Center shopping mall in Hong Kong on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/world-commentary/lockdowns-havent-proved-theyre-worth-havoc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-27T08:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/27/commentary/world-commentary/nuclear-delusions-fuel-north-korean-ambitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-27T20:16:56+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/27/commentary/world-commentary/end-europes-chinese-dream/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-27T20:21:10+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/27/commentary/japan-commentary/right-economic-response-covid-19-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-28T11:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Employees prepare to reopen a restaurant in Tokyo on Tuesday, a day after the government lifted the COVID-19 state of emergency and started gradually reopening an economy that has plunged into a recession for the first time since 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/28/commentary/world-commentary/three-ways-congress-can-save-u-s-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-28T19:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars line up at a food distribution center on May 15 in Compton, California. As unemployment soars amid the coronavirus pandemic, more Americans are relying on food handouts.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-kosovo-china-sidelined/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-28T20:04:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dancers dressed in traditional attire perform in Pristina, Kosovo, on Feb. 17, 2018, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/29/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-means-japan-u-s-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-29T20:03:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt departs Naval Base Guam on May 21 on a training mission after being sidelined with a coronavirus outbreak for nearly two months.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/29/commentary/world-commentary/six-deadly-lockdown-sins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-29T20:04:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/29/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-going-broke-minus-broke-part/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-29T20:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a rare joint statement last week, BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda and Finance Minister Taro Aso pledged to work hand in glove to facilitate the nation's economic recovery.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/26/reader-mail/negative-side-kyoto-tourism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T11:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/commentary/world-commentary/safe-pets-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T18:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking precautions: Scientists haven’t been able to confirm the role any animal plays in a human virus.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/abe-isnt-one-can-lead-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T13:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/team-trump-puts-spin-facts-always/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T14:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/toward-cozy-comfortable-society/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T14:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/not-everyone-welcomes-u-s-marines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T14:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/learn-english-think-english/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T14:01:35+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/the-coronavirus-as-gaiatsu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T14:01:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/reader-mail/world-must-unite-stand-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-30T14:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/31/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-hasnt-killed-global-balance-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-31T19:21:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The only way to ensure that America’s vision of personal liberty and rule of law prevails is to ensure that the configuration of geopolitical forces favors Washington rather than Beijing’s autocratic model.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/31/commentary/world-commentary/were-going-on-a-staycation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-31T19:22:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A couple relaxes on a beach in Barcelona. Lingering health concerns and uncertainty about which borders will open mean many people will stick close to home this summer.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/31/commentary/world-commentary/back-much-oil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-05-31T19:28:39+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/09/reader-mail/poem-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-01T13:21:38+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/27/commentary/world-commentary/boris-johnson-leaves-dirty-work-everyone-else/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-01T19:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Overreliance on adviser Dominic Cummings has damaged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a time of crisis. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/worst-covid-19-pandemic-now-behind-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-01T19:06:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People relax in Paris' Jardin de Montsouris park on Sunday, the second day of reopening following the nationwide lockdown put into place on March 17 to in response to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/china-chose-act-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-01T19:06:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A pro-China supporter hits an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the U.S. Consulate during a protest in Hong Kong on Saturday. Trump has announced a series of measures aimed at China as a rift between the two countries grows.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/turkey-russia-war-libyas-loser/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-01T19:06:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15388.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Libyan National Army commanded by Khalifa Haftar, points his gun at an image of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hanging on captured Turkish military armored vehicle.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/far-two-strikes-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-02T11:42:29+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/enough-g7-lets-try-g10/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-02T13:34:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_15354.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed the G7 summit till September and expressed his desire to expand the "outdated" bloc.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/02/commentary/japan-commentary/one-mans-efforts-saved-japans-postwar-democracy-sdf/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-02T19:08:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15646.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students protesting against the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty surround the Diet on June 15, 1960.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/02/commentary/world-commentary/fear-root-americas-race-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-02T19:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/korean-council-justice-remembrance-lost-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-03T10:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo sits next to a statue symbolizing South Korean comfort women during the funeral of another former comfort woman in Seoul on Feb. 1, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/time-world-embark-great-reset/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-03T19:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/americas-mis-police-state/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-03T19:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/bidens-old-time-liberalism-finds-moment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-03T19:33:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/dont-bet-fast-vaccines-root-covid-19-treatments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-03T19:33:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_15867.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15867.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Recovered Israeli COVID-19 patients donate blood samples for plasma extraction Monday, contributing to Israel's new experimental antibodies treatment in Sheba Medical Center Hospital near Tel Aviv.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/03/commentary/world-commentary/xi-jinpings-strategic-folly-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-03T19:34:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_15817.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15817.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping votes on national security legislation concerning Hong Kong during the closing session of China's National People's Congress in Beijing on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/02/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-border-invasion-will-push-india-toward-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-04T13:07:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_15562.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in February. Growing tensions between India and China present Washington with an opportunity to further strengthen ties with New Delhi, which is becoming a key ally in the U.S. effort to contain Beijing's Indo-Pacific ambitions. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/smart-not-confrontational-china-strategy-needed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-04T19:28:00+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/05/reader-mail/can-kids-weather-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T11:51:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/05/reader-mail/time-right-anti-china-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T11:51:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/05/reader-mail/standing-up-against-racism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T11:52:04+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/05/reader-mail/covid-19-patients-suffering-silence-heroes-japans-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T11:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/racism-exacerbated-covid-19-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T16:04:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16139.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16139.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers line up to begin taking hundreds of free COVID-19 tests at a pop-up site at the House of Hope in Decatur, Georgia, on May 4. Black and Hispanic Americans have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/need-spirit-bobby-kennedy-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T19:55:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16217.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16217.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital show their solidarity with Black Lives Matter on Thursday in New York City. Black Americans are dying at three times the rate of white Americans of the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-presidential-election-four-surprises-four-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-05T20:15:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16126.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16126.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Regardless of which candidate wins on Election Day, the next U.S. administration will face huge challenges.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/06/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccines-merrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-06T18:05:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_15920.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15920.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping the faith: Hopes are high that a vaccine for COVID-19 could come soon, with researchers working around the clock in numerous countries.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/07/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccine-trials-unnecessary-uninformative-unethical/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-07T20:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16308.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scientist examines COVID-19 infected cells during research for a vaccine against the coronavirus at a laboratory in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 20.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/07/commentary/world-commentary/quarantine-terrible-works/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-07T20:45:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16361.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16361.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/07/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-challenges-balancing-national-security-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-07T20:46:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16298.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16298.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to a recent Finance Ministry announcement, supermarkets are among the 2,102 companies that will be subject to security-related governmental regulation.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/08/commentary/world-commentary/hydroxychloroquine-farce-tragic-consequences/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-08T19:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16792.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16792.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last week, highly respected journal The Lancet retracted a bombshell study that suggested hydroxychloroquine, a contested treatment for COVID-19, was linked to an increased risk of death.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/08/commentary/covid-19-crisis-make-europe-real-global-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-08T19:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16729-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16729.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/08/commentary/world-commentary/george-floyds-city-inequalities-everywhere/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-08T19:28:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16780.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16780.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looters raid a Target store on Minneapolis' Lake Street, a major commercial thoroughfare that is home to dozens of black-owned businesses, during riots that followed the May 25 death of George Floyd.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/08/commentary/world-commentary/protests-threaten-set-back-long-awaited-reopenings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-08T19:28:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16763.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16763.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators raise their fists in New York City's Times Square on Sunday during a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/17/commentary/japan-commentary/fog-liftsa-changed-landscape-will-revealed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-09T18:14:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_6981-rotated.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_6981.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Enjoying the fabled blossoms from Japan in London’s Battersea Park.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/09/commentary/japan-commentary/not-apply-danshari-work-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-09T19:28:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16990.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16990.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During the pandemic many company employees have had an opportunity to engage in new work styles, such as telework and online meetings.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-mideast-plan-poised-fall-apart/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-09T19:27:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17004-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17004.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-troop-cuts-germany-disastrous-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-09T19:26:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17001.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17001.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet members of the military at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in December. German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is warning that Trump's reported plans to withdraw more than a quarter of the American troops out of Germany could weaken not only the NATO alliance but the U.S. itself.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/rage-against-the-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-09T19:25:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16934.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16934.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators march through the streets of Hollywood, California, on June 2 to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Two weeks of massive gatherings have raised concerns about a second wave of COVID-19 infections in the U.S.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/10/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-economy-will-need-stimulus-well-beyond-july/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-10T19:46:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17204.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. economy regained 2.5 million jobs in May as the coronavirus shutdowns began to ease, but the gains appear to largely reflect simple reopening rather than any significant underlying economic strength.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/10/commentary/japan-commentary/chill-descends-chinese-scholars-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-11T11:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17139.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17139.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/10/commentary/world-commentary/new-normal-cyberwar-scare-us-action/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-11T11:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17207.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17207.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/11/commentary/world-commentary/americas-greater-recession-will-last-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-11T19:17:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17446.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17446.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chairs and tables collect dust in a shuttered New York City restaurant.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/new-international-order-versus-nature/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:52:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/people-stand-racism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:52:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/hear-george-floyd-gasp-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/japanese-media-misrepresenting-u-s-anti-racism-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:53:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/make-fertility-treatments-free-help-birthrate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:53:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/u-s-consumers-boycott-chinese-goods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:54:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/bellicose-claims-wont-help-senkaku-situation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:54:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/reader-mail/secret-heidis-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-12T13:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/13/commentary/world-commentary/office-isnt-dead-just-convalescing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-13T18:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16835.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16835.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Analysts estimate only around 30 percent of bank staff in Hong Kong can effectively work from home at any one time, meaning a return to the office may be necessary for most.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/15/commentary/world-commentary/shape-asias-new-cold-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-15T19:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18060.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18060.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/15/commentary/japan-commentary/trump-vs-biden-better-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-15T19:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17986-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17986.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/15/commentary/japan-commentary/weather-storms-together-building-new-bridges-new-york-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-15T19:25:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18000.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18000.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President James Buchanan welcomes the Japan Embassy in Washington on May 17, 1860.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/15/commentary/world-commentary/chinese-diplomats-behaving-badly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-15T19:26:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18051.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In March, the Chinese foreign ministry’s newly appointed deputy spokesman, Zhao Lijian, promoted a conspiracy theory alleging that the U.S. military brought the new coronavirus to Wuhan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/15/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-germany-crisis-goes-deeper-trumps-planned-troop-cuts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-15T19:27:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18004.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18004.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be going ahead with a plan to reduce the American military presence in the country by more than 25 percent.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/15/commentary/world-commentary/whos-zoomin-now-ominous-question/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-15T19:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18024.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18024.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prominent Hong Kong activist Lee Cheuk Yan reported that his Zoom account shut down in May before he was to host an event on a controversial extradition bill, despite the city’s guarantees of free speech.