Awesome Happy New Year Wishes, Celebration SMS & Wallpapers

With over 127 million native speaker Japanese is on of the most popular language of planet earth. Japan follows the georgian calendar and hence the country will be celebrating New Year's Day on January 1, 2013.

Happy New Year 2014 in Japanese

新年あけましておめでとうございます2014
or

Shin'nen akemashite omedetōgozaimasu 2014

Wishing Japanese New Year in Formal way

Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu. (Means Happy New Year)
あけましておめでとうございます。 

Wishing Happy New Year (お正月) in a casual way

Akemashite omedetou.
あけましておめでとう。

Early New Year wishes are also in trend & you could use the following sentences as well if you are meeting a Japanese friend before Japanese New Year お正月. Such asYou can say this line "I wish you will have a good new year." Below is the translation

Yoi otoshi o omukae kudasai. (formal)
よいお年をお迎えください。  

Yoi otoshi o! (casual)
よいお年を！

Replying to a New year Wish-Kochira koso こっちこそ

Kochira koso こっちこそ is used when someone wishes a happy New Year from Japan. Kochira koso is a Japanese phrase which means same here or wishing you the same (depending upon the situation). It is used as a wish back in Japanese.

Hopefully you are now familiar with お正月  (Japanese New Year). Seems a compact language isn't it?