About 48 percent of voters want former trade minister Isshu Sugawara, who stepped down from his post earlier this week over a gift scandal, to also resign as a member of the House of Representatives, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.In the nationwide emergency telephone poll, conducted over the weekend, 43.5 percent of the respondents said the lawmaker, in his sixth term, did not need to give up his Diet seat.Sugawara resigned as minister of economy, trade and industry on Friday, little more than a month after taking the post, amid allegations that his office offered money and gifts to sup…READ FULL ARTICLE
