Microsoft Research in Trouble?

I'm not sure if this is Japanese Internet environment specific issue, but anyway I cannot access to http://research.microsoft.com/ from Japan.

c:\>ping research.microsoft.com
Pinging research.microsoft.com [131.107.65.14] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 131.107.65.14:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
Control-C
^C
c:\>

Hum...