Biden to Nominate Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador to Japan
- Ex-Chicago mayor was White House chief of staff under Obama
- Emanuel’s opponents cite his handling of a killing by police
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President Joe Biden has settled on former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as his ambassador to Japan, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Emanuel, 61, represented Chicago in the U.S. House from 2003-2009, serving as as Democratic caucus chairman and head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, before leaving Congress to become Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff.