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 to see how it was done.
My husband had been so revolted by his first encounter with American Thanksgiving that he had to excuse himself from my mother's table: a...
]]>