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Peter Landers

@peterjlanders.bsky.social
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Asia business and finance editor, The Wall Street Journal. Based in Singapore after a decade as Tokyo bureau chief.

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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nikkei disease spreads to Yomiuri. Excellent piece by Miho Naganuma about reshuffle of the Topix index. At the end, someone inserted a botched version of a cliche, saying that "difficult steering of the keel is sought" at TSE. No: *skillful* steering is sought, and ideally it *won't* be difficult.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Gemini (AI) created this chart for me showing a correlation between bitcoin price and prediction markets' estimate of whether crypto-friendly legislation will pass Congress. Not sure about causation ... (deleted earlier post to fix Y axis which Gemini messed up the first time).
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Either the building had a crazy HVAC system or NYT tick-tock on Epstein's death has a slip-up:
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good piece by Keiko Iizuka in Yomiuri today (print edition, p. 11) about what it takes to sustain a war, not just start one. She cites Pearl Harbor as a lesson.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Singlish in action. “Confirm” here, mimicking a Hokkien word, means “definitely” or, more loosely, “you bet it’s good”
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
NYC on a sunny day 晴れの日のニューヨーク
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Singapore at dusk たそがれのシンガポール
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Shukan Shincho p. 117 (via Rakuten Magazine) reports on former NHK announcer Mayuko Wakuda, now MC-ing a Sat. night news show at the same time as TBS's "Newscaster." Wakuda's problem, says Shincho, is she can't ad-lib well because at NHK everything was scripted. Yup. Not a problem for Azumi-san.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Last year I wrote about the popularity of Mr. Wildman (野人先生) ice cream in China, operating under the Yeah Gelato brand overseas. Just stumbled on a new store here in Singapore at the Chinatown Mall—it has operated for some time at Plaza Singapura—and the line suggests it’s pretty popular.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I don’t expect Nikkei to correct this but it isn’t really accurate to say that Scotus ruled the Ieepa tariffs “unconstitutional” (違憲) or that the case was about the constitutionality of the tariffs. The case was about whether the Ieepa statute authorized the tariffs.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It took a 19-hour flight but I should be safe from snowstorms and 10-degree (F) weather for the time being.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Nikkei print circulation falls to 1.25 million, down about 6% from 1.33 million a year ago and down more than 50% from a decade ago. We don’t know how many 押し紙 undistributed newspapers they are printing so real circulation may be under 1 million. Still a lot for this day and age.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
冬の六義園 Rikugien (Komagome, Tokyo) in winter
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
お正月の万両 Manryō (Ardisia crenata) to mark the New Year in Japan.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
元旦のキンギョソウ New Year’s snapdragon
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A big renovation project may lead to some interesting archeological finds at St. Mary’s Church in Lübeck where Dietrich Buxtehude once served as music director, says today’s Lübecker Nachrichten
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Cliche alert: 一丁目一番地, referring to the 1-1 address at the center of a district (e.g. 1-1 Otemachi) as a metaphor for centrality, is now badly overused. Got a little nauseated reading a Nikkei reporter trotting it out yet again. Alternatives: 看板政策、目玉政策, 中心 etc.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
At the 1885 house of spice merchant Tan Yeok Nee, newly restored and open to the public in Singapore. This carp serves as a gutter on a rainy day.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
National Orchid Garden, Singapore
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
What, you may ask, is in Annex 1? Here are the key sections:
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Here is the key provision (translation by ChatGPT).
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Not qualified to say much about the Beijing parade, but if you ask clarinets that have been out in the heat for hours to do a high C to D trill with RH key, you’re asking for intonation problems. And that’s what they got. Also noteworthy that they didn’t standardize the ligatures.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Taipei metro goes 100 times farther than NY subway before a breakdown, on average. (Source: Singapore Land Transit Authority cited in Straits Times)
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Burger King Japan collaborating with the Sumo Association on this burger. (1,876 calories, per Nikkei)
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I bought the magazine Ikkojin 一個人for the first time last month for its feature on Japan’s ancient history and they did a fine job. Sad to see that its final issue has come out today.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Nine of 65 — if you count Shigeru Yoshida four times. I wonder if Economist will fix this statement, which is likely based on confusion from expressions such as 第100代総理大臣. This refers to the number of times the Diet has selected a new PM, not the number of separate individuals to hold the post.
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
When I last visited Vietnam many years ago, I can assure you it didn't look anything like this. Stu Woo and Jon Emont tell how the nation has prospered on trade, and why it's all at risk owing to you-know-what. Free link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/i...
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Peter Landers @peterjlanders.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Plumeria プルメリア
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