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Breaking news and features from The Wall Street Journal with a local and regional focus on Asia.
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Indonesia made a pitch for Russian tourists last year as Covid travel restrictions eased, but not everything has gone to plan
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Heard on the Street: Toshiba’s sale was supposed to be a bookend to years of corporate governance reforms in Japan
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Adani founder’s sibling played a key role in activities questioned by a U.S. short seller; company says brother had no managerial role
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The sibling of the Indian conglomerate’s founder played a key role in activities questioned by a U.S. short seller; company says brother had no managerial role.
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Saturday Essay: Haunted by memories of World War II, Japan and Germany have long avoided building up their militaries. Now rising threats from Russia and China, and doubts about U.S. leadership, are opening a new debate over rearming.
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A look inside Nintendo’s game-changing approach to the videogames industry
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The Justice Department charged South Korean crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon with fraud on Thursday as officials in Montenegro arrested the creator of the failed TerraUSD stablecoin
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The creator of the failed TerraUSD stablecoin was detained as he attempted to board a flight to Dubai, authorities said.
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have been cementing a decade-long bond, described by some analysts as a “strategic bromance”
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Chinese leader gives apparent re-election endorsement to Russian president as pair meets in Moscow for first time since Ukraine invasion.
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On Tuesday, Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million–a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock print.
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The woodblock print inspired artists across the East and West, including Monet and Van Gogh.
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Japan's prime minister visited Kyiv, coinciding with Chinese leader Xi Jinping's meetings with Putin in Moscow, showing how the war in Ukraine is affecting geopolitical alignments in Asia
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Fumio Kishida’s trip coincided with Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s meetings with Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss Beijing’s peace proposals, showing how the war has affected geopolitical alignments.
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Japan welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol by lifting some export curbs
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Leaders called for deeper military and economic ties amid threats from North Korea and China in their first formal meeting since 2011.
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North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile hours before the first summit between South Korea and Japan in more than a decade
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Leaders from Seoul and Tokyo were expected to discuss deeper military coordination in response to the growing threat from Pyongyang.
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“Is Xi Jinping a good leader?” A Chinese chatbot product responded that the question “couldn’t pass a safety review.”
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For companies trying to ride the ChatGPT wave, there is an added layer of headaches if their chatbots are in China: how to weed out any talk of politics.
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol arrived in Tokyo for the first formal summit between the leaders of South Korea and Japan since 2011
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Leaders called for deeper military and economic ties amid threats from North Korea and China in their first formal meeting since 2011.
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Heard on the Street: Firms that retrench in places such as Southeast Asia, where e-commerce penetration is still relatively low, risk losing out to competitors that are able to grin and bear losses.
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Many Japanese businesses aren’t at great risk of seeing skyrocketing wage increases, but that’s both good and bad news for the economy
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Many Japanese businesses aren’t at great risk of seeing skyrocketing wage increases, but that’s both good and bad news for the economy.
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The failure of SVB reverberated through startups and venture-capital firms from China to India, underlying the role of U.S. money in global tech financing
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The bank’s failure reverberated through startups and venture-capital firms from China to Singapore and India.
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China played the long game and is becoming dominant in the South China Sea. That’s a big problem for the U.S. Part of a WSJ series examining the problems confronting America’s military.
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A decade into Xi Jinping’s rule, the puzzle pieces of his designs for China are in place, marking a definitive end to Deng Xiaoping’s reform-and-opening era
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Bit by bit, the Chinese leader has torn down the governance model Deng Xiaoping built four decades ago.
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Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
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She has played dozens of characters in Hong Kong cinema and Hollywood–and multiple versions of her lead character in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Now Michelle Yeoh has earned a role she’ll...
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China’s legislature voted to retain Yi Gang as governor of the central bank, delaying a move to hand over the post in the midst of a restructuring
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