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/16/commentary/japan-commentary/no-end-sight-debate-japans-school-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-16T19:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18215.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18215.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A cherry tree blooms at the University of Tokyo. Starting the academic year in April is a source of many problems for Japanese higher education.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/16/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-long-term-foreign-policy-building-resilience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-16T19:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18151.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18151.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The longest-lasting legacy of Shinzo Abe's long prime ministership may be his building of momentum behind Japan’s economic statecraft.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/16/commentary/world-commentary/technology-stop-second-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-16T19:38:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18252-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18252.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/17/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-china-tensions-worse-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-17T20:20:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18382.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic “decoupling” between the U.S. and China, already underway in 2019, has accelerated as a result of the increased bilateral acrimony generated by both countries’ responses to the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/17/commentary/world-commentary/four-day-work-weeks-time-may/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-17T20:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18482-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18482.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/17/commentary/world-commentary/street-vendors-wont-save-chinas-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-17T20:57:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18505.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18505.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People buy food from a street vendor near a subway exit in Beijing on June 10.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/17/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-new-wave-cash-bankruptcies-inequality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T11:32:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18504.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18504.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some small businesses may not survive the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/04/editorials/uphill-battle-reverse-falling-birth-rate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T11:48:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The number of children born last year in Japan reached the lowest on record.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/11/editorials/online-abuse-silent-pandemic-affecting-millions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:17:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17418.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the main reasons why cyberbullying is ubiquitous is that defamatory posts can be made anonymously.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/16/cartoons/roger-dahl-covid-19-lockdown-exit-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:54:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11454.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/17/cartoons/roger-dahl-secret-video-conference-calls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:55:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the secret of video conference calls]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/23/cartoons/roger-dahl-relocating-production-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:55:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12846.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on relocated production out of China]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/30/cartoons/roger-dahl-social-distancing-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:55:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14262.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on social distancing in politics]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/31/cartoons/roger-dahl-yoga-origami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:55:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on yoga and origami]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/06/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-front-line-medical-superheroes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:55:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's front-line medical superheroes]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/07/cartoons/roger-dahl-pokemon-birthdays/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15498.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Pokemon birthdays]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/13/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-falling-birthrate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:56:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's falling birthrate]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/14/cartoons/roger-dahl-staying-shape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T13:56:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17041.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on staying in shape]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/20/cartoons/roger-dahl-koike-stealing-spotlight-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-20T18:04:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18239.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Koike stealing the spotlight from Abe]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/08/commentary/world-commentary/indias-appeasement-policy-toward-china-unravels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T18:40:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16744.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watch, China has more than doubled its trade surplus with India and the PLA has continued to encroach on disputed territories.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/18/commentary/rational-versus-popular-foreign-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T19:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/18/commentary/world-commentary/chinese-way-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-18T19:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18765.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18765.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Army vehicles transit the Chang La mountain pass in Kashmir near the border with China on Wednesday. Beijing and New Delhi held top level talks that day to "cool down the situation" following a violent border brawl on Monday that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/10/commentary/japan-commentary/media-collaborators-threaten-press-freedom-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T02:35:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17162.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17162.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[City news reporters whose editorial focus includes crime prevention, don’t always dig into criminal acts, as the case involving top prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa (right) shows.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/17/commentary/japan-commentary/canceling-aegis-ashore-raises-problems-hopes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:08:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex in Kauai, Hawaii, successfully conducts a flight test on Dec. 10, 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/dont-say-goodbye/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/disillusionment-heart-japans-birthrate-woes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:30:39+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/many-osaka-schools-arent-taking-covid-19-risks-seriously/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:30:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/metal-dogs-hell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:31:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/heroic-health-care-workers-coping-second-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:31:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/worried-possible-rise-youth-suicides/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:31:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/reader-mail/japans-wildly-inconsistent-covid-19-rules-need-official-explanation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T13:31:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/commentary/world-commentary/dont-expect-u-s-china-detente-anytime-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T20:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18944.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18944.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ U.S. President Donald Trump will continue “being tough” on China, forcing future presidential candidates and hopeful leaders to match his rhetoric.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-global-media-influence-grows-pushback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T20:08:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18973.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18973.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On June 4, Facebook announced that it would begin labeling pages and posts from media outlets “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government,” a decision that could impact the promotion of Chinese state media pages on the platform.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/19/commentary/world-commentary/cape-cod-theory-pandemic-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-19T20:08:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19007.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/24/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-exposes-dangers-age-segregation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-20T14:59:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_8021.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8021.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Julius and Sarah Wishnia, who have been married for 70 years, walk in the lobby of The Palace, an upscale retirement community in Coral Gables, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/24/commentary/world-commentary/pandemic-data-deadly-old/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-20T14:59:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_8011.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8011.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Medical staff evacuate an elderly patient from a nursing home after multiple residents of the facility tested positive for the new coronavirus in Buenos Aires on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/21/cartoons/roger-dahl-rainy-season-survival-techniques/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-21T00:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18241-e1592628772656.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18241.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on rainy season survival techniques]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/20/commentary/world-commentary/predicting-future-holds-asias-megacities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-20T18:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18159.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18159.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Metro Manila has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, prompting President Rodrigo Duterte to offer payments to people to leave the area.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/18/commentary/world-commentary/worry-catching-covid-19-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T11:41:13+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/role-privacy-ending-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T11:42:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_8032.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8032.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man holds a smartphone showing a tracking and tracing app launched by the National Institute of Public Health to try to halt a return of the new coronavirus, on April 17, 2020 in Oslo. Norway, one of the first European countries to begin lifting confinement measures, is launching a smartphone tracking and tracing app that has been developed to provide health authorities a better picture of the spread of COVID-19 and tell users if they have been in contact with the disease.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/21/commentary/japan-commentary/amid-covid-19-u-s-needs-rethink-approach-host-nation-support-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T16:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19047.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19047.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Ronald Reagan returns to its berth in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture in July 2018. Japan is home to strategic U.S. forces that are responsible not just for Japan’s defense, but for regional security and defense of U.S. interests.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/22/commentary/japan-china-relations-xi-said-xi-said/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T19:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19425.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19425.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump listen as Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/22/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-strike-options-assume-new-urgency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T19:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19460.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A missile launched from the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kirishima successfully intercepts a ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, in 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/22/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-protests-good-news/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T19:26:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19494.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters take part in a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Minneapolis on May 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/22/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-work-culture-gets-needed-covid-19-shock/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T19:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19452.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Passengers get off a subway train at Tokyo's Shibuya station. More than 60 percent of Japanese workers who have worked from home during the COVID-19 crisis say they want to do so after the pandemic has passed.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/22/commentary/world-commentary/vladimir-putins-plea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-22T19:27:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rehearsal for the Victory Day parade takes place in St. Petersburg on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin will preside the parade on Wednesday to mark the Soviet victory in World War II, which was postponed due to the pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/24/commentary/world-commentary/cold-war-heating-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-23T01:49:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13420.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13420.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese Navy flotilla including the aircraft carrier Liaoning conducts exercises in the South China Sea. China claims most of the South China Sea and has militarized a number of artificial islands there.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/02/commentary/world-commentary/china-steps-offensive-senkaku-islands/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-23T02:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An armed China Coast Guard vessel is seen sailing near the Senkaku Islands for the first time on Dec. 22, 2015. The activities of CCG ships around the Senkaku islets have increased markedly in recent years. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/03/commentary/troubling-trends-demand-japan-take-action-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-23T02:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier Liaoning takes part in a military drill in the western Pacific Ocean on April 18, 2018. China says it will increase its defense spending by 6.6 percent in 2020, despite a major downturn in the country's economic growth due to the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/23/commentary/japan-commentary/understanding-prime-ministers-danger-zone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-23T19:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may consider a Cabinet reshuffle or a snap election in coming months to boost his public approval rating.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/23/commentary/world-commentary/americas-2020-not-like-1968-may-worse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-23T19:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/23/commentary/world-commentary/hungarys-orban-uses-covid-19-crisis-another-power-grab/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-23T19:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/22/commentary/world-commentary/north-korea-blew-liaison-office-relations-south/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T07:57:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A news program broadcasts the demolition of the inter-Korean liaison office building in Kaesong, North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/23/commentary/japan-commentary/prevent-societal-schism-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T07:58:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[One way to prevent a schism in Japanese society is to raise the nation's labor productivity, which is the lowest among G7 countries. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/commentary/japan-commentary/five-key-takeaways-japan-australia-reciprocal-access-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Maritime Self-Defense Force stand on the deck of the Umigiri destroyer in Sydney before joint exercises between Japan and Australia in April 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/27/commentary/japan-commentary/stay-home-request-spurs-reading-revival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14363.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Interest in reading books has risen as people spend more time at home.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/pandemic-unlikely-cause-food-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:01:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14206.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's highly unlikely that the COVID-19 pandemic will impact wheat and other grain industries that are highly mechanized.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/23/commentary/world-commentary/tropical-storms-growing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[You don't have to tell the people of Texas that flooding is growing worse by the year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/20/commentary/world-commentary/recovering-covid-19-risks-must-anticipate-build-back-better/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:02:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/15/commentary/japan-commentary/changing-lifestyles-post-pandemic-new-normal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks along a Tokyo street lined with restaurants and bars that are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Japan's nighttime entertainment business, premised on a male-dominated society and where men are mainly entertained by women, may gradually diminish in the post-pandemic era.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/14/commentary/world-commentary/standing-economic-coercion-requires-middle-power-solidarity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian beef is seen at a supermarket in Beijing on Monday. That day China suspended imports from four major Australian beef suppliers, weeks after Beijing's ambassador warned of a consumer boycott in retaliation for Canberra's push to probe the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/13/commentary/world-commentary/asia-needs-megaphone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:03:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/13/commentary/japan-commentary/nows-not-time-debate-constitutional-revision/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:04:03+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/13/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-pulling-companies-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:04:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boxes containing masks and other medical supplies are unloaded April 22 at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted Japan's dependence on imported products, particularly from China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/reports-kims-death-greatly-exaggerated/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:04:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/12/commentary/world-commentary/are-the-keynesians-back/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:04:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/11/commentary/japan-commentary/will-happen-inclusion-covid-19s-wake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:05:03+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/11/commentary/world-commentary/future-work-covid-19-crisis-calls-fundamental-reset-labor-markets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:05:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/commentary/japan-commentary/bojs-monetary-easing-lags-behind-u-s-european-central-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:05:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_10740.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10740.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a session of the Lower House Budget Committee on April 28.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/07/commentary/japan-commentary/toward-new-better-normal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:05:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_10557.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10557.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coronavirus crisis has forced Japanese managers famously resistant to change to suddenly embrace digitalization of the workplace.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/05/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-response-covid-19-preliminary-assessment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:05:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_9938.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to buy lunch at a shop in Tokyo on April 22. Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home but many still have to commute to work.