This is the final story of a four-part series on evaluating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's namesake economic program, backed by the aggressive monetary-easing by the Bank of Japan.


The Bank of Japan's unprecedented monetary easing launched two years ago is still making headlines and sparking heated debate among financial analysts — but has the policy benefited the overall economy, making life better now than before March 2013, when BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda took up his post?