noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• aleph (first letter of Hebrew alphabet) - From Hebrew
• Aleph (new name of religious group Aum Shinrikyo) ［アーレフ］

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing (a new family register); compiling (an electoral register, a list of school-age children, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind - four character idiom

noun:

• resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

noun:

• promotion of industry; encouragement of new industry

noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun:

• manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
• making New-Year's decorations
• preparing fields; farming; farmer

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun:

• crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in New Guinea); Salvadori's monitor; Papua monitor; artellia ➜ クロコダイルモニター

noun:

• Columbian exchange; widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds

noun:

• beginning of the month or the year; New Year's Day; the calendar

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing the old year out; greeting the New Year; passing the winter; hibernation

noun:

• bonus stock issue; rights stock issue; selling new stock for less than face value

noun:

• Nkhomo-benga peacock (species of peacock cichlid, Aulonocara baenschi); new yellow regal; yellow peacock

noun:

• ANZAC; Anzac; Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (WWI)
• Anzac biscuit (type of oatmeal biscuit) ➜ アンザックビスケット

noun:

• supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to the Earth

noun:

• youth
• child (esp. of the young son of someone of high social standing)

prefix noun / suffix noun:

• young; new

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

noun:

• new word; neologism; word of recent origin; recent word; modern term

noun:

• New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction

noun:

• the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election; children of (Junichiro) Koizumi [literal] - colloquialism ➜ ８３会【はちさんかい】

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌

noun:

• blue-tailed monitor (Varanus doreanus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago); Kalabeck's monitor