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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/08/commentary/japan-commentary/moving-nation-beyond-abenomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:04:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's economy shrank in the October-December quarter by an annualized rate of 6.3 percent from the previous quarter.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/06/commentary/japan-commentary/wanted-strategy-narrow-japans-widening-gender-gap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:05:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan ranks 121st out of 153 countries in the latest Global Gender Gap Report.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/20/commentary/japan-commentary/make-record-defense-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:05:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A member of the Ground Self-Defense Force trains with the U.S. 25th Infantry Division at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana, on Jan. 16.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/18/commentary/japan-commentary/take-covid-19-add-trade-war-raise-taxes-recipe-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians cross a street in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday. Japan's economy likely suffered its biggest contraction since 2014 at the end of last year leaving it in a vulnerable state as fallout from China's viral outbreak threatens to turn a one-quarter slump into a recession.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/17/commentary/japan-commentary/new-place-tokyo-international-stage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:08:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at an Aug. 30 news conference for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development. TICAD is Japan's largest international conference.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/17/commentary/japan-commentary/first-offer-best-offer-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:08:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/15/commentary/japan-commentary/real-tokyo-olympics-esports-future-japanese-soft-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:09:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An esports competition in Paris draws a large and enthusiastic crowd. Japan has lagged behind the rest of the world in competitive video games.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/10/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-former-kingdom-hawaii/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:09:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Princess Ka'iulani statue in Waikiki's Kaiulani Triangle Park.  In 1881, King Kalakaua propossed to put Hawaii under the protection of the Empire of Japan with an arranged marriage between the princess and Prince Yamashina.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/10/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-goes-reverse-going-green/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is on track to add more than 20 coal plants in the next five years.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/05/commentary/japan-commentary/preventing-japanification-east-asias-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong face slow growth and deflationary pressures in addition to aging populations and shrinking workforces.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/22/commentary/japan-commentary/u-s-india-relations-shape-japans-strategic-environment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-11T22:12:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/12/cartoons/roger-dahl-seven-wonders-100-yen-store/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-12T19:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl and the seven wonders of the 100 yen store]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/12/cartoons/roger-dahl-ldp-presidential-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-12T19:50:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the LDP presidential race]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/14/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-jobs-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-14T22:18:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Laid-off airport workers hold a protest to call for the need to extend health care benefits amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease at the Tom Bradley International terminal of LAX Airport in Los Angeles on Sept 3.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/24/commentary/japan-commentary/u-s-beef-finds-way-back-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman looks at American beef on sale in a Seiyu supermarket in 2013. In its current round of bilateral trade negotiations with the United States, Japan has agreed to lower tariffs on American beef and increase import quotas.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/07/04/editorials/keep-pushing-multilateral-free-trade-pacts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:14:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/03/13/editorials/cptpp-victory-reason-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T01:14:47+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/15/commentary/japan-commentary/suga-timed-entrance-perfectly/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/14/commentary/japan-commentary/us-japan-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:56:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. is recognizing the need to counter Chinese moves and is starting to signal that it will not sit back and allow further offensive actions to continue unchallenged.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/14/commentary/world-commentary/us-china-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:56:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The question for regional stakeholders in Asia such as Japan is what is the best way to deal with this assertive Chinese behavior? ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/17/commentary/japan-commentary/empty-hair-salons-cant-saved-boj/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:57:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ryoko Hokao, the owner of the Pearl beauty salon in Yubari, Hokkaido, has only a handful of customers come in each month. She has no expectations that the central or Hokkaido government will do anything to help her.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/17/commentary/japan-commentary/silver-lining-north-korea-nuclear-impasse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:57:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/09/commentary/japan-commentary/boris-johnsons-dismay-whaling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of a supra-partisan Diet group that seeks to protect whale cuisine enjoy whale dishes at a gathering in Tokyo on June 29.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/09/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-take-note-chinese-tourism-strings-attached/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:58:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p9-chin-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese tourists relax in a pedestrianized zone in Tokyo's Ginza district. China is now the No. 1 source  of overseas visitors for Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/09/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-can-win-ongoing-ai-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:58:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p8-Sundararajan-a-20190910.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-Sundararajan-a-20190910.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The government should facilitate the rapid rollout of 5G infrastructure to help ensure Japan leads in developing and using the next generation of consumer services.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/03/commentary/japan-commentary/weathering-storms-judgment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T17:59:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/p8-goto-a-20190904.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-goto-a-20190904.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[His box office successes have made "Weathering With You" director Makoto Shinkai a household name in Japan, but he remains a reluctant celebrity.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/15/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-nationalism-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-15T18:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many countries, especially those that are wealthy, are hoping to jump the queue when a COVID-19 vaccine is delivered. Such countries are estimated to have pre-ordered more than 2 billion doses.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/15/commentary/japan-commentary/abe-security-legacy-left-for-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T14:33:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a Sept. 11 National Security Council meeting, outgoing Prime Minster Shinzo Abe issued a statement that stated Tokyo is contemplating setting a new direction for the national security policy to cope with missiles targeting Japan.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/world-commentary/europe-russia-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T17:46:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38160-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38160.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In America’s absence, European leaders should develop a coordinated strategy to counter Russia’s threat to the continent’s stability and impose steeper costs for its misconduct.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/world-commentary/arabs-palestine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T17:47:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38010.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With a population of just 1.4 million, the UAE's decision to normalize relations with Israel breaks with a global consensus held by 423 million Arabs and 1.8 billion Muslims. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/world-commentary/wall-street-us-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T17:51:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fearless Girl bronze sculpture looks towards the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Investors have placed hedges in advance of the U.S. presidential vote that may show no clear winner on election day.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T17:52:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38217.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38217.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the good side of the COVID-19 ledger, global emissions of greenhouse gases plummeted during the lockdowns. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/world-commentary/china-nobel-peace-prize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T17:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many observers allegedly found Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Wang arrogant and overbearing during a recent tour of Europe aimed at forestalling a European economic de-coupling.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/japan-commentary/abenomics-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T17:53:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and international observers are now asking whether the Abe government’s economic-policy course — Abenomics — will change significantly under new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/06/editorials/campaign-thai-dissidents-reaches-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-16T21:14:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/n-thai-a-20190805-1.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8 edi Pavin-a 20190807]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pavin Chachavalpongpun]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-moral-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T01:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A volunteer receives an injection as the world's biggest study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway July 27 in Binghamton, N.Y. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/05/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-vaccines-pricing-big-pharma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T01:51:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/17/commentary/world-commentary/singapore-wants-cold-wars-casualties-not-cash/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T18:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38402.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38402.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid the drumbeats of a U.S.-China cold war, the Singapore is often talked about as a sanctuary for capital looking to flee the clash of superpowers. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-cabinet-rundown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T15:11:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38078.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38078.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga, the nation's new prime minister, leaves the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/16/commentary/japan-commentary/shinzo-abe-yoshihide-suga-revolving-door/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T17:03:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38111.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38111.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga enters the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday. Given that Suga is still a relatively unknown quantity, some in the political and diplomatic community fret whether he will be able to maintain political stability after Shinzo Abe’s record-breaking tenure. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/17/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-prime-minister-transition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T17:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38409.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After spending eight years supporting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, how will Yoshihide Suga fare when there is no higher decision-maker?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/17/editorials/formidable-challenges-ahead-suga-era-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-17T18:15:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38521.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, nicknamed “Reiwa Ojisan” ( or “Uncle Reiwa”), has a remarkable personal story as a self-made man who has managed to rise to the pinnacle of Japanese politics.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/07/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-18T18:50:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_35310.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_35310.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Measures such as the wearing of masks and avoiding close contact are expected to become more ubiquitous in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/04/commentary/world-commentary/us-china-post-coronavirus-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-18T18:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_34722.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34722.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United States has seen high infection and death rates during the pandemic, yet President Donald Trump has placed a higher priority on getting re-elected.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/03/commentary/world-commentary/searching-leader-post-coronavirus-new-order/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-18T18:53:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_34873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_34873.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Following the chaos of the pandemic, while people will turn to their national governments, countries will look for a nation to lead policy and recovery.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/19/commentary/world-commentary/oracles-tiktok-deal-pours-trump-toxin-capitalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-19T09:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38589.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38589.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Even before Oracle entered the partnership arena, Trump’s moves against TikTok were — or should have been — unacceptable.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/19/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-geopolitical-balancing-act-just-got-harder/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-19T09:05:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38680.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38680.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When it comes to security issues, Japan will face U.S. calls to participate in joint naval exercises more often and on a larger scale in order to challenge China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/20/commentary/world-commentary/tories-biden-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-20T20:45:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38870.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38870.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has been almost as influential in reshaping the means and mien of the U.K.’s Conservative Party as he has the Republican Party. Many Tories quite like it that way.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/21/commentary/world-commentary/737-max-debacle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-21T21:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38872.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38872.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Boeing deals with setbacks caused by problems with its 737 MAX, the company's defense business rather than its passenger jets is expected to drive the bulk of its earnings as it did through much of the 2000s.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/20/commentary/world-commentary/buck-stops-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-20T20:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38606.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38606.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin has long been presented as a kind of Darth Vader of global politics, capable of meddling in U.S. elections, organizing protests in France and coaxing Brexit along.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/19/cartoons/roger-dahl-hokusais-toilet-tsunami/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-19T19:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37463-e1600488126851.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37463.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Hokusai's toilet tsunami]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/19/cartoons/roger-dahl-yoshihide-sugas-juggling-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-19T19:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_37846-e1600488148244.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37846.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Yoshihide Suga's juggling act]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/20/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-belarus-china-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-20T18:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39146.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39146.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The current stalemate between the opposition in Belarus and its embattled leader looks familiar. Could Hong Kong and Chief Executive Carrie Lam offer a hint of what may be next for the central European nation, as the leadership digs in?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/20/commentary/world-commentary/international-students-pose-real-risk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-20T18:32:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38451-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38451.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese students at home and abroad have become the object of scrutiny over theft of intellectual property and harassment of academics.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/21/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-pandemic-recovery-trust/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-21T18:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39189.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Never before a pandemic have research and data-sharing occurred at such a rapid pace. But, the growing distrust of medical experts threatens to reduce the efficacy of vaccination against COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-u-k-trade-deal-cheer-amidst-gloom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-21T18:10:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38728.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38728.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The agreement in principle on a new U.K.-Japan trade deal is significant for a number of reasons that go much deeper than just trade. It marks a firm step towards the realization in British policy circles that the future is increasingly Asian.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/21/commentary/world-commentary/the-rise-of-covidnomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-21T18:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38703-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38703.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Peru's president, Martin Vizcarra (center), who's national economy is one of the worst performing globally amid the COVID-19 pandemic, oversees the distribution of supplies to those in need on the outskirts of Lima on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/19/commentary/world-commentary/working-home-fine-6-months-not/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-21T11:35:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38069.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38069.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After six months of working from home, some companies are now starting to bring workers back to the office, despite COVID-19 still being a very real risk.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/22/commentary/world-commentary/sedition-laws-weak-governments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-22T21:21:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39166.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39166.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Attorney General William Barr last week suggested to federal prosecutors that they consider charging protesters with sedition — an archaic criminal charge that hasn’t been regularly used by federal authorities since the McCarthy era.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/22/commentary/world-commentary/recycling-plastics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-22T21:22:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39151.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39151.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plastics aren’t impossible to recycle — a decade ago, China was home to tens of thousands of small, profitable businesses doing just that — but recycling them in a safe and environmentally sound manner is challenging and expensive.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/22/commentary/world-commentary/international-law-under-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-22T21:23:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39602.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39602.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In recent weeks, the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States have flatly rejected the notion that they are constrained by international law, insisting that their national sovereignty trumps all other considerations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/22/commentary/japan-commentary/us-donald-trump-reelection/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-22T21:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39621-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39621.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/climate-change-lockdown/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-23T18:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39644.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39644.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under a so-called “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/palestinians-peace-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-23T18:10:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39643.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39643.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinian leaders have to face the fact that they will be dealing with Israel directly, not as part of a cohesive Arab bloc, and now must come up with their own approach to ending what they see as the occupation of their lands. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/coal-china-renewables/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-23T18:20:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39642.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39642.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China may bring forward a plan to derive 20 percent of its primary energy from nonfossil fuels by five years from 2030 and the share of coal in the energy mix cut to 52 percent by the same date from 57.5 percent this year, according to a report.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/75-years-united-nations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-23T18:30:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39713.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39713.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The United Nations and the belief in global solidarity that it embodies have never been more essential as the world finds itself in turmoil amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a far-reaching recession.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/blacklisting-us-tech-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-23T17:50:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39807.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39807.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cisco Systems Inc., a global leader in communications technology, is a likely target of possible bans, according to the Wall Street Journal. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/24/commentary/japan-commentary/post-abe-japan-matters-even-canada/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T18:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39946.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39946.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Washington’s unorthodox leadership under Donald Trump has further complicated the geopolitical landscape, challenging both Japan and Canada to redefine their diplomacy to effectively address their shared and individual national interests.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/24/editorials/u-n-fails-shine-diamond-jubilee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-24T18:59:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39912.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39912.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A diamond jubilee deserves more than prerecorded speeches, but somehow a parade of three-minute videos broadcast to a mostly empty General Assembly chamber succinctly captured the moment for the United Nations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/china-paying-high-price-provoking-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:09:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40156-e1601024924908.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40156.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/thailands-leaders-missing-teachable-moment-education-system-falters/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-25T18:09:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39848.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39848.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A shrine at the entrance of Rangsit University in the outskirts of Bangkok. Thailand — aging and short of skilled workers — can ill-afford to continue avoiding the issue of its faltering education system.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/26/cartoons/roger-dahl-folly-misreading-labels/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T19:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39670-e1601092526752.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39670.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the folly of misreading labels]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/26/cartoons/roger-dahl-yoshihide-sugas-digital-reform-plans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T19:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39669-e1601092477225.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39669.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Yoshihide Suga's digital reform plans]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/26/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-killing-good-manners/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-26T18:29:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39307.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39307.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bumping elbows may help keep COVID-19 at bay, but as a substitute for a hand shake it lacks impact and meaning.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/27/commentary/world-commentary/europe-green-state-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T18:28:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40514.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40514.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Apparently, the bureaucrats in the European Union with their so-called Green Deal think that they — and only they — know which technological pathways are best for building a sustainable future.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/28/commentary/world-commentary/oil-green-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T18:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_38869.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_38869.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[No feasible amount of government spending alone can generate the enormous investment needed in the energy sector to advance the green transition. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/28/commentary/world-commentary/alexander-lukashenko-erdogan-turkey-eu-belarus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-28T18:10:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40056.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/27/commentary/world-commentary/fighter-jets-uae-israel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T22:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40090.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40090.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The problem with providing the F-35 to Arab states, at least with all their technological capabilities, is that it might erode Israel’s "qualitative military edge,” or QME — an assurance from the U.S. that it will not sell its most advanced weapons to Israel’s potential military opponents.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/27/commentary/world-commentary/narendra-modi-india-agriculture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-27T23:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40063.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40063.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian farmers' biggest fear from deregulation is losing their most important bargaining chip: minimum prices guaranteed by the state.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/29/commentary/world-commentary/smic-us-china-security-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T18:37:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40870-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40870.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. export restrictions on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp mean American companies will have to apply for a license to sell some products to the Shanghai-based chipmaker.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/29/commentary/world-commentary/batteries-greener-electric-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T18:37:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40992.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40992.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The race to improve battery technology is proceeding on several fronts, the most visible of which is that for electric vehicles.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/10/16/commentary/world-commentary/trump-is-most-offensive-but-clinton-is-frightening/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T21:23:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-richards-a-20161017.jpg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/26/commentary/world-commentary/britains-response-covid-19-world-class/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T22:58:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26073.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26073.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor takes blood samples for use in a coronavirus vaccine trial in Oxford, England, on June 25.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/world-commentary/european-unions-self-help-moment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_21252.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21252.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated on Monday to mark Germany's July 1 assumption of the EU Council presidency. The European Union's largest economy is taking the chair of the 27-nation bloc amid massive challenges and huge expectations as the continent grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/25/commentary/world-commentary/smart-lockdowns-future-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20135.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20135.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/02/commentary/japan-commentary/secret-japans-success-combating-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_15590.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_15590.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students gather for a class in a schoolyard at a reopened school in Tokyo on Monday, a week after the government lifted the state of emergency nationwide.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/06/02/editorials/more-attention-to-agriculture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:02:58+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/30/commentary/world-commentary/americas-uncertain-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_21040.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_21040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Staff and volunteers with The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation distribute food and other goods for people facing economic hardship in Huntington Park, California, on June 18.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/world-commentary/americans-failing-mask-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20744.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20744.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite growing evidence that face masks stem the spread of the coronavirus, many Americans shun them.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/15/commentary/world-commentary/training-pandemic-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:09:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24163.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24163.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People who worked in the hospitality industry apply for unemployment benefits in Los Angeles. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-fear-will-keep-world-slump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:09:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_23981.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_23981.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nearly empty street is seen in Times Square on June 11, days after New York City's lockdown eased. New research shows that economic losses have come mainly from fear, not government mandates. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/30/commentary/world-commentary/todays-bailouts-can-tomorrows-economies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:10:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20907.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20907.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/16/commentary/world-commentary/good-news-china-growing-just-dont-ask/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_24417.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_24417.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers labor at the construction site of an elevated highway on the outskirts of Shanghai. China's economy continues to recover, with accelerating industrial output growth leading the way while consumption remains in contraction.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/20/commentary/world-commentary/grading-algorithm-failing-students/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25289.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25289.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some high schools, mostly in the United States, have cancelled final exams due to the COVID-19 pandemic and instead graded students using a statistical model designed to predict how they would have done.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/21/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-must-better-second-covid-19-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:12:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25474-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25474.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/asymptomatic-spread-become-bizarrely-controversial/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:12:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25680.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25680.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Politicizing science has eroded public trust.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/08/07/commentary/world-commentary/public-health-messages-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-29T23:13:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np_file_29082.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_29082.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean soccer fans enjoy a game in Incheon on Aug. 1 as matches resume with spectators for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/29/commentary/world-commentary/us-military-return-taiwan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T06:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40984.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40984.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What if the United States returned its forces to Taiwan where they were deployed before 1979? How would China react?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/28/commentary/japan-commentary/tokyo-olympics-should-not-be-held-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T12:09:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40523.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40523.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Hiroshi Hoketsu, the oldest athlete to have taken part in the London Olympics at age 71, rides his chestnut mare Whisper during the individual dressage competition at Greenwich Park in London in August 2012.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/29/commentary/world-commentary/smart-cities-need-smarter-governance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T13:09:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_40694.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40694.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Smart cities will not necessarily look much different from the municipalities we now know, but will involve digital technology being integrated into the environment.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/racism-sexism-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T18:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41036.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41036.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite a decade of efforts, women and racial minorities are still underrepresented on corporate boards. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/harley-davidson-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T18:31:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41041-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41041.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[That Milwaukee-based Harley Davidson is pulling out of a thriving market for motorbikes like India speaks to a troubled international strategy in need of overhaul.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/china-new-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T18:31:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41212.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlike Western leaders, who typically have degrees in law or economics, Chinese policymakers are mostly scientists and engineers. As a result, they are more likely to think in systemic terms.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/china-us-nuclear-arms-talks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T18:32:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41365.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41365.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beijing perceives U.S. policy as being increasingly aggressive and aimed at containing China. Nuclear forces are seen as the ultimate guarantor of national security.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/ban-nuclear-weapons-stigmatize/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T18:32:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41040-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Only nine nations have nukes today: the U.S., Russia, China, the U.K., France, Israel, Pakistan, India and North Korea. And all of them boycotted the talks leading up to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-debate-lowlights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-09-30T18:50:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41252.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41252.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If you’re a U.S. voter who wanted a clear sense of where each candidate wanted to take the country, you were out of luck. Neither of the candidates is policy-driven and it showed.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/01/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-trade-war-failed-can-biden-better/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-01T17:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_37285.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_37285.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trump's tariffs may have hurt China’s economy somewhat, but at the cost of also hurting U.S. consumers. Joe Biden threatens to make some of the same mistakes.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/toward-less-crowded-planet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-02T17:15:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_25748.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_25748.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/02/commentary/world-commentary/germany-30-years-old-reunification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T09:28:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41897.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41897.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, if you only consider countries with more than 50 million people, then Germany today is the fairest, the least conflicted, the most peaceful, actually the nicest major country on the planet.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/16/commentary/world-commentary/lives-versus-livelihoods/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T12:54:17+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/03/cartoons/roger-dahl-sugas-olympic-gymnastics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T17:50:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_40941-e1601705753746.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40941.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Suga's Olympic gymnastics]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/03/cartoons/roger-dahl-ceremonial-matcha/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T19:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_40944-e1601705728197.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40944.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on ceremonial matcha]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/05/commentary/world-commentary/australia-miners-heritage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T17:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41780.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41780.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Agreements already in place with Australia's mining companies were often made under duress. Traditional owners "had no real choice but to take the deals that were offered or take nothing," according to a native aboriginal organization.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/04/commentary/world-commentary/india-copy-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T17:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41039.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41039.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's model for SEZs is appealing in a messy democracy such as India, where vested interests and a risk-averse bureaucracy have stymied previous attempts at radical economic reforms.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/04/commentary/world-commentary/war-caucasus-russia-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T17:30:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41773.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41773.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What is particularly dangerous in this latest flare-up between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces is that Turkey and Russia are strongly backing different horses. The Turks dislike the Armenians and support their fellow Muslims and Russia has a formal defense treaty with Armenia.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/04/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-big-brother-government-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T18:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41981.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41981.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian governments should take care to avoid a “China-lite” system of excessive overreach and ensure whatever powers they are given during the pandemic last only as long as the crisis.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/27/commentary/world-commentary/establishing-resistance-overseas-influence/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T16:53:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39780.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39780.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's pushes for influence in places such as the United States and Australia should serve as a warning for Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/03/commentary/world-commentary/rights-wrongs-targeted-lockdowns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-03T17:28:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_40988.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_40988.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With older people statistically more likely to succumb to COVID-19 if they catch it, is locking them down the answer?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/02/commentary/japan-commentary/court-win-tattoo-artists-medical-procedure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-04T12:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41882.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41882.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supreme Court ruling in tattoo case can be seen as a rare example of Japan’s courts second-guessing a regulator as to the interpretation of regulations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/05/commentary/world-commentary/how-end-pandemic-this-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T17:42:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41985.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41985.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The missing ingredients in developing a COVID-19 vaccine are industrial policies and other government measures to coordinate and steer production in order to eliminate the bottlenecks that the private sector faces.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/14/commentary/world-commentary/irans-attacks-american-bases-tell-us-chinas-missile-program/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/p9-colley-a-20200215.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-colley-a-20200215.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Participants in a Jan. 13 media tour view damage at the al-Asad military base in Iraq following an Iranian missile attack.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/06/12/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-master-plan-global-military-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:49:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/p8-brands-a-20180613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-brands-a-20180613.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/06/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-troublesome-civil-military-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:49:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/p10-chellaney-a-20170907.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-chellaney-a-20170907.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects People's Liberation Army troops during a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PLA on July 30.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/04/30/editorials/chinas-new-aircraft-carrier/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/03/03/commentary/world-commentary/beijing-outflanking-u-s-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:51:03+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/03/08/editorials/chinas-sweeping-military-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/09/16/commentary/japan-commentary/china-wont-win-friends-flexing-muscles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:51:33+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/09/08/commentary/japan-commentary/beijing-sending-mixed-signals-with-its-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-05T19:51:55+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/06/commentary/japan-commentary/suganomics-india-japan-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-06T18:07:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42658-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42658.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What are the implications that "Suganomics" will have on the India-Japan partnership, both bilaterally and regionally?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/06/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-disobedience/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-06T19:19:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41779.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41779.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters hold placards as they take part in a 'no mask' rally against the government's coronavirus disease measures in Rome on Sept. 5.
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/06/commentary/world-commentary/us-presidential-debate-image/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-06T19:20:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42612.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42612.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Reclaiming America’s place in the world is a sweeping project. It will take far more than a change of administration, but that, along with a change in tone in U.S. politics will be vital first steps.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/07/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-stand-shinzo-abe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-07T18:55:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42089.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42089.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Now that he is out of office, it is still prudent to look at where Japan stands in the course of history following Shinzo Abe’s record tenure of nearly eight years. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/07/commentary/japan-commentary/suga-national-security-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-07T18:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42755.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42755.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It is imperative for Yoshihide Suga’s administration to undertake a prudent reality check and possible rebalancing of its national security agenda now rather than simply to assert that the Japanese government will continue the policies of his predecessor, Shinzo Abe.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/07/commentary/world-commentary/race-replace-city-london-begins/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-07T18:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42758.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42758.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Brexit vote showed euro-zone officials were right to warn that it was risky to have a third of all EU capital markets activity and 90 percent of euro-denominated derivatives clearing in one place, London.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/07/commentary/japan-commentary/quad-security-dialogue-tokyo-who-will-join-next/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-07T19:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42949.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42949.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The real question being asked is who will join the Quad group of nations next. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/07/commentary/world-commentary/singapores-expat-model/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-07T19:05:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42759.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42759.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s first leader, laid out the welcome mat for multinational corporations. Now his vision is running into the wall of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/whos-still-working-home-affluent/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-08T19:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42761.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42761.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On the whole it is people with professional jobs, many of them concentrated in big cities, who are most likely still not to have returned to the office. Which is great for a lot of those people, but not for their cities.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/30/commentary/japan-commentary/china-japan-senkaku-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T10:20:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_41227-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41227.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Deception, concealment and surprise are central to China’s strategy to win without fighting. Japan's purely defensive actions have emboldened it to step up incursions into the waters around the Senkaku Islands.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/08/commentary/japan-commentary/time-japan-start-talking-immigration-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T11:09:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43252.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43252.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The topic of immigration in Japan has been swept under the rug for too long and it should no longer be a taboo subject. The new Japanese government has an historic opportunity to show its leadership on the issue.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/09/commentary/world-commentary/u-n-s-existential-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T18:05:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43442.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43442.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.N. faces an existential crisis, in which its biggest former advocates are challenging the very premises of the multilateralism upon which the organization was founded.

