Credit Card Outage Hits Convenience Stores, Other Merchants Across Ja…

A system outage disrupted credit card payments across Japanese convenience stores, retailers, and transportation companies for several hours on 16 July 2026. The cause remains under investigation, with major card networks and authorities working to restore systems. If you're building payment routing, fraud detection, or checkout infrastructure in Japan or elsewhere, this outage proves your customers are one centralised clearinghouse away from zero revenue. Redundancy and local settlement rails now have a concrete price.