SE outsourced their servers overseas to cut costs and they went down. Since different pieces of the game are stored on different servers (Leviathan is not on a single server) you are unable to access then within a certain range of IPs. This is from a SE representative himself that I was on hold for 40mins before I spoke to him. He said its a waiting game and there is nothing North America can do, it is up to the Japanese to fix it.
I'm sure this was posted elsewhere, but people still seem to disagree. It is the truth and it explains everything. End of story.
Edited, Mar 13th 2007 10:52pm by Exodus