TOKYO - Japan's core consumer prices surged 3.6 percent in October from a year earlier, the fastest pace in about four decades, government data showed Friday, providing fresh evidence of broadening price hikes that are hitting household spending and testing the Bank of Japan's resolve to maintain its ultralow rate policy.
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