from today's Nikkei

ブラジル国営石油会社　日本の製油会社買収へ　エクソン系南西石油　アジア供給拠点に
A state-run petroleum firm in Brazil, Petrobras, will likely buy a Japanese petroleum-product-producing company, Nansei Sekiyu, affiliated with Exxon in the U.S. in order to make a hub for supplying petroleum products in Asian areas.

対北朝鮮　金融制裁、月内に発動　１９日にも政府決定　送金停止など
The government has decided to exercise the financial sanctions against North Korea, including the ban of remitting money to North Korea, within the month. The deal will be decided on September 19.

銀行融資　首都圏での増加鮮明　７月末残高　東京５．５％増　不動産向けが活発
Loans from banks have been increasing markedly in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Looking into the balance as of the end of June this year, it has increased 5.5% from a year eralier in Tokyo. Loan for real estate businesses is especially conspicuous.

東芝と三菱電　１－１．５円増配　９月中間
Toshiba and Mitsubishi have decided to increase their devidends for their first half of this buseiness year, by 1 yen -1.5 yen per a share ,after their interim account settlement.

right to collective self-defense( 集団的自衛権）について

集団的自衛権を英語表現するとき、よく新聞では、right to collective
self-defense と表現します。私は、right to collectively self-defense の間違いではないかとよく思ったものです。つまりtoはto不定詞を導くtoとまず思ったわけです。self-defenseは動詞だと思った。googleには確かに数多くのright to collective self-defense の用例がありました。同時に，right of colective self-defense もありました。けれどもtoを使った表現のほうが多かった。　of をつかった用例は納得がいくのですが、toを使ったのがなかなか合点がいかない。気持ちがよくない。で、The Daily Yomiuri に照会しました。で、教えていただ結果は以下の通り：
toは前置詞である。toは方向性や範囲を示すのではなかろうか。
似たような表現に、the right to free speech (表現の自由の権利）とかthe right to existence(生存権）がある。

from an editorial of a newspaper

読売新聞９．１４の社説から、明日　The Daily Yomiuriによる訳文を追加します。
（残念ながら、The Daily Yomiuriによる英訳がありません。読売新聞の社説は毎日２編載ります。その内最初の１編が英訳されて翌日のThe Daily Yomiuriに英訳分が掲載されるのに、今日は２編目の社説が英訳されている。）

消費者金融：命が「担保」の契約は許されるのか
Consumer credit:Is it permitted to make a contract with human lives used as collateral?

これでは、命を借金の「担保」にするようなものだ。
The current procedures which consumer credit companies take in lending money to consumers ammount to using people's lives as collateral.

消費者金融会社の大半が融資契約時に、原則として借り手全員に加入させている消費者信用団体生命保険の問題である。
Most of consumer credit companies, on lending money to its customers, basically make all the borrowers enter the consumer credit group life insurance. This practice is a problem.

消費者金融会社が保険料を支払い、借り手が死亡すると、借金相当額の最高３００万円の保険金を受け取る契約だ。
Under the insurance contract, the consumer credit company pays the premium,and receives the insurance ,which is corresponding to the sum of the money borrowed, up to 3 miilion yen,when customer borrowing money dies.

こうした保険が広く理解を得られるのかどうか。金融庁は実態を調査し、適切な措置を講
じるべきではないか。
We have to present a doubt wheteher this kind of insurance system can get undersatnding of the public. We think that the Financial Services Agency should investigate the reality and take a necessary action.

from today's Nikkei

固定電話の全国網維持費　全利用者が一律負担　過疎地の赤字補てん　携帯にも転嫁へ
ＮＴＴ　ＫＤＤＩ　来年から月７円　
図で、ユニバーサルサービス交付金制度の仕組み
解説で、「全国一律」難しさ増す
Concerning the fixed-telephone service,major domestic telecommunication companies such as NTT and KDDI have started deliberating on how the cost of providing the depopulated areas with the same telecommunication service as that in the urban areas should be burdened.In order to provide the same-level fixed-telephone service evenly across the country, they say, the deficits will occur in their business operations in the depopulated areas. Therefore ,they say that the cost should be shouldered evenly by all the country's telecommunication users including mobile phone subscribers. The companies want to charge seven yen monthly to all these users from next January.

in a figure,
Scheme of Subsidy for Universal Service

of a comment,
Providing nationwide-even service is getting more and more difficult.


ダイエー　負債２０００億円圧縮　ＯＭＣ・マルエツ株　一部売却を検討
Daiei has decided to reduce its current debts by 200 billion yen from current 350 billion yen. In order to do this, it is now deliberating on selling off some of its shres of OMC and Maruets.

日韓ＦＴＡ「来年に交渉再開」　韓国副首相が意欲表明
South Korean deputy prime minister expressed his wish to resume talks on the Free Trade Agreement between South Korea and Japan now stalled.

from other articles

(読売新聞９．１３社説から）
情報収集衛星：
北朝鮮の核開発やミサイル発射の動向を監視することが主目的だ。安全保障上の観点から、情報収集衛星の性能向上に努めるのは当然ではないか。
Inteligence-gathering satellite :
The puropse of putting the satellite in the orbit is mainly for surveillance of the North Korea's nuclear weapons development and the move of launching missiles from there.From the viewpoint of ensuring the security, it is natural to improve the quality of the satellite.
(The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency recently launched an intelligence-gathering satellite to enable it to monitor North Korea's nuclear weapons program and maintain a watch for any indication of further missile launches by the reclusive state. Japan has every justification in improving the capability of its intelligence-gathering satellites to bolster national security.)

日本にとって３基目となる情報収集衛星が、国産ロケットＨ２Ａの１０号機によって打ち上げられた。
The information-gathering satellite ,which is the third in Japan, was launched by the domestic 10th H2-A rocket.
(On monday,the H2-A rocket No.10 was launched,inserting the nation's third spy satellite into orbit.)

高性能カメラで地上を撮影する光学衛星は２基となったが、夜間や曇天時は撮影できない。電波で監視するレーダ衛星は依然、１基で運用している。
This is the second optical satellite which is able to photo the earth's ground by the high-quality camera. But it is not able to take photos in the night or in a cloudy daytime.Radar satellite ,which observes the earth's ground by radio, is still only one in operation.
(Japan currently has two optical satellites-including the latest one-that are capable of photographing the Earth with high-resolution cameras.However,these satelites cannot photograph the Earth at night or when it is cloudy.In addition,Japan has only one radar satellite,which uses radio signals,to keep en eye on the world.)

注：カッコ内の英文はThe Daily Yomiuriによる訳文

(その他から）
日野自、スカニアと提携　世界販売　トラックを相互供給
Hino , a major domestic truck manufacturerer,affiliated with Toyota will nake an alliance witt Scania,a major truck maker in Sweden for the purpose of enhancing their sales of trucks in the world market. Concretely, they will supply their products to each other.

米貿易赤字６８０億ドル　７月最高に
U.S. trade deficit has become $ 68 billion,which is the highest ever.

民社代表選　小沢氏が無投票再選　菅・鳩山氏　執行部残留へ「格差是正」対立軸に
Ichiro Ozawa was reelected Democratic Party of Japan president with no votes. Naoto kan and Yukio Hatoyama are believed to remain in the party's leadership.The Ozawa's party intends to make the issue of correction of social gap between people the theme of debate with ruling parties.