(こうしえん)

Koshien (baseball stadium / tournament)

(はじめて)

for the first time

(じょせい)

woman

(しんぱん)

umpire, referee

(しあい)

match, game

(たつ)

to stand

(なつ)

Summer

(ぜんこく)

nationwide; the whole country

(こうこう)

high school

(やきゅう)

baseball

(たいかい)

tournament, convention

(ひょうごけん)

Hyogo Prefecture

(きゅうじょう)

baseball stadium; ballpark

(ひらく)

to open, to hold (event)

(ことし)

this year

(しんぱんいん)

umpire (official title)

(ぐらうんど)

ground, playing field

(はじまる)

to begin

(ねん)

year

(いじょう)

more than; beyond this

(たつ)

to pass (of time)

(つとめる)

to serve as, to hold a post

(こうしき)

official, formal

(しかく)

qualification

(もつ)

to have; to hold

(ひと)

person / people

(これまで)

until now / so far

(すべて)

all, everything

(だんせい)

man; male

(ちほう)

region; area

(すこし)

a little

(ふえる)

to increase; to grow

(こんかい)

this time

(ながい)

long

(あいだ)

interval, during

(ちゅうがく)

junior high school

(けいけん)

experience

(つむ)

to load / to pile up

(うんえい)

management / administration

(だんたい)

organization; group

(せいべつ)

gender, sex

(ちから)

strength; power

(ある)

a certain (some)

(まかせる)

to entrust, to leave to someone

(せつめい)

explanation

(これから)

from now on

(もっと)

more / further

(ふやす)

to increase (something)

(けんしゅう)

training, in-service study

(せつめいかい)

briefing session, information meeting

(おこなう)

to carry out, to perform

(みる)

to see, watch

(たち)

plural suffix (for people)

(おおきな)

big (attrib.)

(はくしゅ)

clapping; applause

(おくる)

to send / to take (someone somewhere)

passive form

Passive voice used for the victim: 殺されている (was murdered), 見つかりました (was found).

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる. Can describe an action in progress or a state resulting from a past change.

did ... (polite past)

Polite past tense of verbs. Formed with verb stem + ました. Used in formal or polite speech to describe completed actions.

after doing ...

Expresses a sequence where one action is completed before the next begins. Formed with て-form + から. Emphasizes completion of the first action.

polite non-past tense

The polite non-past ～ます states what will happen — the funeral will continue.

nominalizing a verb phrase with の

Used in 「みんなの前で話をするのは初めてです」to nominalize the verb phrase so it can serve as the topic of the sentence.

was/were (past polite copula)

Past tense of です used to state what something was.

each / per

Indicates equal distribution. Here 2回ずつ (two times each).

come toward (action approaching)

Indicates motion toward the speaker or a location. Here it describes rocks flying toward people.

regardless of ~

Indicates that the statement applies without regard to the previous item.

want to ~

Verb stem + たい to express desire.

in order to ～

Expresses purpose.

plan to / is scheduled to

Indicates a scheduled plan or intent.

甲子園で初めて女性の審判が試合に立つ

A female umpire takes the field at Koshien for the first time

夏の全国高校野球大会が、兵庫県の甲子園球場で開かれています。

The national summer high school baseball tournament is being held at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture.

今年の大会では、初めて女性の審判員がグラウンドに立ちました。

At this year's tournament, a female umpire stood on the field for the first time.

大会が始まってから100年以上たちますが、女性が審判を務めるのは初めてです。

More than 100 years have passed since the tournament began, but this is the first time a woman has served as an umpire.

審判は、公式の資格を持った人が務めます。

Umpiring is done by people who hold an official qualification.

これまで甲子園の審判はすべて男性でしたが、地方の大会では女性の審判が少しずつ増えています。

Until now all umpires at Koshien had been men, but at regional tournaments the number of female umpires has been increasing little by little.

今回の審判員も、長い間、中学や高校の試合で経験を積んできました。

This umpire, too, has built up experience over many years in junior high and high school games.

高校野球を運営する団体は、性別に関係なく力のある人に審判を任せたいと説明しています。

The organisation that runs high school baseball explains that it wants to entrust umpiring to capable people regardless of gender.

これから女性の審判をもっと増やすために、研修や説明会も行う予定です。

In order to increase the number of female umpires from now on, it also plans to hold training sessions and briefings.

試合を見ていた人たちからも、大きな拍手が送られました。

The people watching the game also gave her a big round of applause.