The Kagawa Prefecture government in the Kansai region of Japan passed a law recently that aims to limit gaming time in children under the age of 18 to 60 minutes per weekday, 90 minutes on weekend days, and that smartphones are not used past 10pm. The bill was proposed months prior and was stricter in the conditions its sought to impose on gaming time, but was ultimately defeated. By proposing the above, less strict terms, the bill was able to pass.
Such a law seems as though it would be difficult to enforce at a practical level, across all children in the area, and so individual parents have been tasked with monitoring the game time of their children. Although the bill passed, it did so in less than ideal conditions: the pro-limitation side collected public comments but those comprised only voices supporting the bill, only a general summary of those comments were presented rather than the actual comments themselves, and some councilmen left after determining that they could neither support or oppose the bill, allowing for it to pass.
This certainly won’t be the last heard of this controversial bill, as there were so many irregularities involved in its passing that opposition is sure to try and make a counter bill, or it may simply not be enforced in a large enough number of homes to make a difference.
Source: siliconera.com
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