The number of temporary workers in Japan surged 19.3 percent in fiscal 1999 from a year earlier to 1,067,949, according to the Labor Ministry.
The expansion stemmed largely from the new Manpower Dispatching Business Law, which took effect last December, the ministry said in a recent report.
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