trouble;  hardship;  difficulty;  anxiety;  worry;  concern
 fatigue;  weariness;  exhaustion;  tiredness
 trouble (I have put you through);  (your) hard work;  thank you for your hard work;  I appreciate your efforts
 manual labor;  manual labour;  toil;  Labour Party
 labour;  labor;  effort;  toil;  trouble
 thank you for your hard work;  I appreciate your efforts
 thank you for your hard work;  I appreciate your efforts
 employee;  worker;  laborer (labourer);  blue-collar worker
 tired feeling;  feeling of exhaustion;  sense of fatigue;  fatigability
 I appreciate your efforts
 to show appreciation for (efforts, esp. by someone of equal or lower status);  to thank for;  to reward for
 labor;  labour;  toil;  trouble;  pains;  work
 heavy labor;  heavy labour;  hard work;  hard labor (in prison);  hard labour
 inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; (lit.) the trouble of coming (going)
 labor;  labour;  manpower;  working force
 appreciation;  thanks;  gratitude
 fruitless effort;  wasted effort;  abortive scheme;  futility
 person who has rendered distinguished service
 worry;  care;  anxiety;  mental exhaustion
 manual or physical labor;  manual or physical labour
 to pity;  to sympathize with;  to sympathise with;  to tend to (e.g. an injury);  to care for;  to nurse
 to pity;  to sympathize with;  to sympathise with;  to tend to (e.g. an injury);  to care for;  to nurse
 trouble (I have put you through);  (your) hard work;  thank you for your hard work;  I appreciate your efforts
 overanxiety;  needless worry
 Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
 labor;  labour;  exertion;  diligent service
 labor;  labour;  toil;  hardship
 to end in vain;  to be wasted effort
 karoshi;  death from overwork
 forced labor;  forced labour;  slave labor;  slave labour
 to work;  to labor;  to labour;  to put to work;  to make (someone) work
 brain work;  mental work;  nonmanual labor
 sympathy;  consideration; (arch.)  service; (arch.)  labor; (arch.)  illness; (arch.)  disease
 nervous temperament;  worry habit;  pessimistic nature;  pessimism
 labor union;  labour union;  trade union
 Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
 meritorious deed;  services
 work;  labor;  labour;  toil
 thank you for your hard work;  I appreciate your efforts
 work-related injury;  work-related illness;  work-related death;  workers' compensation insurance
 toil;  labor;  labour;  painstaking piece of work;  (a) work involving considerable effort
 Labour Party;  Labor Party;  worker's party
 party given in recognition of a person's services
 working;  being employed;  being hired
 inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; (lit.) the trouble of coming (going)
 thank you for your hard work;  I appreciate your efforts
 pulmonary tuberculosis (in traditional Chinese medicine)
 Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
 manual laborer;  manual labourer
 heartrending;  pitiful;  saddening;  pathetic;  heart-breaking
 overwork;  working too hard
 unskilled labor;  simple labor;  menial job
 labor;  labour;  work;  service
 cattle or horse trader;  good judge of horses or cattle
 laborer;  labourer;  workman
 labour movement;  labor movement
 I appreciate your efforts
 award for distinguished service
 labor problem;  labour problem
 overanxiety;  needless worry
 overanxiety;  needless worry
 slave labor;  slave labour
 trouble of going somewhere
 rendering what little service one can
 day laborer;  day labourer
 labor dispute;  labour dispute;  industrial dispute;  strike
 labor service;  labour service
 Labour Thanksgiving Day (national holiday; November 23) (Labor)
 labor union;  labour union;  trade union
 Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
 labor-relations board;  labour-relations board
 labor market;  labour market
 means of labor;  means of labour
 labour and management;  labor and management
 sparing no trouble;  taking pains (to);  take the trouble (to)
 brain worker;  brain-worker;  white-collar worker;  mental worker
 bonus;  reward for one's services
 Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
 labor management;  labour management
 non-fulltime worker;  non-permanent worker;  temp worker;  temporary worker
 mobilization of labor services (e.g. in wartime)
 migrant worker;  economic nomad
 salaried class;  working class
 flexible work hours;  flexi-time
 wages;  labor wages;  labour wages
 overanxiety;  needless worry
 illegal employment;  illegal work;  unauthorized labor
 seasonal laborer;  seasonal labourer
 labor body;  labour body;  labor organization;  labour organization;  labor federation;  labour federation
 wage laborer;  wage earner;  paid worker
 physical or manual labor;  physical or manual labour
 workers' credit union;  labour credit association
 temporary worker (dispatched from an agency);  dispatched worker
 labor-farmer party;  labour-farmer party
 labor standard;  labor standards (e.g. bureau, law)
 karoshi line (official measure of excessive hours of overtime per month)
 labour union;  labor union
 Temporary Staffing Services Law
 worker's accident insurance
 chronic fatigue syndrome;  CFS
