TOKYO — Japanese inflation slowed in September with prices up 2.4 percent on-year, not including volatile fresh food, official data showed on Friday.

The core consumer price index eased from 2.8 percent in August as the pace of increase in electricity and gas prices relented, the internal affairs ministry said.

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