PlayStation 3 and PSP owners had cause to celebrate over the weekend, when Sony announced that it had begun enabling some functionality of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity, as well as relaunching Sony Online Entertainment games. However, despite Sony's claims to have rebuilt the services with a greater emphasis on security, Japanese officials are demanding greater transparency before authorizing their relaunch.

Sony still faces hurdles before relaunching the PSN in Japan.

The Dow Jones Newswire reports that Japan's Media and Content Industry department at the Ministry of Economy is holding up the relaunch of the services until Sony offers greater transparency on the steps it took to ramp up security and assuage consumer fears.

"We met with Sony on May 6 and 13, and basically we want two things from them," Media and Content Industry director Kazushige Nobutani told Dow Jones. "The first is preventative measures. As of May 13, Sony was incomplete in exercising measures that they said they will do on the May 1 press conference."

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Source - [GameSpot]

I know their network is overloaded. Hell, I logged in and changed my password last night and still haven't received an email.