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| Doiku Takeda
Naturalized Japanese, 30 years in Japan
Mihara-shi, Hiroshima, Japan Local time: 11:30 JST (GMT+9)
Native in: English  | |
| Freelancer | | Translation, Editing/proofreading, Transcription | | Specializes in: | | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | Business/Commerce (general) | | Government / Politics | Finance (general) | | Religion | Journalism | | History |
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More Less | | Questions answered: 6, Questions asked: 0 Easy / 0 PRO, PRO-level points: 8 | Sample translations submitted: 3| Japanese to English: 秋篠宮妃の第３子ご懐妊と皇位継承問題 | Source text - Japanese
宮内庁は２月７日、現天皇の第２皇子秋篠宮の紀子妃が第３子を懐妊された兆候があると発表した。関係者によると、ご出産は９月の予定である。日本のマスコミはこの発表を最大級のニュースとして扱い、主要紙は７日夜に号外で第１報を伝えた。翌８日付朝刊の紙面では大見出しの１面トップ記事に続き、さらに内政面や社会面の広いスペースを割いて、ご懐妊関連の多くの記事を載せた。また全国紙はすべて、ご懐妊がもつ意味を論じる社説を掲載した。日本のマスコミがこれほど大きな関心を寄せるのは、皇室の慶事に祝意を表明するだけでなく、秋篠宮家の第３子ご誕生が皇位継承制度をめぐる論議に無視できない影響を及ぼす可能性をもつからである。 | Translation - English
On February 7 the Imperial Household Agency announced that Princess Kiko, wife of the second son of the emperor, Prince Akishino, was showing indications she was pregnant and expecting her third child. According to relevant sources, the baby is due in September. This was major breaking news for all of Japan's mass media with the major newspapers making the first announcement of the princess' expectancy in extra evening editions on February 7. Coverage of the royal pregnancy continued in newspaper morning editions the following day with frontpage banner headlines and lavish follow-up feature articles in the domestic affairs sections and society columns. And the editoral pages in all the nation's newspapers debated what significance the event holds. This phenomenal degree of attention drawn by Japan's press was not just due to the felicitous meaning of the coming imperial household's auspicious event, but also by the foreseeable possible influence Prince Akishino's third child could hold in shaping debate over the future of Japan's imperial succession system.
| | Japanese to English: 円滑な資金調達が不可欠 | Source text - Japanese
企業が新たな価値を生み出し、成長を持続していくためには、円滑な資金調達が不可欠である。とりわけ近年、金融商品の多様化、高度化が進む中で、企業にとっての財務戦略の重要性は極めて大きくなっており、その巧拙は企業のパフォーマンスに大きな影響を与え得る。また、財務内容は市場が企業を評価する際の大きなポイントでもある。良好な財務内容を持つ企業は有利な条件での資金調達が可能となって、更なる企業の成長を可能にするという好循環をもたらし得るし、その逆の悪循環も起こり得る。このように、企業にとって資金調達を効率的に行うことは重要な課題となっている。今後、金融・資本市場を通じた企業評価がシビアに行われるようになる中で、効率的な資金調達（例えば、株式、社債、借入金の適切な組合せの判断、必要最低のキャッシュフローの確保など）を行うためには、資本コストの正しい理解が不可欠である。これまでの日本企業の経
営者は、市場型資金調達が未発達であったことや手放されることのない持合株式等に支えられ内部留保に大きく依存していたこともあり、この点の認識が不十分であったと考えられる。資本コストとは、「資本提供者が要求する最低の収益性」であって、これを上回る収益を得られてはじめて企業の価値が高まるということを明確に認識することが必要である。そうでなければ、経済全体の右肩上がりの高成長が期待できない現在、明確な成長戦略が描くことはできないの
ではないか。 | Translation - English
A fluid supply of capital is indispensable to an enterprise in creating new worth and maintaining growth. Particularly in recent years with the diversification of financial commodities and its advancements, corporate financial strategy has reached unprecedented importance, and company performance has become largely dependent on how proficient that strategy is. Moreover, financial soundness becomes a central point when the enterprise is being evaluated by the market. The advantage of corporate financial soundness is that it creates a virtuous cycle of increasing the potential for the smooth supply of funds, which in turn can effect further growth. An unhealthy financial base, on the other hand, would fuel a vicious spiral in the opposite direction. Thus, efficient financing for the enterprise has become an important issue.