]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/09/commentary/world-commentary/hospitals-ready-covids-second-wave/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-09T18:08:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43448.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43448.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Building more beds without getting a grip on the pace of new COVID-19 infections would only serve to fill them up while doing nothing to tackle the core problem.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/10/cartoons/roger-dahl-sugas-snap-election-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T19:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43060-e1602306332348.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43060.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Suga's snap election concerns]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/10/cartoons/roger-dahl-dog-day-afternoon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T19:29:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43061-e1602306371238.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43061.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on a dog day afternoon]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/10/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-vaccine-coming-gets-first/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-10T17:47:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42531-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42531.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Testing of a number of possible vaccines for COVID-19 is underway, with some now in phase 3 trials.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/11/commentary/world-commentary/french-billionaires-seize-pandemic-opportunities/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-11T19:37:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43320.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43320.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[French multinational corporation LVMH boss Bernard Arnault and his ilk saw their wealth balloon more than fivefold to $443 billion between 2009 and mid-2020, fueled by Asian hunger for French-branded luxury goods and a global real-estate boom fanned by low interest rates.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/11/commentary/world-commentary/war-caucasus-lessons-u-s-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-11T19:42:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43394.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The current round of fighting, which began in late September when Azerbaijani forces sought to reclaim control of Nagorno-Karabakh is simply the latest flare-up in a long-simmering struggle.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/11/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-great-again-economy-yoshihide-suga/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-11T19:43:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43541.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43541.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga desperately needs to develop and deploy the human capital embedded in Japan's population, so that the country can replace the 30-year-old emphasis on cheap labor with a restored vision of a high-wage, high-productivity society.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/13/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-financial-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T15:52:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43426.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43426.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/13/commentary/world-commentary/putins-pain-opportunity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-13T20:00:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44048.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44048.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin must be taking great pleasure in the convulsions that have seized the U.S. body politic, yet the satisfaction must also be fleeting as his attention focuses elsewhere to problems in his own backyard.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/14/commentary/world-commentary/new-zealand-us-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T17:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44179.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44179.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The level-headedness with which elections are handled can’t be explained away by the idea that New Zealand is a "young democracy.” It’s been holding elections since the 1850s.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/14/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-shenzhen-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T17:24:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44109.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44109.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shenzhen is a potent emblem of China’s reform era — the first, and most successful of the special economic zones. It is also where Deng Xiaoping relaunched the reform era in 1992.


]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/15/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-big-oils-asteroid-strike/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-15T16:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43749.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43749.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Even when the pandemic subsides, the pre-existing threat from the shift away from carbon-based fuels won’t. Both BP and France's Total SE now see global oil demand plateauing at close to 100 million barrels a day by 2030, before starting to fall.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/14/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-security-relationships/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-14T19:36:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44108-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44108.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer arrives in Jakarta in September 2018. Japan's constitutional provisions curb just how much it can cooperate with prospective allies, limiting its global security options.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/13/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-suganomics-3-pointers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-15T09:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44060.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44060.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has inherited the policy framework of former Prime Minister Abe. How he administers the policymaking process will determine whether meaningful reforms can be implemented.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/15/commentary/world-commentary/china-loading-five-year-warning-shot-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-15T17:10:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44510.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44510.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's state planners meet later this month to review and approve the programs that will be released at the National People’s Congress next year. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/15/commentary/japan-commentary/sugas-senkaku-islands-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-15T17:15:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44372.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44372.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's goal with its incursions into waters around the Senkaku Islands is to establish a situation of de facto co-administration of the area as a stepping stone to vying for sole control at some point in the future.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/15/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-vietnam-indonesia-first-trip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-15T17:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44285.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44285.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese and foreign journalists have asked why Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga would visit Vietnam and Indonesia before the U.S, China or South Korea on his first official tour. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/16/commentary/japan-commentary/digital-agency-crown-japans-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:56:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43754.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43754.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/16/commentary/world-commentary/xi-china-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:57:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44767.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44767.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Instead of being a responsible global leader under President Xi Jinping, China’s initiatives such as its mask diplomacy and Health Silk Road unraveled the country’s underlying motives of self-interest behind humanitarian aid and assistance.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/16/commentary/world-commentary/indonesia-investors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-16T19:57:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44612.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44612.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A demonstrators protest against the new so-called omnibus law in Jakarta on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/17/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-zombienomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T19:50:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43952-e1602907562230.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43952.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's 'zombienomics']]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/17/cartoons/roger-dahl-wearing-ancient-protective-gear-fight-wasps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T19:49:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43955-e1602907585925.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43955.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on wearing ancient protective gear in fight against wasps]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/17/commentary/world-commentary/working-from-home/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-17T17:57:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44013.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44013.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One of the key benefits to those working from home during the pandemic has been a reduction in stress due to a decrease in hours spent commuting.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/18/commentary/world-commentary/nobel-winning-idea-failed-india/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-18T18:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44170.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44170.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, the winners of the 2020 Nobel prize in economic sciences

]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/18/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-inheritance-windfall/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-18T18:49:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44608.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44608.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The final journey of Japan’s baby boomers is poised to free up inheritance fund flows of as much as ¥550 trillion (about $5 trillion) over the next ten years alone.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/18/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-quality-infrastructure/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-18T18:53:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44711.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44711.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As Japan has already made its quality infrastructure program the basis for bilateral development cooperation with China, continuing these joint projects could positively influence Beijing’s own practices.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/19/commentary/world-commentary/russia-hegemony/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T16:00:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_43747.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_43747.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Kremlin, which sees a global superpower role for Russia, was ill-prepared for events close to home and now cannot leave the outcomes of the flare-ups from Belarus to the Caucasus to chance.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/19/commentary/world-commentary/neighbors-pandemic-police/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T16:30:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44610.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44610.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[We’ve let the state take ever more intrusive measures in limiting our lives amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But the next apparent move in this direction — encouraging individuals to police each other — goes too far.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/19/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-foreign-policy-agenda/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-19T17:15:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45223.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45223.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshihide Suga's pledge for continuity of Shinzo Abe's policies has been welcomed, but still many questions loom among the foreign-policy community in Washington about Japan's new leader. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/20/commentary/world-commentary/returning-office-workers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T17:45:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45581.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45581.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The pace of workers coming back into offices is more of a trickle than a flood, leading to tenants choosing not to renew leases and skyrocketing vacancy rates.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/20/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-vietnam-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T17:46:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45564.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45564.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, leave after a news briefing in Hanoi on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/20/commentary/world-commentary/predictions-donald-trump-us-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-20T23:52:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45550.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45550.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/jacinda-ardern-landslide-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T17:58:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45660.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45660.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Given the apparent political dividends that paid off for New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, it’s surprising that more governments haven’t attempted a similar anti-virus lockdown policy. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/herd-immunity-reinfection-great-barrington-declaration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T17:59:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45733.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45733.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the hospitality sector in Barcelona, Spain, protest an order to close bars and restaurants, on Oct. 16.  Among the nations with the highest death rates per million people, 6 out of the top 10 are Spanish-speaking.
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/capitalism-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T18:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44609.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44609.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The coronavirus pandemic has caused the the biggest drop in emissions in history. It has also resulted in more than a million deaths and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/india-sexual-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T18:56:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44885.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44885.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Repeated incidents of gang rape in India reflect widespread gender and caste discrimination in the country. Today, rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/miserable-21st-century-poor-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-21T22:44:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45814-e1603271092594.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45814.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/22/editorials/suga-makes-southeast-asia-priority/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45942-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45942.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga waves as he readies to leave Jakarta on Wednesday. China is credited for making Southeast Asia a priority for Japan, but the region has always been important to Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/22/commentary/world-commentary/china-pollution-greenhouse-gases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:42:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45659.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45659.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's long-awaited national carbon market that is finally set to begin trading this year will be less demanding and more limited than initially anticipated, if draft plans are a guide. It’s worth welcoming anyway.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/22/commentary/world-commentary/huawei-5g-networks-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:45:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46008.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46008.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For all of the marketing hoopla championing 5G, coverage remains pitiful outside China, which had installed 400,000 5G base stations by the end of June.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/22/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-new-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-22T17:47:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45419.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45419.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China has employed a range of AI tools in a bid to contain the coronavirus, including automated temperature scans in public places.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/21/commentary/japan-commentary/pointless-fight-sugas-honeymoon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T11:22:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45661.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45661.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[New Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga should have known that the average Japanese couldn’t care less about the science council’s members. Quiet approval of the recommended nominees would have been in line with precedent and avoided a silly public fight.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/20/editorials/plans-sell-nuclear-plants-overseas-derailed/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:46:16+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/20/editorials/cyber-attack-probe-inconclusive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T18:46:44+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/23/commentary/world-commentary/green-revolution-harming-africa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T19:06:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46067.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46067.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Well-intentioned efforts to improve food security in Africa and elsewhere are instead increasing small farmers’ dependence on global agribusinesses without raising their incomes, and making farming systems less resilient.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/23/commentary/world-commentary/arab-states-arms-race-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T19:12:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46068.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46068.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iran is now back in the market to buy and sell conventional weapons after a U.N. arms embargo imposed in 2007 over concerns about Tehran’s nuclear program expired.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/23/commentary/world-commentary/trump-visa-reforms-america-poorer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-23T19:25:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45900-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45900.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has already modified the H-1B program, which brings 85,000 skilled workers to the U.S. a year, but his new rules go further. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/24/cartoons/roger-dahl-fishing-industrys-fears-contaminated-water-released-ocean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-24T19:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45679-e1603515609567.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45679.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the fishing industry's fears over contaminated water being released into the ocean]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/24/cartoons/roger-dahl-zen-golf-trap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-24T19:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45682-e1603515569281.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45682.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on a Zen golf trap]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/25/commentary/world-commentary/australia-money-laundering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-25T16:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46070.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46070.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlike cash laundering, which involves a relatively small number of casinos and financial businesses, invoice-based laundering can take place between almost any two companies.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/25/commentary/world-commentary/tobacco-nationalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-25T16:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45897.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45897.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ITC Ltd sells 80 percent of the cigarettes in the world's second most populous country where 275 million people use tobacco products.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/25/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-jobs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-25T16:45:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46066.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46066.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The just released World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report finds that more than 80% of employers expect to make wider use of remote work and about half of all employers are also preparing to automate some jobs.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/24/commentary/world-commentary/aging-global-economic-threat/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-24T17:42:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45730.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's aging population spells bad news for the country's economy, with living standards across the nation already falling.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/25/commentary/world-commentary/socialism-no-longer-just-specter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-25T15:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46190-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46190.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/26/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-women-workforce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-26T22:05:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45899.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45899.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The opt-out myth looms large in U.S. culture. In fact, only 11% of women are out of the workforce to care for children full-time at any given time. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/27/commentary/japan-commentary/nine-scenarios-us-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T18:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47026.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47026.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Can U.S. voters stop the degradation of their politics? Will they make the right decision on Nov. 3? There is not much that friends and foes can do about it now.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/27/commentary/world-commentary/biotech-ai-nanotech-robotics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T17:26:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47017.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47017.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A study published earlier this year by the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that just 400 “use cases” of biological applications could in 10-20 years generate $2 trillion to $4 trillion in direct economic gains.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/07/commentary/japan-commentary/russian-china-advance-vaccine-nationalism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T18:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42940.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42940.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coronavirus vaccines under development in the U.S. and Europe are currently in the final Phase-3 of clinical trials. Russia, however, skipped Phase-3 trials and immediately moved to approve the vaccine. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/27/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-tests-pandemic-moneymakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-27T21:49:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46069.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46069.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Coronavirus cases in Europe and the U.S. are surging, and stemming the tide will take time. But even when the infection rate slows, demand will remain for testing. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/28/commentary/japan-commentary/zero-hour-carbon-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T18:17:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47274.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47274.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese banks are still funding new coal-fired power stations in Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh, exploiting a loophole in Tokyo’s previous promise to reduce financing to such projects.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/28/commentary/world-commentary/glitter-oceans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T18:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46704.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46704.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Humans release 1.5 million tons of primary microplastics, including glitter, into the ocean annually, a sum equivalent to one disgorged plastic bag for every person each week. Such pollutants now make up as much as 31% of all ocean plastic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/28/commentary/japan-commentary/liberal-democratic-party-shigeru-ishiba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T20:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47215.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47215.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite Shigeru Ishiba's failure to become prime minister, he remains one of the most popular LDP politicians among voters.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/27/commentary/world-commentary/china-developed-world-negative-sentiment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T22:40:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46056.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46056.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In a 14-country Pew survey, a majority held an unfavorable opinion of China. And in nine — including Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany , the United States, and Canada — negative views have reached their highest points since Pew began polling on the topic more than a decade ago.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/15/editorials/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-rattles-sabers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-28T23:34:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_44441.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_44441.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korea’s new weapons show a fierce determination to set the terms of diplomatic engagement and there is little indication that other nations have a strategy to change that grim reality.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/28/commentary/world-commentary/world-enters-new-age-radical-uncertainty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:01:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47112.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47112.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Anti-lockdown demonstrators protest after the government announced additional restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus, in Warsaw on Saturday.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/28/commentary/world-commentary/middle-eastern-past-never-dead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46706-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46706.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The UAE embrace of the Abraham Accords marks a regional paradigm shift. By agreeing to normalize relations with Israel in the absence of a deal for the Palestinians, the UAE has essentially swept all of the recent history under the rug. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/28/commentary/world-commentary/retire-rich-dont-leave-much-kids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:04:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46705.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46705.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Global life expectancy went up by five years between 2010 and 2015. Don’t be surprised if those retiring in 2035 need an extra five years or more of future income because of longevity.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/29/commentary/japan-commentary/designing-vision-japans-green-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:06:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46860.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46860.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshide Suga visited the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Sept. 26, a month before vowing to reduce Japan's carbon emissions to zero by 2050.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/29/editorials/following-crowd-suga-makes-bold-climate-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:08:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47373.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47373.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga bows before making his first policy speech before the Diet on Monday. Japan must commit more fully to renewable energy sources — some say that as much as 50% of the country’s supply — if it is to honor Suga’s clean-energy goals.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/29/commentary/world-commentary/america-still-interfere-foreign-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:09:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47333.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47333.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Americans have been understandably outraged and alarmed about foreign electoral interference. But the practice is not new; in fact, the United States was for a long time its leading exponent.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/29/commentary/world-commentary/can-chinas-covid-19-recovery-continue/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-29T19:11:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47113.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47113.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Over the next couple of weeks, Beijing will unveil the latest five-year plan — a blueprint for how it will steer the economy, including an indication of priority sectors and where money will go.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/30/commentary/japan-commentary/mobilizing-world-behind-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T18:01:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47601.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47601.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow and ICAN Executive Director Beatrice Fihn attend the Nobel Peace Prize awarded ceremony in Oslo in December 2017.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/30/commentary/world-commentary/can-america-avoid-election-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T18:03:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47752.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47752.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In many countries, elections often come with a risk of bloodshed owing to such factors as extreme political polarization, winner-take-all stakes, a proliferation of weapons and flawed electoral processes.These risk factors are all in some measure present in the U.S. today.
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/30/commentary/world-commentary/terror-attacks-france-demand-statesmanship-not-demagoguery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-30T18:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47725-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47725.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Italian protesters hold a demonstration in front of the French Embassy in Rome after an attacker armed with a knife killed three people at a church in Nice, France, on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/31/cartoons/roger-dahl-chinas-ambitions-southeast-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-31T19:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46961-e1604121055778.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46961.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on China's ambitions in Southeast Asia]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/31/cartoons/roger-dahl-tokugawa-selfies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-31T19:49:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_46963-e1604121084636.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_46963.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Tokugawa selfies]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/31/commentary/world-commentary/work-from-home-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-10-31T17:44:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_47054.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47054.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Social distancing and contact tracing have helped South Korea manage the coronavirus pandemic, while keeping its economy afloat.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/01/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-decentralization-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T17:41:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48122.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48122.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People crowd Tokyo's Ameyoko market. In the age of the pandemic, some people have begun advocating for the idea of moving away from the reliance on major cities where congestion is an issue.

