TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
PROBLEM: 運輸下院委員会は今日、この惨事について独自の調査を開始した。

SOLUTION: The House Committee on Transportation also launched its own inquiry into the disaster today.

PROBLEM: 広報担当者AbdirahimIsseAdow氏は「我々は兵士を用意した」と言った。

SOLUTION: Spokesman Abdirahim Isse Adow said: "We have arranged our fighters."

PROBLEM: 昨年中に氷棚は約1800平方キロメートル（694平方マイル）、全体の約14パーセントを失った、とドイツのミュンスター大学の地球物理学研究所のアンジェリカ・ハンバートは述べた。

SOLUTION:
During the last year the ice shelf has lost about 1800 square kilometers (694 square miles), or about 14 percent of its size, said Angelika Humbert from the Institute of Geophysics at University of Münster in Germany.