This file photo shows the sign of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.... According to SMBC, some customers could not log in to" PC Bank Web21," a service for corporate customers that allows them to make transfers and other transactions using their computers, since after 6 p.m.on Oct.... The system was reportedly restored about three hours later, at around 9 p.m. The cause and extent of the trouble are being investigated....

A shelf is seen at the main branch of supermarket Akidai Sekimachi in Tokyo's Nerima Ward on Nov.... " I feel like everything except vegetables is getting more expensive.... It's difficult for people living on their pensions," said a woman in her 70s out shopping at the main branch of supermarket Akidai Sekimachi in Tokyo's Nerima Ward....