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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 on.wsj.com/3LTQixH
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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 on.wsj.com/3zcqyVT
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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. on.wsj.com/3FTjwJl
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A look inside Nintendo’s game-changing approach to the videogames industry on.wsj.com/3FOu50i
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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 on.wsj.com/3FMB0XY
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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. on.wsj.com/3JAdrTc
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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. on.wsj.com/3JhSrjY
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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 on.wsj.com/3ZJ7VEp
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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. on.wsj.com/3ZIVit5
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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 on.wsj.com/3LA9twD
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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 on.wsj.com/3JespxU
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