it seems russia cut telecommunication lines from europe to japan. data packets circling around the other way of the globe, through germany, britain, usa
if you read back, i begin my post with ,,it seems''. i dont know, who have cut the communication, but the command "traceroute" is not something we can argue with :D
Thinking that one traceroute between 2 points is a proof for all links between Europe and Japan through Russia being cut proves your mad network engineering and logic skills, right.