Adam Yamaguchi is executive producer and correspondent for Current TV’s no limits documentary series “Vanguard.” While with Current TV, Yamaguchi has reported on some of the most important issues affecting the world today, with investigations that have taken him around the world. Yamaguchi’s reports include the rise of robotics in Japan, the decline of a manufacturing empire in Saipan, the incredible rise of modern China and Pakistan’s ongoing attempts to deal with terrorists in the nation’s lawless border regions. Yamaguchi has reported extensively on the environment, from atop Alaska’s glaciers, to Bangladesh, China, Madagascar and in Greenland.
Prior to his work with “Vanguard,” Yamaguchi worked at Fox Sports, CNN and TV Asahi Japan, where he covered major national and international news including the 2000 Presidential election, the September 11th attacks and the war in Iraq. Yamaguchi began his journalism career at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as the editor-in-chief of “The Daily Bruin.”
Adam Yamaguchi is executive producer and correspondent for Vanguard.
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When the phone rings at 1 a.m., I usually ignore it. But early in the morning of March 19, 2009, I awoke to the sound of my cell phone buzzing on the nightstand. It was a call I never expected to get.
Posted November 18, 2010 | 19:18:03 (EST)