Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is the most popular choice among the public to be Japan's next prime minister, overtaking former favorite ex-defense chief Shigeru Ishiba, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday.Suga, who has already secured the overwhelming support of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers for its presidential election next week, had the backing of 50.2 percent of those surveyed, followed by Ishiba, a rare critic of Abe's administration within the party and one of the two other contenders in the race, at 30.9 percent.The nationwide telephone poll, which was conducted over t…READ FULL ARTICLE