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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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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Fukuoka"IODA report
Signal value: 0.66
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Tottori"IODA report
Signal value: 0.68
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Hokkaido"IODA report
Signal value: 0.64
May 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Chiba"IODA report
Signal value: 0.65
May 3, 2026
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+ 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

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