128 banks in western Japan stopped working at the same time. Shinkin banks operate from Tokai West to Kyushu. The system crash occurred on Friday afternoon. ATMs: Disabled. Register cash registers in 3430 branches: off. Internet banking: Disabled. Transfers to other banks: disabled. completely inaccessible. The money is still in the accounts. Customers cannot remove them. In Kansai and Tokushima alone, 27 banks were affected out of 8 in Fukuoka Prefecture Seto Shinkin cards are blocked even at convenience store ATMs ATMs in Osaka have paper "not allowed" signs. Alleged cause: failure of communication equipment in the West Japan center of the ONE joint system, which operates 236 Shinkin banks. One center is not working properly. Of these 236 banks, 128 were blocked. As of Friday evening in Japan, there was still no time to fix the situation. There are now 128 banks in Japan.