{"id":73673,"date":"2025-08-28T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/japanese-town-toyoake-proposes-smartphone-limit-residents-two-hours-day"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:30:16","slug":"japanese-town-wants-residents-to-limit-smartphone-use-to-two-hours-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73673","title":{"rendered":"Japanese town wants residents to limit smartphone use to two hours a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft ordinance in Toyoake has triggered a backlash from locals, with some calling it an attack on individual freedom<\/p>\n<p>A town in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is to urge all residents to restrict their smartphone use to two hours a day in an attempt to tackle online addiction and sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Toyoake, Aichi prefecture, said the measure would target not only children but also adults, amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jun\/18\/teenagers-social-media-mobile-phones-video-games-mental-health\">growing concern about the physical and psychological toll excessive smartphone use<\/a> is taking on people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/japanese-town-toyoake-proposes-smartphone-limit-residents-two-hours-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft ordinance in Toyoake has triggered a backlash from locals, with some calling it an attack on individual freedomA town in Japan is to urge all residents to restrict their smartphone use to two hours a day in an attempt to tackle online addiction a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73674,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73673\/revisions\/73674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}