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Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso unveiled an ambitious long-term growth strategy Thursday, vowing to refashion the world’s second-largest economy and create millions of jobs, with the first step a massive new stimulus package. Aso aims to boost domestic demand by at least 40 trillion yen ($400 billion) within three years and add between 1.4 million and 2 million new jobs. By 2020, he wants to lift gross domestic product by 120 trillion yen ($1.2 trillion) and create 4 million jobs. His plan for the country, now mired in its deepest recession since World War II, calls for Japan to lead the world in energy efficient living and technologies, to expand nursing care and medical services, and to better deploy the global power of Japanese pop culture. Japan must reinvent its export-driven growth model, which is now an unrealistic option, the prime minister said. “I want to show that Japan’s future is not all that dark if we follow this vision,” Aso told reporters. “If you just read the newspa