]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/01/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-north-korea-abductions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T18:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48058.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48058.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet with family members of people abducted by North Korea in Tokyo in May 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/01/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-election-gift-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-01T22:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47665.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47665.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Donald Trump supporter listens to the U.S. president speak at a rally in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday. At the ideological level, a U.S. election meltdown featuring bitter political clashes and endless litigation would be a propaganda bonanza for the Chinese Communist Party.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/02/commentary/world-commentary/emerging-markets-modern-monetary-theory/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-02T19:27:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47356.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47356.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emerging markets have reasons to be wary of MMT. They don’t strictly meet its preconditions. While every country does print a legal tender and collects taxes in its own currency, not all can borrow in them.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/02/commentary/world-commentary/facebook-twitter-us-elections-bias/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-02T19:28:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47692.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47692.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely during a Senate committee hearing on whether to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/02/commentary/world-commentary/election-night-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-02T19:31:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48158-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48158.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/24/commentary/world-commentary/new-justice-wouldnt-guarantee-pro-trump-election-verdict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T13:35:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/np_file_39849.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_39849.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A makeshift memorial for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Democrats and others worry that if Ginsburg is replaced by a hard-line conservative, Chief Justice John Roberts will no longer be the swing vote.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/03/commentary/world-commentary/disputed-us-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-03T17:37:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48413-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48413.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some experts are warning there is a significant chance that the U.S. presidential election could be swung by a few thousand disqualified ballots.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/04/commentary/world-commentary/contested-u-s-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T17:40:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48671.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48671.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The surge in mail-in and early voting amid the pandemic meant that the chances of knowing whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden won sometime Tuesday night was very low.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/04/commentary/world-commentary/bush-v-gore-trump-biden-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T17:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48619.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48619.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Tuesday morning, Republicans invoked Bush v. Gore in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania, challenging a county’s process for dealing with certain absentee ballots. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/04/commentary/world-commentary/young-voters-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T17:47:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48633.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[According to the Centre for the Future of Democracy, part of Cambridge University, millennials, when questioned about democracy, say that they are losing faith in it.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/04/commentary/world-commentary/can-humanity-grow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T17:50:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48176-scaled-e1604479781469.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48176.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/04/commentary/world-commentary/china-big-tech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-04T17:51:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47736-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47736.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Just as the U.S. government starts looking to rein in, or even break up, big technology companies in the belief they have too much power, China is going in the opposite direction with the aim of establishing big successful chip and software firms.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/03/commentary/world-commentary/sean-connery-james-bond-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T11:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48466.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48466.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sean Connery is shown during filming the James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice," on location in Tokyo, in July 1966.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/05/commentary/world-commentary/post-election-realities-japan-us-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T19:34:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48910.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48910.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In many capitals around the world, the private hope was that Donald Trump was an aberration and that the United States would return to its senses with a new president. Despite this view, Tokyo and other allies certainly appreciated Trump’s tougher line on China.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/05/commentary/japan-commentary/shenzhen-reform/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T19:39:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_47334-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_47334.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shenzhen, which was once a poor fishing village now has the highest per capita GDP on mainland China, and a total GDP on par with Hong Kong.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/05/editorials/test-faith-united-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T19:40:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48808.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48808.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As many anticipated, hours and days after the polls closed, the answer to who won the U.S. election remains unknown.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/05/commentary/japan-commentary/2016-hillary-clintons-lose-lost-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-05T23:41:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48806.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48806.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Foreign exchange traders work as a TV screen shows news updates on the U.S. presidential election in Tokyo on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/03/commentary/world-commentary/indian-american-voter-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:47:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48429-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48429.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace after bilateral talks in New Delhi in February. Both major U.S. parties are actively courting Indian American voters, a significant number of whom reside in potential swing states like Texas and Pennsylvania.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/02/04/commentary/world-commentary/democrats-wimpy-impeachment-made-trump-stronger-ever/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T00:48:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/p9-rall-a-20200205.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-rall-a-20200205.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/22/commentary/japan-commentary/five-takeaways-australia-japan-defense-ministers-joint-statement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T10:50:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_45989.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_45989.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and his Australian counterpart, Linda Reynolds, finish up a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/14/commentary/world-commentary/us-donald-trump-election-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T17:05:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42220.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42220.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The nonmedical crisis now facing the United States is that President Donald Trump allegedly doesn’t recognize limits or respect America’s constitutional order and is recklessly breaking precedents and norms.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/06/commentary/world-commentary/biden-may-winning-americas-future-isnt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T17:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49119.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49119.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump may well be removed after the votes are counted. A Democrat will win the popular vote. Again. But still, Joe Biden’s night was not what Democrats had hoped for.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/06/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-fragile-monarchy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-06T18:59:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48521.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Whereby there are presently only two viable heirs to Japan's imperial throne — Crown Prince Akishino and his 14-year old son, Prince Hisahito — and one begins to understand that Japan's imperial line is potentially quite fragile.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/07/cartoons/roger-dahl-canine-heroes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-07T19:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48491-e1604722950566.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48491.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on canine heroes]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/07/cartoons/roger-dahl-sugas-zero-carbon-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-07T19:50:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48498-e1604722430964.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48498.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Suga's zero carbon pledge]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/09/commentary/world-commentary/us-federal-reserve-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T18:02:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49157.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49157.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asia’s monetary system depends on the stability of the greenback. Currencies are mostly priced against the buck with more than a few countries have soft pegs to the dollar.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/09/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-immunity-persecution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T18:04:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49497.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49497.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/09/commentary/world-commentary/schadenfreude-us-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T18:04:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49510.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49510.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden dance in celebration of his declared victory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/07/commentary/world-commentary/potential-policy-failure-vaccines-huge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-09T22:09:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48404.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48404.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With trials taking place for numerous potential coronavirus vaccines around the world, now is the time for governments to prepare for their proper distribution.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/06/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-new-olympic-experiment-risky-mistake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T12:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49141.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49141.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[That taxpayers are expected to pick up most of the tab hasn’t exactly endeared the Olympics to the Japanese public. A July poll taken after the games were rescheduled found that one-third of respondents wanted them canceled outright.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/03/commentary/world-commentary/china-dual-circulation-strategy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T15:33:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_48113.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_48113.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The "dual circulation" strategy fits with calls from China's leaders under President Xi Jinping to make their country a self-reliant technological power.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/10/commentary/world-commentary/us-election-transition-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:30:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49868.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49868.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers begin work on the presidential inaugural platform in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/10/commentary/world-commentary/biden-won-now-allies-must-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:32:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49813-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49813.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden leaves a meeting on the first day of his transition in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/10/commentary/world-commentary/america-reciprocity-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-10T18:48:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49071.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49071.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen on Oct. 21, outlined in a September statement that the U.S. will tighten restrictions on Chinese diplomats in the country under the principle of reciprocity.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/04/14/commentary/japan-commentary/coronavirus-japans-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T18:06:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/np_file_6256.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_6256.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks along a deserted street inTokyo’s Asakusa district on Monday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency last week for Tokyo and six other prefectures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/11/commentary/world-commentary/ferrari-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T18:24:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50166.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50166.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ferrari 812 GTS is unveiled at an event at the company's headquarters in Maranello, Italy, in September 2019.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/11/commentary/japan-commentary/us-age-of-anger-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T18:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49558.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump rally after Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/11/commentary/world-commentary/boris-johnson-joe-biden-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T18:38:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Boris Johnson]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/11/commentary/world-commentary/us-election-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T18:53:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49953.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49953.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman walks past a television screen showing results from the U.S. election in Hong Kong on Nov. 4. Beijing has made clear it hopes that a change in the U.S. administration will lead to an improvement in the bilateral relationship.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/11/commentary/japan-commentary/world-new-us-president/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-11T18:54:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50113.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50113.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden speaks to reporter's in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. What will a Biden presidency mean to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul?]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/11/commentary/japan-commentary/yoshihide-suga-agricultural-export-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T18:49:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49977.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The financial subsidies paid to Japanese farmers to keep rice production down amounts to ¥300 to ¥400 billion annually. If the government wants to increase exports, production needs to be raised.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/12/commentary/world-commentary/playstation-dominates-xbox-will-years-come/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-12T19:37:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50416.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee at an electronics shop in Kawasaki prepares the new Sony PlayStation 5 gaming console for a customer on the first day of its launch on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/13/commentary/world-commentary/truth-de-trumpification/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T18:13:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50712-e1605258724835.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50712.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/13/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccines-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-13T18:15:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50591.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50591.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The claims is the vaccine created by Pfizer and partner BioNTech is 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. That would mean nearly all of the infections happened in people who got a placebo rather than the vaccine.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/13/commentary/japan-commentary/japanese-style-capitalism-us-income-growth-and-equality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T03:03:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50670.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50670.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A makeshift homeless person's structure in Detroit, Michigan. America has more than two times more very wealthy people than Japan, but it also has more than five times more poor people.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/14/cartoons/roger-dahl-rise-demon-slayer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T19:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49972-e1605335575730.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49972.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the rise of 'Demon Slayer']]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/14/cartoons/roger-dahl-turning-cheek-sumo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T19:49:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_49976-e1605335531323.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_49976.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on turning the other cheek in sumo]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/14/commentary/world-commentary/trump-populism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-14T18:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50056.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50056.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Like many populist leaders, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraced U.S. President Donald Trump, but must now hope such wholesale endorsement has not distanced him from Joe Biden.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/15/commentary/emmanuel-macron-islam-free-speech/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-15T19:51:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50854.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50854.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party, burn a representation of a French flag with a defaced image of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/15/commentary/world-commentary/germany-immigrants-biontech-vaccine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-15T19:53:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51065.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51065.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/15/commentary/world-commentary/eu-us-joe-biden-europe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-15T19:59:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51047.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51047.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If a Biden administration wants to reinvent American leadership for the twenty-first century, it will need to push Europe to become self-reliant.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/16/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-coronavirus-stocks-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T17:30:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50855.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50855.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/16/commentary/japan-commentary/okinawa-rape-japan-us-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-16T18:58:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51062.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51062.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marines walk past the U.S. and Japanese national flags at Marine headquarters at Camp Foster in Ginowan, Okinawa, in March 2008. The September 1995 rape of an Okinawan school girl fundamentally changed the fabric of U.S.-Japan-Okinawa relations afterward.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/17/commentary/world-commentary/trumponomics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T18:40:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50856-e1605605999914.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50856.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/17/commentary/world-commentary/legalized-marijuana-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-17T18:41:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_50857.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_50857.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A voter holds a ballot during Election Day in Ridgeland, Mississippi, on Nov. 3.  In addition to the presidential race, the electorate in the state also voted on two medical marijuana initiatives.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/18/commentary/japan-commentary/singapore-sand-construction/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T16:16:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51856.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51856.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers prepare to pour concrete in Singapore in September 2015. It’s been an agonizing year for the construction industry in Singapore. Activity fell 44.7% in the third quarter from a year earlier.    ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/18/commentary/world-commentary/socialism-working-class-us-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T16:25:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51623.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the National Socialist Movement take part in a rally in Mansfield, Massachusetts in late September.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/18/commentary/world-commentary/will-trumps-defeat-prove-lethal-populism-across-globe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T16:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51616.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51616.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump’s election loss amounts to a warning for other far-right populists, such as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/27/commentary/world-commentary/europe-rescues-itself/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T17:12:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/np_file_26701.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_26701.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Commission officials celebrate on Thursday what they boasted was a historic rescue plan for EU economies left shattered by the coronavirus epidemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/18/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-south-korea-us-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T19:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51803-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51803.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks on the occasion of the third anniversary of his inauguration in Seoul in May. President Moon extended warm greetings to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in a virtual meeting during the East Asia Summit.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/18/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-coronavirus-vaccine-divide/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T20:37:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51891.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51891.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan too has been developing its own drug, Avigan, against COVID-19. Yet the drug being developed by Fujifilm is not a vaccine but rather a treatment for coronavirus symptoms. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/18/commentary/world-commentary/africa-debt-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-18T20:37:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51617-1-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51617.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck exits a copper mine in Zambia, which become the first African nation to default on sovereign payments since the pandemic began.
Chinese credit accounts for more than a quarter of Zambia’s external public debt.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/01/editorials/million-covid-19-deaths-must-drive-world-act-together/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T10:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_41627.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_41627.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The total number of deaths — over 1,500 of which occurred in Japan — are a fraction of the more than 33 million people around the world who have been infected with the disease in the nine months since COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/19/commentary/world-commentary/tokyo-can-navigate-japan-u-s-china-trap/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T19:24:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51258.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51258.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/19/commentary/world-commentary/biden-owes-palestinians/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T19:27:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51963.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51963.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Palestinians, including President Mahmoud Abbas, hope that the election of former Vice President Joe Biden will spell the end of the Trump administration’s Mideast policies, which they feel overwhelmingly favor Israel.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/19/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-mutated-can-vaccines-keep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-19T19:29:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51960.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51960.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scientists recently announced they have discovered first evidence showing that the COVID-19 virus has evolved to be more transmissible.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/20/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-costing-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T17:55:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52324.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52324.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In addition to the obvious risks the virus poses to health care workers, who are disproportionately female, the attendant COVID-19 lockdown measures have led to lapses in maternity care and an increase in domestic abuse.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/20/commentary/world-commentary/chinese-tech-companies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:06:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52032.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52032.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's decision to push ahead with a plan that could lead to the delisting of Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges is just the latest Trump salvo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/19/editorials/rcep-big-numbers-bigger-potential/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-20T18:11:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52016-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52016.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A screen grab taken from Vietnam Host Broadcaster's on Sunday shows Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga watching Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pact.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/20/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-us-senkakus-commitment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T01:42:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52318-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52318.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese Marine surveillance ship cruises next to a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat in waters near the Senkaku Islands in September 2012. The Japanese government purchased them from private landowners that year, effectively nationalizing the islets. 
]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/21/cartoons/roger-dahl-covid-19-go-travel-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T17:49:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51539-e1605933090992.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51539.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on COVID-19 and the Go To Travel campaign]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/21/cartoons/roger-dahl-impossibility-removing-kimono/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T19:49:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51540-e1605933125138.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51540.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the impossibility of removing a kimono]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/21/commentary/world-commentary/modernas-vaccine-win-giant-leap-pandemics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-21T17:58:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51440.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51440.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Moderna announced on Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine was proving 94.5% effective against the disease.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/22/commentary/world-commentary/trumps-afghan-troop-withdrawal-puts-biden-jam/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T17:30:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52035.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52035.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Afghan security forces and foreign troops arrive at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul in May 2019. The problem with Trump’s plan of leaving just 2,500 troops behind is that it could invite more attacks from the Taliban. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/22/commentary/world-commentary/key-reviving-international-travel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T21:58:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51736.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51736.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Countless planes have been grounded around the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it will take considerable cooperation to get them carrying passengers again.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/22/commentary/pfizer-vaccine-safety-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T22:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51959.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51959.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[As new vaccines look set for regulatory approval, managing the follow-up on adverse drug reactions will be critical for any vaccination program to be successful.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/22/commentary/world-commentary/china-hong-kong-democracy-protests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T22:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52132.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52132.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy legislators wave to media in Hong Kong upon handing in their resignation letters after four of the city's pandemocratic lawmakers were disqualified by Beijing, on Nov. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/22/commentary/japan-commentary/new-normal-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-22T22:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52650.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52650.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the post-COVID-19 world, the coronavirus should prove far less dangerous, eventually becoming as common as the flu. But that doesn’t mean life will completely revert to the way it was.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/23/commentary/world-commentary/ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-nobel-peace-prize-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-23T19:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52457-e1606127556873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52457.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bleibel]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/17/commentary/world-commentary/asia-rcep-cptpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:40:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_51513.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_51513.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (right) hands over the ASEAN gavel to Brunei's Ambassador to Vietnam Pengiran Haji Sahari Bin Pengiran Salleh during the closing ceremony of the ASEAN summit in Hanoi on Sunday. The event was held online. 

]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/30/commentary/japan-commentary/scrap-scientifically-unsound-quake-forecasts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p10-geller-a-20190831.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p10-geller-a-20190831.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police rescue team members check for the possibility of trapped people in collapsed houses in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, on April 15, 2016. Until 2016, the home page of the prefectural government was enticing businesses to build their new factories in Kumamoto, calling it a "safe area" with a low incidence of big earthquakes.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/29/commentary/japan-commentary/break-bureaucrats-grip-policy-power/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:48:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p1-Takenaka-a-20190830.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-Takenaka-a-20190830.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Progress has been made in the transition to a system in which politicians and the Prime Minister's Office take the lead in policy decisions, but bureaucrats still drive many policymaking decisions.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/26/commentary/japan-commentary/silent-foreign-policy-establishment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:49:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p8-Miyake-a-20190827.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-Miyake-a-20190827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in walks past Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a G-20 photo session in Osaka on June 28. South Korea on Thursday said that is canceling an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/26/commentary/japan-commentary/making-tokyo-competitive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p1-Deguchi-a-20190827.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-Deguchi-a-20190827.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Concern exists that the nation's capital is losing the competition with other Asian cities to attract international corporations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/21/commentary/japan-commentary/u-s-china-navigating-constant-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p8-Goldstein-a-20190822.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-Goldstein-a-20190822.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/20/commentary/japan-commentary/can-japan-south-korea-relations-saved/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:50:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p8-tatsumi-a-20190821.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-tatsumi-a-20190821.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an Aug. 15 speech marking the 74th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, South Korean President Moon Jae-in extended an olive branch to Japan, saying Seoul will "gladly join hands" if Tokyo wants to talk.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/05/commentary/japan-commentary/lost-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:51:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p1-Miyake-a-20190806.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-Miyake-a-20190806.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/29/commentary/japan-commentary/abe-administration-left-behind-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:51:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p9-isozaki-a-20190730.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-isozaki-a-20190730.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Progress in the U.S.-North Korea denuclearization negotiations is a necessary condition for improving the relationship between Japan and North Korea.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/02/commentary/japan-commentary/hosting-group-20-summit-japan-no-favors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:52:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/p7-snow-a-20190703.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-snow-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during their meeting in Osaka on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/23/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-growing-geostrategic-role/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:52:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p7-Goldstein-a-20190624.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-Goldstein-a-20190624.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid tensions with the U.S., Beijing needs Japanese trade and investment. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping have developed a positive diplomatic relationship and ties have improved.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/20/commentary/japan-commentary/chance-showcase-japans-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:52:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p7-nagy-a-20190621.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-nagy-a-20190621.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At next week's G20 summit in Osaka, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have an opportunity to demonstrate Japan's leadership and commitment to multilateralism and a rules-based order in an era of populism .]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/18/commentary/japan-commentary/success-failure-abe-tehran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p8-bosack-a-20190619.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-bosack-a-20190619.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/12/commentary/japan-commentary/chinas-senkaku-islands-ambition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:53:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p8-bosack-a-20190613.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-bosack-a-20190613.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese government vessel sails in the contiguous zone surrounding the Senkaku Islands in August 2016. Monday marked the 60th consecutive day that China Coast Guard vessels have operated in those waters this year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/11/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-must-prepare-u-s-china-dig/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:54:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p11-glosserman-a-20190612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-glosserman-a-20190612.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/11/editorials/no-quick-fix-reverse-decline-newborns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:55:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/10/commentary/japan-commentary/japanese-ready-make-mark-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:55:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p13-ishikura-a-20190612.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p13-ishikura-a-20190612.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/05/commentary/japan-commentary/security-society-5-0/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:56:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/p8-hobson-a-20190606.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-hobson-a-20190606.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/05/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-bangladesh-partnership-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T00:56:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/p11-hasina-a-20190528.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p11-hasina-a-20190528.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomes Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina before holding talks on May 28, 2016. The two leaders will meet again this week in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/24/commentary/world-commentary/shenzhen-shanghai-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T17:30:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52924.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shenzhen, with its bustling ports and glittering skyline, is clearly populated and prosperous.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/24/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-australia-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T18:00:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52915.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52915.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga have agreed on a reciprocal access agreement, a legal framework that allows the two countries’ militaries to visit for training and joint military operations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/24/commentary/world-commentary/undersea-internet-cables-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T18:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52066.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52066.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In recent years, Japan has seen its potential connectivity through undersea cables rise, with projects such as the installation of fiber optic cables running between Chiba Prefecture and Singapore in 2012.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/24/commentary/world-commentary/democrats-us-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T18:15:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52630-e1606209294176.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52630.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Oliver Schopf]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/24/commentary/world-commentary/city-of-london-finance-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-24T18:16:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52721.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52721.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[London has a history in cutting-edge finance, a deep talent pool and a strong lead in the trillion-dollar swaps market. It’s a logical place to base the trading of carbon credits.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/25/commentary/world-commentary/opec-oil-saudi-arabia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T19:06:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52733.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52733.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's minister of energy, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, speaks via video link during a virtual emergency meeting of OPEC, in Riyadh in April. The United Arab Emirates, normally a loyal Saudi ally, is privately questioning the benefits of participating in the organization and may even be considering whether to leave.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/25/commentary/world-commentary/gold-economy-investing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T19:07:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52044.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52044.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Holding gold is a safety measure against government authorities making poor economic choices. Inflation is usually the result of those poor decisions.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/25/commentary/world-commentary/beyond-meat-china-tofu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T19:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52730.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52730.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beyond Meat Inc., the U.S. maker of plant-based burgers and sausages, announced a new product designed to crack China, the world’s biggest meat market: imitation ground pork.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/25/commentary/japan-commentary/coronavirus-industrial-revitalization/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T19:11:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53254.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53254.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There’s still no end in sight for the pandemic crisis, but as Japan’s economy averts a worst-case scenario and makes a modest recovery, how to revitalize its industries is becoming a major issue.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/25/commentary/japan-commentary/china-trade-tpp-rcep/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-25T19:13:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) applauds on Nov. 15 as China’s minister of commerce, Zhong Shan, holds up an agreement during the signing ceremony for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pact during the online ASEAN summit. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/26/commentary/world-commentary/95-effective-vaccine-pretty-exciting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T17:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/26/commentary/world-commentary/west-china-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T17:07:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53176.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's economy has undergone three stages of reform since the country's Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/26/editorials/return-normalcy-biden-administration-emerges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-26T17:48:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53484.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53484.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President-elect Joe Biden introduces the nominees for his national security team at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. 

