A woman walks out of a grocery store behind a banner reading "all vegetables 98 yen ($1.05) sale" in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, December 5, 2008. Japan's homemakers have made an art of living frugally in one of the world's most expensive countries, and they are now pruning spending further as the economy plunges into what could be a long recession. To match feature JAPAN-HOUSEWIVES/ REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)