overseas (a foreign) market
industrial physician; occupational health physician
lifetime employment; permanent employment
concerning; per; on account of
individual lesson; tutorial; one-on-one instruction
loss-cutting; cutting one's losses
level of happiness; degree of happiness
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; MEXT
manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
listed company (on a stock exchange)
person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality; (lit.) naked emperor
pressure to conform; peer pressure; peer group pressure; group pressure
sudden fall; sharp fall; sudden drop; sharp drop
husband and wife; married couple
evolutionary theory; theory of evolution
seniority by length of service
perusing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously; side business; job on the side
health management; health maintenance; health care
shifting (the burden) onto; ill effects; negative consequences; burden
work style; way of working
liking something; being partial to something; -phile
surmise (about somebody's feelings); guess; conjecture
to bear; to carry on one's back; to take responsibility for; to accept a duty; to receive (wound); to incur (damage)
to continue to work; to work away (at)
to go against; to act contrary to; to run counter to; to deviate from
to be a matter of life or death
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
side job; sideline; subsidiary business
(the condition of) one's health
school centred on preparing students to get into university; high-level school a person has entered
jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point
rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power