{"id":112890,"date":"2025-08-27T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112890\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:05:07","slug":"japanese-city-weighs-limiting-smartphone-use-to-2-hours-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112890\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese city weighs limiting smartphone use to 2 hours per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 26 (UPI) &#8212; A Japanese city is considering a proposed ordinance that would limit residents to two hours of screen time outside of work or school.<\/p>\n<p>Masafumi Koki, mayor of Toyoake in Aichi Prefecture, announced the city&#8217;s assembly will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/08\/22\/japan\/society\/japan-city-proposes-two-hour-daily-smartphone-limit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">soon vote on a draft ordinance<\/a> that would limit residents to two hours of time on smartphones, tablets and computers outside of work and school obligations.\n<\/p>\n<p>The non-binding ordinance would also urge elementary school-age children to cut off screen time at 9 p.m., with a 10 p.m. suggestion for middle school and older children.<\/p>\n<p>Koki said the ordinance would not impose any monetary or criminal penalties for violations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Limiting daily smartphone use at two hours is just a guide,&#8221; Masafumi Koki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/news\/yjj2025082500652\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said at a plenary meeting<\/a> of the city assembly Friday. &#8220;The bill is aimed at promoting measures to prevent residents from suffering adverse effects on their bodies and daily lives from excessive smartphone use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A survey published in March by Japan&#8217;s Children and Families Agency found young people in the country spend an average five hours on their phones, tablets and computers per day during the week.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 26 (UPI) &#8212; A Japanese city is considering a proposed ordinance that would limit residents to two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2699,165,2697,74,2698],"class_list":["post-112890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-funny","tag-mobile","tag-odd","tag-technology","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}