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WSJ taps Douglas as Tokyo bureau chief

July 17, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Jason Douglas

Jason Douglas has been named Tokyo bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal.

He has been reporting from The Journal’s Singapore bureau on economics in Asia. He writes about trends and developments in China’s economy as well as the economic forces reshaping the world’s most populous continent.

He previously covered economics and public policy in the U.K. and Europe from the Journal’s London bureau, where he most recently wrote about the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic and political upheaval caused by the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union.

Douglas began his career at newspapers in Northern Ireland and joined Dow Jones as a newswires reporter in 2007.

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