Japanese City Passes Two-Hours-a-Day Smartphone Rule

Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone rule

: Symbolic gesture aims to help citizens sleep. Next: Doing something about people who walk while using their phones

Aichi Pref. City Passes Ordinance to Cap Daily Smartphone Use at 2 Hours, Japan’s 1st Such Regulation for Devices

TOYOAKE, Aichi — The Toyoake municipal assembly in Aichi Prefecture on Monday passed an ordinance calling on people to limit their use of smartphone and tablet devices outside of work or study to no more than two hours per day.

Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone usage ordinance

Symbolic gesture aims to help citizens sleep. Next: doing something about people who walk while using social media The city council in the Japanese city of Toyoake has passed an ordinance that symbolically limits recreational use of smartphones to just two hours each day. . . .

Japan's Toyoake City Passes Smartphone Ordinance Capping Screen Time To 2 Hours

TOYOAKE, Japan—Usually calm and routine, life in Toyoake suddenly turned tense this week as the city council passed a sweeping rule limiting smartphone use to two hours daily, starting October 1, 2025. This rule (the first in Japan to include every age group) requests that families cut device use—phones, tablets, and gaming devices—outside work and […] The post Japan’s Toyoake City Passes Smartphone Ordinance Capping Screen Time to 2 Hours first…