Main cast Takashi Jo A reporter for the
Maicho Shimbun, Jo is invited out-of-the-blue to cover Senator Yamaoka on the campaign trail, just days after losing his mother Tomiko to an apparent gas leak. Despite having little to no experience covering political stories, Jo embarks for the United States, where he soon finds out that Yamaoka is actually his father.
Kenneth Jukichi Yamaoka A junior Democratic senator from New York, Yamaoka is on the verge of becoming the first Asian-American president. He is
a third-generation Japanese-American, and grew up in Washington State. Yamaoka is a Marine veteran, having served in the Vietnam War - during which he was briefly stationed in Okinawa, where he met and embarked on a brief relationship with Tomiko. Yamaoka is currently married to Patricia Yamaoka (née Hampton, a patrician New England family), and is father to adopted daughter Rachel, and natal son Alex. Additionally, he is secretly the father of Takashi Jo, one of the reasons he invites Takashi to cover his presidential campaign.
Jo and Yamaoka's family Tomiko Jo Takashi's mother and a bartender by profession, she died in an apparent gas leak just before the story's setting. ==Media==