The Bank has been consistently making its utmost contributions through the three-pronged approach of pursuing powerful monetary easing consisting of comprehensive monetary easing that was introduced in October 2010, ensuring financial market stability, and providing support to strengthen the foundations for economic growth.
The Bank further enhanced monetary easing following the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 due to increased concerns about the effects of the deceleration in domestic and overseas economies and instability in the foreign exchange and financial markets. 3  See the Flow of Funds Accounts released by the Bank of Japan.