Japan's core consumer inflation is expected to surpass the central bank's 2% target for the second straight month in October as the impact from the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. • The nationwide core consumer price index, which includes energy items but excludes fresh food prices, is expected to have grown 2.3% in October from a year earlier, according to a poll of 16 economists • That compared with a 2.1% gain in September and put core inflation above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — the strongest since last December.