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/05/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-post-coronavirus-reopening-proceed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:06:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions during an Upper House Budget Committee session at the Diet on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/05/commentary/japan-commentary/search-pandemic-inspired-innovation-curve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:06:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_9923.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike greets the robot Pepper on Friday as she visits a hotel that is being used as a medical lodging facility to accommodate COVID-19 coronavirus patients with mild symptoms.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/04/commentary/world-commentary/think-u-s-china-row-bad-now-aint-seen-nothing-yet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:06:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_9713.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tensions between the United States and China have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/03/commentary/world-commentary/welfare-vulnerable-learners-will-test-covid-19-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children carry food donations in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on April 23. The Distance Learning Television program that was developed for learners in remote rural areas is now being extended nationwide with new courses being recorded to broaden the curriculum.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/23/commentary/japan-commentary/resetting-political-calendar-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_8191.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a news conference April 17 at his official residence. The disruptions from COVID-19 have affected Japan's political calendar in important ways.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/20/commentary/world-commentary/post-covid-19-international-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:07:09+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/17/commentary/japan-commentary/will-covid-19-pandemic-cause-food-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:07:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beef cattle feed on hay in California. Several large American slaughterhouses have closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, raising the possibility of a meat shortage.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/16/commentary/japan-commentary/opportunity-crisis-exploiting-global-disarray/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:07:33+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/10/commentary/will-covid-19-chinas-chernobyl/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:07:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_5047.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/09/commentary/japan-commentary/hammer-scalpel-conquering-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:07:57+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/boosting-resilience-covid-19-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:08:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/03/commentary/world-commentary/boosting-resilience-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:08:18+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/commentary/japan-commentary/reimagining-japan-society-new-york-beacon-hope-epicenter-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_10869.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Refrigerated tractor trailers used to store bodies sit Monday at a temporary morgue in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the epicenter of America's coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/08/commentary/world-commentary/micro-mighty-semiconductors-remain-key-technology-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:09:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A technician pushes a cart loaded with 300mm silicon wafers at the Applied Materials Inc. Maydan Technology Center in Santa Clara, California.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-advent-contactless-economic-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:09:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A surveillance camera keeps watch May 3 outside the Beijing home of a journalist who was placed under quarantine after visiting Wuhan. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/13/commentary/japan-commentary/tithe-approach-volunteering-post-pandemic-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:09:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_11628.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Volunteers for Feeding Tampa Bay and other groups prepare to distribute food to the needy Saturday in Tampa, Florida. The Mega Food Pantry intends to give out more than 3,500 meals to the public struggling from the effects of the coronavirus.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/12/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-low-covid-19-death-rate-due-higher-cultural-level/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T08:09:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17604.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People commute in Tokyo on June 5. Researchers have found that death rates were lower in countries like Japan that have a combination of high government efficiency and high cultural “tightness” — strong norms and a pressure for conformance.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/24/commentary/world-commentary/moment-truth-new-delhi-beijing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T19:45:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters burn an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a demonstration requesting consumers to boycott Chinese goods in New Delhi on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/24/commentary/world-commentary/america-road-relapse-not-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T19:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A runner carries an American flag while crossing a street in Denver on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/24/commentary/world-commentary/japans-conservatives-reveling-covid-19-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-24T19:50:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19922.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Finance Minister Taro Aso claimed that Japan’s relatively low COVID-19 death rate is due to “the superiority of its people.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/25/commentary/japan-commentary/2020-post-abe-leadership-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20066.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in front of his Cabinet ministers in March. If precedent holds true, he will try to shore up his support with a big Cabinet reshuffle and then perhaps a snap election.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/reader-mail/japan-want-migrants-migrants-want-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:56:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/reader-mail/fathers-day-single-mother/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:56:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/reader-mail/paying-university-teachers-just-nine-months-year-bad-idea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:57:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/reader-mail/osaka-merger-bid-needs-careful-scrutiny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/reader-mail/data-government-shouldnt-replace-government-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:58:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/reader-mail/appeasing-china-doesnt-work-no-longer-tried/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T11:58:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/18/editorials/voters-prepare-render-judgment-koike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T18:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_18720.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_18720.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has won praise for her response to the COVID-19 crisis, but she has failed to keep most of the campaign promises she made in 2016.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/25/editorials/time-something-overpopulated-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T18:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up to board trains during the evening rush hour in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-structural-problems-exposed-covid-19-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-26T19:44:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20188-e1593168183997.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20188.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most Japanese companies still embrace the traditional ways of working, but the COVID-19 pandemic may spur change.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/24/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-struggle-reimagine-post-pandemic-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-27T12:49:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19850.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19850.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s strength has been the consensus about making necessary changes to daily life to keep infection rates low, but when it comes to leveraging the pandemic to think outside of the box, its response has been muted.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/27/commentary/world-commentary/wear-mask-can-skip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-27T19:57:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19498.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19498.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students in Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 was first detected, donned face masks for their graduation ceremonies, joining many around the world for whom masks have become essential.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/28/commentary/world-commentary/blacks-experience-systematic-discrimination-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-28T20:32:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20407.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/28/commentary/world-commentary/st-paul-police-reform-working/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-28T20:33:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20409.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/world-commentary/wto-tpp-amid-u-s-china-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-29T20:39:41+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/japan-commentary/washington-seoul-boltons-bombshell-memoir/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-29T20:39:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20730.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/japan-commentary/study-okinawan-history-falls-casualty-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-29T21:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20189.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Naha Mayor Kamejiro Senaga, a major political figure during the American Occupation of Okinawa, is shown working in a display at the Kamejiro Senaga and the People’s History Museum in Naha.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/japan-commentary/coronavirus-reset/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-29T21:16:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20130.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20130.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While masks and protective gear have become common at airports, the idea of "immunity passports" has been mooted to help people travel abroad without helping to spread COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/confrontational-approach-china-emotionally-satisfying-strategically-shortsighted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-30T17:59:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20741.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20741.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/30/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-rise-heralds-return-domino-theory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-30T19:28:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20918.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20918.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. troops fire on an enemy position on June 9, 1951. The domino theory — the idea that setbacks can accumulate quickly and catastrophically — is one of the most controversial ideas in American foreign policy and the reason why the U.S. came to South Korea's defense in the Korean War. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/30/commentary/world-commentary/modis-resolute-china-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-30T19:36:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19841.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19841.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 17 pays a two-minute silence tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives the day before in a border brawl with Chinese troops.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/30/commentary/world-commentary/taliban-bounties-new-low-even-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-06-30T19:36:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_21046.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21046.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan, on Nov. 30, 2017. Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/28/commentary/japan-commentary/impact-compensation-politics-japans-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-01T19:39:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_14583.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14583.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ground Self-Defense Force vehicles take part in a live fire exercise in the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/digital-taxes-latest-trade-war-battleground/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-01T20:09:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21145.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21145.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called the withdrawal of the Trump administration from negotiations on a major digital services tax a "provocation” and warned that a tax will be applied "on digital giants in 2020."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/world-commentary/support-black-lives-matter-china-crosses-thin-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-01T20:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21345.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21345.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hua Chunying, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, responded on May 30 to a U.S. State Department criticism of Beijing's Hong Kong policy by tweeting "I can't breathe."]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/japan-commentary/missile-defense-japan-aegis-ashore-cancellation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-01T20:12:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21207.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21207.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diet members visit a U.S. Aegis Ashore installation in Romania on July 31, 2018. The National Security Council has endorsed plans to cancel the deployment of the costly missile defense system aimed at bolstering Japan’s capability against threats from North Korea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/world-commentary/eu-banning-american-tourists-easy-part/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-01T20:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21236.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21236.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United States hasn't made the European Union's shortlist of countries whose citizens will be allowed back into Europe once it begins lifting coronavirus-linked restrictions.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/02/commentary/world-commentary/china-not-middle-easts-high-roller/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-02T19:11:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21605.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21605.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attend a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on April 25, 2019. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/02/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-national-security-law-china-aiming-save-golden-goose/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-02T19:11:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21559.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21559.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police detain a man as they clear protesters taking part in a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/03/reader-mail/kyoto-government-harming-ecosystem-enormous-plastic-sheets/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-03T11:59:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/03/reader-mail/japanese-news-media-biased-blm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-03T12:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/03/reader-mail/international-students-suffering-re-entry-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-03T12:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-brokers-already-reading-beijings-script/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-03T19:29:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21737.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/03/commentary/japan-commentary/japanese-defense-trouble-strike-capabilities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-04T02:55:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21730-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Self-Defense Force F-2s conduct bilateral joint training with a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer and U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcons off the coast of northern Japan on April 22.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/05/cartoons/roger-dahl-canine-youtube-star/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-05T00:00:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_20881-e1593745402363.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20881.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the canine YouTube star]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/04/commentary/world-commentary/2020-wasnt-strange-enough-printers-staging-comeback/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-04T18:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Without access to officer printer, many teleworkers have been resurrecting, or buying, home printers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/02/editorials/struggle-continues-victims-eugenic-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-05T05:01:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a plaintiff in a damages suit against forced sterilization hold a banner stating "unjust ruling" after the Tokyo District Court rejected the man's claim Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/05/commentary/world-commentary/war-terror-survives-rand-pauls-attempt-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-05T19:43:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/05/commentary/world-commentary/nuclear-armed-china-india-fight-fists-stones-clubs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-05T19:43:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/03/commentary/japan-commentary/pandemics-fear-discrimination-japanese-cities-ready-life-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-06T19:24:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21523.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japanese Red Cross website image explains that a pandemic occurs in three waves:  physical infection, psychological infection and social infection.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/06/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-continue-speak-chinas-human-rights-abuses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-06T19:29:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22157.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22157.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been urged by his own party to rethink a scheduled visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/06/commentary/world-commentary/green-energy-firms-human-rights-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-06T19:40:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22201.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22201.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many of the world's largest publicly held solar and wind companies are failing to meet widely accepted human rights benchmarks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/06/commentary/whats-name-princeton-university-faces-racist-past/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-06T19:40:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22160.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22160.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In this April 3, 2016 file photo, Princeton University students walk through an exhibit titled, "In the Nation's Service? Woodrow Wilson Revisited,"  at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton, N.J.   Princeton University has announced plans to remove the name of former President Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school because of his segregationist views, reversing a decision the Ivy League school made four years ago to retain the name.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/06/commentary/japan-commentary/lost-hong-kong-june-30/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-07T16:32:38+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/foreign-policy-biden-worse-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-07T19:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22383-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22383.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was a supporter of U.S. military interventions while he served as a U.S. senator from 1973 to 2009 and as vice president from 2009 to 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/america-china-entering-dark-forest/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-07T19:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22369.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-himalayan-border-aggression-unrelated-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-07T19:27:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22440.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22440.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/balkanization-bad-facebooks-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-07T19:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22428.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22428.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The profits of social media services depend greatly on the whims of foreign authorities.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/07/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-offers-japans-firms-chance-shine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-07T20:25:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22521.