from en editorial of Yomiuri

(The Daily Yomiuriの訳は残念ながらありません）
貸金業法改正：多重債務への入り口をふさげ
Loan business law's revision: Block the entrance to the multiple debt

多重債務への入り口となりかねない高利の貸付は、できるだけ早くなくすべきだ。
It is desirable to abolish ,as soon as possible, high-interest-rate loans ,which might lead to the beginning of multiple debts.

自民党が、消費者金融業者らの貸付金利上限引き下げなど、貸金業制度改革案を決めた。
The Liberal Democratic Party has decided its draft plan for the revision of the loan business law, lowering the ceiling of the interest rates,which consumer finance creditors impose.

from today's Nikkei

東証　株価変動制限を緩和　個別銘柄値幅最大１．５倍　売買しやすく
０９年度メド　乱高下対策も
表で、制限値幅の主な見直し点

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has decided that it will relax its limit of listed shares' price variation a day in order to make selling and buying of the share listed more easily and flexibly reached. According to the plan, the limit range ,which is curently decided every business day for each listed share,will be extended up to 1.5 times the present. This measure will be implemented around 2009, and the measures for too violent price turbulance also will be introduced.

in a table,
Major Poits of Price Variation Limit's Revision

海外生産　トヨタ、５００万台規模へ　０８年度計画　国内と逆転　確実に
Toyota's overseas production capability will become the 5-million-unit level per yeay in 2008. This ensures that it will top its domestic capability.

エネルギー、インフレ、保護主義　成長持続へ潜在リスク　Ｇ７会議共同声明
表で、人民元の柔軟化促す　Ｇ７共同声明の骨子
G7 meeting of finace ministers and central banks' governors ended and issued its joint declaration,citing ,as potential risk factors, energy problems,inflation,and protectionism.

in a table, Gists of G7 Joint Declaration
encouraging yuan to become more flexible to the market

from an editorial in Yomiuri

括弧内はThe Daily Yomiuriの訳。

麻原「死刑」確定
Asahara's death was finalized.
（What are the lessons of Matsumoto's trial?)

１０年５か月にも及んだ「世紀の裁判」は、あっけない結末を迎えた。
A so-called once-in-the-century trial extending for 10 years and five months has come to an end too easily.
(The "trial of century,"which latsted ten years and five months,has come to an unexpectedly abrupt end.)

オウム真理教の麻原彰晃こと松本智津夫被告の裁判で、最高裁判所画、訴訟手続きを巡る弁護団の特別抗告を退けた。松本被告の死刑が確定した。
With the trial of Shoko Asahara of the then Aum Supreme Truth cult,or Chizuo Matsumoto,the Supreme Court rejected the special appeal on the trial proceedings filed by the defense counsel. This finalized the death sentence to the suspect Matsumoto ,which was already handed down to him.
(In its judgement in the case of Chizuo Matsumoto,also known as Shoko Asahara,the founder of the Aum Supreme Truth cult,the Supreme Court rejected a special appeal made by Matsumoto's defense counsel over judicial proceedings, finalizing the death sentence previously given to the cult leader.)

未曾有の犯罪だった。地下鉄、松本両サリン、坂本堤弁護士一家殺害など一連のオウム事件では、２７人の命が奪われ、５０００人を超す負傷者が出た。
These were unprecedented crimes. Twenty-seven people were killed and more than five thousand were injured by a series of crimes, the Aum case, including the Tokyo subway and Matumoto sarin cases, and lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto's family murder case.
(The series of crimes carried out by the cult members was unprecedcented. Including the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway systems and the one in Matsumoto,Nagano Prefecture,and the muders of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto,who had been helping people with complaints against the cult,as well as his wife and their 1-year-old child,27 lives were claimed ,and more than 5,000 people were injured.)

from today's Nikkei

灰色金利　ほぼ３年で廃止　貸金業法改正案で合意　特例２年間　金利は２５．５％
政府・自民

図で、政府・自民党の上限金利の引き下げ案
貸金業規正法改正　政府・自民党案の骨子
The government and the ruling party ,the Liberal Democratic Party, have reached an agreement on the draft plan of loan business law revision.
According to the draft, the gray-zone interests will be demolished within about three years.As an extraordinary and transitional measure for two years from the revision,an interest rate of 25.5% is to be permitted when the term and money is shorter and smaller than the decided period and sum.

in a figure,
The Government And LDP's Draft For Lowering The Upper Limit Interest Rates
Outline Of The Government and LDP's Draft for Loan Business Law Revision

ホワイトカラー　フォード、１/3削減　追加リストラ　黒字転換、１年遅れ
Ford Motors announced an additional restructuring effort plan stating that it will reduce one-thirds of the white -color workforce. This means it will take one more year than expected to get back to the black ink.

オウム事件　松本被告の死刑確定　最高裁特別抗告を棄却
With regard to Aum case,the suspect Chizuo Matsumoto's death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court's dismissal of the special complaint from the defense cousel.

from a editorial of Yomiuri

注：カッコ内の英文はThe Daily Yomiuriのもの。
キレる小学生：限界を超えれば”強制退席”も
primary school children easily loosing their restraint
Mandatory walkout is necessary when out of limitation.
（Take harsh measures against violent students)
授業中に漫画を取り上げられた小学６年男児が、突然「キレて」女性教諭の腹をけった。
A 6th-grade boy kicked a woman teacher on the stomach,sudenly loosing his temper, when his comic book was taken off in a classroom.
(When a female teacher confiscated a comic book from a sixth-grade boy during class, he lost his temper and kicked her in the stomach.)
けんかの仲裁に入った男性教諭が小４男児から「何でとめるんだ」と怒鳴られ、体当たりされてツメで腕をひっかかれた。
A male teacher trying to stop student quarrel was yeled at by a fourth-grade boy, who shouted " Why do you stop this?" and was carged by the boy and scratched in the arms by his nails.
(At another school,a fourth-grade boy yelled at a male teacher,"Why are you interfering?"when the teacher tried to stop a fight.The boy then hurlded himself at the teacher,scratching his arm.)

”被害教師”たちの悲鳴が聞こえてくる。子供から暴力を受けても、大人の力で押さえこむわけにはいかない。「体罰を振るえばクビ。どう対応すればいいのか・・・」。現場の悩みは深刻だ。
We could hear the voices of victim teachers. Even if they are attcked by children's violences, they are not to counter them. " If we use physical punishment, we have to be dischrged. How shoule we do on the earth....?"
The worries in the front field of education are very serious.
(School teachers have increasingly become victims of school violence.But,they may not physically restrain children when they are assaulted by students.
" If we use corporal punishment to disciplinestudents,we'll be fired. How are we supposed to deal with school violence? This commonly voiced complaint probably reflects the feelings of most teachers.)