Japan is set to get a new Prime Minister, and in Tokyo names are already being floated about who might take over from Fumio Kishida.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Owen Chow has been jailed for three days after he allegedly passed a complaint to his lawyer, without authorisation.
And North Korea is gearing up to open its borders to tourists later this year, in what may be the end of the hermit country's imposed Covid-related border controls.
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Elizabeth Beattie is a journalist based in Tokyo
