{"id":956968,"date":"2025-08-23T09:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956968"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:00:40","slug":"japan-city-proposes-two-hour-daily-smartphone-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/japan-city-proposes-two-hour-daily-smartphone-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan city proposes two-hour daily smartphone limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: A Japanese city will urge all smartphone users to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school under a proposed ordinance that includes no penalties. <\/p>\n<p>The limit &#8212; which will be recommended for all residents in central Japan&#8217;s Toyoake City &#8212; will not be binding and there will be no penalties incurred for higher usage, according to the draft ordinance. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal aims &#8220;to prevent excessive use of devices causing physical and mental health issues&#8230; including sleep problems,&#8221; mayor Masafumi Koki said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: A Japanese city will urge all smartphone users to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school under a proposed ordinance that includes no penalties. The limit &#8212; which will be recommended for all residents in central Japan&#8217;s Toyoake City &#8212; will not be binding and there will be no penalties incurred for higher usage, according to the draft ordinance. The proposal aims &#8220;to prevent excessive use of devices causing physical and mental health issues&#8230; including sleep problems,&#8221; mayor Masafumi Koki said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}