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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).
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ベトナムの石炭運搬船が金曜日に南シナ海で沈没し、船上で３人が死亡したと新華社が報道した。
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A Vietnamese coal transport ship sank in the South China Sea on Friday killing three people on board, reported the Xinhua News Agency.


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ロサンゼルスに拠点を置く、精子バンクと代理出産の会社であるグローイングジェネレーションは、ニューヨークの訴訟の被告となり、民主党の政治活動委員会である21世紀民主党はワシントンD.C.の訴訟の被告である。
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The sperm bank and surrogacy company Los Angeles-based Growing Generations is named as a defendant in the New York lawsuit, and the Democratic political action committee Twenty-First Century Democrats is a defendant in the Washington, D.C. case.


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「外に出ると、自宅の隣の家が既に土砂に埋もれていた」そして近所の12軒も被害に遭っていた。
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"When I got outside, I saw that the houses next to mine were already covered by earth," and that it struck twelve neighbouring houses.