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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/26/commentary/world-commentary/maradona-soccer-obit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T15:35:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53508.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53508.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A rose is placed next to a banner of Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/27/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-helping-african-economies-compete/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T18:38:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53338.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53338.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People walk past the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton, South Africa, on Nov. 9. Africa has held off the COVID-19 assault better than many developing regions, with seven of its 54 countries now among the globe's 10 fastest-growing economies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-misunderstanding-biden-administration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T18:39:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53724.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53724.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There is worry in Tokyo that Washington under a Biden administration will once again reach out to China and put Japan in a difficult position, and it comes from memories of the former Obama administration’s comparatively friendly relations with Beijing.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/27/commentary/japan-commentary/g20-multilateralism-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-27T18:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53684.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/28/cartoons/roger-dahl-slurping-noodles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T19:49:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53038-e1606536506272.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53038.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on slurping noodles]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/28/cartoons/roger-dahl-light-end-olympic-tunnel/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T19:50:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53036-e1606536542646.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53036.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the light at end of the Olympic tunnel]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/28/commentary/world-commentary/will-price-pay-making-vaccines-expensive/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-28T17:39:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_52953.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_52953.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[AstraZeneca, which is developing a COVID-19 vaccine with Oxford University, has pledged not to profit from the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/29/commentary/world-commentary/division-dialogue-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T16:42:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53670-e1606634559283.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53670.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/29/commentary/world-commentary/overcoming-gulf-states-oil-curse/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T16:43:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_54081.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54081.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An oil tank at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oilfield in Saudi Arabia. The common assumption is that Persian Gulf countries', with their fabulous wealth from floating for decades on seas of oil and gas, will overcome all challenges — but that is no longer assured in this day and age.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/29/commentary/world-commentary/iranian-nuclear-scientist-killing-will-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-29T18:14:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_54094.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54094.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose coffin is seen being carried here in Mashhad, Iran, on Sunday, was sometimes described as Iran’s Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist at the center of America’s pioneering nuclear weapons project in the 1940s.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/30/commentary/world-commentary/vietnam-model-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T18:54:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_54103.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54103.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attend a welcome ceremony in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone in April 2018.    ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/11/30/commentary/world-commentary/warp-speed-clean-energy-wont-work/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-11-30T18:56:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/np_file_53336.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53336.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Some people are calling for governments to tackle clean energy needs like they did to expedite the development of a COVID-29 vaccine under the Operation Warp Speed program. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/01/commentary/world-commentary/german-innovation-immigration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-01T17:16:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_53544.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_53544.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of German biotech firm BioNTech in Mainz, Germany]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/01/commentary/world-commentary/china-hard-line-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-01T17:30:14+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54409.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54409.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police stand guard outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra in March 2008. While tensions between Australia and China have been on the rise for several years, the latest economic fight began in earnest several months ago when Canberra backed calls for an international investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak.
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/01/commentary/world-commentary/progressives-joe-biden-foreign-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-01T21:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54448.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54448.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden’s early signals show that, for now at least, he is charting a centrist foreign policy course. And if his choices for national security positions are disappointing to his party’s progressives, they are sure to be reassuring to his country’s allies.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/japan-commentary/killing-mohsen-fakhrizadeh/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T19:05:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54672.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54672.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students of Iran's Basij paramilitary force burn U.S. and Israeli flags in front of the foreign ministry in Tehran on Saturday to protest the killing of prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/world-commentary/language-lockdowns-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T19:06:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54685.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54685.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The problem with India's lockdown response was the authorities made no provision for poor migrant workers who, stranded without work or pay, had no choice but to walk hundreds of miles back to their homes, helping to spread the virus.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/world-commentary/islam-beheadings-religion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T19:08:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54699.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54699.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest in Istanbul on Oct. 25 after French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to defend secularism against radical Islam after the decapitation murder of a school teacher by a Chechen immigrant in Nice, France.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/world-commentary/china-poverty-progress/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T19:08:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54510.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54510.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The sheer scale of China’s overall achievements when it comes to poverty alleviation is remarkable. More than 850 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in under four decades.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/japan-commentary/us-decline-donald-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T19:10:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54748.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54748.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters from both sides of the U.S. political divide clash in Denver, Colorado, on Nov. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/world-commentary/china-us-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-02T20:37:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54502-e1606903460938.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54502.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/03/commentary/world-commentary/indias-angry-farmers-reason-worry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-03T18:28:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54864.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54864.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers take part in a protest against recently passed farm bills at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghaziabad, India, on Wednesday.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/africa-japan-singapore/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-04T13:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55124.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55124.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A drinking water factory in Nairobi, Kenya. What Africa needs is its own Japan or Singapore — pioneering countries that can industrialize first, and then invest in the rest of the continent. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-north-korea-sanctions-relief/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-04T16:32:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55186.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55186.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Banners supporting the alliance between South Korea and the U.S. are displayed near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul soon after the election of Joe Biden as the next U.S. president.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/04/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-nobody-safe-everyone-safe/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-04T16:34:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55005.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55005.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Without major investment in readiness, distribution and equitable access, COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics will remain out of reach for far too many people, particularly in communities already struggling to cope with the impact of the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/05/cartoons/roger-dahl-chewing-squid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-05T19:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54505-e1607140524624.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54505.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on chewing squid]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/05/cartoons/roger-dahl-chinas-regional-ambitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-05T19:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54504-e1607140559819.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54504.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on China's regional ambitions]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/05/commentary/world-commentary/happiness-money-can-buy-winter-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-05T18:00:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54879-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54879.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Keeping warm and spending our savings wisely will help ensure happiness in the winter of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/06/commentary/world-commentary/china-nuclear-energy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-06T19:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54717.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54717.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hualong One pressurized water nuclear power units have been constructed in numerous areas of China, and agreements have been signed with Argentina and Iran to build similar plants there.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/06/commentary/world-commentary/wall-street-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-06T19:22:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55119.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55119.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Outside the Hong Kong Stocks Exchange. China’s new securities law, which came into effect in March, states explicitly that overseas regulators can’t directly inspect or collect evidence on Chinese soil. Beijing considers this a sovereign issue. Chinese companies are coming home, whether anyone likes it or not.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/06/commentary/world-commentary/central-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-06T19:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55140.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55140.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Further monetary easing may become inevitable for the U.S. Fed to make inflation targeting effective and for the European Central Bank to justify greater emphasis on the environment.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/07/commentary/world-commentary/rcep-china-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-07T18:51:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55562-scaled-e1607334646553.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Carlos Amorim]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/07/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-china-electoral-system/</loc>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/08/commentary/world-commentary/bacardi-solved-worlds-plastic-problem/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In 2023, Bacardi will start using bottles made with a remarkable new bioplastic called Nodax PHA. Unlike traditional bottles, the new ones will biodegrade in compost piles, special landfills and even the ocean.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a joint news conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/america-safer-trump-alone-cant-start-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:15+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/20/commentary/world-commentary/trump-putting-credibility-question-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's reticence in using force against Iran through nearly all of 2019 likely influenced Tehran's willingness to gradually increase its military pressure.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/07/commentary/world-commentary/trump-tries-protection-racket-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump addresses U.S. military personnel at Osan Air Base in South Korea on June 30. Trump is demanding a five-fold increase in the roughly $1 billion that Seoul now pays annually in host-nation support for U.S. forces based in South Korea.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/07/commentary/world-commentary/post-soleimani-view-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/01/03/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-supreme-courts-past-decade-liberals-last-gasp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage supporters rejoice in Washington on June 28, 2015, after the U.S. Supreme Court hands down a ruling regarding same-sex marriage.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/16/editorials/truce-reached-u-s-china-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/09/commentary/japan-commentary/three-front-line-nations-drifting-chaos/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/09/editorials/less-satisfactory-trade-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:18+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/30/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-u-s-trade-deal-trump-ploy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a meeting in New York on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/09/commentary/world-commentary/macron-eyes-european-leadership/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:19+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/25/commentary/world-commentary/trump-relishes-upcoming-impeachment-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump doesn't appear to be worried about being impeached.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/30/commentary/world-commentary/impeachment-come-foreign-policy-silver-lining/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:20+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/17/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-president-cornered-latest-middle-east-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a family photo session at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-china-spat-just-trade-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/26/editorials/group-seven-limps/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:22+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/19/commentary/world-commentary/meet-china-challenge-u-s-fight-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/19/commentary/japan-commentary/deal-trump-tantrum/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump's unorthodox foreign policy agenda has been a  focus of media attention in Japan.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/trump-plays-race-card/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/23/commentary/world-commentary/trump-partly-good-u-s-foreign-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:24+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/02/commentary/world-commentary/trump-kim-meet-xi-bides-time/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-Cynkin-a-20190703.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Signs are promising that Sunday's meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone might lead to more concrete progress in bilateral negotiations, but  it's difficult to imagine a scenario where North Korea reaches an agreement with the U.S. that China opposes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/09/commentary/world-commentary/central-banks-siege-populism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-funabashi-a-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his view on Friday that a Federal Reserve interest rate cut would help the U.S. economy grow more quickly, and said U.S. central bankers don't know what they're doing.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/09/commentary/world-commentary/u-k-diplomat-gets-run-brexit-bus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-raphael-a-20190710.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the White House will no longer deal with British Ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch after leaked diplomatic cables revealed the diplomat views his administration as "uniquely dysfunctional" and "inept."]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/02/commentary/world-commentary/dont-give-trump-much-credit-trade-truce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/12/editorials/grim-lesson-mexico-negotiations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/02/editorials/trumps-reality-tv-dmz/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/05/28/commentary/world-commentary/might-method-trumps-madness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/no-wonder-trump-loves-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:28+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/05/28/commentary/world-commentary/will-u-s-china-trade-war-end/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump on May 5 ratcheted up the pressure on China to reach a trade deal.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Mueller report's conclusion is a victory for U.S. President Donald Trump.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Now a nuclear power, Pyongyang is negotiating from a position of strength in its talks with Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold their second summit in Hanoi on Feb. 27-28.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:44+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/11/19/editorials/agreement-eludes-apec/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/12/03/commentary/world-commentary/trump-deserves-credit-truce-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T00:23:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/29/commentary/world-commentary/coup-easily-happen-u-s-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T08:47:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/29/commentary/world-commentary/chairman-kim-goes-back-script/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T08:48:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump is still waiting for his two years of one-on-one diplomacy with Kim Jong Un to pay off with a deal that eliminates the threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/23/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-china-dialogue-suggests-xi-supports-trump-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T08:48:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton asserts in his new book that U.S. President Donald Trump personally asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help him win the 2020 election by getting farmers’ support through increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat. Last week, China pledged to do just that.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/09/commentary/japan-commentary/prime-minister-suga-third-budget/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T17:15:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga needs his own mandate to ensure his political survival. That means he must implement measures that will keep the economy juiced until September, the likely date for a nationwide poll.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/09/commentary/world-commentary/nato-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T17:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to head his Defense Department.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/09/commentary/world-commentary/vaccinate-nation-skeptics-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T17:18:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/09/commentary/japan-commentary/australia-japan-alliance/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T17:19:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, review an honor guard at Suga's official residence in Tokyo on Nov. 17.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/09/commentary/world-commentary/exxon-activist/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-09T17:20:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Activists protest against Exxon's climate change policies at the ExxonMobil's 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Dallas, Texas, in May 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/10/editorials/hayabusa2-humanity-history/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-10T17:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency carry a box containing asteroid samples they retrieved from a remote area in southern Australia on Sunday.
]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/10/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-foreign-policy-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-10T17:16:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56410.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Will Joe Biden return to the softer approach toward China seen during the presidency of Barack Obama? under whose watch, Beijing embarked on aggressive expansionism such as redrawing the geopolitical map of the South China Sea without firing a single shot or incurring any international costs.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/10/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-space-race/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-10T19:29:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55653.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan was the fourth nation in the world to launch a satellite and has continued to be active in the field, such as with the launch of a rocket carrying an intelligence-gathering satellite from Kagoshima Prefecture on Feb. 9.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/09/commentary/world-commentary/pandemic-public-debt-dilemma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-10T19:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/03/editorials/alarming-assassination-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-10T22:16:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters burn pictures of U.S. President Donald Trump  and President-elect Joe Biden during a demonstration against the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, in Tehran on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/08/commentary/japan-commentary/zombie-companies-feed-off-living/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-10T22:56:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Tokyo Stock Exchange. Japan might be ground zero for the zombie contagion. The term was first used to describe companies kept alive after the bursting of the “Bubble economy” in the late 1980s and whose survival lead to “the lost decade” of the 1990s. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/11/commentary/world-commentary/china-global-climate-boost/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-11T15:54:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker sorts coal at a mine in northern China's Shanxi province. Researchers say China must stop building new coal power plants and ramp up its wind and solar capacity if it wants to become carbon neutral by 2060.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/11/commentary/japan-commentary/elliott-masayoshi-son-softbank-listen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-11T15:56:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56516.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masayoshi Son]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/11/commentary/japan-commentary/expectations-joe-bidens-administration-differ-country-country/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-11T19:08:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/12/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-zero-carbon-christmas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-12T19:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_55881-e1607744042967.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_55881.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's zero carbon Christmas]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/12/cartoons/roger-dahl-tokyos-crowded-commutes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-12T19:49:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Tokyo's crowded commutes]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/12/commentary/world-commentary/vaccines-alone-arent-enough-beat-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-12T17:39:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56027.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. The U.K. is the first country in the world to start administering the vaccine.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/05/23/editorials/reflect-on-fukui-nuclear-ruling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-13T10:54:50+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/13/commentary/world-commentary/maybe-brexit-isnt-bad/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-13T16:46:04+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/13/commentary/world-commentary/iran-hostage-taking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-13T16:48:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_56442.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56442.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Edward McMullen greets Xiyue Wang in Zurich after his release by Iran in December 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/13/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-debt-dogs-didnt-bark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-13T16:55:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_56907-1-e1607845857127.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56907.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Group: ViewsAmericaCredit: PISMESTROVIC Source: Kleine Zeitung - Graz, AustriaKeywords: CORONAVIRUS ECONOMY CRISIS BALL CORONA VIRUS COVID 19 PANDEMIC 090320Provider: CartoonArts International]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/14/commentary/world-commentary/facebook-antitrust-suits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-14T19:27:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_56924-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/15/commentary/japan-commentary/us-pacific-deterrence-initiative-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-15T17:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57223.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57223.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This year’s U.S. National Defense Authorization Act includes the Pacific Deterrence Initiative , which while a virtual drop in the budget — $2.2 billion in a $740.5 billion package — is a potentially big deal for regional security.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/15/commentary/japan-commentary/trump-protests-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T13:22:36+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57235.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57235.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There were at least two demonstrations organized by Trump supporters in Tokyo last month. The question is who organized the events.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/19/commentary/world-commentary/sweden-coronavirus-lessons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-19T17:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57440.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57440.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has made headlines with views on managing the coronavirus, which have included a reluctance to recommend face masks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/brexit-myths-and-truths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T16:41:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57480-e1608104250160.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57480.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-expats-janet-yellen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T16:43:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_56923.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_56923.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-killing-people-ways-one/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T16:45:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57150.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57150.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Non-COVID care has dropped as government mandates have prevented discretionary procedures and as patients have grown fearful of being infected at hospitals.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-return-national-security-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T16:47:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57441.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57441.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.K. has been accusing China of breaching the Sino-British Joint Declaration under which Hong Kong is meant to enjoy a high degree of autonomy for 50 years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/let-algorithms-make-life-death-decisions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T16:49:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57458.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57458.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In an overpopulated world, many have asked, “What is the value of human life?” The COVID-19 pandemic has raised this issue once more, framing the question in stark terms: Who should die first if there are not enough resources to save everyone?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/angela-merkel-germanys-next-leader/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-16T16:54:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57472.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57472.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Within the next few weeks, the CDU will hold its 33rd party convention, and choose a new leader. The question is who will be anointed as the party's candidate for chancellor when Angela Merkel steps down.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/17/commentary/world-commentary/biden-climate-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-17T15:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57078.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57078.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President-elect Joe Biden has announced a raft of proposed policies relating to tariffs and climate change.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/17/commentary/world-commentary/aboard-billionaires-bitcoin-bandwagon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-17T17:55:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57715.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57715.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Before racing to open a digital wallet, look at what happened to Bitcoin last time it approached these levels. A surge of 1,000% in 2017 took its value to $19,000. A year later, it had dropped to less than $3,500.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/18/commentary/world-commentary/biden-look-obamas-asia-pacific-trade-strategies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-18T17:18:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_58162-e1608279400781.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58162.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/18/commentary/world-commentary/electric-cars/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-18T18:43:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57720.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57720.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hybrids, combining internal combustion and electric motors, are finding increasing favor with consumers. Sales peaked in 2013 in the U.S., coinciding with the year Tesla Inc. initially said it planned to start deliveries of its Model S full-electric sedan.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/18/commentary/japan-commentary/five-things-watch-japanese-politics-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-19T07:40:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57994.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's power atop the government is not assured in the coming year, and with some significant elections scheduled, domestic politics could once again shake things up at the top.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/19/cartoons/japan-avian-flu/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-19T19:50:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57385-e1608355704205.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57385.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the 12 days of avian flu]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/19/cartoons/social-distance-christmas/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-19T19:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57381-e1608355731191.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57381.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on social distancing at Christmas]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/17/commentary/japan-commentary/bringing-msdf-ishigaki-island-amid-chinas-ramped-territorial-ambitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-20T09:06:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57689.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57689.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A truck loaded with Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles disembarks from a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force transport ship at Ishigaki port in April 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/20/commentary/world-commentary/facebook-investors-breakup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-20T16:56:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57143-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57143.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators protest outside the home of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco on Nov. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/20/commentary/world-commentary/trump-impeachment-us-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-20T16:58:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_58234.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58234.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[One reason impeachment will loom so large is that it will serve as a useful symbol of the controversy that plagued Donald Trump’s entire presidency.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/20/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-coercive-statecraft-china-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-20T17:27:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_58535-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58535.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet just before the G20 Summit in Osaka in June 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/17/editorials/government-muddle-suspended-travel-campaign/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T07:30:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57694.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57694.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasutoshi Nishimura, minister in charge of economic revitalization, has called on the Japanese public “to share a sense of crisis” over the pandemic. Evidence shows that they are not.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/01/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-no-1-21st-century-version/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T13:11:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/p1-koll-a-20190802.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p1-koll-a-20190802.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Released in 1979, Sony Corp.'s Walkman revolutionized how people listened to music and became a symbol of Japan's technological prowess.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2004/01/26/commentary/fog-of-politics-obscures-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T13:35:47+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/01/01/commentary/world-commentary/history-overshadows-present-future-japan-china-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T13:39:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/p17-vogel-china-a-20140101.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p17-vogel-china-a-20140101.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese national flag flies in front of buildings in Shanghai, China, on June 30, 2013.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/21/commentary/world-commentary/solarwinds-cybersecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T15:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_58487.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58487.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[SolarWinds is deployed in more than 425 U.S. Fortune 500 corporations, all major U.S. telecoms companies and most branches of the U.S. government — with a similar presence in many other developed economies. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/21/commentary/japan-commentary/us-japan-science-technology-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T18:22:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Patriot Advanced Capability-3 land-to-air missiles are deployed at Japan's Defense Ministry in Tokyo in April 2012. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/21/commentary/world-commentary/france-emmanuel-macron-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T18:25:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Emmanuel Macron]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/09/05/commentary/world-commentary/weak-currencies-careful-wish/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-21T22:35:56+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/22/commentary/japan-commentary/canberra-covid-19-health-medicine-china-australia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-22T23:34:41+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/mining-asteroids-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-23T18:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The asteroid Ryugu taken by its Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The spacecraft spent six years at a cost of $157 million to recover a single gram of material from the asteroid and return it to Earth recently.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/erdogan-challengers-turkey/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-23T18:03:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59058.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canan Kaftancioglu's supporters say the ferocity of the attacks only demonstrates the degree to which President Erdogan and his allies fear her and her ability to turn out the vote for the CHP party. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/eu-big-tech-regulations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-23T18:05:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58173.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. flag is flown outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. New EU regulations designed to curtail the power of Big Tech, will have a far-reaching impact on the business practices of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and other primarily U.S.-based giants.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/christmas-canceled-boris-johnson-covid-19-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-23T19:28:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59181.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/2020-asia-year-in-review/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-24T03:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tsai Ing-wen ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/24/commentary/world-commentary/asia-technological-rise/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-24T17:15:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59449.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee at the Start-up Village in the Indian city of Kochi works on his laptop in October 2012. India alone produced three-quarters of the world’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates between 2016 and 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/christmas-canadians-jailed-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-24T16:38:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59168.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China likes to say that it does everything according to law. Thus, people are arrested, questioned, tried and imprisoned according to law. But its law is clearly quite different from law in other countries.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/24/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-us-coronavirus-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-24T17:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59486.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/24/editorials/ezra-vogel-japan-potential/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-24T19:19:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59517.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ezra Vogel at the award ceremony of the 2014 Fukuoka Prize ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/28/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-pragmatic-approach-covid-19-testing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-24T19:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_20394.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_20394.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s testing operations for the novel coronavirus are focused on potential and identified clusters as opposed to mass testing.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/25/commentary/world-commentary/china-green-gambit-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-25T16:43:25+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/25/commentary/world-commentary/mark-zuckerberg-bitcoin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-25T16:44:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59059.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the company's plan to launch a digital currency, in Washington in October 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/26/cartoons/roger-dahl-covid-19-2020/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-26T19:50:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_59051-e1608953698480.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on inching toward 2021 with trepidation]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/26/commentary/world-commentary/trump-nasa-mess/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-26T17:25:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_59438.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59438.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Despite President Donald Trump's desire to send people to the moon once again, the Artemis lunar landing program has involved "uncertain plans, unproven cost assumptions, and limited oversight,” a watchdog says.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/27/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-retail/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-27T18:59:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_59952.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59952.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 10 largest public U.S. companies that are either clothing retailers or department stores will collectively have $38 billion of revenue wiped out this year, a hole that amounts to 23% of their collective 2019 sales, according to a  Bloomberg estimate. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/27/commentary/world-commentary/biden-us-cuba/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-27T19:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59366.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cuban President Raul Castro greets U.S. President Barack Obama in Havana in March 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/27/commentary/world-commentary/china-asia-water/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-27T19:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59989.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river discharges water. China has not hesitated to use its hydro-hegemony against its 18 downstream neighbors, including Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/27/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-pandemic-of-fear/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-27T19:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A coronavirus high alert poster at a bus stop in London in December]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/27/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-change-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-27T19:07:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57673.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health care worker receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Women &amp; Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, on Dec. 15.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/28/commentary/world-commentary/dismal-year-everywhere-even-worse-iran/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-28T18:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_59565-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59565.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Iranian cleric chants slogans over the killing of Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani, in February 2020.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/08/28/editorials/libya-disintegrates/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-27T22:23:06+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/28/commentary/world-commentary/china-paris-club/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-28T17:57:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_60053.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60053.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (left) meets with Xiao Jie, China's finance minister, on the sidelines of the 2017 spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held in in Washington.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/28/commentary/world-commentary/xi-jinpings-strategic-overreach/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T04:39:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57727.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57727.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters burn an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a demonstration calling for a consumer boycott of Chinese goods in New Delhi on June 22.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/28/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-fateful-year-wuhan-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T04:49:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57714.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57714.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 July 1, the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover from the U.K. to China.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/29/commentary/world-commentary/api-east-asia-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T17:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_59608.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59608.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masks, already a common sight in several East Asian nations before the pandemic, have now become ubiquitous as a simple measure against the virus.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/2020-pandemic-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-02T17:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_60098.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60098.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, along with U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has shown a lack of effective leadership during 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/03/15/editorials/off-the-tse-hook/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T13:28:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/29/commentary/world-commentary/global-markets-2020-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T17:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_60312.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60312.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It will be years, perhaps a generation, before we know whether too much (or perhaps too little?) money was created to support the economy through the pandemic, nurturing the biggest bubble of all time and uncontrollable inflation.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/02/cartoons/2021-year-ox/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-02T19:50:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_60328-e1609312369470.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60328.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the Year of the Ox]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/02/cartoons/auspicious-new-year-cards/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-02T19:49:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_60202-e1609230209612.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on auspicious new year cards]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/29/commentary/world-commentary/undoing-trump-regulations-may-divide-bidens-coalition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T17:40:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57146.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/29/commentary/world-commentary/overcoming-trumpism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T18:51:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57751.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57751.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Dec. 12.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/29/commentary/world-commentary/america-post-trump-reckoning/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-29T18:52:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_57733.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_57733.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the 2020 U.S. presidential election results at the White House on Nov. 5.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/30/commentary/japan-commentary/five-eyes-now-become-six/</loc>
		<lastmod>2020-12-30T02:42:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19958.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19958.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Five Eyes intelligence alliance includes the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Group of 20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on Nov. 21.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Customers sit outside at a cafe in Wellington on Dec. 15.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shop amid the coronavirus outbreak in the Ameyoko shopping district in Tokyo on Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/03/commentary/world-commentary/pandemic-regrets-experts/</loc>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/01/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-2021-coronavirus-us-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-01T15:29:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide puts a protective face mask on after a news conference about the coronavirus pandemic, in Tokyo on Dec. 25.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/03/commentary/world-commentary/debt-disease/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-03T23:25:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past posters on the streets that read "No to the payment of the debt. Break with the IMF," in Buenos Aires on Feb. 22.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/02/commentary/world-commentary/trump-pardons/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Blackwater guards (from left) Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. The four who were pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump this month were former government security contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/29/commentary/japan-commentary/ten-surprises-japan-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T03:29:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman poses for a photo in front of a countdown clock for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games outside Tokyo station in July. 
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/03/commentary/world-commentary/getting-back-paris-climate-track/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T07:51:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A power-generating windmill turbine at a renewable energy park in Ecoust-Saint-Mein, France, on Sept. 6]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/quiet-financial-crisis/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T18:01:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The European Central Bank has repeatedly voiced concerns about the rising share of nonperforming loans in the eurozone.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-women/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T18:03:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Women make up a larger share of workers in industries that ground to a halt, and they typically shoulder more of the unpaid labor at home, including child care.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/biden-china-strategy-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T18:05:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in December 2013. REUTERS]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/airlines-frequent-flyer-class/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T18:12:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[With COVID-19 vaccinations, speed is of the essence, and not just to protect lives: Summer is when European airlines make most of their revenue.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/whose-post-pandemic-century/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T18:12:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker disinfects a nativity scene display at a shrine amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Manila on Dec. 17. Even Asia’s worst performers (in public-health terms) — such as the Philippines and Indonesia — have controlled the pandemic more effectively than Europe’s biggest and wealthiest countries.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/russia-mikhail-mishustin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-04T18:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mikhail Mishustin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/04/commentary/world-commentary/2020-start-testing-decade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-05T14:57:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Madrina Foundation members distribute food to vulnerable people amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Madrid on Oct. 30.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/05/commentary/world-commentary/ivanka-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-05T17:39:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ivanka Trump attends the Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance event during the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/05/commentary/world-commentary/2021-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-05T17:43:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/05/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-dictatorship/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-05T17:45:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[It is tempting to credit the coercive power of authoritarian governments for their success in dealing with COVID-19, but trust is a more persuasive explanation. Testing, tracing, lockdowns and vaccinations require such trust to succeed.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-05T17:49:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People celebrate at Plaza Italia square after a national referendum vote in Santiago on Oct. 25. Chile voted overwhelmingly to draft a new constitution, launching a two-year struggle over first principles expected to blunt the neoliberalism that has made it an investor favorite but plunged it into riots over inequality.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/05/commentary/world-commentary/post-covid-labor-revival/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-05T17:55:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign is displayed during a protest outside the home of Amazon.com Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos in New York on Dec. 2.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/05/commentary/japan-commentary/modernize-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T10:20:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has created an office tasked with launching a national digital agency, and named Takuya Hirai as digital reform minister.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/02/commentary/world-commentary/harnessing-competitive-streak-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T15:29:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-01-06T18:01:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of Hefazat-e-Islam, an islamist political party, burn an effigy of French president Emmanuel Macron during a protest to denounce his comments supporting free speech laws that allow caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, in Dhaka on Nov 2. ]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/2020-china-coronavirus-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T18:03:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A child is tested for COVID-19 at a testing center set up at a primary school in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Jan. 1.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/post-nationalist-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T18:03:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/china-lai-xiaomin-death-penalty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T18:03:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Lai Xiaomin (center), the former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co., was sentenced to death on Tuesday for soliciting $277 million in bribes as well as bigamy.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/uk-eu-sovereignty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T18:08:30+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/covid-global-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-06T18:10:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris meet virtually at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, on Nov. 16 with business and labor leaders to discuss economic recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/29/commentary/japan-commentary/tax-incentives-needed-promote-recurrent-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T03:57:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_2434.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past the Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Japan’s benchmark bond yield fell to the lowest in more than two years on Friday as a stronger yen and a slowdown in global manufacturing spurred demand for the assets as a haven.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/nyse-china-inc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T10:31:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61320.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kicking out mainland companies from American exchanges has been a long endeavor of a White House seeking to limit Chinese access to U.S. investment dollars. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/world-commentary/post-truth-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T10:31:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_58214.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A face mask lies on the ground in New York in December.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/07/commentary/japan-commentary/api-digital-agency-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T17:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60640.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The task of modernizing Japan's data and information sharing processes has been handed to Takuya Hirai, minister in charge of digital reform.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/south-korea-population/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-09T16:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61205.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korea saw its population shrink for the first time in 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/07/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-accountability/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T17:42:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61686.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/07/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-arrests/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T18:18:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61655.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police arrest Andrew Wan, a pro-democracy politician, in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Dozens of elected pro-democracy officials and activists were arrested early Wednesday for their involvement in an informal primary.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/06/commentary/japan-commentary/made-in-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T18:43:07+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/07/editorials/us-capitol-mob/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-07T18:44:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61641.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61641.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators enter the U.S. Capitol after breaching security fencing during a protest in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. One person was shot and died during the incident. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/08/commentary/japan-commentary/api-digital-agency-3/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-08T17:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_60810.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60810.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The only way to truly bring Japan into the modern age and create a functional digital agency is to apply digitialization to the whole of society.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/coup-shakes-america/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-08T18:26:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61928.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61928.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump supporters scale a wall at the U.S. Capitol during a protest against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by Congress on Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/facebooks-trump-ban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-08T18:28:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61943.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Facebook account for U.S. President Donald Trump ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/08/commentary/world-commentary/remove-trump-now/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-08T18:29:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61897.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61897.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[With less than two weeks to go before Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump in the White House, the issue has come up again, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi making clear that the president should be removed either by his cabinet, through the 25th Amendment, or by impeachment.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/07/commentary/world-commentary/lessons-rwanda-covid-fight/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-08T21:57:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_59022.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59022.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A girl washes her hands at a public hand washing station as a cautionary measure against the coronavirus at Nyabugogo Bus Park in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 11.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/07/commentary/world-commentary/learning-live-with-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-08T21:58:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_60489.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60489.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A person walks past a food pick-up zone in Los Angeles on Dec. 8.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/europe-watershed-year/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-09T17:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_59109-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59109.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[European Council President Charles Michel adjusts his face mask during a news conference on the first day of the face-to-face European Union summit at the European Council Building in Brussels on Oct. 15.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/09/commentary/world-commentary/no-quick-covid-fix/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-09T17:30:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_59100.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59100.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a public health warning sign in London on Dec. 22.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/09/cartoons/classic-contemporary-japanese-scenery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-09T19:50:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_60329-e1610172226673.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on classic contemporary Japanese scenery]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/10/commentary/world-commentary/five-books-explain-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-10T19:37:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_60845.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_60845.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. James Stavridis, NATO's then-supreme commander and Poland's chief of defense, attend a ceremony in Lodz, Poland, in November 2012. 

