PSN returns to Japan on July 6

I do want to point out something Gamespot missed. The actual PSN in Japan has been online for awhile. But the store has been down for quite some time.

Hello Japanese Playstation Store. Hello Japanese exclusive goodness.

Welcome back Sony of Japan! Good to see you again. Now...uh...you might want to actually hire some freaking security consultants every once in awhile so random basement vigilantes don't rape you again.

Does this mean that (maybe) them turning our PSN on was a bit pre-mature?? I mean, if it wasn't fit for Japan, why didn't our governments organizations say the same as the japanese ones? why did they let sony turn the psn here? that's more what im worried about. that, or they used the rest of the world to "beta" test the new security before they risked japan, lol :)

also, this is good news for me :D I can use my Japanese account now ^_^

@monson21502 Actually the JAPANESE GOVERNMENT said they won't allow Sony to go back online until they can prove it is safe for the Japanese people. Maybe you should do some research before you brainlessly bash Sony.

About freaking time, congrats to the Japanes gaming community

japan getting their psn back for japan is a slap in the face to all sony`s loyal fans... again... sony only cares about sony.. not even gamers from their home country get spared sony`s greedy ways....

Wow... Sony's been slow in Japan.

bout time

wow it was still out for them??i had no idea................a month long outage is too long but it wasn't sony's fault,well this is good news!!!!!

I'm pretty sure that the reason that the network was down for so long in Japan wasn't because Sony couldn't get it up, I believe it was something along the lines of the Japanese gov't launched their inquiry into why the breach happened, and Sony wasn't allowed to relaunch the PSN until they could prove that it was secure and the inquiry was completed to a satisfactory level. Sony wasn't snubbing Japan, the gov't was being cautious.

Whats more important... the PSN coming back online or helping out the people that were affected by the series of events that took place?

I had no idea they were still down over yonder, still with all that's happened in japan I can't say that I blame them.

Any news on a Welcome Back program for them as well?

Actually the Government was behind the delay

Pretty unreasonable to make their flagship country wait this long for restored service. If anything they should have gotten psn back first, they needed something to look forward to after that devastating earthquake. Or maybe perhaps that was the cause of the delay in the first place. Who knows? =/

A 78 day outage is inexcusable. Nothing they could say would make that OK.

Wow, I had no idea Japan was still down. I bet during the outage, they lived their lives and didn't switch to any other consoles.

even will the service being down the ps3 has still been selling well there hmm.

Whoa, I had no idea they were still down. Well I guess this is good news then!

Wow that's so messed up they had to wait so long. Japan is mainly a SONY supporter over Microsoft. I wonder if this makes an impact on their future purchases with these companies given the lack of support SONY has showed toward this country.

They're also still suffering from the earthquakes and tsunamis from earlier this year. That's probably the main reason their network was still down.

why maintain in u.s first, their peoples are the trouble maker to psn

i hope they can enjoy it

So japan finally let Sony restore PSN.They wouldnt let them do it until they were satisfied. Just imagine all the japan ps3 gamers(not to mention ad hoc party MHP3rd players) who were hugely ticked at their government?

PSN's already online long ago. What it's restoring now is the Store.

Sad that Japan cares more about the security of their citizens info than the U.S. and E.U.

so they are gonna get like 10 games from their welcome back program right? damn wish i had a japanese account

Hope it go well

i didnt realise Japan was still down, thats crazy a whole extra month.......

about time i get the welcome back package for my japanese account

better late than never

Wow, many people here were freaking out when PSN went down, imagine what the Japan players had to go through.

Feel bad for Japan players, I know that feel... all to well

is this the reason why PSN is down for maintenance in US?

Didn't know they were that late.

its about time two months to late

good for japanese people

that is good, The home of playstion can finaly play some online. :)

I thought they were up before North America.....