Kaiji Kawaguchi is a leading artist of seinen-mangas, born in Hiroshima. He is best known for the manga series 'Eagle', a political thriller about a Japanese American running for president, that ran in Big Comic of the Shogakukan publishing house between 1998 and 2001. Kawaguchi has been active in the manga field since the mid-1980s, and has published titles like 'Hard & Loose', 'The Silent Service' (1989-1996), 'Medusa' (1990), 'Seizon Life' (2000) and 'Zipang' (2001).