]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/10/commentary/world-commentary/world-shouldnt-laugh-u-s-soon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-10T19:38:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62283.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62283.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/10/commentary/japan-commentary/tokyo-coronavirus-emergency-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-10T19:39:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61991.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61991.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A live broadcast shows Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declaring a state of emergency for Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in the capital city on Thursday.   ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/10/05/commentary/world-commentary/universal-basic-income-lazy-creative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-11T00:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/np_file_42189.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_42189.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[We are indeed in the midst of a digital transformation that will destroy many old jobs and create many new ones, and we need structures, such as Universal Basic Income, that could help people adapt.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/10/commentary/japan-commentary/west-japan-coronavirus-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-11T17:40:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61767.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61767.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers wear protective gear to protect them against the COVID-19 virus near the cruise ship Diamond Princess at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama last February. More than 700 of the 3,711 people on board the ship became infected with the virus, with 14 deaths being reported.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/11/commentary/world-commentary/us-iran-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-11T18:41:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62360.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62360.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters opposed to the Iranian government demonstrate in Berlin in June 2009. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/11/commentary/world-commentary/bezos-buffett-dimon-health-care/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-11T18:42:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61322.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61322.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[(Left to right) Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and JP Morgan Chase's Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. Haven, a joint venture from Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan that was aimed at lowering health care costs in the U.S. for their employees, will disband less than three years after launching.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/11/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-dead-disconnect/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-11T18:43:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62235.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62235.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctors intubate a coronavirus disease patient in the COVID-19 ICU at a hospital in Mission Viejo, California, on Friday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/03/10/commentary/japan-commentary/black-ships-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-12T12:26:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/p9-Funabashi-a-20190311.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-Funabashi-a-20190311.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Like Commodore Matthew Perry's "black ships," today's black ships of Asia offer an opportunity to foster innovation by placing external pressure on the Japanese economy, including the financial and industrial sectors.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/12/commentary/world-commentary/trump-pardon-impeachment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-12T16:53:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62364.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62364.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If a president can be impeached for pardoning someone with whom he is "connected, in any suspicious manner,” then he certainly can be impeached for pardoning himself.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/12/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-science/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-12T17:02:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62673.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62673.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/11/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-economy-improve-2021/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-12T17:02:47+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_61772.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61772.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker at an automobile assembly line at the Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. factory in Kawasaki takes protective measures against COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/12/commentary/world-commentary/north-korea-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-12T17:42:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62606-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62606.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the second day of the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang on Jan. 6. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/13/commentary/world-commentary/europe-after-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-13T17:29:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62271.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62271.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/13/commentary/world-commentary/us-taiwan-guidelines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-13T17:32:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62924.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62924.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taiwan's independence supporters hold a rally in Taipei on Jan. 2. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/13/commentary/world-commentary/mrna-vaccines-coronavirus-cancer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-13T17:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62737.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62737.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Katalin Kariko]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/13/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-asia-democracies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-13T17:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62735.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62735.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) reviews an honor guard with his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, in Hanoi, in October 2019.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/13/commentary/world-commentary/asia-rise-west-decline/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-13T17:38:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62820-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62820.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to economic activity in both the East and West, East Asia has a much easier path to recovery. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/14/commentary/japan-commentary/protect-students-sexual-misconduct/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-14T17:14:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63102.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63102.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Most experts agree that the alarming surge in Japan and the U.S. is largely the result of the prevalence of social media and text messaging that provide an open gateway to sexual predators.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/14/commentary/world-commentary/trump-impeached-himself/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-14T17:14:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63034.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows the article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump after signing it in on Wednesday. Ten Republicans joined all the House Democrats in voting for the measure.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/14/editorials/brian-urquhart-u-n-peacekeeping-door-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-14T18:57:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63158.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63158.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Brian Urquhart (left), former under secretary-general of the United Nations, meets with then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others in the State Department's Benjamin Franklin Room used for diplomatic receptions in October 2006.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/16/cartoons/roger-dahl-sumo-political-fallout/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-16T19:50:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62723.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on sumo's political fallout]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/16/cartoons/roger-dahl-coming-age-day/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-16T19:49:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Coming of Age Day]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/15/commentary/world-commentary/will-biden-undo-trumps-last-minute-legacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-15T15:42:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) attend the NATO summit in Watford, England, in December 2019.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/15/commentary/world-commentary/senate-trump-impeachment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-15T18:09:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/16/commentary/world-commentary/trump-internet-rage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-16T17:44:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62801.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/15/commentary/world-commentary/can-america-lead/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-17T14:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/17/commentary/world-commentary/china-strategy-us-allies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-17T17:30:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Joe Biden raise their glasses in a toast during a luncheon at the State Department in Washington in September 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/17/commentary/world-commentary/api-biden-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-18T09:07:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_61836.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asia is looking eagerly to President-elect Joe Biden to see what policies he employs regarding relations with the Asia-Pacific region.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/18/commentary/world-commentary/india-same-sex-marriage/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-18T19:03:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A participant holds a banner during an event promoting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights in Mumbai, India, in February 2020. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/18/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-trade-war-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-18T19:04:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63632.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese staffers adjust U.S. and Chinese flags before the opening session of Sino-U.S. trade negotiations in Beijing in February 2019.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/19/commentary/japan-commentary/biden-europe-us-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-19T18:31:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63969.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63969.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands in Beijing in November 2017. Joe Biden's new team understands that no country, not even the United States, can check Beijing’s ambitions on its own.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/19/commentary/world-commentary/the-great-reset-5/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-19T18:36:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63184.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63184.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the modern age, personal information is a potentially valuable commodity.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/19/commentary/japan-commentary/coronavirus-vaccination-japan-taro-kono/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-19T18:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64040.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The best possible outcome for the prime minister was to give Taro Kono this Cabinet portfolio since it gives Yoshihide Suga the individual he needs to champion the vaccine rollout while addressing the party’s interests.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/17/commentary/world-commentary/trump-taiwan-us-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T03:47:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63391.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63391.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft was scheduled to visit Taiwan on Jan. 13 to meet with her counterparts for what would have been the first official interaction at that level since the Republic of China was replaced in the U.N. by the People’s Republic of China in 1971. The trip has since been canceled.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/26/commentary/world-commentary/five-criteria-choosing-bidens-running-mate/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T13:06:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/np_file_19950.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_19950.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's choice for a running mate may be more consequential than in any election in recent U.S. history.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/20/commentary/world-commentary/how-did-storming-us-capitol-occur/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T15:51:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64274.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64274.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of U.S. Capitol Police try to fend off a mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6. 