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[How companies in Japan treat their employees now will influence how their business and product brands are perceived long after the COVID-19 crisis is over. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/06/commentary/world-commentary/humane-post-pandemic-social-contract/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-08T13:07:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22180-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22180.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A bus driver picks up passengers in New York on June 15. African-American workers reportedly comprise nearly 12 percent of all employees in the United States, but 17 percent of front-line workers.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/06/commentary/japan-commentary/angela-merkel-inspires-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-08T14:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22266.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22266.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel, shown at the G20 summit in Osaka in June last year, offers hints of the path that Japan's female politicians might forge for themselves in the male-dominated world of politics.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/08/commentary/world-commentary/watch-chinas-unconventional-levers-power-world-affairs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-08T19:29:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22835-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22835.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/08/commentary/special-birthday-gift-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-08T19:30:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22704.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22704.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/08/commentary/world-commentary/facebook-zuckerberg-disappoint/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-08T19:26:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22749.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22749.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees that advertisers will eventually return and they will not change their policies under duress.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/09/commentary/world-commentary/meet-trumps-new-political-football-tiktok/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-09T19:31:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23082.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23082.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering banning the wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/09/commentary/japan-commentary/preparing-post-abe-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-09T19:32:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23009.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23009.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s leadership, Japan has opened up on the global stage and turned into a trustworthy, proactive alliance builder.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/reader-mail/online-shopping-needs-improvements-inclusive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T13:58:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/reader-mail/japans-pandemic-mail-restrictions-make-no-sense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T13:58:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/reader-mail/henoko-base-nothing-white-elephant/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T13:59:00+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/reader-mail/japanese-and-foreigners-other-each-other/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T13:59:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/reader-mail/japan-power-attorney-solutions-people-sex-relationships/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T13:59:51+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/commentary/japan-commentary/aegis-ashore-cancellation-mixed-blessing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T19:03:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23245-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23245.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun meet on Friday in Tokyo. The cancellation of the Aegis Ashore system means Japan must come up with an alternative plan for missile defense.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/commentary/japan-commentary/five-things-know-possible-snap-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T19:03:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23220.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23220.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has the final say about the timing of a snap election, but there is significant behind-the-scenes politicking taking place between LDP faction leaders right now.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/10/commentary/world-commentary/british-3-million/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-10T19:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23305.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23305.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/11/commentary/world-commentary/keep-geeks-charge-internet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-11T18:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23157.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23157.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While some countries are aiming to take more control of what people can use the internet for, other groups campaign tirelessly to keep it open to all.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/cant-get-together-tests-get-better/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-12T00:18:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_9087.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_9087.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman gets tested for the coronavirus in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-disease-surveillance-smart-cities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-12T00:20:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_9144.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_9144.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-developers-need-take-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-12T00:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12852.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12852.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man receives a shot in a clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 in Seattle on March 16. On Monday, Massachusetts-based Moderna Therapeutics Inc. announced that a vaccine it is developing generated antibodies similar to those seen in people who have recovered from COVID-19 in a study of volunteers who were given either a low or medium dose. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/world-commentary/american-lockdown-exceptionalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-12T00:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21310.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Few masks are seen on a crowded beach pier in Oceanside, California, on June 22.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/28/editorials/state-emergency-lifted-whats-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-12T00:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_14633.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_14633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe removes his face mask as he starts a news conference on Monday to announce the lifting of the state of emergency.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/08/commentary/world-commentary/fight-coronavirus-vaccine-will-get-ugly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-12T00:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22837-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22837.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/can-japan-get-downward-spiral/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-13T19:28:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23759.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For Japan recover from its malaise, it is essential to have a political leadership that is prudent, fair and active.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-needs-fight-style-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-13T19:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23700.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23700.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono recently scrapped a plan to deploy Aegis Ashore, a land-based missile defense system. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/offensive-digital-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-13T19:48:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23690.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23690.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force train with U.S. Army personnel during Cyber Blitz 2019 to conduct bilateral defensive cyber operations in defense of critical infrastructure.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/world-commentary/political-logic-chinas-strategic-mistakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-13T19:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23774.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23774.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It's tempting to see China’s major policy miscalculations as a consequence of over-concentration of power in the hands of President Xi Jinping, but the mindset of the Chinese Communist Party is also to blame.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/upside-new-cold-war-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-14T19:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stating that China uses grad students and researchers to illegally acquire intellectual property from the United States, President Donald Trump on May 29 announced the issuance of an executive order suspending their entry into the country. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/riots-ever-justifiable/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-14T19:28:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Diane Davis wipes away tears after bringing flowers on June 2 to a memorial for David Dorn, a retired captain with the St. Louis Police Department who was killed while working security for a pawn shop in St. Louis.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/14/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-ready-transformational-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-14T19:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23904.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters return home from work in Tokyo. The number of Japanese firms that plan to continue to allow employees to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis is much lower than that in many Western economies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/erdogan-erasing-ataturks-stamp-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-14T19:27:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24005.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24005.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Originally a cathedral for nearly 1,000 years, the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque after the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople, but it had been a museum for the last 86 years until Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to make it a mosque again on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/14/commentary/japan-commentary/time-japan-present-credible-energy-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-14T19:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23944.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters criticize the Japanese government's coal energy policy at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/15/commentary/world-commentary/libyas-double-tragedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-15T19:26:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24137.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24137.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although neither Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erogan nor his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi likely want a direct military confrontation, their posturing in Libya could lead to a clash that destabilizes the North African and Mediterranean region. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/15/commentary/japan-commentary/moment-japan-rethink-coal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-15T19:48:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24211.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24211.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Environmental Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has stated he wants Japan, the world’s fifth-biggest emitter, to aim for deeper cuts as part of its participation in the 2015 Paris climate accord.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/16/commentary/japan-commentary/time-middle-powers-step/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-16T19:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/reader-mail/ease-harsh-travel-limitations-international-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-17T16:05:30+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/reader-mail/defense-tech-teamwork-japan-u-s-works/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-17T16:05:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/reader-mail/abe-interested-damage-control-governing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-17T16:06:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/commentary/world-commentary/new-way-thinking-foreign-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-17T19:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24479.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24479.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Young tech entrepreneurs in Nairobi have come up with concepts like Ushahidi, an open-source software that's used to share information and interactive maps to prevent conflicts and help aid agencies provide relief in disaster zones.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/commentary/japan-commentary/japanese-distrust-government-stalls-adoption-number-card/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-17T19:10:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24492.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24492.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to opt out of the My Number personal identification system enter the Kanazawa District Court in Ishikawa Prefecture on June 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/commentary/japan-commentary/abe-doctrine-quad-plus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-17T19:12:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24494.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24494.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seen here reviewing an honor guard in Tokyo with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2016, has been seeking to build a consensus to counter an increasingly aggressive China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/18/commentary/world-commentary/want-truth-cant-handle-total-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-18T18:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24212.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Parts of the Australian city of Melbourne have been closed off in recent weeks after COVID-19 cases spiked, leaving some trapped residents dependent on food deliveries.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/19/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-tests-nations-communitarian-values/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-19T19:43:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24608.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24608.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The voluntary widespread use of face masks in Japan has helped curb the spread of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/19/commentary/world-commentary/six-ways-u-s-isnt-ready-wars-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-19T20:14:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24506.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24506.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the future there will be an increasingly seamless merger of AI and autonomous mechanical systems that will take the “person out of the loop” in combat decision-making and operations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/lest-we-forget-lbjs-amazing-side/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-20T15:49:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/20/commentary/japan-commentary/peak-china-illusion-wishful-thinking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-20T19:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25222.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25222.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People's Liberation Army soldiers march in formation during a military parade in Beijing marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China on Oct. 1. Nationalism has played a key role in bolstering the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacy.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/20/commentary/new-u-s-harder-line-doesnt-demand-military-solution-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-20T19:15:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25224.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25224.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Maritime Self-Defense Force training ships Kashima and Shimayuki conduct a passing exercise with the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier in the South China Sea on July 7. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/20/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-deepening-geopolitical-hole/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-20T19:12:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25281.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25281.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[London faces a diplomatic minefield after banning China’s Huawei from the United Kingdom’s next-generation wireless networks, as Beijing accused it of breaking promises.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/20/commentary/world-commentary/saving-iran-nuclear-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-20T19:10:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/21/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-future-cyberconflict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-21T19:29:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25427.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25427.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at the Australian Defence Force Academy on July 1 during the launch of the 2020 DefenceStrategic Update in the wake of cyberattacks targeting Australia.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/21/commentary/world-commentary/risk-many-freedom-navigation-operations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-21T19:28:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25410.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25410.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The USS Ralph Johnson operates in the Spratly Islands on July 14 during a freedom of navigation operation to uphold the rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea, recognized in international law, by challenging restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/21/commentary/world-commentary/contours-future-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-21T20:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25454.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25454.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In late June, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that “there is total lack of coordination among countries” in managing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/21/commentary/world-commentary/whats-name-nfl-teams-decision-make-us-ask/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-21T20:03:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25379.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25379.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Washington Redskins team logo is seen on a vehicle parked outside the NFL team's stadium FedEx Field after the team announced it will be abandoning its controversial Redskins team name and logo under pressure from sponsors to scrap the name that critics denounced as racist.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/17/reader-mail/china-needs-better-system-organ-donations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-22T09:45:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-men-complicated-views-gender-equality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-22T16:02:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25559.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25559.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Japanese government has spent considerable resources trying to increase gender equality in the workplace, but similar programs aimed at improving equality outside the office are appear necessary.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/beijings-five-finger-punch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-22T19:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25681.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25681.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Exiled Tibetans shout their solidarity with India in the country's standoff with China over the Ladakh region during a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on July 11.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/south-koreas-trade-fight-threatens-serious-long-term-harm-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-22T19:30:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25731.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25731.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A salesman demonstrates a Samsung Electronics smartphone in Seoul. Companies in South Korea, with the aid of the government, are seeking out alternative methods to get around Japan's tightened export controls on special chemicals.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/theres-smoke-u-s-navys-fire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-22T19:27:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25692.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25692.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. sailors in San Diego stand at attention and salute on July 14 near the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, which caught fire two days earlier.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/another-internet-border-just-gone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-22T19:14:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25803.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25803.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Transferring data between Europe and the United States just got very complicated.