Its corporate giants seem incapable of rationalizing their product lines or firing redundant workers.
Nearly 3 million Japanese are out of work, and as many as 7 million redundant workers are clinging to jobs in companies that don't need them.
He said it was "outrageous" that rules designed to "protect British jobs" could help make workers redundant.
When the recession took hold in the early 1990s, the idea that Japanese firms would make workers redundant was unthinkable.
The factory near Colwyn Bay, founded by the late Eric Quinton Hazell after World War II, made 120 workers redundant in 2007.
The company had been on sale for some time, and a year earlier had made 60 workers redundant after losing a major order from the United States.
Swansea councillors have also pledged to assist workers made redundant in the move back into employment.
Workers made redundant by a Worcestershire luxury boat company could get compensation from the government, according to a trade union.
That had been followed by a meeting to discuss the treatment of workers made redundant from the Nortel plant in Monkstown, Mr Wilson added.
He also hopes that some of the workers who were made redundant could be taken back on to be part of the skilled workers assembly line.
But, in a statement, BAE said the Type 45 order would have no significant impact on its short-term workload and it would therefore make redundant 1, 000 workers on the Clyde and 150 in Barrow over the next six months.
Last year, more than 130 workers were made redundant as part of a cost-cutting exercise.
Gustavo Gonzaga, an economist at Rio de Janeiro's Catholic University, notes that a remarkable one-third of Brazilian workers are made redundant each year, a fact he attributes in part to the labour laws themselves.
Ross Gavey of Total Technical Solutions (TTS) said workers could be made redundant because the project was not running as planned.
He estimates up to 150 officers will not be replaced when they leave, and 100 to 200 support workers could be made redundant.
BNFL's faked safety data were not redundant, nor simply due to a few bored workers.
About 40, 000 workers are now likely to be made redundant by year-end.
An industrial tribunal will decide if the workers were properly consulted when they were made redundant.
More than 70 workers at a Walkers crisp factory in Lincoln have been made redundant.
Other "ghost workers" include some of the 50, 000 civil servants made redundant in the mid-1990s under pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Hundreds of workers took voluntary redundancy or early retirement, while thousands more were made redundant over the years.
One worker told the BBC on Friday that workers were being told in groups of 25 that they were being made redundant.
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