Japanese students’ eyesight the worst in recent years, smartphones and mobile games are blamed
A potential heavy price to pay for convenience and entertainment?
Japan has a ton of quality mobile games that can entertain players for hours on end, but spending too much time staring at a bright little screen can be rather detrimental to vision.
Visual acuity data gathered from physical examinations conducted between April and June this year on all elementary, junior high, and high school students have shed light on startling trends among the Japanese youths of today.
Specifically, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has revealed that a record high of 25.3 percent of the 3.4 million students failed to meet the 1.0 mark in vision tests.
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Japan thinks smartphones are destroying students’ eyesight
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2018/12/24/japan-smartphones-students-eyesight/