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/08/commentary/world-commentary/americas-hong-kong-approach-harm-good/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-23T14:10:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22759-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester prepares to stab a police officer who is trying to detain a man during a rally against the new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/23/commentary/japan-commentary/make-japans-annual-defense-report/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-23T19:26:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25895.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25895.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The annual Defense of Japan white paper is an excellent resource for those seeking to understand the evolution of Japanese security practice.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/23/editorials/support-medical-institutions-staff-combating-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-23T19:26:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25896.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25896.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 outbreak is testing the resiliency of Japan's health care system. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/world-commentary/america-way-calm-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T13:12:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23776.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/time-build-post-pandemic-world-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T14:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_16833-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_16833.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/reader-mail/americas-covid-19-misinformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T17:26:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/reader-mail/organizations-citizens-alike-falling-short-anti-virus-efforts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T17:26:48+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/reader-mail/visas-given-international-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T17:29:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/reader-mail/government-dont-forget-international-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T17:38:43+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/reader-mail/jets-suffering-draconian-ticket-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T17:39:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-isnt-crisis-facing-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-24T17:43:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25996.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25996.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Growing concerns over China’s geopolitical ambitions and human rights record could result in boycotts of the 2022 Winter Games.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/25/commentary/world-commentary/dont-get-depressed-covid-19-antibody-studies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-25T18:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25630.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25630.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A team at the University of Oxford has reported positive initial results from its ongoing coronavirus vaccine trials.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/26/commentary/world-commentary/east-asias-new-edge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-26T19:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25986.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25986.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A billboard warns of the perils of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam has reported no coronavirus-related fatalities.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/china-refuses-quit-philippines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T10:41:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25983.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters step on a Chinese flag during a rally outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/27/commentary/japan-commentary/senkakus-battle-just-war-game-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T19:29:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese marine surveillance ships and Japan Coast Guard vessels and a Japanese fishing boat sail near Uotsuri Island on July 1, 2013.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/27/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-really-give-china-strategic-advantage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T19:28:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26561.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26561.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A perceived need to show that China was still in fighting shape despite the domestic disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak may be a factor in Beijing's foreign policy this year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/27/commentary/world-commentary/tough-talk-no-substitute-clear-vision-u-s-china-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T19:30:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A firetruck responds to reports that documents were being burned in the courtyard of the Chinese Consulate in Houston on Wednesday after the U.S. government ordered China to close it.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/27/commentary/world-commentary/germanys-bund-may-lose-crown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T19:30:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The German national and European Union flags fly outside the Reichstag building on July 1. Germany can no longer rely on its famed parsimony for propping up the value of bunds.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/27/commentary/world-commentary/poor-countries-running-time-get-rich/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-27T19:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26643.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A laborer carries a load of empty oil tins in Mumbai. Unless countries such as India, Indonesia and Brazil implement reforms within the next decade, they may never become rich.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/28/commentary/japan-commentary/shape-post-pandemic-university-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T19:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/28/commentary/japan-commentary/geopolitics-sports-japans-summer-games-world-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T19:13:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors pose in front of the National Stadium on July 22, a day before the start of the one-year countdown to the opening of the postponed Tokyo Olympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/28/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-china-engagement-conundrum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T19:15:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26962.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/28/commentary/world-commentary/working-home-terrible-news-landlords/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T19:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27050.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A businessman walks to work in a deserted City of London on July 20. Employers and employees increasingly see offices as an option rather than a necessity for many white-collar workers.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/28/commentary/world-commentary/ok-boomer-going-socialize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-28T19:53:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27055.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27055.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The older generations must offer millennials a better deal.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/look-american-people-not-government-inspiration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T19:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27302.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27302.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators take part in a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/china-wants-business-not-conquer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T19:34:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27243.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27243.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twenty-first century China presents a unique challenge because it is an empire of both land and sea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/najibs-stunning-guilty-verdict-proves-things-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T19:35:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27350.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27350.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak leaves the Duta Court complex after being found guilty in his corruption trial in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-china-reconciliation-drifting-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T19:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27218.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27218.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on July 23, casting China’s leaders as tyrants bent on global hegemony.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/spain-telling-us-coronavirus-second-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-29T19:36:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_27306.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27306.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/reader-mail/social-media-companies-must-targets-cyberbullies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T09:30:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/20/commentary/japan-commentary/securing-japan-chinese-predatory-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T10:05:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25204.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has banned Chinese firms from bidding on government 5G contracts and NTT is collaborating with NEC Corp. in advancing a “made-in-Japan” alliance in 5G network infrastructure, equipment and base stations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/14/commentary/world-commentary/why-australia-is-burning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T16:27:45+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/28/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-vending-machines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:29:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19633-e1593142225228.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's vending machines]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/12/cartoons/roger-dahl-struggle-find-large-size-jeans-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:29:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_22348-e1594356867411.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the struggle to find large-size jeans in Japan ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/19/cartoons/roger-dahl-day-beach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23997.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on a day at the beach]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/26/cartoons/roger-dahl-handling-blackout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:30:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25361-e1595653011539.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25361.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on handling a blackout]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/27/cartoons/roger-dahl-new-covid-19-baseball-landscape/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19631-e1593142180309.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19631.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the new COVID-19 baseball landscape]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/04/cartoons/roger-dahl-preemptive-strike-nursery-rhyme/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_20879-e1593745412130.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20879.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the preemptive strike nursery rhyme]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/11/cartoons/roger-dahl-impact-japans-rainy-season-employment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_22346.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the impact Japan's rainy season has on employment]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/18/cartoons/roger-dahl-turning-corner-amid-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:30:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23995.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on turning a corner amid a pandemic]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/25/cartoons/roger-dahl-governments-go-travel-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T17:31:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25359.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the government's Go To Travel campaign]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/30/commentary/world-commentary/latest-electric-car-hurdle-cant-resell/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T18:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27559.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tesla offers its customers a resale value guarantee, but electric car makers can't afford to do that.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/09/editorials/tokyos-gubernatorial-race-holds-lessons-nation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T23:13:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23050.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A divided opposition and the coronavirus crisis helped propel Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to victory in Sunday's election.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/16/editorials/saving-vulnerable-disasters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-30T23:14:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24388.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A resident clears debris from a home in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 10 after heavy rains and flooding devastated the region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/30/commentary/japan-commentary/misreading-chinese-tea-leaves-dangerous-escalation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T00:42:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27470.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cast China’s leaders as tyrants bent on global hegemony in his July 23 speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/06/01/editorials/mr-kans-lofty-energy-goal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T10:49:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/03/18/commentary/world-commentary/disaster-clobbers-a-helper/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T10:50:56+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/09/30/commentary/education-key-to-prevent-honor-killings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T10:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/07/05/commentary/world-commentary/obama-cant-escape-americas-realpolitik/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:07:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/06/18/commentary/is-the-india-and-china-hype-true/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:07:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/06/12/commentary/world-commentary/another-looming-food-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:08:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/06/02/commentary/macho-move-would-make-burmas-plight-even-worse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:08:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/05/19/commentary/world-commentary/if-there-is-a-god-then-why-is-there-suffering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:09:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/05/10/commentary/japan-needs-a-dose-of-koizumis-old-magic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:10:15+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/24/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-self-inflicted-wounds-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:34:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25972.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's flag flies over newly built octagonal structures at Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in 1995. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced July 13 that the United States would treat Beijing's pursuit of resources in the dispute-rife South China Sea as illegal.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/31/reader-mail/got-travel-campaign-nothing-another-boondoggle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:51:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/31/reader-mail/olympics-covid-19-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:52:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/31/reader-mail/white-people-privileged-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T11:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/31/commentary/world-commentary/undead-economies-price-mini-lockdowns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T19:38:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has warned that after an initial spurt the nation's economic recovery will slow. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/31/commentary/world-commentary/old-political-dream-coming-true-last/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T19:39:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27674.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters demand the extension of unemployment aid on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 22. The crippling financial impact of the coronavirus crisis could spur economic reforms.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/31/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-post-pandemic-information-technology-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-07-31T19:39:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27665.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor demonstrates a telemedicine application in Tokyo on July 8. A "shock therapy" policy is needed to overcome vested interests and push Japan's digital transformation forward.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/01/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccine-wont-help-people-dont-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-01T18:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27435.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27435.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A recent poll found that one-third of Americans would not try to get a coronavirus vaccination if a vaccine became available.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/02/commentary/world-commentary/china-finally-makes-peace-foreign-garbage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T16:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27749.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laborers work at a paper products recycling station in Shanghai.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/02/commentary/world-commentary/peace-last-yemen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T16:28:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27776.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27776.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester in London's Parliament Square demonstrates against the continued conflict in Yemen on July 5. Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have been killed and millions displaced in what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian disaster. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/02/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-strike-capability-aegis-ashore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T18:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27737.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera addresses a joint meeting of Liberal Democratic Party panels weighing Japan's missile defense at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/02/commentary/japan-commentary/digital-infrastructure-reset/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-02T19:51:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_27222.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27222.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Connecting Japan's cities to the country's countryside through WiFi and digital technology will allow people to work from a wider range of locations in future.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/03/commentary/lee-teng-hui-icon-asian-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T19:13:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28215.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui smiles as he holds his own Haiku poem in front of a statue of Matsuo Basho in Tokyo in 2007. Lee, who oversaw the island’s transition to full democracy, died on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/03/commentary/japan-commentary/tokyo-pompeo-communist-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T19:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28124.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Chinese dissidents on July 23 at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, where he gave a scathing speech on "totalitarian" China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/03/commentary/world-commentary/tech-titans-us-congress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T19:22:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28220.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power" in Washington on July 29.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/03/commentary/world-commentary/us-china-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T19:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28109.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker removes a plaque from the shuttered United States Consulate in Chengdu, China, on Wednesday. Rancor between the world's top two economies has spread from a trade war to include Hong Kong, Chinese Muslims, spying accusations and control of the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/03/commentary/world-commentary/global-war-5g/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T19:39:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28113.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/01/commentary/world-commentary/pressure-cookers-now-wmd/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:36:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/why-people-stay-scared-after-tragedies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:36:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/02/editorials/the-boston-bombings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:37:28+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/01/commentary/world-commentary/the-paradox-of-the-boston-bombing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:37:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/photos-of-carnage-would-check-war-sentiment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:38:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/attack-will-prove-urban-resiliency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-03T22:38:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/04/commentary/world-commentary/china-hawks-got-mostly-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28319.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28319.