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Credit card outage disrupts payments at stores across Japan
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Fusion42 · 16 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
A major credit card processing outage struck Japan on 16 July, affecting payments at convenience stores and merchants nationwide. Multiple card issuers including Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS and Sumitomo Mitsui Card, plus transit payment apps (Suica, Pasmo), experienced simultaneous failures; root cause under investigation.
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If you're building payment checkout or transit ticketing for Japan, you now know the entire backbone can fail at once and take multiple issuers with it. Your customers will demand redundancy or settlement guarantees that the current network can't deliver.
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