Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Japan
Japan · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Japan. 34 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
66%
Anomaly Rate
34
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
66% of 34 network tests from Japan failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 63+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (34)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis34 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Aichi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.66
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Fukuoka"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.66
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Tottori"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.68
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Hokkaido"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.64
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Chiba"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.65
May 3, 2026
View source →+ 29 more IODA records
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Japan [JP-2026-0009]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/JP-2026-0009