WSJ Asia

Indonesia made a pitch for Russian tourists last year as Covid travel restrictions eased, but not everything has gone to plan on.wsj.com/3LTQixH

Heard on the Street: Toshiba’s sale was supposed to be a bookend to years of corporate governance reforms in Japan on.wsj.com/3zcqyVT

Adani founder’s sibling played a key role in activities questioned by a U.S. short seller; company says brother had no managerial role on.wsj.com/3z69UqX

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. on.wsj.com/3FTjwJl

A look inside Nintendo’s game-changing approach to the videogames industry on.wsj.com/3FOu50i

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 on.wsj.com/3FMB0XY

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have been cementing a decade-long bond, described by some analysts as a “strategic bromance” on.wsj.com/42wwtlZ

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. on.wsj.com/3JAdrTc

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 on.wsj.com/3JX3DDZ

Japan welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol by lifting some export curbs on.wsj.com/3Tl17uz

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile hours before the first summit between South Korea and Japan in more than a decade on.wsj.com/42fZGl2

“Is Xi Jinping a good leader?” A Chinese chatbot product responded that the question “couldn’t pass a safety review.” on.wsj.com/3LutiFy

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol arrived in Tokyo for the first formal summit between the leaders of South Korea and Japan since 2011 on.wsj.com/3yIOwI8

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. on.wsj.com/3JhSrjY

Many Japanese businesses aren’t at great risk of seeing skyrocketing wage increases, but that’s both good and bad news for the economy on.wsj.com/3Fl6Bzy

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 on.wsj.com/3ZJ7VEp

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. on.wsj.com/3ZIVit5

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 on.wsj.com/3LA9twD

Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ on.wsj.com/3J4n8J6

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 on.wsj.com/3JespxU