TOKYO -- In a week the world will finally say goodbye to a year of unprecedented disruption, in which the coronavirus pandemic has swept through every facet of Asian corporate life.

In the past year, COVID-19 decimated airlines, Beijing authorities halted Ant Group's expected $34.4 billion IPO, the Nikkei recovered its 1991 level, and China and the U.S. worked up their hostility toward Chinese tech companies. © Nikkei Asia photo illustration
Our reporters recall the data that have illuminated the year of the pandemic