Dedicated Issues·1 hour ago·Friday, November 6, 2026, 12:41 PM

128 Western Japan Credit Unions Go Dark: ATMs, Online Banking and 3,400+ Branches Frozen on a Friday Afternoon

Friday afternoon in western Japan is a bad time for the cash machines to quit. Around 1:30 p.m. local time on November 6, the shared system run by the Shinkin Kyodo Center failed. One hundred twenty-eight shinkin banks—Japan’s regional credit unions—from the Tokai area west through Osaka, Hiroshima and down to Kyushu lost the ability

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