from an editorial of Yomiuri

( )内はThe Daily Yomiuriによる英訳です。言葉の端々までを字義とおり訳しているわけではないことが、わかります。

自民党新体制：安倍新総理が見せた腐心と計算
Liberal Democratic Party's new scheme:Devices and consideration new president Shinzo Abe showed
（Abe's LDP pick made with eye on election)

自民党の安倍新総裁としてはそれなりに腐心した人事だったようだ。
It seems that the LDP new president Shinzo Abe has made reshuffle of the party's executive posts with an enough care paid.
(New Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe seems to have done everything he could to form the party's new leadership lineup.)

安倍政権の政策の実現と来夏の参院選勝利・・・・。政権の二つの最重要課題に、党を挙げて取り組む体制を作らねばならない。一方、「安倍総裁」実現の”功労者”への処遇に配慮する必要もあっただろう。
To accomplish the policy of the new Abe administration and to win the victory in the House of Councillors election next summer. In order to manage to get succcess in this two the most important issues with the allover strength of the party gathered ,he must make a foudation for it.
Meanwhile, it is easily thought that he needed to take into consideration how to reward the people who have made contributions to realizing the Abe presidency.
(Abe,who is set to be elected prime minister at the Diet on Tuesday,had to build a strong team so the party can deal with two importanttasks lying in wait for his administration-to realize policies under his government and for the LDP to win the House of Councillors election next summer.
In deciding the new LDP leadership, Abe must have given consideration to LDP members who played leading roles in enabling him to reach the LDP's top post.)

党の要である幹事長には、同じ森派出身で、安倍氏が全幅の信頼を寄せる中川秀直政調会長を起用した。
Abe appointed as the party's Secretary General, the party's most important post after the presidency,the party's Chairman of Policy Research Council Hidenao Nkagawa, whom Abe puts his trust heavily on,and is belonging to the same Mori faction as him.
(Abe on Monday appointed Research Council Chairman Hidenao Nakagawa to the post of party secretary general,the most important party post after the presidenct. Nakagawa,who belongs to a party faction led by former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori,is a trusted confidant of Abe, who belonged to the faction until he was elected LDP president.)

幹事長以外の三役では、政調会長に就任した中川昭一農相が属する伊吹派は、いち早く安倍氏支持を打ち出した。総務会長に起用された丹羽・古賀派の丹羽雄哉元厚相は、一部に「反安倍」の動きもあった派内を安倍氏支持でまとめた。いずれも論功行賞の色彩が濃い。
Concerning the executive posts except the secretary general, Minister of Agriculture ,Forestry and Fisheries Shoichi Nakagawa was nominated as Chairman of Policy Research Council. The Ibuki Faction to which Shoich Nakagawa is belonging showed its support for Abe at an early stage of the presidency campaign.Nominated as Chairman of General Council is Yuya Niwa, former Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, who is belonging to the Niwa-Koga faction, and managed to lead faction's members for Abe's support although there were some anti-Abe movements in the faction.Both nominations seem to be rewarding.
(Abe appointed Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shochi Nakagawa to be the party's Polict Research Council chairman. The faction led by former Labor Minister Bunnmei Ibuki,towhich the new policy chief belongs,was quick to express support for Abe early on in his bid for the LDP presidency.
Former Health and Welfare Minister Yuya Niwa was given the post of General Council chairman. Niwa played a crucila role in building support in his faction,which is jointly led by former LDP Secretary General Makoto Koga and Niwa himself,for Abe ,despite initial anti-Abe moves by some members.
Under such circumstances, the appointments of Shoich Nakagawa and Niwa seem to be rewards dished out to those who helped Abe reach the presidency.)

from today's Nikkei

特許、出願優先に統一へ　米が転換、受け入れ　主要４１カ国大筋合意　審査時間短く

表で、特許基準統一に関する合意の骨子
Fourty-one countries ,including Japan,the U.S. and European countries, have basically reached an agreement to make a new treaty on the standards by which the patent is approved. According to sources, the U.S. has changed its persistently-insisted thinking and has come to accept the other countries' insistence. Under the new treaty, the patent will be approved on the basis that first application will be prioritized.

in a table, Outline Of The Agreement On The New Patent Standards

上海市トップを解任　胡主席　江前主席の影響力排除　汚職事件で
The Communist party chief of Shanghai,　Chen Liangyu , has been fired in China's highest-level corruption scandal, the state media reported yesterday.Many observe that this is a purge of unruly regional leaders and political opponents by the president, Hu Jintao, as he tightens his grip on power.This will eventually lead to diminishing the influence there of the former president Jiang Zemin.

自民幹事長に中川秀氏、総務会長丹羽氏、政調会長中川昭氏　安倍内閣きょう発足道州制など特命相

Hidenao Nkagawa was appointed the LDP secretary general. And,Yuya Niwa and Shoichi Nakagawa were named the party's Chairman of General Coucil and Chairman of Policy Research Council,respectively.The Abe cabinet will start today. And new ministers, including a special state minister in charge of doh-shu system,will have been appointed by this evening.

民主代表に小沢氏再選　直後に検査入院
Ichiro Ozawa was reelected as the president of the Democratic Party of Japan yesterday.But after its reelection, he was sent to a hospital in order to make a health check.

ソフトバンク　携帯電話事業を証券化　ボーダフォン買収資金借り換え　１兆４５００億円調達
Softbank likely will make its business of operating the mobile phone services securitized. Through this method unique in Japan, The company intends to raise about 1.45 trillion yen in order to pay back the fund borrowed from banks and used for buying the mobile phone business from Vodafone.