{"id":74649,"date":"2025-10-08T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/japan-two-hour-smartphone-use-teenagers-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-limit-day-more-meaningful"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:15:35","slug":"it-made-my-day-more-meaningful-the-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-a-two-hour-limit-on-smartphone-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74649","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It made my day more meaningful\u2019: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time \u2013 but what is it like to restrict scrolling to 120 minutes a day?<\/p>\n<p>Despite working full-time for a company in Tokyo, Shoki Moriyama manages to eke out eight hours a day to devote to his smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need my phone to navigate my way through the information wars,\u201d says Moriyama, who at 25 is part of a generation that can\u2019t imagine life without scrolling through news and social media, messaging apps and off-the-wall video clips.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/japan-two-hour-smartphone-use-teenagers-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-limit-day-more-meaningful\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time \u2013 but what is it like to restrict scrolling to 120 minutes a day?Despite working full-time for a company in Tokyo, Shoki Moriyama manages to eke out eight hours a day to devote to his &#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":[41,236,346,408,351,88,744,2771,235,58,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-digital-media","category-health","category-health-wellbeing","category-internet","category-japan","category-mental-health","category-smartphones","category-social-media","category-technology","category-young-people"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74649","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=74649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74650,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74649\/revisions\/74650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}