Quote Originally Posted by necrosis View Post
Yearly power outage?

Not criticizing or anything. You do what you gotta do. It just sounds... odd.

Only thing I can think of is hardcore generator testing. But where I work they just start the generator once a week to make sure it turns over in the timeframe it should. We don't take all the power down in the building for it.
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