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clashing over issues ranging from trade to the South China Sea, Hong Kong and COVID-19, relations between the United States and China have taken a dramatic turn for the worse since U.S. President Donald Trump visited Beijing in November 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/04/commentary/world-commentary/long-governments-spend-away/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:51:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28397.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/04/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-china-relationship-shakespearean-tragedy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-04T22:52:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28313.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28313.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/05/commentary/world-commentary/vietnam-us-indopacific-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T19:08:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28538.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28538.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Escorted by Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, U.S. President Donald Trump reviews an honor guard in Hanoi during his state visit on Nov. 11, 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/05/commentary/world-commentary/virtual-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T19:09:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28714.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28714.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lil Nas X performs "Old Town Road," a song that was a product of virtual work, at the 62nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 26.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/05/commentary/world-commentary/disease-1880s-fresh-air/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T19:09:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28747.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28747.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The dry, climate-controlled environments found in virtually all modern office buildings give COVID-19 what it needs to reproduce.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/05/commentary/world-commentary/tiktok-national-security/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-05T21:31:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28704.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/06/commentary/world-commentary/europe-weak-dollar-problem/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-06T18:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29053.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29053.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The dollar has weakened 5 percent versus the euro this year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/06/commentary/world-commentary/specter-financial-socialism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-06T18:57:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28903.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At a July 29 virtual news conference, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced that the central bank will use all of its tools to support the recovery of the U.S. economy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/05/commentary/japan-commentary/remembering-hiroshima-nagasaki/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:46:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28549.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors pray at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Burial Mound in Hiroshima on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/09/15/commentary/japan-commentary/obama-visit-hiroshima-send-right-message/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-07T21:46:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p12-Miyama-a-20150916.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/reflection-75th-anniversary-atomic-bombings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:19:37+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/hiroshima-nagasaki-crime-humanity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:19:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/japanese-workers-allowed-stay-home-ill/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:20:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/world-needs-learn-tragedies-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:20:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/old-depreciation-balcony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:20:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/basically-trump-hates-job/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/commentary/japan-commentary/meti-coal-plants-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T10:22:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28987.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the 2018 Basic Energy Plan, coal will generate 26 percent of Japan's electricity in 2030, followed by renewable energy at 22 to 24 percent and nuclear power at 
20 to 22 percent.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/08/cartoons/roger-dahl-75th-anniversary-atomic-bombing-hiroshima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T19:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28492.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/08/cartoons/roger-dahl-hairstyles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T19:01:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28493.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on hairstyles]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/08/commentary/world-commentary/wheres-sympathy-lonely-young-people/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-08T22:28:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_28310.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While many have joked that pandemic restrictions for younger people simply mean sitting at home and watching television, the reality can be much bleaker.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/09/commentary/world-commentary/beirut-explosions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-09T18:54:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Aid from nations around the world has been flowing into Beirut since the massive explosion that rocked Lebanon's capital last Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/09/commentary/japan-commentary/diversity-tolerating-differences/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-09T19:04:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing protective face masks are seen in Tokyo's Harajuku shopping district last month.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/tiktok-facebook-google/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-10T18:05:11+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/india-hindu-nationalists/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-10T18:01:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs a religious ritual during the groundbreaking ceremony of a grand Hindu temple in Ayodhya on Aug. 5. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/economic-effect-artificial-intelligence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-10T18:14:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Robots that can flip burgers, make salads and even bake bread are in growing demand as virus-wary kitchens try to put some distance between workers and customers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/10/commentary/china-literacy-vietnam-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T20:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A soldier sprays disinfectants on a road from a military vehicle to help curb a coronavirus outbreak in Da Nang, Vietnam, on Aug. 3.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/11/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-ban-tiktok-wechat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T21:13:43+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/11/commentary/world-commentary/minding-perils-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T21:14:50+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/11/commentary/world-commentary/new-iran-deal-us-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T21:15:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing new sanctions on Iran on June 24, 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/11/commentary/japan-commentary/china-influence-operations-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T21:18:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping, shown meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in December, calls united front work a “magic weapon” for advancing Chinese Communist Party goals.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/09/commentary/world-commentary/coronaphobia-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-11T21:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thousands of people participate in a protest against the German government's COVID-19 restrictions in Berlin on Aug. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/drastic-measures-must-taken-save-japan-virus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T12:41:34+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/01/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-olympic-banana-skins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T13:44:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's Olympic banana skins]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/02/cartoons/roger-dahl-perils-texting-hiking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T13:45:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the perils of texting while hiking]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/12/commentary/world-commentary/people-fear-cancel-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T19:02:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/12/commentary/world-commentary/rich-royals-face-millennial-covid-19-reckoning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T19:03:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mural of former Spanish King Juan Carlos by graffiti artist El Primo de Bansky covers the side of a building in Valencia, Spain. The 82-year-old announced on Aug. 3 that he was leaving Spain to prevent his personal affairs from undermining his son King Felipe VI's reign.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/12/commentary/world-commentary/road-red-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-12T19:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/12/commentary/japan-commentary/nagasaki-bombing-wasnt-last-aerial-attack-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T03:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30132.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A memorial next to Kyobashi Station in Osaka honors the victims who died when bombs fell on the station in Osaka on Aug. 14, 1945, killing hundreds of civilian evacuees. The city was one of the last sites in Japan to be bombed during World War II.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/19/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-post-coronavirus-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T11:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24115.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24115.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While it is often thought that the Self-Defense Forces or other first responders would come to the rescue in times of disaster, this would not be easy in densely packed metropolitan areas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/28/commentary/japan-commentary/coping-chinas-economic-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T11:05:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25351.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25351.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As China becomes increasingly active in exercising economic coercion, there is a pressing need for like-minded countries to work more closely together.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/12/reader-mail/hawaii-occupied-nation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T11:26:25+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/reader-mail/re-examining-behavior/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T11:27:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/13/commentary/world-commentary/young-adults-driving-europes-coronavirus-curve/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T18:14:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A group of young people gather on the beach in the Dutch coastal town of Zandvoort on Aug. 6. That day Prime Minister Mark Rutte called on tourists to avoid crowded places in Amsterdam as coronavirus infections showed a worrying rise.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/13/commentary/japan-commentary/explaining-japans-policy-debate-strike-capability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T18:15:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30220.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30220.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese strategists and LDP Diet members are considering the acquisition of Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of about 1,300 km that could strike targets in North Korea as well as China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/13/commentary/world-commentary/time-rethink-japan-u-s-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T18:16:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29955.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29955.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "new Cold War" developing between the United States under President Donald Trump and China under President Xi Jinping is presenting problems for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe regarding alliances and security.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/13/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-south-korea-china-cant-put-past-behind/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-13T20:30:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30445.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30445.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet at the Eighth Trilateral Summit on Dec. 24. More venues, forums and platforms are needed for Japanese, South Koreans and Chinese to reconcile their differences.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/japan-cant-shake-sexism-subtle-otherwise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:05:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/lifting-travel-bans-risky-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:07:36+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/kamala-harris-donald-trumps-nemesis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:08:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/ready-covid-19-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:09:12+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/china-deserves-criticism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:09:46+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/can-still-many-things-summer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:10:23+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/reader-mail/dont-father-bullies-tell-daughter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-14T12:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/15/cartoons/roger-dahl-dogs-life/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T18:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30125-e1597468542370.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30125.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on a dog's life]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/15/cartoons/roger-dahl-shinzo-abes-absence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T18:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30121-e1597468584667.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30121.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Shinzo Abe's absence]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/15/commentary/world-commentary/not-even-herd-immunity-can-fully-protect-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-15T20:23:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30128.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30128.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Few face masks are seen in Sweden, which has taken a relaxed approach to the pandemic and has seen low death rates, leading some to wonder if the country has herd immunity.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/commentary/japan-commentary/reflections-japans-longest-day-75-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-16T22:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30590.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30590.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese prisoners of war in Guam react with bowed heads after hearing Emperor Hirohito deliver the announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender on Aug. 15, 1945.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/17/editorials/japan-target-renewable-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T19:05:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30443.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30443.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan dramatically increased its reliance on thermal power plants, including coal, to make up for the loss of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/14/commentary/world-commentary/collective-resilience-way-address-china-challenge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-17T21:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30493-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30493.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/18/commentary/japan-commentary/vision-growth-75-years/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T19:07:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31243.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31243.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A social distancing sign is displayed in the Jiyugaoka neighborhood of Tokyo as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a heavy toll on Japan’s economy.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/18/commentary/world-commentary/keeping-united-kingdom-united/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-18T19:09:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31283-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31283.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/19/commentary/coal-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T18:20:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31605.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31605.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It’s all downhill from here.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/19/commentary/world-commentary/taiwan-coronavirus-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T18:21:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31264.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31264.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar (left) and Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung hold a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding at the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taipei on Aug. 10 in a demonstration of international cooperation to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/19/commentary/world-commentary/military-israel-uae/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-19T18:22:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31713.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/20/commentary/world-commentary/phantom-risk-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T02:44:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31971.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31971.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Teachers demonstrate a plexiglass reading corner in an elementary school classroom in Tucson, Arizona, on Aug. 14. U.S. parents, educators, doctors and the government all disagree on the best way to operate schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/20/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-opposition-parties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T02:48:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31907.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31907.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Democratic Party for the People endorse a plan to dissolve the party for a merger with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, during a meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/19/commentary/japan-commentary/marriage-japanese-women-tokyo-university/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T10:59:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31284.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A husband and wife participate in a ceremony to mark their 10th wedding anniversary in Tobetsu, Hokkaido.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/reader-mail/trumps-mail-voting-ruse-farcical/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:58:41+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/reader-mail/politicians-yasukuni-visits-remain-deeply-disturbing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/reader-mail/use-pause-tourist-traffic-craft-better-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:59:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/reader-mail/many-sacrifices-altar-will-india-need/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:59:11+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/reader-mail/power-loving-peace/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/reader-mail/local-shopping-districts-deserve-support/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T13:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/commentary/world-commentary/restaurant-calorie-counts-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:48:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32093-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32093.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.K. government is taking steps to cut obesity. The question is how effective these measures will be.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/commentary/world-commentary/us-presidential-election-japan-us-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:49:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32331.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32331.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, watch fireworks during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday in Wilmington, Delaware.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/21/commentary/japan-commentary/macroeconomic-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-21T21:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32157.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32157.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Share prices have remained robust despite the steep GDP fall brought on by the pandemic's impact on retail sales and exports.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/22/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-re-entry-policy-amid-covid-19-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-22T19:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31543-e1598072189969.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31543.