Hilary Hinds Kitasei has reported and spewed commentary from Washington, Tokyo and New York for Aera, The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News, Gannett, Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. She is working on a book about the parkways of New York, where she currently lives.

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Thanksgiving 1998: Forcefeeding Japan Out of Recession

Posted November 29, 2008 | 01:38 PM (EST)


Ten years ago this week Japan stunned the world with what was then an unprecedented $195 billion stimulus package. Its citizens were implored to spend the nation out of its ditch. Just in time for Thanksgiving, Japan had discovered the virtue of gluttony! I would invite my new Japanese in-laws...

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