Biden to tap Rahm Emanuel as Japan ambassador: reports
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President Biden is reportedly set to tap Rahm Emanuel -- former President Barack Obama's chief of staff and Chicago mayor -- as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
The U.S.-Japan relationship is a high priority for the Biden White House: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was the first world leader to formally meet with Biden, and the presidents said their nations are "committed to working together" to counter threats from China and North Korea. Emanuel served as a congressman from Illinois from 2003 to 2009 and mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. Emanuel left his mayoral post in 2019, deciding not to run for a third term after controversy around his handling of an officer-involved shooting of a Black teenager.
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