赴任ふにん (funin)

彼かれは 東京とうきょうに 赴任ふにんした

He was transferred to Tokyo.

青森への単身赴任はさぞ(かし)大変でしょう。

Moving to Aomori (for a new assignment) without your family must be very tough.

夫が単身赴任しているので、寂しくてなりません。

My husband has gone alone for work and I cannot help feeling lonely.

単身赴任中、一日として家族のことを思わない日はなかった。

While I was assigned to another city (literally: When I lived on my own away from my family for business), there was not a single day I didn't think of my family.

一週間悩んだ末(に)、家族をおいて単身赴任することにした。

After considering it for a week, I decided to leave my family behind and transfer to my new job alone.

アメリカに一年間一人で出張するんです。つまり、単身赴任ということですよ。

I'm going without my family to work for the company in America for one year. In other words, I'm becoming a tanshin-funin worker.

日本の単身赴任のサラリーマンは苦しみながら（も）、会社のために働いている。

Japanese white-collar workers who have to leave their families behind for work transfers work for the company even though their lives are hard.

国内での単身赴任でもつらい。ましてや、外国での単身赴任となるともっとつらい。

To be sent alone to a new post within Japan is hard. It is still harder to go overseas to work without one's family.

単身赴任など仕事上の理由がある場合は別として、夫婦が5年間も別居しているのは尋常ではない。

Except for cases in which there is a business reason such as being sent on assignment alone, it is not ordinary for a married couple to live separately for as long as five years.

その頃は大阪に単身赴任で行っていたが、家族から離れて夜一人でアパートで食事をするのはわびしい限りだった。

During that time I was working in Osaka, but leaving my family behind and eating dinner alone in my apartment made me feel so miserable.

単身赴任します。

I will work a temporary post away from my family.

私は海外に赴任する。

I will be transferred overseas.