Outlook went down, and the Japanese government switched to phones.

Japan's Digital Minister Shunichi Furukawa said on the 13th that due to the large-scale outage of Microsoft's office software in the United States, the Japanese government's basic systems were also affected, causing emails to be unable to be sent and received normally. At present, the Japanese government has maintained work through other means such as telephone, and various operations have not been affected so far. On the 12th local time, multiple services under Microsoft in the United States, including Microsoft 365 and Outlook, continued to be interrupted for several hours, affecting a large number of users.