Although engrossed latest installment of Candy destroy or busy chatting with their friends in the application message Line, most governments to coalesce around cyclists, skateboarders and fellow Tokyoites.
However, a growing range of mobile phone addicts are turning cities like Tokyo, London, New York and Hong Kong as dangerous hot spots, which appear zombified consumers to be part of a broad human pinball game.
"Hey, look at this!" Barked a middle-aged salaryman as typing hipster on his smartphone slamming him during Friday night when a crush recently.
"Incidents involving people walk or bicycle accounts for 41 percent of phone-related accidents," said Tetsuya Yamamoto, a senior official at the disaster prevention and safety of the Tokyo Fire Department.
"If people continue to walk around seeing their phones, I think that we can see more accidents happen."
It goes beyond being dangerous that bother to apologize to the people before continuing their journey safely.
Tokyo Fire Department, which operates the ambulance service in the largest city in the world has ever seen, said that in the four years to 2013, 122 people had to be rushed to hospital after an accident caused by pedestrians using mobile phones.
And traders vaguely amusing incident hit into a lamppost or tripping dog, this amount also includes a middle-aged man who died after straying into a railroad crossing while looking at the phone.
More than half of Japan now has a smartphone and this proportion increased rapidly, including children who usually walk to and from school.
Research by the Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo estimated field average pedestrian vision staring smartphones only 5 percent of what we take in a normal eye.
"Children will not be safe in that situation," said Hiroshi Suzuki, manager of corporate social responsibility within the company. "It is dangerous and it is our duty to ensure that it does not really happen."
The company is operated by a computer simulation of what could happen if everyone was looking at Shibuya crossing the intersection of their smartphones.
The results, based on a fairly average 1,500 people gathered in the street at a time, which is alarming: 446 collisions, 103 knockdowns and 21-dropped the phone. Only about one-third went to the other side without incident.
That 82 of the 103 who fell to the ground managed to stick to their phones basically tells its own story.
Japanese media reported that about half of the 56 bodies recovered from the best of the volcano after the recent explosion seen holding the phone with a picture of a deadly lava and ash on it.
Apparently, they thought it was important to be able to show their friends on social media what is going to try to save themselves.
Suzuki traveled to schools throughout Japan to teach children how to be responsible to the smartphone through the use of cartoons.
"We use the story of the tortoise and the hare," he said. "Rabbit Shoots off typing on his smartphone, and then fell into the hole. We want children to know the worth of rabbits."
Fidgeters sluggish phone along at a snails pace, the cyclists constraints and pram-pushing mothers turned out of the way has become irritated as to public notice warning violators Tokyo began appearing hope "cold stare," appealing to the Japanese sense of social harmony - assuming that people find on their phones in the first place.
Smartphone applications enabled by sensor warning signs flash or sidewalk display also formed in response to the problem.
Tokyo only one in the area who are struggling with this risk the 21st century.
In China, an amusement park in southwest Chongqing megacity divided sidewalks in the neighborhood in two lines - one signposted "No phone" and the other "mobile phone use is allowed but the consequences are your responsibility."
Recorded announcements in the subway network of Hong Kong warned passengers in Cantonese, Mandarin and English that they will rise to the escalator.
During a town in the state of New York, there was even an attempt to make laws against the use of electronic devices while crossing the street.
NTT DoCoMo said Suzuki in Tokyo despite the high density cities and large population - 35 million in the larger urban areas - no need for people to wear a crash helmet when pop store.
Agence France-Presse
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