]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/20/commentary/world-commentary/europe-vaccination-debacle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T15:53:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64102.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64102.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/20/commentary/world-commentary/google-news-industry/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T16:06:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64258.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64258.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It’s in the interest of the tech giants like Google and Facebook to help the news business develop sustainable economic models, as it might ease criticism they face for having destroyed their old business models. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/20/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-climate-change-objectives/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T16:08:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64103.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64103.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The No.1 and No.2 reactor buildings at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/20/commentary/world-commentary/ex-presidents-impeached-convicted/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T16:34:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64264.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64264.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives is authorized to impeach a president, and then the Senate is authorized to convict him. But that doesn’t answer the questions about a former president.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/20/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-vaccine-race-ethnicity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-20T18:49:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64240.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64240.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 12. A relevant fact is that in many countries, disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities have a lower-than-average life expectancy, raising questions as to who should be vaccinated first.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/21/commentary/japan-commentary/api-japan-uk-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T17:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63842.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63842.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/21/editorials/biden-burden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T18:57:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64550.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64550.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his inauguration speech Wednesday at the Capitol in Washington. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/21/commentary/nancy-pelosi-hong-kong/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-21T19:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64502.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64502.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A candlelight vigil that included media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying (left), founder of Apple Daily, is held in Hong Kong on June 4 to mark the 31st anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/15/commentary/japan-commentary/international-cooperation-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T11:38:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_62733-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_62733.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If Japan wants to maintain its current standard of living, it has no choice but to maintain a course that embraces international cooperation. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/23/cartoons/winter-bathroom-visits/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T19:49:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64097-e1611295763751.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64097.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on winter bathroom visits]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/navalny-returns-to-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T15:11:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_63981.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63981.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[What is disturbing is many Russians simply don’t care. Around 44% heard about the attempt on Alexei Navalny's life, but either are not bothered enough by it to learn more, or are in a state of fearful denial about their own political leaders’ actions.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/global-cooperation-age-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T18:25:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64815.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/22/commentary/world-commentary/biden-trump-messaging/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-22T18:26:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64834.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64834.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/23/commentary/world-commentary/netflix-weathers-the-storm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-23T17:44:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64204.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64204.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rather than reining in its spending, Netflix burned through more than $3 billion in 2019, and spent 2020 reaping the rewards.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/23/commentary/biden-inauguration-china-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T16:55:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64875-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64875.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden faces a host of daunting foreign policy challenges, from repairing fractured alliances to recommitting to global responsibilities.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/24/commentary/world-commentary/lessons-living-pandemic/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-24T20:52:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65171.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65171.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/24/commentary/japan-commentary/art-of-leaking-japanese-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-25T13:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65207.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65207.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Knowing how leaks to reporters work in Japan offers an understanding of how to read these stories about Japanese politics and government. It gives you a clear eye on their validity and what might be at play behind the scenes.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/25/commentary/world-commentary/capitol-riot-sedition/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-25T18:29:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64956.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64956.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump protest in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6 in Washington. The demonstrators breached security and entered the building as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election electoral vote certification.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/25/commentary/world-commentary/populism-around-the-world/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-25T19:20:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65233.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65233.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/26/commentary/world-commentary/biden-struggle-calibrate-asia-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-26T17:33:13+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65552.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65552.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The first challenge for the new Biden team, made up of many veterans of the Obama administration, is to resist the instinct to resume where it left off four years ago.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/26/commentary/world-commentary/promise-arab-spring-democracy-instant-coffee/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-26T17:36:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_63947.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/26/commentary/world-commentary/api-china-trade/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-26T19:49:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64661.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64661.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When the coronavirus pandemic migrated to Europe and North America, some nations faced shortages of face masks, manufactured and supplied largely by China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/24/commentary/world-commentary/asias-movie-rebound-good-news-everyone/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-27T16:53:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64776.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64776.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Although similar worries as those in the U.S. about the future of the industry amid COVID-19 had plagued Asia’s movie business at the start of the pandemic, audiences are now piling back into theaters and spurring record box-office hauls.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/biden-dream-team-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-27T19:58:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65722.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65722.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antony Blinken, the incoming secretary of state, speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, in November. The well-connected team of Democratic party loyalists is a tight-knit network that is riddled with cliques and potential conflicts of interest that come with private sector backgrounds. 
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/27/commentary/japan-commentary/thurgood-marshall-japan-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-27T19:59:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65754.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65754.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall in 1967]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/north-korea-economic-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-27T20:00:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65623-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[International sanctions and coronavirus lockdowns have resulted in an unprecedented level of isolation that is quickly becoming an existential issue for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/free-vaccines-india-coronavirus-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-27T20:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65746-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65746.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A medic shows a vial of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD coronavirus vaccine in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday after the country received 1.5 million doses of the drug manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-slum-landlords/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-27T20:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65217.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65217.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hong Kong is struggling to contain a renewed surge in COVID-19 centered on decrepit tenement buildings where many low-income residents live in overcrowded conditions.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/27/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-treatments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T15:57:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64671.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64671.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/28/commentary/japan-commentary/biden-washington-normalcy-strategic-patience-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T17:56:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65993.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65993.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jen Psaki]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/28/editorials/chinas-cooperation-joe-biden-ring-hollow/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T17:59:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65948.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65948.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian attends a news conference in Beijing in September. He lamented this week that “the Trump administration went in a very wrong direction” and warned that “cooperation is the only right choice.”]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/28/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-unsettled-biden-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-28T18:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65942.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65942.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump march ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden in Tokyo on Jan. 20.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/29/commentary/japan-commentary/joe-biden-emphasis-alliances/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:20:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66180.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66180.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Even if allies strike a deal with the current Biden administration, there is always the fear that it may be overturned in four years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/29/commentary/world-commentary/gamestops-french-revolution-crypto-farce/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:21:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66227.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66227.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Securities &amp; Exchange Commission says it’s "actively monitoring” options and equities markets after a surreal few days that saw GameStop’s once-unloved retail chain skyrocket in value.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/29/commentary/japan-commentary/u-s-japan-ties-domestic-politics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T17:22:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66216.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66216.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hina dolls of U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on display in Tokyo on Thursday]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/23/cartoons/roger-dahl-infectious-diseases/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-29T18:18:21+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_64096-e1611911529877.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_64096.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on revisions to the law on infectious diseases]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/30/cartoons/tokyo-olympic-hurdles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T19:51:16+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65625-e1611911741139.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65625.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Tokyo's Olympic hurdles]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/30/cartoons/wearing-face-mask/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T19:49:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65626-e1611911650115.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65626.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on wearing a face mask]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/30/commentary/world-commentary/israel-vaccine-lessons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-01-30T17:33:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_65447.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 9. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/31/commentary/world-commentary/bidens-vaccine-challenge-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-01T07:44:01+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66526.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66526.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden visits a COVID-19 vaccination site at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/01/commentary/world-commentary/facebook-apple-2020-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-01T17:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66071.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66071.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For the third quarter in a row, Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. generated billions in profits and flexed the power of their dominant businesses.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/01/commentary/world-commentary/china-biden-trump/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-01T18:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66608.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66608.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If the Biden administration abandons economic decoupling and treats China as a major competitor, rather than an implacable adversary, it will tip the scales in Beijing's favor and undermine faith in U.S. leadership. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/01/commentary/japan-commentary/india-japan-cyber-cooperation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-01T18:26:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66611.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66611.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the wake of increased tensions with China, India-Japan cooperation in the information and communications technology sector, including 5G, is seen as a counter-move to China’s growing influence in the telecommunications and digital infrastructure.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/31/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-superspreader-weekends-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T12:08:11+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66314.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66314.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It has been known since the early days of this pandemic that some people infected with COVID-19 show absolutely no symptoms. These asymptomatic carriers tend to be young — in their 20s and 30s with strong immune systems.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/02/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-nld-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T18:47:31+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66960.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66960.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An Aung San Suu Kyi supporter joins a protest against the state of emergency declared in Myanmar outside that country's embassy in Bangkok on Monday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/02/commentary/world-commentary/api-vaccine-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T20:19:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66211.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66211.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While some other countries' COVID-19 vaccination programs are well underway, Japan has so far only seen a handful of its population receive a dummy dose in a mock inoculation event.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/02/commentary/world-commentary/global-economy-covid-19-imf-debt-austerity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T22:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66992.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66992.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The headquarters of Bank of Japan. After decades of warnings about unsustainable debt levels and a resulting push for austerity programs that inflicted untold harm on already suffering countries, a new consensus is emerging among academics that stimulus should be preferred to austerity.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/25/commentary/japan-commentary/remembering-ezra-vogel-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-02T22:58:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_59715-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_59715.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ezra Vogel is interviewed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in January 2016. The famed professor was simply in his own league in terms of his academic work, and his contributions were immeasurable in facilitating a better understanding of Asian nations for scholars and laypersons alike.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/06/commentary/world-commentary/remote-work-feelings/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-06T17:00:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67133.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67133.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While working from home has been embraced by many, some people miss the social aspect of heading to the office every day.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/03/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-donald-trump-joe-biden-2020-u-s-presidential-election/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-03T18:26:57+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67221-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67221.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester demonstrates against then-U.S President Donald Trump near the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 13 in Washington.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/03/commentary/world-commentary/jobs-boss-twitter-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-03T18:29:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_65535-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65535.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It isn’t about free speech or cancel culture. It’s about employability. People who think they have unlimited free speech on social media are deluding themselves about how companies work. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/03/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-rich-countries-poorer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-03T18:30:50+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67193.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67193.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[HAM ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/03/commentary/japan-commentary/olympics-lgbt-2020-tokyo-olympics-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-03T18:33:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66982.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66982.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan is an established democracy with rule of law and an active civil society, yet Olympic athletes and visitors may be surprised to learn that there are no national anti-discrimination laws on sexual orientation and gender identity. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/03/commentary/world-commentary/bidens-options-north-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-03T18:36:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67164.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67164.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If North Korea’s nuclear status is seen to have been normalized, it could trigger a cascade of proliferation across Northeast Asia. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have the technical and material resources to go down the same nuclear path. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/03/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-nld-aung-san-suu-kyi-human-rights-military-junta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-04T03:22:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67051.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67051.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of the National League for Democracy party take part in an election campaign event in October in Yangon. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/04/commentary/japan-commentary/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-tatmadaw-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-04T19:07:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67428.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67428.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/04/editorials/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-defense-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-04T19:11:28+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67357.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67357.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[During the darkest days of Myanmar's military junta, Tokyo governments worried that isolating Myanmar would push it into China’s sphere of influence.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/04/commentary/world-commentary/china-celebrity-scandal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-04T19:16:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66082.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66082.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Popular Chinese actress Zheng Shuang is caught up in a controversy involving claims she abandoned her children born to surrogates abroad after breaking up with her boyfriend.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/05/commentary/world-commentary/china-u-s-joe-biden-xi-jinping-trade-taiwan-donald-trump-climate-change/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-05T19:10:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67654.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67654.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If neither U.S. President Joe Biden nor his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, wants to risk any political capital to make the first move to improve ties, the U.S.-China relationship is highly likely to worsen further.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/05/commentary/world-commentary/trump-space-force-biden-cyber-force/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-05T19:12:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_65624.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_65624.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Donald Trump inspects the U.S. Space Force flag during a presentation of the banner in the Oval Office in Washington in May.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/05/cartoons/weird-japanese-tea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-06T11:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67027-e1612578494623.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67027.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the complexities of Japanese tea]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/05/cartoons/japans-sluggish-vaccination-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-06T11:29:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67025-e1612578576683.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67025.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Japan's vaccination plans]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/07/commentary/world-commentary/api-opening-borders/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T17:22:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67099.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67099.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Airports around the world saw large numbers of planes parked up for much of 2020 as a result of the lack of travel during the year.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/07/commentary/world-commentary/china-joe-biden-donald-trump-xi-jinping-deng-xiaoping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T17:24:34+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67744.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67744.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hua Chunying]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/07/commentary/japan-commentary/boj-tse-japanese-economy-stocks-markets-monetary-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T17:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_66304.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66304.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see if the BOJ changes the purchasing guidelines this March without giving the impression of monetary tightening or a step toward normalization. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/07/commentary/world-commentary/us-russia-china-nuclear-weapons-arms-control/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T17:41:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67393-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67393.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the short term, a new nuclear arms race between Russia and the United States has been avoided.  Still, a wider glance at the world’s nuclear landscape reveals that the danger of cataclysm keeps growing.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/05/commentary/japan-commentary/japanese-economy-covid-19-in-japan-startups-entrepreneurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-07T20:18:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67625.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67625.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s most successful entrepreneur, Yanai Tadashi, founder of FastRetailing, supposedly once said, “I failed about 25 times before I finally succeeded.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/08/commentary/world-commentary/gamestop-china-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T18:33:46+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68007.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68007.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The GameStop bubble is a good reason for the U.S. to start de-listing China Inc. now. Otherwise, the explosive use of social media to create viral stock picks may render the U.S. market unsafe for all retail investors.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/08/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-tibet-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-08T18:35:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67743-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67743.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man is detained by Hong Kong riot police during a march against the national security law on the anniversary of the city's handover to China from Britain on July 1, 2020.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/06/02/commentary/world-commentary/dhaveevatthana-prison-hell-earth-thailand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-09T12:40:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/p7-pavin-a-20170603.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-pavin-a-20170603.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The main gate to Thai King Vajiralongkorn's sprawling Dhaveevatthana Palace, home to Buddha Monthon Temporary Prison.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/09/commentary/japan-commentary/taiwan-china-u-s-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-09T18:18:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68382.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68382.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Taiwanese Navy holds a drill ahead of the Lunar New Year in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Jan. 27.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/09/commentary/world-commentary/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-tesla-elon-musk/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-09T18:20:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68340.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68340.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The fact that CEO Elon Musk has been tweeting heavily about cryptocurrencies of late should ring alarm bells in whatever passes for Tesla’s boardroom.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/13/cartoons/roger-dahl-smiling-snickering/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T18:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68479-e1612929791795.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68479.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on smiling snickering ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/13/cartoons/roger-dahl-yoshiro-mori-sexist-remark/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T18:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68478-e1612929853436.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68478.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Yoshiro Mori's sexist remark]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/asia-covid-19-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-10T19:40:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68474.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68474.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A health care worker collects a sample from a visitor at a temporary COVID-19 testing station in Seoul, on Jan. 19.  ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/india-farmers-narendra-modi-agriculture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-10T19:42:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68467.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68467.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian farmers take part in a road-block protest against farm laws on the outskirts of New Delhi on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-india-japan-vietnam-china-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-10T19:44:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68403.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68403.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/iran-donald-trump-barack-obama-joe-biden-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-10T19:46:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68470.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68470.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Iranian protesters mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran in November 2019.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/clubhouse-social-media-twitter-technology/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-10T19:48:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68508.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68508.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Clubhouse, where Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made appearances, is a year-old social media service consisting of virtual "rooms” where people can talk to each other.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/11/commentary/japan-commentary/u-s-joe-biden-civil-rights-lgbt-womens-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-11T18:58:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68872.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68872.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the words of a recent study by the Brookings Institution, “the Biden team is on track to assemble the most diverse set of Senate-confirmed appointees in American history.”]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/11/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccine-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-11T19:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68943.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68943.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[More than half of the 12.5 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses planned for delivery this year are spoken for, mostly by developed nations.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/12/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-japan-covid-19-vaccinations-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T18:33:06+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69004.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69004.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s relatively rosy figures on COVID-19 are a reflection of several issues that illustrate the lack of transparency in government and public health authorities.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/15/commentary/world-commentary/iran-nuclear-weapons-sanctions-u-s-ali-khamenei-joe-biden-barack-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-15T17:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69113.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69113.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/12/commentary/japan-commentary/olympics-japan-yoshiro-mori-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-12T18:52:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69156.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69156.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/12/editorials/yoshiro-mori-japanese-olympic-committee-joc-2020-paralympics-ioc/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-13T07:13:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68909.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68909.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A protester takes part in a rally against Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori outside the Olympic museum in Tokyo on Thursday. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/13/commentary/world-commentary/worrying-about-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-14T11:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68596.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68596.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the U.S. the Federal Reserve has made clear that it’s willing to tolerate periods of higher inflation, which could help lessen fears of sudden monetary tightening]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/15/commentary/world-commentary/g7-g20-d10-uk-russia-us-boris-johnson/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-15T17:25:10+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68838-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68838.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at a news conference at the end of the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, in August 2019. The 2021 meeting, due to take place this coming June, will be chaired by Britain.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/12/commentary/japan-commentary/china-u-s-tony-blinken-yang-jiechi-taiwan-free-and-open-indo-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-15T09:46:09+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_68816.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_68816.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tony Blinken]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/15/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-silvio-berlusconi-dictator-benito-mussolini/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-15T19:08:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69145.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69145.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Donald Trump's opponents have frequently portrayed him as a would-be fascist dictator. But the Italian leader he resembles most is not the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini but rather Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-prone former prime minister.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/02/22/editorials/grim-global-stats-on-sexual-assault/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-15T20:51:24+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/16/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-impeachment-capitol-riot-republicans-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-16T17:28:48+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69838.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69838.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/16/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-impeachment-republicans-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-16T17:30:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69562.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Republican leader Mitch McConnell ripped into Trump in a Senate speech, even though he voted "not guilty” based on the constitutional question.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/16/commentary/world-commentary/wto-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-japan-united-states-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-16T19:08:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Incoming World Trade Organization President Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wants the WTO to facilitate "greater participation of women in international trade, particularly in developing countries."
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/world-commentary/japan-britain-u-s-china-g7-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T19:30:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi take part in a video conference with their British counterparts at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 3.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/japan-commentary/joe-biden-jake-sullivan-china-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T19:36:02+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden has appointed Jake Sullivan to the post of national security adviser, giving him the responsibility for crafting the direction of American foreign policy — including in Asia.
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccines-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T19:37:27+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/world-commentary/israel-palestine-europe-egypt/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T19:39:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Palestinian National Dialogue hosted by Egypt's General Intelligence Service in Cairo earlier this month]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/world-commentary/china-alibaba-jack-ma-ant-group-tech-giants/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T19:41:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alibaba's founder and its executive chairman, Jack Ma, and Tencent's Chief Executive Officer Pony Ma take part in an event marking the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in December 2018.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/world-commentary/twitter-india-facebook-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T19:43:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69704.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69704.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When India’s minister for commerce and industry recently urged his followers to "connect with me” on Koo, an "Indian micro-blogging platform,” he did so on Twitter.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/17/commentary/world-commentary/coronavirus-mutations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-17T20:06:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69953.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69953.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus. Scientists have learned that this virus has a talent for shape-shifting by dropping pieces of its genetic code.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/18/editorials/nikkei-stocks-boj-covid-19-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T17:47:19+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70450.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70450.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A surge in Japanese shares this week has pushed the Nikkei 225 past the 30,000 level for the first time since 1990.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/18/commentary/world-commentary/bitcoin-cryptocurrencies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-18T17:50:53+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69879.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69879.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There’s no denying Bitcoin’s astonishing success. Its price has grown a stupefying 796,933 times since 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/18/commentary/japan-commentary/senkakus-the-northern-territories-takeshima-dokdo-china-russia-south-korea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-19T02:45:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70400-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70400.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The South Korean Coast Guard patrols waters near disputed islets called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean. Shimane Prefecture exacerbated the dispute in 2005 when lawmakers there declared Feb. 22 to be Takeshima Day — even though more Japanese are likely to know the day as Cat Day.

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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/19/commentary/japan-commentary/march-11-tsunami-earthquake-fukushima/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-19T18:30:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70594.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70594.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The cleanup process begins at a library a day after a strong earthquake in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. The magnitude 7.3 quake struck off the coast of Tohoku on Saturday, just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the March 2011 disaster, leaving at least 100 people injured across six prefectures.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/19/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-smell-anosmia-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-19T18:33:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70655.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70655.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Before COVID-19, people who lost their olfaction rarely got much attention from their doctors or sympathy from loved ones. That’s over now, which is a positive side effect of the pandemic. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/19/commentary/japan-commentary/toyota-semiconductors-manufacturing-supply-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-19T18:34:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69874.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69874.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota vehicles bound for shipment at a port in Yokohama, Japan, on Feb. 7, 2021. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/20/cartoons/misfortune-cookies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-20T19:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69717-e1613792690956.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69717.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on misfortune cookies]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/20/cartoons/yes-no-confusion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-20T19:49:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69718-e1613792633884.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69718.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the confusion surrounding yes and no]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/20/commentary/world-commentary/api-australia-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-20T17:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69927.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69927.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan and Australia have fostered a good relationship over the past few decades, with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison having met with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as recently as November last year.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/20/commentary/world-commentary/flying-taxi-costs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-20T17:27:03+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70373.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70373.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EHang Holdings Ltd. makes "electric vertical take-off and landing" aircraft, similar to helicopters but with multiple battery-powered rotors.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/22/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-22T17:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71013.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71013.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker checks the temperature of schoolchildren entering a primary school in a slum of Nairobi in January. Morally, we know that relegating poorer developing countries to the back of the vaccine line is the wrong thing to do. And, as a practical matter, we know it won’t work to end the pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/22/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-economy-singapore-china-japan-thailand/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-22T17:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70385.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70385.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/21/commentary/world-commentary/china-u-s-joe-biden-xi-jinping-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-21T19:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69808.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69808.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China is a country that has become more willing and able to weaponize its economy for foreign policy wins, and as a result, Beijing will increasingly provide a counterbalance to Washington’s sanctions supremacy. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/21/commentary/world-commentary/india-farmers-protests-agriculture-farms/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-21T19:35:04+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70949.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70949.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Farmers block railway tracks as part of protests against farm laws in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/23/commentary/japan-commentary/china-u-s-cold-war-xi-jinping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T16:13:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71304.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71304.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then vice presidents of the U.S. and China, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, visit a classroom where students are learning Mandarin in Los Angeles, in February 2012. 
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/23/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-donald-trump-ronald-reagan-jimmy-carter/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T16:14:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71050.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71050.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Feb. 2. The underlying message of Biden’s Build Back Better program is not that far removed from Trump’s Make America Great Again mantra.

]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/23/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-covid-19-health-medicine-welfare/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-23T16:15:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71335.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71335.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shop at a market in Philadelphia amid the coronavirus pandemic in early February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/24/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-afghanistan-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T17:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_69883-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marines in Kandahar check their equipment after withdrawing from the Camp Bastion-Leatherneck complex in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in October 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/24/commentary/world-commentary/brexit-eu-u-k-trade-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T17:05:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70599.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70599.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Loyalist graffiti protesting Brexit border checks in relation to the Northern Ireland protocol is painted on a wall in the harbor town of Larne, Northern Ireland.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/24/commentary/world-commentary/bitcoin-china-iran-covid-19-cryptocurrencies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T17:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70945.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70945.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chinese protective masks are donated to Iranians in February 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic, which originally broke out in Wuhan has increased unfavorable views of China in Iran. But few people would have guessed the latest reason for Sinophobia: bitcoin.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/24/commentary/world-commentary/russia-europe-germany-vladimir-putin-nord-stream-2-oil-alexei-navalny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T17:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71410.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71410.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with leaders of the country's political parties via a video conference call near Moscow on Feb. 17. Europe no longer has any illusions that Russia is on a trajectory toward liberal democracy. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/24/commentary/world-commentary/climate-change-environment-emissions-carbon-paris-agreement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T17:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71354.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71354.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After the one-year respite caused by COVID-19,  carbon emissions will be staying stubbornly high, just as they were before the pandemic pushed down world energy demand for a while.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/22/commentary/world-commentary/volkswagen-porsche-stock-market-germany-automakers/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T13:16:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_70585.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_70585.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A 1992 Porsche 911 Type 964 Carrera 2 that belonged to Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/08/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-sister-cities-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-24T14:10:41+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_67746.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_67746.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA["The Last Samurai" actor Shin Koyamada poses for photographers during a VH1 red carpet event in Beverly Hills in December 2006.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/25/editorials/china-u-s-supply-chains-joe-biden-trade-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-25T19:08:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71848.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71848.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The COVID-19 pandemic made clear that there is too much reliance by the world on China for the production of many essential products, including personal protective equipment.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/25/commentary/japan-commentary/covid-19-indo-pacific-china-canada-foip/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-25T19:10:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71855.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend the G7 Summit in Taormina, Sicily, in May 2017.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/24/commentary/world-commentary/russia-europe-germany-vladimir-putin-nord-stream-2-oil-gazprom/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-25T19:40:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71403.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Construction workers work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline near the town of Kingisepp, in the Leningrad region of Russia, in June 2019. The pipeline across the Baltic has pitted the United States and the European Union against Germany.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/26/commentary/japan-commentary/joc-japanese-olympic-committee-ioc-yoshiro-mori-2020-tokyo-olympics-paralympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-26T18:18:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_72097.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72097.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yoshiro Mori reportedly decided to resign immediately after his alleged sexist remarks. It was the secretariat of the organizing committee who strongly pleaded with him to stay in his position.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/26/commentary/world-commentary/facebook-australia-mark-zuckerberg-big-tech-google-rupert-murdoch/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-26T18:19:44+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/26/commentary/world-commentary/twitter-facebook-clubhouse-instagram-substack-vine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-26T18:20:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_72058.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72058.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Twitter said it expects user growth to slow in 2021 compared with last year. Further, in perhaps the clearest sign of business has not been firing on all cylinders, the company’s employees will reportedly get lower bonuses.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/27/cartoons/japans-stock-market-success/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-27T19:50:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71040-e1614418217169.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Looming threats to Japan's stock market success]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/25/commentary/world-commentary/api-japan-australia-us/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-27T18:32:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71190.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71190.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cooperation between Japan, Australia and the United States is already progressing through meetings of the "Quad," involving the foreign ministers of India, Japan and Australia, and the United States' Secretary of State, having taken place. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/27/commentary/world-commentary/china-vaccine-hesitancy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-27T18:33:20+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71526.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71526.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[While more than 60,000 Hong Kong residents have made appointments to receive their first COVID-19 shot, China as a whole has been slow to vaccinate its population.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/28/commentary/japan-commentary/education-covid-19-sister-cities-classes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-28T20:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71601-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71601.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This is the biggest lesson of COVID-19 on education — avoiding complacency in our lesson designs and delivery. If we go back to the way things were, we will have learned nothing and failed future generations.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/28/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-education-school-choice/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-02-28T20:02:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71404-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71404.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It’s telling that enrollment in U.S. public schools has suffered a record drop from last year, with as many as 6%, or 3 million students, currently not taking classes either remotely or in person. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/01/commentary/world-commentary/clubhouse-twitter-instagram-tiktok-facebook-china-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T17:30:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71873.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The one-on-one audio conversations fostered by the Clubhouse platform encourage relationship-building in a way that text-based social networks can’t. And because there are no official records after discussions end, it will be more difficult for authorities to curb or censor specific topics.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/01/commentary/world-commentary/digital-economy-work-inequality-technology-automation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T17:30:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_72552.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72552.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Worker robot 'Franzi' cleans a hospital in Munich Neuperlach, Germany, on Feb. 12. Perhaps no single aspect of the digital revolution has received more attention than the effect of automaton on jobs, work, employment and incomes.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/01/commentary/japan-commentary/cambodia-hun-sen-democracy-sam-rainsy-human-rights-cnrp-nakatani-gen-magnitsky-act/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-01T17:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_72282.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72282.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/02/commentary/world-commentary/api-indo-pacific-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-02T19:53:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_71881.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71881.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in person last Nov. 17 during his first overseas trip to Tokyo following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/02/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-cpac-joe-biden-republicans-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-02T20:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_72774.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72774.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/02/commentary/world-commentary/russia-democracy-vladimir-putin-alexei-navalny/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-02T20:05:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_71989-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71989.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters carry a banner in Berlin that reads "Russia without Putin" during a rally to demand the release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Jan. 31. REUTERS]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/02/commentary/japan-commentary/national-security-military-united-states-australia-india-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-02T20:06:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_72910-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72910.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[USNS Tippecanoe (center) takes part in a refueling exercise with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force destroyers Ikazuchi (right) and Kongo during military maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean in December 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/03/commentary/world-commentary/soccer-china-fifa-xi-jinping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-03T16:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73113.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73113.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jiangsu's Alex Teixeira celebrates after scoring his team's second goal against Evergrande during the second leg of the Chinese Super League championship final on Nov. 12 in Suzhou, China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/03/commentary/world-commentary/guantanamo-joe-biden-human-rights-cuba-terrorism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-03T16:30:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73042.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73042.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators take part in a protest calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in front of the White House in January 2016.
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/03/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-lawrence-summers-paul-krugman-stimulus-inflation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-03T17:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73040-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73040.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[After the 2008 financial crisis, President Barack Obama appointed former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to head the National Economic Council.  He is one of the few Democrats who believe Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic recovery plan goes too far.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/03/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-china-communist-party-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-03T17:30:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73034.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73034.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A supporter displays a placard outside the West Kowloon court in Hong Kong on Monday, ahead of court appearances by dozens of dissidents charged with subversion in the largest use yet of Beijing's sweeping new national security law. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/03/commentary/world-commentary/batteries-electric-vehicles-hyundai-tesla-volkswagen-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-03T17:00:44+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_71647.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71647.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Hyundai Kona Electric is put on display at the 41st Bangkok International Motor Show in Bangkok in July.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/27/cartoons/correct-seiza-techniques/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-03T12:10:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71041-e1614418161262.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71041.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nailing the correct seiza technique]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/04/editorials/china-senkakus-disputed-islands-china-japan-relations-japan-coast-guard-pla-china-coast-guard-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T19:40:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73455-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73455.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Chinese marine surveillance vessel sails next to a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship in the East China Sea in September 2012.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/04/commentary/world-commentary/united-states-cancel-culture-republicans-democrats-neera-tanden-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-04T19:48:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73340.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73340.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Neera Tanden became President Joe Biden’s first Cabinet casualty on Tuesday when she withdrew her nomination to be budget director.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/23/commentary/world-commentary/api-network-building/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T01:32:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/np_file_71047.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71047.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/04/commentary/japan-commentary/china-senkakus-disputed-islands-china-japan-relations-japan-coast-guard-pla-china-coast-guard/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T11:46:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73456-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73456.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian No. 66 (center) sails next to Japan Coast Guard patrol ships in the East China Sea near the Senkaku Islands in April 2013.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/05/commentary/world-commentary/india-pakistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T19:38:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73246.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73246.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Pakistani Army soldier stands guard on the Line of Control in the Bhimber district of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 5.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/05/commentary/world-commentary/capitol-mob-vietnam-war-gulf-war-extremism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T19:40:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73428.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73428.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump storm the Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/05/commentary/world-commentary/taiwan-tsmc-semiconductors-water-drought/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-05T19:42:35+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_72212.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72212.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In 2019, the latest year for which data is available, TSMC’s daily water consumption in Taiwan was 156,000 tons per day. At its northern production sites, the company accounted for 10.3% of that region’s daily supply.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/06/cartoons/yoshihide-suga-popularity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T19:50:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_72880-e1615007549803.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72880.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on Yoshihide Suga's sinking popularity]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/06/cartoons/discarding-delicious-curry-buns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T19:49:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_72883-e1615007645495.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_72883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on discarding delicious curry buns]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/06/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-comparison-shopping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-06T17:23:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73182.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73182.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The efficacy, country of origin and availability of different COVID-19 vaccines have been factors in their rollouts around the world.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/01/commentary/japan-commentary/persecution-lonely-death-uighur-scholar/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:26:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/p8-odwyer-a-20200302.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p8-odwyer-a-20200302.jpg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/01/commentary/world-commentary/chinas-uighur-crackdown-shows-fear-insecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:27:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/04/09/commentary/world-commentary/uighur-crackdown-highlights-xis-totalitarian-ambitions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:27:21+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/03/26/commentary/world-commentary/china-winning-global-battle-uighurs/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:27:29+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[p9-apps-a-20190327.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A "vocational skills education center" is seen under construction in Xinjiang, China. Beijing's campaign of internment against Muslim minorities has intensified in the past year.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/03/12/commentary/world-commentary/xinjiang-silence-muslims/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:27:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Workers walk by what is officially known as a vocational skills education center under construction in China's Xinjiang province.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/02/28/commentary/china-inadvertently-promotes-islamic-extremism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:27:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/11/16/commentary/nationalism-tibetans-and-uighurs-in-todays-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:28:13+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/10/31/editorials/ethnic-unrest-in-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T03:28:29+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/07/commentary/japan-commentary/stock-market-united-states-bubble-era/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T18:29:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74090.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74090.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An employee monitors prices at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in June 2015.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/07/commentary/world-commentary/china-rare-earths-australia-malaysia-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-07T18:50:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_71388.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71388.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There was a time when China could cause the world to tremble by threatening its supply of rare earths. It’s long in the past.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/08/commentary/japan-commentary/ten-years-after-3-11-earthquake-operation-tomodachi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T17:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71990.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Senior U.S. and Japanese leaders, including then-Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, visit the USS Ronald Reagan to thank sailors and other U.S. military personnel for their relief efforts during Operation Tomodachi in April 2011.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/08/commentary/world-commentary/israel-judaism-religion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-08T17:15:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73137.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73137.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Schoolgirls walk underneath an Israeli flag in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Feb. 21.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/07/commentary/japan-commentary/gender-equality-olympics-small-business/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-09T00:34:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73724.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73724.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Hashimoto, president of Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee addresses a meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters on March 3. When former committee president Yoshiro Mori stepped down following a backlash over sexist remarks, social progressives saw it as an important step forward in the ongoing struggle to change outdated attitudes in Japan toward women.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/10/editorials/fukushima-no-1-nuclear-energy-radiation-earthquakes-tsunami-disasters-recovery-3-11-10th-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T20:26:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74880.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74880.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Force personnel are screened for radiation in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, after searching for bodies in the area soon after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. It is estimated that the military was responsible for 70% of the persons rescued after the event.



