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Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President

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Jo is invited out-of-the-blue to cover Senator Yamaoka on the campaign trail, just days after losing his mother Tomiko to an apparent gas leak. Despite having little to no experience covering political stories, Jo embarks for the United States, where he soon finds out that Yamaoka is actually his
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Yamaoka is currently married to Patricia Yamaoka (nee Hampton, a patrician New England family), and is father to adopted daughter Rachel, and natal son Alex. Additionally, he is secretly the father of Takashi Jo, one of the reasons he invites Takashi to cover his presidential campaign.
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A junior Democratic senator from New York, Yamaoka is on the verge of becoming the first Asian-American president. He is
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Takashi's mother and a bartender by profession, she died in an apparent gas leak just before the story's setting.
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volumes. The series spans over 2000 pages in all. The series has also been published in France by
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published the English translation in monthly 100-page issues and then in five long
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The series was originally serialized from 1997 to 2001 in the Japanese anthology
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in 2001, and again in 2002 for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material. Writer
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and the series protagonist, Japanese journalist Takashi Jo
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called it "A wild tangle of sex and secrets and hate and
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live-action South Korean television drama adaptation
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Index


Political thriller
Kaiji Kawaguchi
Shogakukan
NA
Viz Media
Big Comic
Seinen
The President
Japanese
Hepburn
political
manga
Kaiji Kawaguchi
Big Comic
seinen
Shogakukan
Japanese American
president
United States
2000 election
2000 presidential election
Dick Tuck
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
a third-generation Japanese-American
Big Comic
Shogakukan
Viz Media

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