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's re-entry policy amid COVID-19 pandemic]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/22/cartoons/roger-dahl-dangers-grass-allergies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-22T19:50:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31544-e1598072220446.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31544.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the dangers of grass allergies]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/22/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-vaccines-supply-chain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T11:27:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31624.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31624.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Horseshoe crab blood carries limulus amebocyte lysate, which is used to help detect dangerous molecules in vaccines.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/23/commentary/world-commentary/us-college-admissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T19:01:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32252.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32252.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Universities in the United States have obvious incentives to admit more students from rich families.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/23/commentary/world-commentary/intellectual-revolution-mena-region/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-23T19:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32304.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32304.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Algerians hold an anti-government protest in Algiers on Nov. 26 of last year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/23/commentary/world-commentary/outdoor-masks-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T06:01:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32094.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32094.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taking a breather.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/24/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-five-eyes-intelligence-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T20:15:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32758.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32758.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Taro Kono has been among the most vocal proponents of Japanese membership in the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing arrangement.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/24/commentary/world-commentary/depression-anxiety-young-adults-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T20:29:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32749-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32749.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/24/commentary/world-commentary/long-term-unemployment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-24T20:33:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32909-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32909.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People line up in June outside a career center in Frankfort, Kentucky, hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claims.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/25/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-recessions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T18:45:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33017.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33017.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic conditions are too closely tied to the pandemic’s trajectory to be able to forecast with confidence the course of recovery.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/25/commentary/world-commentary/china-expansionism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T18:46:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32852.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/25/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-democratic-party-convention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-25T18:48:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32967.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32967.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is seen in a video feed from Delaware with his wife, Jill, and his grandchildren during the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Aug. 18.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/belarus-vladimir-putin-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T18:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33205.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-digital-currency-will-rise-not-rule/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T19:05:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33197.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/pharma-rivals-fighting-covid-19-together-stop/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T19:06:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33179.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33179.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/europe-make-mistake-reopening-borders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T19:07:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33286.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33286.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester in Berlin holds a copy of the German constitution during a rally Aug. 1 against the government's restrictions over the coronavirus outbreak.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/eu-negotiation-britain-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T19:09:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33090.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33090.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (left) and European Commission spokesman Daniel Ferrie wrap up a news conference after a trade meeting with British officials in Brussels last Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/26/commentary/japan-commentary/us-technonationalism-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-26T19:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33273-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33273.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/27/commentary/japan-commentary/abenomics-finally-finds-moment-genius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-27T20:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33544.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33544.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda holds a news conference in Tokyo on July 15.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/28/reader-mail/japanese-not-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T12:58:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/28/reader-mail/another-base-issue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T12:59:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/28/reader-mail/embassies-step-help-returnees-self-quarantine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T12:59:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/28/reader-mail/donald-trump-not-racist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T13:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/27/editorials/will-abes-legacy-longest-serving-prime-minister/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T15:10:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33532.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33532.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/20/editorials/work-style-reform-japan-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31970.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31970.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shackled by an outdated system, Japan's national bureaucrats centered in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district are working dangerously long hours.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/19/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-china-supply-chain-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:52:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31768.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31768.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/18/commentary/japan-commentary/tokyo-kamala-harris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_31359.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_31359.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sen. Kamala Harris speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, last Thursday as former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden looks on.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/23/commentary/japan-commentary/shinzo-abe-milestone-tobias-harris/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:54:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_32588.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_32588.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June 18.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/17/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-leaders-prefer-republicans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T18:55:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_30770.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_30770.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If U.S. President Donald Trump wins reelection on Nov. 3, Japan's leadership will feel relieved, thinking that continuity and familiarity will prevail.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/27/commentary/japan-commentary/abes-milestone-marks-mixed-incremental-record/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-28T20:08:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33448.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33448.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tenure has been quite different than castigators imagined at the domestic and international level and, as with all political leaders, it has been punctuated by successes, failures and missed opportunities.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/28/commentary/world-commentary/epidemics-economics-externalities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-29T10:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_33723.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_33723.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shop owner in Queens hands a customer a package through a curbside pickup window as New Yorkers seek to help each other through the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
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	<url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seen on a large screen during a live news conference in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/29/cartoons/roger-dahl-oppositions-merger/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the opposition's merger]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on collecting cultural treasures]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Shinzo Abe attends a news conference following a victory in the Upper House elections by his ruling coalition, at LDP headquarters in Tokyo in July 2016. ]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) and South Korean President Moon Jae-meet in Tokyo in May 2018.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets Chinese President Xi Jinping during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing in November 2014.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-31T13:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-08-31T13:29:21+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/reader-mail/japanese-leaders-put-economy-citizens-well/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T13:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/commentary/world-commentary/social-cost-covid-19/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the London Symphony Orchestra practice social distancing Thursday as they rehearse for an upcoming performance.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/commentary/world-commentary/us-loneliness-epidemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T16:21:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[There’s growing evidence that the United States is suffering from an epidemic of social isolation. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/reader-mail/abe-leaves-mixed-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T18:52:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/reader-mail/trump-cant-make-socialism-four-letter-word/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T18:52:40+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/reader-mail/no-use-crying-spilled-oil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T18:52:49+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/commentary/japan-commentary/prepare-next-disaster-mutual-support-agreements/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T18:53:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People clear debris from shops damaged by flooding in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture,  on July 8.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/31/commentary/japan-commentary/shinzo-abe-successor-ldp-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-08-31T19:02:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership vote at party headquarters in Tokyo in September 2018.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/india-coronavirus-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T17:39:22+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/iran-pressure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T17:40:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi in Tehran on Wednesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/china-isolation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T17:40:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese national flag flies from a ferry as retired People's Liberation Army Navy frigates  sit anchored on the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-spending-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T18:10:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers assemble appliances at the Whirlpool manufacturing plant in Cleveland, Tennessee.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/debt-trap-diplomacy-bri-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-01T22:55:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping raises his glass and proposes a toast at the end of his speech during a banquet after the welcome ceremony of leaders attending the Belt and Road forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in April 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/assassination-attempt-nobusuke-kishi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T10:25:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23669.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi displays the United States-Japan security treaty after the signing ceremony at the White House on Jan. 9, 1960. The man who stabbed him on July 14 that year said he was unhappy with Kishi’s handling of the ratification process and wanted to punish him.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/big-china-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T12:28:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This aerial photo taken on Aug. 23 shows water being released from China's Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/02/commentary/world-commentary/us-expats-citizenship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-02T18:48:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. immigration officer swears in a newly naturalized citizen in an empty parking amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Santa Ana, California, on July 29. Still, by the best estimates, renunciations of U.S. citizenship have been rising since 2010, when the Obama administration passed the notorious Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), inflicting misery on U.S. expats everywhere. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/04/commentary/world-commentary/trump-biden-equally-awful/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T18:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/02/commentary/world-commentary/us-china-tech-cold-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T19:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34949.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The patchwork nature of international rules is creating complexity for firms and friction between nations. Just since the start of July, aside from Trump’s executive orders against TikTok and WeChat, India has banned 59 Chinese apps, and the European Court of Justice struck down the Privacy Shield mechanism, which U.S. firms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. had been using to handle personal data from the EU.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/03/editorials/india-china-line-of-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T19:38:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[India and China have long contested their 3,500-km border, the Line of Control.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/30/editorials/no-lost-decades-womens-empowerment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T19:43:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_27523.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Men continue to dominate leadership roles in both government and the private sector.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/04/commentary/world-commentary/un-security-council/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-04T23:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the United Nations Security Council observe a moment of silence at the beginning of a meeting about Afghanistan at the U.N.'s headquarters in New York City on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/06/editorials/japans-stalled-nuclear-fuel-cycle-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-05T08:33:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_28954.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Nuclear Regulation Authority has given a green light for a reprocessing plant under construction in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, which would produce more plutonium than can be consumed at the nation's nuclear power plants under current conditions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/05/cartoons/roger-dahl-shinzo-abes-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-05T18:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34797.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Shinzo Abe's legacy]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/05/cartoons/roger-dahl-rock-paper-scissors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-05T18:01:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on rock paper scissors]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/05/commentary/world-commentary/freedom-assembly-absolute-right/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-05T19:00:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters, mainly from the far right, gathered in Berlin on Aug. 29 to demonstrate against Germany's coronavirus restrictions.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/06/commentary/world-commentary/china-coal-oil/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-06T17:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coal is loaded into a bulk carrier at Qingdao Port, Shandong province, China, in April 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/06/commentary/world-commentary/iceland-coronavirus-immunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-06T18:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman cycles down a street painted in rainbow colors near the Hallgrimskirkja church, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, in Reykjavik on Sept. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/06/commentary/world-commentary/china-us-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-06T21:17:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35615.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35615.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The official Chinese position on the U.S. presidential contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is that it has no position, a plea that has fallen on deaf American ears.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/06/commentary/world-commentary/russia-media-belarus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-06T21:19:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35480.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35480.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman shouts at police officers during a students protest against presidential election results in Minsk on Sept. 1.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/06/commentary/world-commentary/currency-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-06T21:21:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35494.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35494.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fed is effectively conducting a policy of benign neglect in the currency market. For the benefit of its own economy and  much of the developing world, the U.S. central bank is in no rush to reverse that.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/07/commentary/japan-commentary/tiktok-softbank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-07T18:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36003.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36003.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ever the deal hound, SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son seems to have dug up what could be the smartest move he’ll make this year. His company is putting together a coalition to bid for TikTok’s business in India, Bloomberg says. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/08/commentary/world-commentary/boris-johnson-britain-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-08T18:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36422.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36422.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the weekly question time debate in Parliament in London on Sept. 2.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/08/commentary/world-commentary/taiwan-us-strategic-ambiguity-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-08T18:15:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36408.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36408.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's Kee Lung (DDG-1801) guided-missile destroyer (front) and other vessels take part in a military drill near Hualien, Taiwan, in May 2019.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/world-commentary/green-recovery-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T17:16:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36553-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36553.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Dubbed the Green-Shaped Recovery, the trend is projected to draw trillions of dollars of funding for more environmentally friendly projects and industry as well as climate mitigation jobs over the coming decades. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/world-commentary/bankers-remote-work-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T18:38:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36547.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36547.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 epidemic showed most jobs, even in the cutting-edge corners of finance where milliseconds count, can be done remotely if needed. But the bank of the future won’t be quite so accommodating.
