A woman in a kimono walks past a store advertising a sale at a shopping district in Tokyo in this June 26 photo. Japan’s core consumer inflation eased slightly in the year to June, highlighting the challenges the central bank faces in meeting its 2 percent inflation target sometime next year. But the slowdown will come as no surprise to the Bank of Japan, which has said inflation will continue to slow to around 1 percent in coming months as an increase in import costs from a weak yen fades.SD-Agencies