Peter Landers is The Wall Street Journal’s Asia business, finance and economics editor, based in Singapore. He previously served as Tokyo bureau chief for a decade.

He joined the Journal as a Tokyo correspondent in 1999 and moved to the U.S. in 2002, where he served as a page-one staff editor in New York and assistant bureau chief in Washington, among other positions. He assumed his present post in 2024.

Peter is a graduate of Yale, where he studied classics and Japanese. With colleagues, he shared the National Press Foundation’s online journalism award for coverage of the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling on the Affordable Care Act. He helped lead the team covering Carlos Ghosn that won the Overseas Press Club of America’s 2020 award for best international business reporting.

Peter is fluent in Japanese and has regularly appeared on Japanese television to share the Journal’s insight on the news.

Landers briefed National Press Foundation fellows in June 2025: Business Journalists Share Tips on Unrelenting News Cycle.