{"id":20373,"date":"2025-10-08T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/it-made-my-day-more-meaningful-the-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-a-two-hour-limit-on-smartphone-use\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:37:38","slug":"it-made-my-day-more-meaningful-the-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-a-two-hour-limit-on-smartphone-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/it-made-my-day-more-meaningful-the-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-a-two-hour-limit-on-smartphone-use\/","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><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7e2b218a9272d80a543aadefbdfd3f1b61f91b0a\/0_0_6793_5435\/master\/6793.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=18fe6422663afb3e147c50859632c683\" title=\"\u2018It made my day more meaningful\u2019: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use\" \/>Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time \u2013 but what is it like to restrict scrolling to 120 minutes a day?<br \/>\nDespite working full-time for a company in Tokyo, Shoki Moriyama manages to eke out eight hours a day to devote to his smartphone.<br \/>\n\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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/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 smartphone. \u201cI need my phone to navigate my way &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/it-made-my-day-more-meaningful-the-japanese-gen-zers-attempting-a-two-hour-limit-on-smartphone-use\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It made my day more meaningful\u2019: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}