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

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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.…

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