出席

Attendance, presence, appearance; to attend, to be present, to appear

開く

To open, to undo, to unseal, to unpack; to bloom, to unfold, to spread out; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.), to widen; to hold (meeting, etc.), to give, to open; to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.), to open (a new business), to set up, to establish, to start; to open (ports, borders, etc.); to open (an account); to open up (new land, path, etc.), to clear, to develop; to open (a file, etc.); to extract (root), to reduce (equation); to cut open (fish); to change (kanji into hiragana); to flare (e.g. skirt); to slacken (into a poor posture)

約

Approximately, about; promise; shortening, reduction, simplification; contraction (in phonetics)

会

Meeting, assembly, party; association, club

正午

Noon, mid-day

昼食

Lunch, midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

人

Person

宮殿

Palace

皇居

Imperial palace (of japan), imperial residence

時間

Time; hours

閣僚

Cabinet ministers

総理

Prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government), premier; leading, overseeing, leader, overseer, president

思う

To think, to consider, to believe; to think (of doing), to plan (to do); to judge, to assess, to regard; to imagine, to suppose, to dream; to expect, to look forward to; to feel, to desire, to want; to recall, to remember

国民

Nation, nationality, people, citizen

皆さん

All, everyone, everybody

陛下

Your majesty, his (or her) majesty

冒頭

Beginning, start, outset

誠に

Indeed, really, absolutely, truly, actually, very, quite

日夜

day and night, always

国務

affairs of state

伝える

To convey, to report, to transmit, to communicate, to tell, to impart, to propagate, to teach, to bequeath

感謝

Thanks, gratitude

行事

Event, function

人

Person

一連

Series, chain, sequence; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse, stanza

即位

Enthronement

尽力

Efforts, assistance

昼食

Lunch, midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

副

Assistant, associate, vice-, sub-, deputy, substitute, auxiliary, supplementary, additional, collateral; duplicate, copy; adverb

取る

To take, to pick up, to harvest, to earn, to win, to choose; to steal; to eat, to have (a meal); to remove (one''s glasses, etc.); to compete (in sumo, cards, etc.), to play

懇談

Informal talk

陛下

Your majesty, his (or her) majesty

その後

After that, afterwards, thereafter

総理

Prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government), premier; leading, overseeing, leader, overseer, president

出席

Attendance, presence, appearance; to attend, to be present, to appear

会

Meeting, assembly, party; association, club

昼食

Lunch, midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

初めて

For the first time; only after ... is it ..., only when ... do you ..

毎年

Every year, yearly, annually

として

As (i.e. in the role of), for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that..., trying to..

皇嗣

Crown prince, imperial heir

恒例

established practice, custom