Anyone who's been in Japan at election time, especially the local government councillors elections will know about how noisy affairs they are! So here are all the people I want to charge with "disturbance of the peace"! For a two week period these 27 people drove a car (or had someone else drive it for them) or pushed a cart (or had someone else push it for them) with a loud speaker or two on top it saying vote for insert one of their names here. They did this from 8am to 8pm on each one of those days. What makes it worse is my house has a road at the front and the back of it, so some times I get two at once! I was thinking if I had hose, I might be giving those loud speakers a big squirt! But, unfortunately that's likely to get me in trouble and not stop them!
Maybe I should make a sign in Japanese like "Silence is golden, please consider this if you want my vote" and place it outside my house, but since I'm not a citizen I can't vote anyway. Actually, even a few of my Japanese friends said they are annoyed by this type of campaigning, but in typical Japanese fashion people are too afraid to be the one to speak out. Well guess what? I'm not Japanese, I live here, and I'm not afraid to speak out against this annoyance to neighbourhood tranquillity. Now if only I could speak Japanese well enough to go and tell somebody enough is enough!
This is also a good example of Japanese overkill, because there 24 councillors and 27 candidates, so one would think you wouldn't need to try so hard as these people to get elected!