# Sustained censorship in JP (2026-08)

**Country:** 🇯🇵 Japan (JP)
**Date:** 2026-08-09
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 93.3% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 77%
- Measurements: 3
- Anomaly Rate: 93.3%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI web_connectivity for gemini.google.com: 1/1 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=JP&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=gemini.google.com&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_invalid_request_line: 15/28 measurements anomalous (53.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-14
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=JP&test_name=http_invalid_request_line&since=2026-08-14&until=2026-08-15&only=anomalies)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in JP (2026-08) [JP-2026-0021]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/JP-2026-0021

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-09-16*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: JP-2026-0021*
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