FOCUS: After decades of deflation, BOJ faces test of maintaining price stability

For the Bank of Japan, achieving its long-sought 2 percent inflation target is not the end of its quest for price stability but the beginning of a new phase in its monetary policy, analysts say.The central bank concluded at a two-day policy meeting through Friday that underlying inflation has "generally" reached the 2 percent goal, nearly 14 years after the government and the BOJ set the target in a coordinated effort to lift the country out of its deflationary malaise.The central bank launched a large-scale monetary easing policy in April 2013, dubbed the "Kuroda bazooka" after then Govern…READ FULL ARTICLE