Komeito member quits parliament over misuse of lawmakers' housing

Hiroaki Nagasawa, a senior vice minister in the Reconstruction Agency and Komeito party lawmaker, speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2017, after submitting a letter of resignation as a House of Councillors member. Nagasawa also left the party, the junior ruling coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, the same day after it was revealed he allowed a female acquaintance to stay in a housing complex for lawmakers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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