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Prime Minister Ishiba faced his first Diet debate, maintaining a cautious stance on various issues. He defended his decision not to endorse LDP members involved in the slush fund scandal, despite internal party resistance. Ishiba also discussed potentially abolishing policy activity funds in the future. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two American researchers for their discovery of microRNA. In other news, a suspect in a home invasion robbery case was apprehended in Niigata Prefecture. The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 is set to restart on the 29th, marking the first restart of a nuclear plant affected by the 2011 earthquake. The former Empress suffered a femur fracture and is scheduled for surgery.