coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
human relations; personal relationships
dry; dry (tone, humour, etc.); unemotional; dry (of alcohol)
joining a company; getting a job with a company; entering a company
business; affairs; duties; work; procedure; task
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
several times; a few times
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
rest; break; recess; intermission
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
private; personal life; (one's) privacy
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
topic; subject; much talked about; topical; in the news
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
new; fresh; new item (e.g. customer, regulation); newly created object; new customer
membership registration; subscription; member enrolment
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.); image (on a screen); picture; surface of a painting (picture, drawing, etc.)
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
registrant; subscriber; enrollee
commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
staff with plaited paper streamers
service; help; discount; discounted item; free service; freebie; service
counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level
present; gift; to give a present or gift
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
commemorable; worth commemorating; momentous; monumental
acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand