Phred Dvorak is a senior Asia correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. Although her job has ranged from covering a trapped Thai soccer team to the fall of Carlos Ghosn, she spends a lot of time looking into the changing landscape of global tech finance, and the amazing antics of SoftBank and Masayoshi Son. Previously, she oversaw the Journal’s coverage of Asian markets and finance, as well as companies and business trends from Hong Kong. She was also deputy bureau chief in Japan. She joined the Journal in 1999 and has reported from Tokyo, San Francisco and Toronto, covering everything from Japan’s financial-system meltdown and U.S. executive compensation to polar bears and the downfall of the BlackBerry. Phred has a BA in American Studies from Yale University and masters in Journalism and Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.