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I am aware of the usual meanings of the お世話 in reference to someone [helping,
taking care of
someone](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/18868/explaining-the-
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But recently I ran into sentences where it was used to describe a place where
someone is being trained and working:

First one ([context described
here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/60428/translation-
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> 実際に「凄いところ」やあちらの世界、 **お世話になっている場所** を見せて頂いたので受け止めるしかないところではあるんです

Second one:

Context: Mother B is entrusting her daughter to Mother A who will be working
at the same place as her daughter.

> A, 娘が **お世話になる職場** の方としてご近所の母親友達として母子共々よろしくお願いします

Given these examples it seems it can also be used to describe work
places/places of training? Can someone explain the logic behind this? Because
I can't really find any interpretation that isn't it meaning that someone is
doing someone some favor/help, so could anyone explain the logic behind this?

I'm assuming it's something cultural/politeness thing.

**EDIT** : Clarification:

It's as goldbrick assumed. The problem here isn't so much the grammatical side
of things and the relative clauses, I tend to get them. Problem is more that
in my cultural background if you said:

> place where someone is taken care of/looked after etc.

or

> workplace where someone is taken care of...

frankly I'd assume they are talking about a hospital or something and not in a
million of years it would occur to me that it could be tied to a workplace or
somewhere someone is being educated trained.

Context wise, the character has basically joined a type of military, so they
will be trained in using their skills and will work for that organization. So
it's definitely not one way thing where some place or some work place is where
someone is just being given help.

NOW that it has been brought to my attention I kinda can see it, thinking is
probably that colleagues/company will look after someone or something. Unless
someone has a better way of explaining how Japanese think about this.

To put it another way, **SPECIFICALLY, I wonder how one should go about
translating this into English so it makes sense to English speakers**. I guess
simply dropping that bit or replacing it with what we ASSUME/what kind of
"help" is being done is one way to go about it but that feels like making a
bit too many assumptions about authorial intent.

I hope I'm now clearer about what my question (if it's even a question TBH) is
about.
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translation meaning nuances
Meaning of お世話になる vis a vis place of work or place where someone is being trained
This is not specific to お世話になる, a set expression that is used with gratitude
and means "to be treated well" or "to be taken care of" as a whole. It's not
related to cultural/politeness things, either. This is just how Japanese
relative clauses work. What you are seeing is an _adverbial-head_ relative
clause constructed from:

> 娘はこの場所でお世話になっている。  
>  My daughter is taken care of in this place.

Move この場所 to the end, **drop で** , change は to が, and you'll get 娘がお世話になっている場所
or "the place where my daughter is taken care of".

Related:

  * [Relative clauses distinguishing whom/with which/that](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/14541/5010)
  * [Relative clauses types and confusion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/39551/5010)
  * [How is the subject of this subclause made clear?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/54666/5010)

* * *

**EDIT:** Looks like my translation of "to be taken care" was misleading.
Sorry for my bad English. (But then isn't this question a duplicate of [the
question you linked](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18868/5010)...?
You've seen the linked question and understood what's written there, right?)
世話になる is an intransitive verb that refers to every good thing someone has been
done from someone else, and this word is always used with the mood of "thank
you" or "kindly". That's why お世話になりました by itself is a polite way to say "Thank
you (for everything you have done to me/us up until today)" in Japanese, and
you can say this to your teacher, your physician, your boss, your lawyer, your
parents, or anyone who has been kind to you. Anyway, to translate
(娘が)お世話になっている場所, you can just use "the school", "the office", "the hospital",
"the training site", etc., depending on the context. After all, it refers to a
place, and including the nuance of お世話 is not really critical in this context.
But you really need to include the nuance of "thank you", something like "the
place where you are _kindly_ training my daughter" might work.
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You are right.

Japanese people often use “お世話になっている場所” to describe a workplace.

In the background, they infer that you are taken care of by colleagues and
superiors in a workplace.
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