Asian shares advanced Tuesday, apart from in China, after most U.S. stocks ticked higher to recover some of their swoon from last week.
Oil prices and U.S. futures edged higher.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 0.4 to 38,471.58 and the Kospi in Seoul climbed 0.2 to 2,474.26.
Chinese shares have wavered under concern over potential tariff hikes on by President-elect Donald Trump's future administration and worries that recently announced stimulus policies won't have enough impact to break the economy out of the doldrums.
The Shanghai Composite index shed 0.9 to 3,305.09, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng dipped and then recovered slightly, edging less than 0.1 higher 19,588.10.