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/world-commentary/less-democratic-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T18:39:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36657.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36657.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Riot police officers detain a demonstrator during a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong in May.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/world-commentary/bubble-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T18:40:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36552.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36552.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In China, actively managed stock funds reported an average 45 percent return in the first eight months. This entire industry has thus been put on a spinning wheel, perpetually looking for growth and paying an exorbitant price for it.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/world-commentary/vaccines-big-pharma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T18:41:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36670.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36670.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/japan-commentary/what-to-watch-ldp-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-09T18:41:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36693.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary (center), walks on a stage at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/09/commentary/world-commentary/domestic-violence-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T13:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36756.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36756.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/10/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-ending-iraq-war-gift-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T18:24:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36845.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36845.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. soldiers are seen during a handover ceremony of Taji military base north of Baghdad to Iraqi security forces on Aug. 23, 2020.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/10/editorials/apparent-poisoning-alexei-navalny-reveals-putins-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-10T19:03:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36954.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36954.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kremlin under President Vladimir Putin is well served by a belief that there is no line it will not cross to silence its enemies.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/11/commentary/world-commentary/high-crimes-journalism-decency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T19:07:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37175-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37175.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rall]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/11/commentary/world-commentary/traders-getting-smarter-vaccine-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T19:08:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36864.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36864.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With every bit of vaccine news, the mantra is 'don't panic, but do proceed with caution.' It applies to investors, drug companies, and regulators deciding which vaccine to approve and when.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/11/commentary/japan-commentary/older-generation-must-make-way-younger-generation-new-ideas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:32:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37239.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37239.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[COVID-19 has brought about many changes in how we live, and it could trigger changes to traditional approaches and roles for older people. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/10/commentary/japan-commentary/can-abes-successor-lead-japan-economic-prosperity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36839.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36839.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary (middle), Fumio Kishida, chairman of the Policy Research Council at the Liberal Democratic Party (left), and Shigeru Ishiba, a member of the LDP and the Lower House, attend a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/08/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-foreign-policy-shinzo-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:33:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_36382.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_36382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (right), former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (center) and former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba attend a speech session during the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election at its headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/04/commentary/japan-commentary/asia-shinzo-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:33:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35447.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomes India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon his arrival for a photo session at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka in June 2019.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/03/commentary/japan-commentary/okinawa-rape-incident-us-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35221.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35221.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protestors demonstrate against U.S. bases in Okinawa in front of the Okinawa Prefectural Government offices in Naha in May 2010.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/02/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-shinzo-abe-successor-foreign-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:35:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_34896.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34896.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for a bilateral meeting at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo in May 2019. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/02/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-next-prime-minister-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:35:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-05-04T000000Z_86302877_RC2MHG9IWFYD_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-JAPAN-ABE-scaled.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[2020-05-04T000000Z_86302877_RC2MHG9IWFYD_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-JAPAN-ABE.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attend a May news conference in Tokyo. Suga, once thought of as a dark horse candidate to succeed Abe, has emerged as the front-runner in the race.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/11/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-legal-response-china-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29921.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29921.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship and a China Coast Guard vessel sail in Japanese territorial waters near Uotsuri Island on Sept. 10, 2013. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/11/commentary/japan-commentary/dont-bet-post-pandemic-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:36:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17362.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An electronic quotation board displays share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. Pride and confidence in Japan-style capitalism and Japan-style leadership have grown during the COVID-19 crisis.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/10/commentary/japan-commentary/comfort-women-times-activist-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:37:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_17225.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_17225.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former South Korean "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo has been critical of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/25/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-must-start-drafting-indo-pacific-charter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:38:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13952-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13952.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/22/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-versus-japans-culture-collectivism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_13455.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_13455.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Commuters pass through Tokyo's Shinagawa Station during rush hour on Thursday. Collective actions such as the mass wearing of face masks may help account for Japan's relatively low number of COVID-19 cases despite the lack of a strict lockdown.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/18/commentary/japan-commentary/welcome-move-u-s-marines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:39:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/np_file_12573.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_12573.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Marines play a critical role in the defense of Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/28/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-strategy-japan-model/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:39:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_9036.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_9036.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Tokyo train station passageway is crowded with commuters during rush hour on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/15/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-pandemic-no-soft-power-victory-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:40:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_6503.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_6503.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/13/commentary/japan-commentary/keep-distance-1-8-meters-avoid-catastrophe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:40:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_6073.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_6073.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks at a news conference on Tokyo's response to the coronavirus outbreak, in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/07/commentary/japan-commentary/crisis-offers-opportunity-radical-educational-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:41:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4359.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4359.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Children attend the entrance ceremony of an elementary school in Nagoya on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/02/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-boost-neighbors-manufacturing-industries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:42:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/p7-Tamura-a-20200203.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-Tamura-a-20200203.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker pours molten metal into a mold in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture. Japan's large number of small firms, which face murky business prospects at home, can help other Asian countries cultivate and strengthen their homegrown manufacturing industries.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/27/commentary/japan-commentary/closing-japans-gender-gap-role-women-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:42:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p9-Shirakawa-a-20200128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-Shirakawa-a-20200128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only 20 percent of the people who work in Japan's media industry are women.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-population-will-grow-keeps-falling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:43:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p8-Tamura-a-20200128.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-Tamura-a-20200128.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If Japan's population continues to decrease at the present rate, depopulated zones will emerge across the nation that people from outside the nation may want to fill.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-going-wrong-way-english-education-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:43:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p9-Sawa-a-20200122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-Sawa-a-20200122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Third-grade students study English inTokyo's Shinagawa Ward.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/21/commentary/japan-commentary/time-japan-take-new-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:44:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p8-Walker-a-20200122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-Walker-a-20200122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A barge hauls the Olympic logo on Saturday to install in Tokyo's Odaiba district. The global spotlight will shine on Japan this summer when it hosts the Olympics and Paralympics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/21/commentary/japan-commentary/india-fits-japans-indo-pacific-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:45:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p8-basu-a-20200122.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-basu-a-20200122.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese, Indian and U.S. naval vessels sail in formation during Exercise Malabar 2017.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/20/commentary/japan-commentary/think-tanks-matter-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:46:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p1-Miyake-a-20200121.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-Miyake-a-20200121.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The best and the brightest university students in Japan increasingly prefer to cash in on their talent right after graduation by starting careers in the private sector rather than join the government bureaucracy, something that has long been common practice.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/14/commentary/japan-commentary/toward-indo-pacific-concert-democracies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/p9-chellaney-a-20200115.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-chellaney-a-20200115.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists protest India's new citizenship law in Assam state on Saturday. Beijing is the main benefactor of the unrest in Assam, which led Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to postpone his planned December visit to India and has made Japanese firms wary of investing there.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/30/commentary/japan-commentary/beacons-stormy-seas-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:48:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p1-miyake-a-20191231.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-miyake-a-20191231.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peruvian shamans hold a poster of U.S. President Donald Trump as they perform a ritual of predictions for the new year at Pescadores beach in   Lima on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/17/commentary/japan-commentary/rcep-without-india-isnt-japans-liking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p10-chellaney-a-20191218.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-chellaney-a-20191218.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Stacked containers sit next to gantry cranes at a shipping terminal at dusk in Yokohama.  Japan prefers India's participation in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to avoid the creation of a China-led trading bloc.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/16/commentary/japan-commentary/kosovo-mean-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p1-miyake-a-20191217.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-miyake-a-20191217.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kosovo President Hashim Thaci visits the Recak memorial on Dec. 10, where he called on Serbia to apologize for the genocide on his country as the first step toward a peaceful relationship.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/11/commentary/japan-commentary/indo-pacific-heart-rules-based-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:50:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p8-miller-a-20191212.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-miller-a-20191212.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Maritime Self-Defense Force Izumo helicopter carrier and the Murasame destroyer participate in joint multi-nation exercises in the Indo-Pacific region on May 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/10/editorials/take-steps-end-horrific-child-abuse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/10/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-iran-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:51:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p8-suzuki-a-20191211.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-suzuki-a-20191211.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (right) hold a joint press conference at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran on June 12.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/09/commentary/japan-commentary/support-smaller-think-tanks-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:51:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p8-eldridge-a-20191210.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-eldridge-a-20191210.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/03/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-asias-mutual-challenges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:52:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p8-Tamura-a-20191204.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-Tamura-a-20191204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laborers wait on the side of the road to be hired for the day in Dharamshala, India. Unemployment hit a record high this year in the world's second most populous nation, where the median age is 28.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/03/commentary/world-commentary/modi-lacks-political-ticker-tough-economic-decisions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:52:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/p8-thakur-a-20191204.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-thakur-a-20191204.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pulled India out of the RCEP pact last month, stating that it "does not address satisfactorily India's outstanding issues and concerns."]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/11/11/commentary/japan-commentary/trade-war-frontlines-friendlier-think/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:53:26+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/11/05/commentary/japan-commentary/hope-really-horizon-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:53:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/p8-tatsumi-a-20191106.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-tatsumi-a-20191106.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday in Bangkok. Repairing the damaged bilateral relationship with South Korea is one of Japan's biggest foreign policy challenges.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/10/01/commentary/japan-commentary/natural-disasters-preparing-unexpected/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T21:56:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/p9-eldridge-a-20191002.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-eldridge-a-20191002.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Ground Self-Defense Forces make an emergency repair on a roof in Kyonan, Chiba Prefecture, on Sept. 15. Typhoon Faxai damaged at least 20,000 houses in Chiba last month,  and caused extensive power outages and disruptions to water supplies.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-tests-abes-leadership-economy-stalls/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4349.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4349.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a plenary session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo on Friday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/06/commentary/japan-commentary/eve-possible-covid-19-overshoot-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4140.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4140.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People wearing face masks amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, commute on a train in Tokyo on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/06/commentary/japan-commentary/makes-inamori-management-philosophy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:01:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_4147.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_4147.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Inamori celebrates the re-listing of Japan Airlines Co. at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in September 2012.
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/31/commentary/japan-commentary/programmed-end-japans-coronavirus-mizaru-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:01:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/25/commentary/japan-commentary/now-time-japan-make-digital-shift/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/p11-Takenaka-a-20200326.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-Takenaka-a-20200326.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother and daughter take an online dance lesson in their Tokyo home March 17.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/24/commentary/japan-commentary/dont-squander-chance-shine-covid-19-outlier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/p8-goto-a-20200325.jpg</image:loc>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/18/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-strategic-shock-shakes-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:03:14+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/11/commentary/japan-commentary/fighting-covid-19-story-stupid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/10/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-must-provide-multilingual-information-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:04:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait to cross a road in Tokyo on Monday. The government must disseminate more  information on the outbreak in foreign languages.]]></image:caption>
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