This is the third 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 recent debate over wealth inequality has highlighted an unpleasant fact for policymakers ¡ª that the income gap between rich and poor is not shrinking, even though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s economic policies have been in play for two years now.