The mobile carrier, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten Group Inc, did not say how many users were affected by the issue, which lasted about 2-1\/2 hours after starting shortly before 11:00 a.m. local time.
It said in a statement that service was restored at around 1:26 p.m. on Sunday (0426 GMT Sunday).
Japan's internal affairs ministry in August issued rare administrative guidance to rival wireless carrier KDDI Corp<\/a> after tens of millions of users were affected by network troubles in early July.
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