Entertainment apps accounted for 37.6 percent of the total mobile time spent on Android phones in Japan in 2023. Mobile games, which were treated as a separate category, accounted for more than 18 percent. The total time spent using smartphones each day amounted to 226 minutes.
Share of mobile time in Japan in 2023, by app category
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DataReportal, & We Are Social, & Meltwater. (February 21, 2024). Share of mobile time in Japan in 2023, by app category [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 10, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1455406/japan-share-of-mobile-time-by-app-category/
DataReportal, und We Are Social, und Meltwater. "Share of mobile time in Japan in 2023, by app category." Chart. February 21, 2024. Statista. Accessed June 10, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1455406/japan-share-of-mobile-time-by-app-category/
DataReportal, We Are Social, Meltwater. (2024). Share of mobile time in Japan in 2023, by app category. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 10, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1455406/japan-share-of-mobile-time-by-app-category/
DataReportal, and We Are Social, and Meltwater. "Share of Mobile Time in Japan in 2023, by App Category." Statista, Statista Inc., 21 Feb 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1455406/japan-share-of-mobile-time-by-app-category/
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