Coverage opened with the morning after Kenso Soai's chemistry Nobel, following his convenience-store outing by bicycle, hometown celebration in Hiroshima and explainers of the Soai reaction and his call for support of open-ended research.
Focus then moved to Prudential Life's external report on sales fraud, put at 4.34 billion yen from 676 clients. Outlets detailed 64 dismissals and 157 disciplinary cases, blamed a full-commission, sales-first culture and company-wide governance failure, and centered on President Tokumaru's apology, executive pay returns and abolition of full commission.
Prime Minister Takaichi told the Diet she would retain farm minister Yan over his road-budget remarks, urging him to work to repay trust, as the beer cartel probe widened to local branches.
The evening closed with the literature Nobel to Canada's Anne Carson, with notes that Haruki Murakami again missed out.