Sooooo...late May for 2.28?

[Ooshima]

As Yoshida did not specifically mention what is the reason of outage, it could be due to building maintenance or a compulsory power cut issued by the Japanese government.

Power demand is being monitored daily and forecast-ed, and monitored by the Japanese government. As Japan's nuclear power plants are still shut down, at times the demand may be taxing (especially summer) and thus the government will ask companies and households to cut usage by a certain percentage. It could be just a request or it could be a compulsory order by the government.

[Illrayth]

like Earth Hour but bigger

[LeonBlade]

I don't get why people assume that there is some conspiracy theory with the actual reason for the delay... it's just a delay, if they had to delay it for other reasons, they would just say the real reason.

[Vespar]

Well Im in Japan right now and they have yearly scheduled maintenances for EVERYTHING. Just had a scheduled duct cleaning last week, a month ago was drain cleaning, before that was electrical checks.... SO them having a yearly scheduled outage does not surprise me.

[Sevokevo_Royuki]

It's a Japan thing, varying from company to company, but it's just something they have to do.

For those who understand JP, here's some supplementary info/examples:

法定停電とはなんでしょうか？
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp...il/q1048444960

Company announcement of mandatory power outage (法定停電に伴うサービス一時停止のお知らせ)
http://current.ndl.go.jp/node/2348

This explains it all.. And just thinking of equipment that runs 24/7 with no inspections.... (in which the system has to be shut down) can cause serious hazards.. especially working with Nucelur powered Generators.. imagian it.. it getting no yearly inspection and then something happens that causes the Power plant to explode and cause major radiation leaks... Oh man.. That scares the hell out of me and I don't even live in Japan.

Also.. The Google translations for the page are pretty good.

[AlyssaFhey]

Funny people said I was unjustified with being upset about the last delay, can I be justifiably upset now?

[LalaRu]

Yearly power outage?... sounds... odd.... where I work they just start the generator once a week... We don't take all the power down in the building...

You will be amazed on how much things you will found were left unaccounted for, when your company will have really the need for it working. We too power down everything for a day.

[AngelicSence]

I don't get why people assume that there is some conspiracy theory with the actual reason for the delay... it's just a delay, if they had to delay it for other reasons, they would just say the real reason.

yeah, It's not like we can change anything

[Mug]

I think the best thing to do is to just always expect delays, then you won't feel disappointed when they happen. Not to badmouth SE, but they've never been good at being on schedule.

[Radacci]

I don't get why people assume that there is some conspiracy theory with the actual reason for the delay... it's just a delay, if they had to delay it for other reasons, they would just say the real reason.

Because ppl rather believe that fan translators, don't really understand Japanese, and just want to mislead everyone with false information.
And Yoshi is obviously lying about everything, to confuse us, and purposely hiding information, to keep us in the dark.
They just rather make shitty conspiracy theories up, and throw around accusations, rather than not knowing what's going on. Cause obviously we're entitled to know everything, and if he's not writing a producer letter, to explain the details, within the hour...well he must be hiding something!