Kaiji Kawaguchi is a prominent manga artist who hails from Hiroshima. He gained recognition for his political thriller series, Eagle, which was published in Big Comic of the Shogakukan between 1998 and 2001. Since the mid-1980s, Kawaguchi has been an active participant in the manga industry and has released several notable works such as Hard & Loose, The Silent Service (1989-1996), Medusa (1990), Seizon Life (2000) and Zipang (2001).