From now on, because business enterprises will be closely scrutinized by the financial and capital markets, a proper understanding of the cost of capital will be indispensable in efficient financing (meaning, for example, a well-balanced portfolio of stocks, corporate bonds, and loans needed to secure the necessary minimum cash flow). It looks like that until now managers of Japanese enterprises didn’t fully recognize either the underdevelopment in market-stlye funding, nor did they realize the immense impact of nondisposable mutual holdings on corporate reserves. The cost of capital is defined as “the minimum profitability that a capial donor demands,” and it is necessary to clearly recognize that a company’s worth increases only after being able to acquire profits exceeding this. Otherwise, as in times like the present when we cannot expect to see any rise in rapid growth, it is difficult to draw up a clear strategy of growth for the entire economy.
| | Japanese to English: 重要文化財 如意輪観音像 | Source text - Japanese
重要文化財 如意輪観音像（にょいりんかんのんぞう） １幅 奈良国立博物館
絹本著色 縦１０１．７㎝ 横４１．６㎝ 鎌倉時代 １４世紀
如意輪観音は、六臂（ろっぴ）の金色身に表される。右第一手は頬にあて、衆生を救うための思惟（しゆい）をなす様を表す。第二手は胸前で、願いをかなえるという如意宝珠（にょいほうじゅ）を持つ。第三手は垂らして、苦を除くという念珠（ねんじゅ）を持つ。左第一手は下げて光明山（こうみょうせん）（補陀落山（ふだらくせん）ともいう、観音の住所）を圧さえ、山を安定させる。第二手は腹前で蓮華の茎を持ち、第三手は上げて指の先に仏の教えを象徴する法輪（ほうりん）を載せている。如意輪観音像として最も普通に見られる像容である。宝冠（ほうかん）や胸飾（きょうしょくprむなかざり）その他の装身具は金泥（きんでい）で彩られ、また着衣の各部分は諸色に塗り分けられた地色（ぢいろ）の上に、截金（きりかね）で種々の文様（もんよう）を施され、全身が輝きに満ちて華麗に装飾されて、金色（こんじき）の肉身（にくしん）と調和している。像はさらに、赤い蓮の花の上に坐り、胴体部と頭部に分かれた円相（えんそう）の光背によっても飾られている。
| Translation - English
Important Cultural Asset
Nyoirin Kannon
Hanging scroll
Nara National Museum
color on silk
Height, 101.7; width, 41.6
Kamakura period, 14th century
Nyoirin Kannon (Bosatsu) is depicted with a golden body and manifesting 6 arms. .The first right hand touches the cheek showing him meditating to rescue all living beings.The second right hand is in front of the chest holding the Nyoi Jewel to have one’s prayer realized.The third right hand hangs down holding a rosary to cut off all suffering.The first left hand extends down resting on the mountain where he dwells, Potalaka, and secures it.The second left hand holds the stem of a lotus. And the third hand is raised with the Wheel of the Dharma, representing the Buddha’s teaching, at his fingertips.These are the most common features of images of Nyoirin Kannon Bosatsu The crown, breast ornament, and other embellishments are gold-painted,Furthermore, each portion of the clothing is distinguishable by the varied ground colors used and diverse motifs of goldleaf to decorate the clothing to splendidly illuminate the entire body creating a harmony with the golden body.Moreover, the figure is seated on a red lotus pictured with halos surrounding both the head and body.
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Specializing in Japanese domestic and international current events and politics, general finance and economics, general communications and speeches, brochures, etc. Have a special interest in religion, particularly Buddhism.
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