TOKYO—Japan’s exports jumped 20 percent and imports rose at an even faster pace in November as disruptions to manufacturing supply chains eased. Preliminary trade data reported Thursday showed imports surging nearly 44 percent from a year earlier, pulling the country into a deficit, as surging oil prices pushed costs sharply higher. Iron and steel exports…

News Analysis Tesla’s bad luck in China has not ended yet. After a woman protested at an auto show in Shanghai against Tesla’s “brake failure,” followed by a flood of criticism, a higher court could decide to overturn the company’s appeal to a previous court order to compensate a buyer of one of its second-hand cars…