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: 新政権発足の発表直前には1500にものぼる人々が国会議事堂外で崩壊した政権と最近の金融危機に抗議したが、抗議参加者は現在の変化に満足しているようだ。

SOLUTION: Just before the announcement of the government taking office, nearly 1,500 people were protesting outside the parliament building over the collapsed government and the recent financial crisis, but protesters seemed happy about the change.

PROBLEM: この判決は家族生活または親子関係についての日本の人々の考えの最近の変化を指摘し、同時に日本が批准した２つの協定について言及した。

SOLUTION: The judgment pointed out recent changes in people's notions in Japan as to family life or parent-child relationship, and also referred to two conventions which Japan has ratified.

PROBLEM: Mkn421は、チャンドラの低エネルギー透過回折格子(LETG)を用いて、高解像度カメラとの併用で2回（2000年5月と2003年7月）と、CCD高性能画像分光計との併用により１回の3回観測された。

SOLUTION:
Mkn 421 was observed three times with Chandra's Low-Energy Transmission Grating (LETG), twice in conjunction with the High Resolution Camera (May 2000 and July 2003) and once with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (October 2002).