]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/10/commentary/japan-commentary/3-11-10th-anniversary-operation-tomodachi-united-states-earthquake/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T20:29:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74783.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74783.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A U.S. SH-60B Seahawk helicopter takes part in an operation to survey radiation off the northeastern coast of Japan as part of Operation Tomodachi in late March 2011.
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/11/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-coup-asean-rohingya-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T17:00:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74942.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74942.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators in Tokyo march to protest against the military coup in Myanmar, in mid February.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/11/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccinations-health-medicine-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T17:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_69278.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69278.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The right people knew the Russian vaccine effort was as serious as any other. And yet that knowledge didn’t translate into acceptance and orders.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/11/commentary/world-commentary/cities-covid-19-hong-kong-moscow-new-delhi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-11T17:30:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73713.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73713.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-democracy activists demonstrate in Hong Kong on March 1.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/09/commentary/japan-commentary/3-11-10th-anniversary-fukushima-earthquake-recovery/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-10T21:10:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74554.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74554.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[An adult and a child walk through an earthquake- and tsunami-damaged area of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, in April 2011. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/12/commentary/world-commentary/north-korea-u-s-nuclear-weapons-diplomacy-north-korea-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T18:02:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74828.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74828.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It should be clear by now that Kim Jong Un will not abolish his nuclear arsenal, or permit a verifiable nuclear freeze, as some have called for. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/11/commentary/world-commentary/south-korea-quad-moon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T18:59:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75093.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75093.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom on June 30, 2019. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/12/commentary/world-commentary/indonesia-india-south-korea-argentina/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-12T19:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75282.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75282.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People exit the Bank Indonesia headquarters in Jakarta in January 2019. Indonesia and South Korea were the biggest disasters during the Asian financial crisis. Two decades later, markets are unruffled.
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/13/cartoons/roger-dahl-train-surfing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T18:00:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74438-e1615620900184.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74438.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on train surfing]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/13/cartoons/roger-dahl-311-10th-anniversary/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T18:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74437-e1615620978407.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74437.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Roger Dahl on the 10th anniversary of 3/11]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/13/commentary/japan-commentary/tokyo-olympics-social-distancing/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-13T17:19:56+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74469.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74469.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The delayed Tokyo Games are set to be a muted affair due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/09/commentary/japan-commentary/fukushima-nuclear-power-remembering-3-11/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T14:05:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74463.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74463.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture was placed in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima No. 1 plant after the March 11, 2011, nuclear disaster. The town, with its main street seen here, has since partially reopened. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/10/commentary/japan-commentary/311-preparedness/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T16:56:29+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73633.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73633.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The crisis around the disaster at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant highlighted Japan's lack of crisis preparedness.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/06/03/commentary/japan-commentary/face-reality-racism-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-15T17:01:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/p7-russell-a-20180604.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[p7-russell-a-20180604.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The selection of Ariana Miyamoto as Miss Universe Japan in 2015 prompted a tsunami of online nastiness, raising issues of not only Japan's racial complexes but also its contempt for a wide range of others.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/15/commentary/world-commentary/india-smart-vaccine-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T12:42:38+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75521-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75521.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, receives a dose of coronavirus disease vaccine at a vaccination center in Dharamsala, India, on March 6. ]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/15/commentary/world-commentary/tony-blinken-joe-biden-foreign-policy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T12:45:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74214.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74214.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks about priorities for administration of U.S. President Joe Biden at the State Department in Washington on March 3, 2021. At the heart of Blinken’s maiden policy speech was the promise that both the conduct and the outcomes of the administration’s foreign policy would serve the interests of the American people in direct and concrete ways.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/16/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-2020-presidential-election-donald-trump-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T20:10:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74850.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74850.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At the end of the day, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” was mostly posturing, because he couldn’t deliver real improvements in the lives of his base.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/16/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-medicine-republicans-democrats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T20:11:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74706.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74706.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/16/commentary/japan-commentary/joe-biden-u-s-quad-yoshihide-suga-china-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-16T20:28:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75883.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden takes part in a virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/17/commentary/world-commentary/u-k-scotland-wales-spain-canada-united-states-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T17:00:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74447.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74447.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A sign with a message against the Brexit border checks in relation to the Northern Ireland protocol in Larne, Northern Ireland on Feb. 12, 2021.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/17/commentary/world-commentary/u-k-scotland-snp-nicola-sturgeon-alex-salmond-boris-johnson-metoo-sexual-harassment/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T17:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74780-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74780.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond campaign together in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in April 2015. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/17/commentary/world-commentary/vladimir-putin-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T17:00:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73471.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73471.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/17/commentary/world-commentary/bitcoin-cryptocurrencies-facebook-paypal-libre-china-u-s-central-banks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T17:00:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74796.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74796.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Don’t be surprised if by the end of the current decade, the e-wallet on your smartphone resembles a multicurrency account. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/17/commentary/world-commentary/china-pork-food-vegetables-agriculture-stock-market/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T17:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_71570-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71570.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Every time there’s a price spike in pork, vegetables or other food items somewhere in the country, China’s investors rush to buy their Big Food stocks.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/17/commentary/world-commentary/china-hong-kong-eu-u-s-xi-jinping-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-17T17:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74588.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74588.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators in California take part in a protest on March 7 to show  solidarity with the 47 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who were earlier charged with subversion. Indications the national security law has succeeded in instilling fear in Hong Kong may be encouraging Chinese President Xi Jinping to escalate repression in the once-defiant city. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/18/editorials/quad-china-north-korea-u-s-military-senkakus-disputed-islands-south-korea-u-s-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-18T19:48:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76325.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The virtual summit of the four leaders of "Quad" countries — Japan, Australia, India and the United States — should quiet fears that the forum would be just a talk shop, unable to provide concrete deliverables that would improve Indo-Pacific security.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/18/commentary/world-commentary/china-quad-covid-19-u-s-yoshihide-suga-joe-biden-india-australia-indo-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-18T20:05:10+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/18/commentary/world-commentary/taxes-sdg-development-aid-wealth-taxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-18T20:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73710.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mother watches over her malnourished child in the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Sheopur district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in April 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/19/commentary/world-commentary/eu-banking-deutsche/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T17:00:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_71420.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_71420.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Deutsche Bank bank branch in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 3, 2021. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/19/commentary/world-commentary/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-social-media/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T17:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_73800.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_73800.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Many people have compared former U.S. President Donald Trump's presidency to that of Andrew Jackson in the first half of the 19th century.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/19/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-australia-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-19T18:58:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75329.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Scott Morrison, Australia's prime minister, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga review an honor guard during a ceremony ahead of a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/19/commentary/japan-commentary/the-quad-australia-india-the-united-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-20T15:55:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_76451.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_76451.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends the the virtual "Quad" meeting on March 12. The fact that some Western media sources used the terminology of an anti-Chinese alliance to describe the group is problematic. It re-enforces a Chinese narrative that the West is out to get China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/20/commentary/world-commentary/china-carbon-emissions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T08:31:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75848.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75848.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pollution and construction have gone together in China in recent years, but the country has pledged to reduce its carbon footprint and reduce emissions to net zero by 2060.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/02/01/commentary/world-commentary/travel-quarantines-coronavirus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T18:34:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/np_file_66563.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_66563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Vaccine or immunity passes in some form will eventually help open up economies and travel, and limit the bane of lockdowns and quarantines. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/21/commentary/world-commentary/china-india-border-south-china-sea-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T19:13:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74829.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74829.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protesters pay tribute to the Indian Army soldiers killed in a border clash with Chinese troops in the Ladakh region, during a rally in New Delhi in June.

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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/21/commentary/world-commentary/surveillance-verkada-hacking/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T19:15:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75348.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75348.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Verkada Inc. security camera on the company's headquarters in San Mateo, California on March 10.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/21/commentary/world-commentary/australia-oil-gas-energy-minerals/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T19:18:24+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_69172.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_69172.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[It makes less sense than ever to manufacture gasoline, diesel and jet fuel at Australia’s small, antiquated refineries. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-australia-alliance-u-s-china-asean/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-21T22:22:28+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75839.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75839.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo in November.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/22/commentary/world-commentary/china-ant-group-alibaba-jack-ma/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-22T14:45:40+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75581.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75581.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Once the powerful central bank publicly turned against Ant Group, bureaucrats who had endorsed the group fell silent and other departments began to jump on the bandwagon.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/23/commentary/world-commentary/europe-eu-asean-china-indo-pacific/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-23T15:25:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77374.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77374.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring docks at a port in Mumbai in June 2012.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/23/commentary/world-commentary/eu-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-23T15:28:26+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77292.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77292.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/23/commentary/japan-commentary/api-crisis-lessons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-23T16:55:58+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75721.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75721.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 has been the subject of reviews and reports, 10 years since the plant experienced meltdowns following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/24/commentary/japan-commentary/united-states-japan-trade-agreement-tpp-cptpp/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-24T17:00:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77468.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77468.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Asked if she would expand U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, Newly confirmed U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai's response was to commit to undertaking a detailed assessment of the current state of the relationship to determine the best path forward.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/24/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccines-vaccinations-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-24T17:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_74614.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_74614.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Doctor Hasan Gokal, from Sugar Land, Texas, was fired after distributing just 10 soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses in December. He says hospitals won't hire him until a court case where he was charged him over the incident is resolved.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/24/commentary/world-commentary/amazon-jeff-bezos-jobs-wages-labor-laws-taxes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-24T17:00:52+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77301.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77301.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amazon can afford to lift its workers out of poverty, so why does it rely on taxpayers to fill in the blanks?]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/24/commentary/world-commentary/north-korea-denuclearization-united-states/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-24T17:30:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77337.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77337.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For Pyongyang, a nuclear deterrent is inextricably linked to the regime’s survival.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/24/commentary/world-commentary/china-united-states-anchorage-antony-blinken-yang-jiechi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T00:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77423.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77423.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan exit from closed-door talks between the United States and China upon conclusion of a two-day meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.  
]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/24/commentary/japan-commentary/taiwan-self-defense-forces-china-u-s-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T14:58:52+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77205.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77205.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attend a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on March 16.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/25/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-foreign-policy-united-states-saudi-arabia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T17:19:42+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77873.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77873.jpeg]]></image:title>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/25/commentary/world-commentary/permanent-covid-19-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T17:21:17+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77686.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77686.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man receives the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Paris on March 19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/25/editorials/north-korea-u-s-nuclear-weapons-missiles-kim-jong-un-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-25T18:50:22+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77865.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77865.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This official photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observing the firing of suspected missiles in March 2020.

 ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/26/commentary/japan-commentary/toyota-nippon-steel-climate-change-environment-emissions-carbon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T17:00:02+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77675.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77675.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan has a choice: It can be a passive spectator or an active innovator in the global shift to decarbonized industrial production.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/26/commentary/world-commentary/elon-musk-texas-batteries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T14:59:12+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78058.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78058.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elon Musk speaks during the Satellite 2020 at the Washington Convention Center on March 9, 2020, in Washington.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/26/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-china-covid-19-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-26T23:19:39+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77896.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77896.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People are tested for COVID-19 in Hong Kong on Feb. 17. The city on Wednesday suspended use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after packaging defects were discovered in one batch of doses.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/27/commentary/world-commentary/vaccine-passports-business-case/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T18:27:37+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77285.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77285.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) holds up a document, part of the country's "Green Pass" system, which grants privileges to citizens who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/25/cartoons/roger-dahl-visiting-japan-amid-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T18:30:32+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77259-e1616837418272.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77259.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visiting Japan amid COVID-19]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/25/cartoons/roger-dahl-canine-karaoke/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-27T18:31:33+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77262-e1616837473649.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77262.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canine karaoke]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/28/commentary/world-commentary/china-five-year-plan-semiconductors-xi-jinping/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T17:17:23+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78118-2.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78118.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China is facing its most hostile external environment in decades, with a growing number of countries pushing back against its political repression and coercive diplomacy.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/28/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-covid-19-supply-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-28T17:46:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toyota Corolla vehicles are assembled at a manufacturing plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The facility that was temporarily shut down by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the area.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/education-crisis-covid-19-developing-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:00:35+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77646.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77646.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[School closures due to COVID-19 have disproportionately harmed students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and low-income countries. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/prince-harry-betterup-chief-impact-officer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:00:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prince Harry]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/china-population-jobs-fertility/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78398.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78398.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In 2019, China registered only 14.6 million newborns. Last year, that figure dropped to 10.0 million.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/china-taiwan-united-states-conflict/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:07:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78147.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78147.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Adm. John C. Aquilino, who is nominated to lead the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said Japan's ability to defend itself is vital and it must continue to invest in improvements in its air and missile defense capabilities, as well as other security areas.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/21/commentary/japan-commentary/china-north-korea-u-s-military-senkakus-disputed-islands-south-korea-u-s-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-29T17:08:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[South Korean demonstrators protest against the visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Seoul on Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/30/commentary/world-commentary/climate-change-environment-emissions-carbon-agriculture-farming/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T18:51:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78777.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78777.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Biden's vision for a carbon bank is right on: Farmers should be incentivized to adopt regenerative practices that enhance their capacity to keep carbon dioxide locked away.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/30/commentary/japan-commentary/egypt-trade-suez-canal-freight-refloated-ever-given/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T18:52:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man waves the Egyptian flag after the Panamanian-flagged MV Ever Given container ship was fully dislodged from the banks of the Suez Canal on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/30/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-sdf-consensus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-30T18:53:07+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Air Self-Defense Force personnel prepare for review by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at Iruma Air Base in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 28.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/31/commentary/japan-commentary/lgbt-discrimination-same-sex-marriage-human-rights-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T17:00:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78701.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters participate in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade in April 2015.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/31/commentary/world-commentary/china-alibaba-ant-group-jack-ma-counterfeiting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T17:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78362.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A vendor sells pirated DVDs in Hefei, Anhui province, China, in November 2007.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/31/commentary/world-commentary/dollar-u-s-china-digital-cryptocurrencies-currencies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T17:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75175.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75175.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Janet Yellen]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/31/commentary/world-commentary/china-hong-kong-hong-kong-protests-tankies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T17:00:43+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78845.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78845.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Pro-China supporters hold a rally in Hong Kong in September 2019. Some pro-democracy activists in the city have been battling so-called "tankies," who are often young Western supporters of authoritarian communist regimes.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/31/commentary/world-commentary/environment-climate-change-emissions-carbon-green-deal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-03-31T17:00:23+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77295-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77295.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators take part in the Europe Climate Strike rally in Brussels on March 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/01/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-u-n-aung-san-suu-kyi-min-aung-mlaing-human-rights-pro-democracy-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T20:53:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79179.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79179.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/01/commentary/world-commentary/china-russia-eu-u-s-joe-biden-artificial-intelligence-tech-telecoms-cybersecurity/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T20:54:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_78831.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78831.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a video conference on artificial intelligence in December. Putin said whoever becomes the leader in AI will become the ruler of the world. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/01/commentary/world-commentary/capitalism-digitization-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T20:56:30+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79244.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79244.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[COVID-19 has put enormous strains on health care systems, livelihoods, individual well-being, the viability of firms and the stability of public finances.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/01/commentary/world-commentary/china-social-media-facebook-twitter-youtube-disinformation/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T22:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_78742.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78742.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A scanner made by Hisign Technology that can glean data out of mobile phone apps such as Facebook and Twitter and analyze user social network connections is displayed at an exhibition in Beijing in May 2018. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/01/commentary/world-commentary/trust-digital-age/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T22:30:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_78684.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78684.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/01/editorials/myanmar-coup-pressure-junta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-01T23:57:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79178.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79178.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A funeral is held for a protester killed amid the crackdown by security forces on demonstrations against the military coup, in Yangon on March 30.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/03/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-olympic-torch-relay-concerns/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-03T07:01:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78665-e1617348299552.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78665.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Olympic torch relay concerns]]></image:caption>
		</image:image>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/03/cartoons/perils-refining-golf-swing-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-03T07:00:25+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78666-e1617348455545.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78666.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The perils of refining one's golf swing in Japan]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/27/cartoons/chunky-sea-urchin-soup/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T16:37:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75822-e1617348842593.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75822.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chunky sea urchin soup]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/27/cartoons/china-maritime-incursions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-02T16:38:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_75821-e1617348966341.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_75821.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[China's maritime incursions]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/suez-canal-egypt-shipping-ever-given/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T18:15:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79435-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79435.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Ever Given container ship, which was chartered by Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corp., moves along the Suez Canal after being freed on March 29.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/china-global-economy-belt-and-road-initiative/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-04T18:17:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79442.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79442.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/05/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-thailand-drugs-covid-19-smuggling/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T17:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79623-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79623.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taang National Liberation Army soldiers destroy a poppy field in Myanmar's northern Shan state in January 2014.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/05/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-medicine-government/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T17:30:00+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79282.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79282.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering new public-health legislation that would let the feds seize certain powers from the states.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/asia-china-japan-south-korea-global-economy-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-05T08:51:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79437.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79437.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[And with eight of the world’s 15 most populous countries, Asia is more than just China.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/06/commentary/world-commentary/china-coast-guard-law-japan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-06T18:44:18+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79268.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79268.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new law enacted in February has given sweeping powers to the China Coast Guard, but its full geographical scope is, as yet, unknown.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/world-economic-forum-tech-medicine-poverty-development/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T13:30:27+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79994.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79994.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The world has the capability to extend high-quality assessment technology to nations in need. In Rwanda, for instance, there’s only one radiologist for every million people.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/06/commentary/japan-commentary/defense-missiles-u-s-north-korea-china-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T00:03:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79986.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/global-economy-covid-19-china-u-s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T19:07:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80228.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80228.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Global gross domestic product will enjoy its biggest spurt in years — perhaps even decades — following the biggest drop since the 1930s.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-medicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T19:12:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79445.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-fdr-the-great-depression-u-s-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T19:13:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79452.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79452.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech on his $2 trillion infrastructure plan during an event in Pittsburgh on March 31. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-russia-alexei-navalny-civil-rights-u-s-supreme-court-judges/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T20:41:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79614.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79614.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/world-commentary/china-taiwan-u-s-dpp-kmt-xi-jinping-tsai-ing-wen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-07T20:57:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Beijing now feels that there is little likelihood of peaceful unification with Taiwan. The Global Times newspaper has reported ongoing discussions on a new law that may provide a timeline for bring this about.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/07/commentary/japan-commentary/china-myanmar-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-08T13:45:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This photo taken from an anonymous source via Facebook on Tuesday shows a demonstration against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/08/commentary/world-commentary/china-global-economy-human-rights-uyghurs-forced-labor-hm/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-08T19:27:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A security guard stands outside a H&amp;M store in Beijing after the Swedish retailer announced that it would no longer use cotton sourced in Xinjiang due to forced labor concerns.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/08/commentary/world-commentary/china-u-s-cold-war-joe-biden-defense/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-08T19:29:29+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/08/commentary/world-commentary/baseball-sports-mlb-u-s-courts/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-08T19:31:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Baseball fans take a photo outside Wrigley Field before a game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates in Chicago on April 1.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/08/commentary/japan-commentary/china-coast-guard-law/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-08T22:25:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79918.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A new law governing the actions of the China Coast Guard is said to stem from Chinese leader Xi Jinping's wish to respond to the needs of national defense and military development.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/09/cartoons/roger-dahl-responding-north-koreas-nuclear-threats/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-09T17:10:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79883.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Assessing how to respond to North Korea's nuclear threats]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/09/cartoons/roger-dahl-re-imagining-tale-genji/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-09T17:05:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79930.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Re-imagining "The Tale of Genji"]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/10/editorials/china-who-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-10T10:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/10/commentary/world-commentary/iran-u-s-joe-biden-nuclear-weapons/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-10T10:00:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second from the left) visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in April 2008.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/12/commentary/world-commentary/syria-iran-russia-turkey-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T17:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/05/commentary/japan-commentary/danger-abes-constitutional-amendment-proposal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:58:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Self-Defense Force members taking part in Exercise Talisman Saber 19 carry out a simulated reconnaissance mission in Bowen, Australia, on July 21. The Liberal Democratic Party wants to revise the Constitution's Article 9 to formally recognize the SDF.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/07/29/editorials/women-moving-ahead-self-defense-forces/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:59:19+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/04/commentary/japan-commentary/trump-bump-building-u-s-presidents-visit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T06:59:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Kaga on May 28 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/12/commentary/japan-commentary/senkakus-u-s-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-12T18:06:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80817.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80817.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demonstrators protest against Japan's decision to purchase the disputed Senkaku Islands, called  Diaoyu in China, in the Chinese city of Chengdu in September 2012.   ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/13/commentary/japan-commentary/china-japan-senkakus/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-13T14:38:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80855-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80855.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Protecting the waters around the Senkaku Islands has become a priority for Japan in the wake of China's adoption of its new coast guard law.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/13/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-global-economy-climate-change-poverty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-13T17:52:51+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/13/commentary/world-commentary/elon-musk-vladimir-putin-russia-spacex-space/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-13T17:55:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80833.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80833.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The boss of Russia's state space agency, Roscosmos, has responded to private success abroad by denigrating efforts like those of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/14/commentary/world-commentary/yemen-covid-19-saudi-arabia-u-n-iran-uae-houthis-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T22:44:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80825.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A worker builds a tombstone at a cemetery where victims of the coronavirus disease are buried in Taiz, Yemen, in June 2020.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/14/commentary/world-commentary/afghanistan-taliban-al-qaida-joe-biden-u-s-terrorism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T22:47:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The leader of the Taliban delegation signs an agreement with the U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, at a ceremony in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/14/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-human-rights-junta/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T22:48:34+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/14/commentary/world-commentary/fda-covid-19-vaccinations-u-s-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T22:50:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81350.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81350.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[People arrive at a mobile COVID-19 vaccine site in Los Angeles on Tuesday where the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine was due to be administered.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/14/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-medicine-pandemics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-14T22:52:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_79600.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79600.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a diagnostics firm in February. Future historians may point to our encounter with COVID-19 to explain the inexplicable demise of handshakes and the rise of elbow-bumping.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/12/08/reader-mail/macarthur-pre-empted-disaster/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-15T01:42:31+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/02/commentary/world-commentary/bitcoin-record-wall-street/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-15T01:48:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/np_file_54508.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_54508.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bitcoin won’t be viewed as an existential threat to the banking system just because its price is soaring. Rather it will be seen as a spur toward a more digital, regulator-friendly post-COVID payments future.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/15/commentary/world-commentary/microsoft-ai-nuance-communications-dax/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-15T19:32:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81319-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81319.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Microsoft said that it has agreed to buy Nuance Communications Inc. for about $56 a share, or almost $20 billion including debt. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/15/commentary/world-commentary/defense-u-k-cybersecurity-terrorism-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-15T19:34:47+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_80269.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_80269.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Prime Minister Theresa May passes British tanks as she visits a military base in Salisbury, England, in September 2016.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/15/commentary/japan-commentary/china-u-s-quad-indo-pacific-development-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-16T01:37:15+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81156.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81156.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[At the most fundamental level, a revitalized Japan-U.S. alliance should provide a viable alternative to China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative , while strengthening the ability of smaller regional states to defend their territorial integrity. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/17/editorials/sports-golf-hideki-matsuyama-masters-augusta-georgia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-17T10:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81862.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81862.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Hideki Matsuyama celebrates with his caddie on the 18th green after winning The Masters in  Augusta, Georgia, on April 11. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/17/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-banking-global-economy-square-jpmorgan-paypal/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-17T10:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81290.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81290.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[PayPal Holdings Inc.’s digital wallet use soared as it added services from cryptocurrency trading to installment payments for online purchases.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/china-yuan-digital-currency/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-16T19:22:07+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_77830.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_77830.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Unlike the physical currency, the digital yuan may become a common platform for CBDCs, especially in emerging and developing countries.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/04/commentary/world-commentary/china-asian-century-covid-19/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-16T19:22:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/np_file_78671.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_78671.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cars for export are being loaded onto a cargo vessel at a port in Lianyungang, China. The growing trade rivalry between China and the United States has actually been a principal driving force for a new, more confident Asia.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/02/commentary/world-commentary/how-covid-19-changed-asia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-16T19:30:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_79317.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/04/16/editorials/year-kumamoto-earthquakes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-17T20:49:57+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/05/17/editorials/disaster-proof-supply-chains/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-17T20:58:27+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/17/cartoons/fastest-elevators-tokyo/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T02:16:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81007-e1618563018494.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81007.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Tokyo's fastest elevators]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/17/cartoons/roger-dahl-japans-wishful-carbon-emissions-pledge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T02:17:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81006-e1618562910545.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81006.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's wishful carbon emissions pledge]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/18/commentary/japan-commentary/quad-japan-australia-india-u-s-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T17:04:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82132.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82132.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during the virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meeting from his official residence in Tokyo on March 12.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/18/commentary/world-commentary/northern-ireland-eu-terrorism-sinn-fein-boris-johnson-covid-19-brexit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T17:06:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Church leaders from both communities gather at the peace wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, on April 9. They called for the recent nightly violence in Belfast to stop.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/18/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-medicine-telemedicine/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T17:08:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A doctor demonstrates a telemedicine application service called CLINICS that was developed by Japanese medical start-up Medley Inc., in Tokyo in July.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/19/commentary/world-commentary/china-jack-ma-alibaba-communist-party-xi-jinping-wealthy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-19T17:00:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The best known billionaire made an example of by Beijing is Jack Ma (right), founder of Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Pony Ma (left) was also recently called in by Beijing’s watchdogs to discuss antitrust compliance issues.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/17/commentary/japan-commentary/u-s-yoshihide-suga-joe-biden-u-s-japan-relations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-18T23:12:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81931.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[If the Japan-U.S. summit between Joe Biden and Yoshihide Suga in Washington should prompt a furious reaction from China, it will move Tokyo and Washington closer together.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/03/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-democracy-inequality/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-19T23:21:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Elementary school students adhering to social distancing attend a classroom session as schools reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta on March 24.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/19/commentary/japan-commentary/myanmar-u-s-india-china-asean-quad-indo-pacific-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-20T17:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82156.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The modest democratic progress Myanmar made during the period of awkward coexistence between the NLD and the military over the last decade appears to have been completely wiped out.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/20/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-afghanistan-joe-biden-taliban-al-qaida-terrorism-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-20T17:51:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82578-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82578.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[By eliminating the distraction of the war in Afghanistan for top officials, Joe Biden's decision allows the U.S. to better address real dangers it faces. For many, that is China.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/20/commentary/world-commentary/hong-kong-china-economy-corruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-20T17:58:06+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82645.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Questions over fraud and corruption have been raised in Hong Kong following a government proposal to let directors obscure their identities on company registers.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/20/commentary/japan-commentary/us-japan-biden-suga-summit/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-20T21:34:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82528.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden walks out of the Oval Office with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga ahead of a news conference at the White House in Washington on Friday.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/china-taiwan-u-s-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-21T19:03:52+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/china-rare-earths-florida-metals-minerals-waste-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-21T19:20:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A reservoir of a defunct phosphate plant south of Tampa, Florida.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/india-press-freedom-narendra-modi/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-21T19:24:18+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_81308.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_81308.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) activists carry an effigy depicting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a protest in Kolkata in January 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-joe-biden-donald-trump-democrats-republicans-barack-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-21T19:31:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82208.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-President Barack Obama take part in a meeting at the White House in February 2016.  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/21/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-u-s-2020-presidential-election-covid-19-vaccinations-democrats-republicans/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-21T19:34:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82835.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82835.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Joe Biden, like John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama before him, has often evoked the "first 100 days" symbolism of Franklin D. Roosevelt.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/21/commentary/japan-commentary/okinawa-tourism-covid-19-japan-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-22T15:46:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82693-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82693.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The impact of the pandemic on Okinawa’s fragile economy shows the prefecture needs to consider how to reduce its dependency on the tourism industry. 
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/sports-soccer-european-super-league-antitrust-fifa-uefa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-22T19:19:30+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82831.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/22/commentary/world-commentary/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-blm-race-discrimination/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-22T19:21:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83202.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83202.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The jury in the Derek Chauvin trial was not asked to determine whether racism was behind the incident. It was asked to only to determine whether the former police officer knowingly caused George Floyd’s death.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/24/cartoons/pressing-regional-issues/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-24T10:00:10+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82432-e1619149055689.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82432.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[EDIT187-GorillaChina]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/24/cartoons/pickle-breath/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-24T09:55:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82433-e1619148883313.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82433.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ZG217-PickleBreath]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/25/commentary/japan-commentary/fukushima-radiation-3-11-nuclear-energy-radioactive-water-iaea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-25T07:28:55+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83595.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83595.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Storage tanks for treated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/science-covid-19-artificial-intelligence-gdp-economics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-25T19:15:55+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82129-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82129.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[We use data to shape our view of a complex and changing world. But such data represents reality from a particular perspective.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/will-new-normal-look-like-china/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-25T19:17:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83679-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83679.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the short term, the successful COVID-19 response by President Xi Jinping's government will allow China to temporarily strengthen its position. But in the long term, its problems aren’t going anywhere.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/25/commentary/world-commentary/space-spacex-satellites-light-pollution-nasa/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-25T19:18:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83363.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83363.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[This illustration of NASA's TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, shows an artist's rendition of the space telescope was launched in April 2018 aboard a SpaceX rocket.


]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/26/commentary/world-commentary/india-narendra-modi-covid-19-health-medicine-vaccinations/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-26T17:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82818.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82818.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Relatives wearing protective equipment place the shrouded body of a COVID-19 fatality on a funeral pyre at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/26/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-england-elections-ango-saxons-history-constitution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-26T17:00:40+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_82787.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_82787.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[America’s founding fathers were well aware of the Saxon theory. But when it came to writing a new constitution, they were more influenced by natural law: the idea that they had "inalienable rights.”  ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/26/commentary/japan-commentary/climate-change-environment-emissions-carbon/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-26T17:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83655-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83655.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[For worldwide energy transition, the installed capacity for solar PVs has grown sevenfold and threefold for onshore wind turbines since 2010.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/26/commentary/world-commentary/afghan-war-reflections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-26T13:16:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83170.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Marines board a helicopter at Camp Bastion in Helmand province in Afghanistan in October 2009.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/26/commentary/japan-commentary/china-maritime-expansion/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-26T17:08:46+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83045.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83045.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Last month, a group of 220 Chinese fishing boats was spotted in the South China Sea at Whitsun Reef, which is effectively controlled by the Philippines.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-u-s-climate-change-covid-19-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-27T19:38:48+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84043.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a joint news conference at the White House on April 16.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-qanon-donald-trump-history-culture/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-27T19:40:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84112.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84112.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The influence of American culture remains as strong as ever. The growth of a QAnon movement in Japan is the clearest example that some of its more paranoid ideas are spreading overseas.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/27/commentary/world-commentary/sec-corruption-enron-skechers-stocks/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-27T19:41:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83377.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Skechers, the California-based sneaker company, disclosed that four children of CEO Robert Greenberg have been on the company payroll for years.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/india-covid-19-vaccines-health/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T18:45:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84232.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84232.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives the second dose of the Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in New Delhi on April 8.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/new-zealand-china-five-eyes-quad-indo-pacific-south-china-sea/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T18:47:53+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84094.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84094.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Nanaia Mahuta  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/russia-u-s-nuclear-weapons-iran-joe-biden-barack-obama/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T18:49:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84178.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84178.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russia's governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mikhail Ulyanov, takes a break outside the hotel in Vienna where diplomats are meeting in an attempt to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, on Tuesday. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-health-medicine-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T18:51:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the case of the pandemic, social capital provided the first line of defense against the virus when vaccines and effective medical treatments had not yet become available.  

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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/emmanuel-macron-covid-19-france-marine-le-pen/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T18:54:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[While Marine Le Pen has yet to shake the fears most voters attach to her candidacy, her campaign has achieved a creeping normalization for her party.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/28/commentary/world-commentary/alexey-navalny-russia-vladimir-putin-u-s-cold-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T20:58:49+09:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/12/22/commentary/world-commentary/spying-truths/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T21:10:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[British author John Le Carre addresses a news conference at the 51st Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin in 2001.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/25/commentary/world-commentary/navalny-vs-putin-epic-existential-battle/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T21:11:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People attend a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on Saturday. ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/01/18/commentary/world-commentary/tech-censorship-real-gift-putin/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T21:11:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Trump twitter]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/04/commentary/world-commentary/can-alexei-navalny-salvage-russian-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T21:13:10+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/the-battle-for-moscow-will-shape-russias-future/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-28T21:13:52+09:00</lastmod>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/cop26-carbon-emissions-climate-change-environment-u-s-china-russia/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-29T20:08:27+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84216.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84216.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[In the Arctic, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the global average, Russia, China and others are already trying to establish a geopolitical foothold over territory and resources that were once under ice.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/afghanistan-u-s-joe-biden-barack-obama-egypt-iran-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-29T20:10:57+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[ ]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/04/29/commentary/world-commentary/iran-nuclear-weapons-u-s-joe-biden/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-04-29T20:12:26+09:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/cartoons/roger-dahl-rorschach-kanji-test/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83855-e1619773256697.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83855.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[ZG218-RorschachKanji]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/cartoons/roger-dahl-covid-19-olympics/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83842-e1619773174300.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83842.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The public on COVID-19 and the Tokyo Olympics]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/editorials/myanmar-asean-human-rights-democracy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:00:03+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Indonesian President Joko Widodo speaks at a news conference after attending the ASEAN leaders' summit in Jakarta on April 24.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-u-s-taxes-u-s-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:00:42+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84671.jpeg</image:loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. 

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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/commentary/japan-commentary/ldp-yoshihide-suga-ldp-by-elections/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84606.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84606.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[There are two things supporting Prime Minister Suga right now. First, the public is still generally apathetic about the opposition. Second, there are few political leaders that want to inherit his problems.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/commentary/world-commentary/euthanasia-health-medicine-human-rights/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:00:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84243.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84243.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Supporters of a law to legalize euthanasia gather in Madrid as the Spanish Parliament votes to approve the procedure in March.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/01/commentary/world-commentary/science-education/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-01T10:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_83664.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83664.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Taxes, bureaucracies, machines, school, welfare and health care systems are overly complicated, and a new study shows why.]]></image:caption>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/02/commentary/world-commentary/china-gdp-global-economy-poverty/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-02T18:18:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84889-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84889.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[When looking at China’s per capita GDP, the key takeaway is that it remains a poor country, despite its phenomenal headline GDP growth over the past four decades.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/02/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-donald-trump-2020-u-s-presidential-election-u-s-military/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-02T18:20:58+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84172.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84172.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (front left) arrives at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on March 17.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/02/commentary/world-commentary/india-covid-19-oil-energy-global-economy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-02T18:22:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/np_file_84709.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84709.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Demand for oil in India, the world’s third-largest oil market, was expected to be above pre-pandemic levels this year. The forecasts now look certain to be revised lower with the resurgence of COVID-19.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/03/commentary/world-commentary/covid-19-vaccinations-who-poor-rich-countries/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-03T17:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84905.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84905.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/03/commentary/world-commentary/2020-u-s-presidential-election-donald-trump-joe-biden-republicans-democrats-voter-fraud/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-03T17:00:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84497.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84497.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A mob of supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/03/commentary/world-commentary/china-chloe-zhao-oscars-human-rights-hollywood-nomadland/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-03T17:00:05+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84269.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84269.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Chloe Zhao]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/04/commentary/world-commentary/sand-construction-development-environment-oceans-pollution/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-04T18:26:15+09:00</lastmod>
		<image:image>
			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85208-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85208.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sand extracted from the Mekong River — 55 million tons in 2011 according to one study — and dams built upstream are slowly strangling that waterway.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/04/commentary/world-commentary/afghanistan-kyrgyzstan-asia-europe-china-russia-global-economy-taliban/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-04T18:28:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_83654-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_83654.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[High-ranking Taliban representatives told the Turkmenistan government that the group supports the TAPI pipeline project that would run through Afghanistan.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/06/commentary/world-commentary/myanmar-refugees-thailand-asean-fighting-civil-war/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-06T19:43:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85560.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85560.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[A wounded person fleeing the violence in Myanmar is carried by stretcher to receive medical treatment at a Thai border village in Mae Hong Son province on March 30. ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/06/commentary/world-commentary/japan-myanmar-asean-aung-san-suu-kyi-min-aung-hlaing-peace-diplomacy/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-06T19:45:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85563.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85563.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Myanmar's junta chief and head of the Tatmadaw, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, presides over an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw on March 27.  ]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/08/editorials/india-covid-19-crisis-and-vaccines/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-08T10:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85751.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/08/commentary/world-commentary/g7-foreign-ministers-joint-communique/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-08T10:00:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85710.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85710.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (center) takes a group photo with other delegates during the G7 foreign ministers meeting in London on May 5.
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/08/cartoons/china-expansionist-policies/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-08T10:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85328-e1620381489365.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85328.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Suga doldrums]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/08/cartoons/noisy-neighbors/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-08T09:59:26+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85329-e1620381547139.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85329.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Noisy neighbors]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/09/commentary/world-commentary/china-debt-trap-development-aid/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-09T19:32:20+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85199-scaled.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85199.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[The latest to fall prey to China’s debt-trap diplomacy is Laos, which recently signed a 25-year concession agreement allowing a majority Chinese-owned company to control its national power grid.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/09/commentary/world-commentary/joe-biden-climate-change-environment-emissions-carbon-kyoto-protocol/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-09T19:34:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84176.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84176.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate from the White House on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/u-k-boris-johnson-conservative-party-labour-party-corruption/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-10T17:00:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85362-1.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85362.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of underhanded ways of funding redecorating bills for No. 10 Downing Street.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/palestinians-israel-human-rights-middle-east-apartheid-west-bank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-10T17:00:31+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_85276.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_85276.jpeg]]></image:title>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/08/commentary/world-commentary/tesla-bitcoin-crytocurrencies-blockchain/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-10T10:04:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/np_file_84177.jpeg</image:loc>
			<image:title><![CDATA[np_file_84177.jpeg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Strip out the Bitcoin gain, and Tesla’s adjusted net income was $337 million. That’s roughly the same as the third quarter of 2020.]]></image:caption>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/05/10/commentary/world-commentary/china-hong-kong-carrie-lam-communist-party-expat-community/</loc>
		<lastmod>2021-05-10T19:29:30+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-11T18:30:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a joint news conference after their talks at the White House in Washington on April 16.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many women who have been fortunate enough to keep their jobs have been expected to work while providing round-the-clock child care. ]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-12T00:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-12T19:36:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-12T19:37:41+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan’s recent decision to gradually release treated wastewater from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the Pacific provides a clear example of this one-Earth balance tension.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death in front of his tomb during a ceremony in Paris on May 5.

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		<lastmod>2021-05-13T20:31:14+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, attends virtual climate summit with President Joe Biden and other world leaders at the White House in Washington on April 23.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-13T20:33:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-13T20:34:54+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Away from the cryptocurrency craze, important changes are taking place in how financial institutions move funds.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-15T10:00:20+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-15T10:00:27+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2021-05-16T20:08:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin blames “outside forces” for his country’s doldrums, even though unsound economic policies and Western sanctions are no one’s fault but his own.]]></image:caption>
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