Thousands of extra workers are on the payroll simply to get planes out the door, he said.
But if the estimated 425,000 extra temporary workers were included, the decline would be only about 230,000.
He was wrong: the world economy has created 1.5 billion extra workers since his book was written.
If this criterion is met, hiring extra workers makes economic sense, no matter how poor a business owner might be.
He said the department had hired more than 200 extra workers to implement the accord.
The private agencies used extra, temporary workers in the first few weeks to help ease the transition.
For all of the extra workers being thrown into action, Japan has not merely chosen a human wave approach to the problem.
It would have been too provocative to wonder how those institutions suddenly came to need thousands of extra workers.
I planned and organized the work to distribute to the two extra workers.
As a result the city had to hire hundreds of extra workers to pick up newspapers, glass and plastic.