A grotesque cartoon Japanese stock-market kid with a too-small shirt and muddy knees vomits yen-marked paper trade slips beside a fax machine, against a simple exchange-floor background.

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Japanese Stock Markets Turn to Fax Machines During Microsoft Outage

Published November 14, 2026

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As a Microsoft outage disrupted digital systems, Japanese market participants reportedly relied on fax machines to keep paperwork moving. This card turns the analog workaround into a frantic stock-floor spectacle, with trade slips flying the old-fashioned way.

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The Express headline reports that Japanese stock markets switched to fax machines amid a global Microsoft outage. The outage disrupted digital services, prompting some market operations to rely on older, paper-based communication methods. The story highlights the continued use of fax machines in Japan and the vulnerability of modern workflows when widely used technology fails. The headline does not specify the exact firms or duration of the workaround.

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