President Biden’s ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, will leave his position in Tokyo on Monday and return to the U.S., a traditional changing of the guard ahead of the swearing-in of a new administration.

TOKYO — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel in his outgoing remarks Friday defended U.S. forces abroad as “the thin blue line” and hinted at his further involvement in public life when he returns to the United States.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel looked back at his three-year tenure and was confident that he played a role in reinvigorating the Japan-U. S. relationship, and also helped build

American defense companies are hurting the nation’s security interests by prioritizing share buybacks over delivering weapons to the US military and its allies, according to the outgoing US envoy to Japan.

US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has taken a jab at China mere weeks before he steps down. In remarks to reporters, he referred to China as an "autocracy."

The departing U.S. ambassador arguably oversaw the most consequential shift in the U.S.-Japan alliance in decades.

Outgoing US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has said that he believes the US-Japan alliance was improved during his time in office.

China, North Korea and Iran are part of an "axis of autocrats," the outgoing US ambassador to Japan said on Friday in a parting shot at Beijing.

It marks the first time in seven years that a Japanese foreign minister will visit South Korea for a bilateral meeting with their South Korean counterpart

Rahm Emanuel, outgoing US Ambassador to Japan, reflects on his term and discusses his outlook for the US-Japan relationship as a second Trump administration is set to return to the White House. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade".

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2021 to 2025, has served in Congress, as White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, and as mayor of Chicago. He will spend the next year writing about politics and national security with a special focus on the future of the Democratic Party.

Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. Steve Bannon, former strategist for President-elect Donald Trump; Jonathan Dekel-Chen and Gillian Kaye, parents of Israeli American held hostage by Hamas.