business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
beginning of the year; early in the New Year
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
well then ...; in that situation; in which case
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
after a long time; for the first time in a while
tasks; things to do; errand; business (to take care of); affairs; engagement
another time; some other time
to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
two sheets (pieces) (of paper)
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
seal; to seal (e.g. a letter); to affix a seal; to seal up
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful
in swarms; in clusters; tediously; slowly
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information
to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular
production (e.g. play); direction
successive generations; successive emperors
massing (of troops); gathering
Kōhaku Uta Gassen; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)