Typhoon Mawar hit Japan as a powerful tropical storm bringing torrential waves of "training" thunderstorms along with floods, landslides, death and disruption.
The 3-day outage affected 39.15 million subscribers, emergency services, and public offices. The priority now must be to prevent another such incident.
Although China’s Huawei Technologies is the current leader, there have been security concerns. 5G is Japan’s opportunity to make a comeback.