 capital and labor;  capital and labour;  capitalists and laborers;  capitalists and labourers
 licensed social insurance consultant;  labor and social security attorney
 suicide brought on by excessive overwork
 to act as a mediator;  to serve as a mediator;  to act as an intermediary;  to be a go-between
 labor-management negotiation;  labour-management negotiation
 to act as a mediator;  to serve as a mediator;  to act as an intermediary;  to be a go-between
 (principle of) equal pay for equal work
 holiday given in recognition of one's service
 all pain and no gain;  lots of pain and not much gain
 labor standards bureau;  labour standards bureau
 (socially) necessary labour;  necessary work
 labor standards inspector (labour)
 person who has made outstanding cultural contributions
 temporary labor;  dispatch work
 tabes;  phthisis;  pulmonary tuberculosis
 labor productivity (labour)
 discretionary work (labour, labor)
 casual laborer (labourer);  day laborer (labourer)
 unemployed laborer;  unemployed worker
 labour-management agreement (labor)
 (Japanese) Labor Union Law
 work-related injury or death
 labor force;  labour force
 labor section;  labour section
 female employee;  female worker;  working-woman
 Minister of Labor (Labour)
 to save labor;  to save labour
 abstract human labour;  abstract human labor
 labor agitator;  labour agitator
 labor-management cooperation;  labour-management cooperation
 child labor;  child labour
 labor rally;  labour rally
 both labor and management;  both the workers and the employers
 unfair labor practices;  unfair labour practices
 trials and tribulations;  adversities;  suffering hardships and troubles
 labor efficiency (labour)
 trouble;  pains;  backbreaking exertions
 Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
 industrial (labor-management) dispute (labour);  industrial strife
 labor agreement;  labour agreement
 basic labor rights;  basic workers' rights
 prison labor camp;  prison labour camp
 itinerant laborer;  migrant worker
 seasonal labor;  seasonal labour
 organized labour (organised, labor);  unionized labour
 labor relations adjustment law (labour)
 labor-relations board;  labour-relations board
 menial services (e.g. kitchen work);  serving one's master unsparingly
 workers' credit union;  labour credit association
 Central Labor Relations Committee
 employee;  worker;  laborer (labourer);  blue-collar worker
 Industrial Safety and Health Act
 fixed working hours;  prescribed working hours
 to go through all sorts of hardships
 prison labor;  prison labour;  forced labor;  forced labour
 the three labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, labor relations adjustment law) (labour)
 direct labor costs;  direct labour costs
 General Council of Trade Unions of Japan
 farm worker;  farm laborer;  farm labourer;  farmhand
 Central Labor Relations Commission
 labor administration;  labour administration
 thermal fatigue (e.g. in structures);  heat exhaustion
 overanxiety;  needless worry
 government-labour (e.g. liaison meeting);  government-labor
 manual labor;  manual labour;  toil;  Labour Party
 heartrending;  pitiful;  saddening;  pathetic;  heart-breaking
(arch.)  pain; (arch.)  trouble;  illness
 light labor;  light labour
 local labor union;  local labour union
 Central Labor Relations Committee
 two-shift work program (programme)
 labor offensive;  labour offensive
 labor federation;  labour federation
 (workers) asset formation
 joint labor union;  joint labour union
 to wait for the enemy to tire at ease
 external labor market;  external labour market
 Labour Relations Commission for Seafarers
 labor negotiation;  labour negotiation
 labour intensive industry
 spare no effort while you are young;  heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
 spare no effort while you are young;  heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
 labor force participation rate;  labour force participation rate
 (Japanese) Labor Union Law
 labor's share (of income)
 Public Corporation and National Enterprise Labor Relations Commission
 Public Corporations and Government Enterprises Labor Relations Act
 manpower business;  manpower agency
 workers' accident compensation insurance
 fulltime worker;  permanent worker
 Prize to Schools for Nurturing Creativity
 frail and cute (esp. of young women);  adorable;  lovely
 Public Corporation and Government Enterprise Labor Relations Law (1949)
 National Enterprise Labor Relations Law (1986)
 Act on Labor Relationship of Specified Independent Administrative Agency, etc. (2002)
 labor-intensive industry;  labour-intensive industry
 spare no effort while you are young;  heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
 spare no effort while you are young;  heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
 kleptoparasitism;  cleptoparasitism
 reduction in working hours;  shorter working hours
 suicide brought on by excessive overwork
 institutional fatigue;  systemic fatigue
 socially necessary labour time
 Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act
 eight-hour working day system
 eight-hour working day system
 workers' district (in North Korea)
 joint consultation system
 necessary labour time (in Marxian economics)