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TO GO WITH Lifestyle-Japan-smartphones-technology-walking,FEATURE BY ALASTAIR HIMMER This picture taken on November 3, 2014 shows a pedestrian using his smartphone on a street in Tokyo. When the lights change at the Shibuya crossing in Japan's capital, one of the world's busiest pedestrian thoroughfares, hundreds of people with their eyes glued to smartphones pick their way over the road. More than half of Japanese now own a smartphone and the proportion is rising fast, including amongst children, who customarily walk to and from school. Research by Japanese mobile giant NTT Docomo estimates a pedestrian's average field of vision while staring down at a smartphone is just five percent of what our eyes take in normally. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP via Getty Images)