Can you believe it? I just moved to Tokyo (Otsuka area) and I've discovered that my neighbor has 2 or 3 very loud, very vocal, pet roosters. Of course, if I had known before I moved into my new apartment (which cost me nearly 200,000 yen) that a strange man in the area is keeping such noisy roosters, I would never have taken the apartment. How silly of me. I hadn窶冲 the foresight to spend an early morning in the area to insure that I get a good night窶冱 sleep. Now, after such a huge investment, I find that I am forced to wake-up every morning at 4 am, sometimes earlier, to the sound of incredibly loud roosters crowing their brains out and, worse, that I have no recourse. I have spoken to many Japanese people, including my building manager and the police manning the local Koban about this problem and the only response that I get is "Sorewa shogunai" (it can't be helped). I have also discovered that many others in this neighborhood are also very angry that this rooster owning individual insists on keeping his pets on the roof of his apartment building so that people can hear their ungodly shrill at all hours of the day and night for miles around!
I find it inconceivable in this day and age that one individual can keep farm animals within the city limits of a supposedly modern city like Tokyo, infringing on the rights of the literally thousands of people that live in this densely populated area of Tokyo. How can this be possible? I cannot dismiss this situation as just another Japanese oddity because it窶冱 a fact that all civilized people in this world adhere to basic laws of governance when it comes to "maintaining the peace" or law and order or whatever you want to call it. It seems that the rights of this community far outweigh the rights of this one individual, who is obviously unstable to begin with. Who in their right mind would keep a farm animal in such a large city?
Can someone lend me a hand? I would like to know what my options are (legally of course). A lawyer and a lawsuit? An equally annoying habit that will drive him nuts such as a motorcycle with no muffler, etc? Perhaps I am being selfish to expect the same rights that westerners have - that is the right to be protected from obnoxious neighbors that make a nuisance of themselves. These nuisance laws go back to English common laws that are hundreds of years old. Do I have the right to play loud and annoying Japanese acid/punk on my stereo at extremely high decibels? Apparently I do but the important thing to consider is that I don't. Its unfortunate a law must be written that undermines individual liberty but that is the price for peaceful relations with your neighbors.
On top of the many strange and annoying noises one must tolerate in Tokyo, this is one situation that no-one living in a civilized society should endure.
I find it inconceivable in this day and age that one individual can keep farm animals within the city limits of a supposedly modern city like Tokyo, infringing on the rights of the literally thousands of people that live in this densely populated area of Tokyo. How can this be possible? I cannot dismiss this situation as just another Japanese oddity because it窶冱 a fact that all civilized people in this world adhere to basic laws of governance when it comes to "maintaining the peace" or law and order or whatever you want to call it. It seems that the rights of this community far outweigh the rights of this one individual, who is obviously unstable to begin with. Who in their right mind would keep a farm animal in such a large city?
Can someone lend me a hand? I would like to know what my options are (legally of course). A lawyer and a lawsuit? An equally annoying habit that will drive him nuts such as a motorcycle with no muffler, etc? Perhaps I am being selfish to expect the same rights that westerners have - that is the right to be protected from obnoxious neighbors that make a nuisance of themselves. These nuisance laws go back to English common laws that are hundreds of years old. Do I have the right to play loud and annoying Japanese acid/punk on my stereo at extremely high decibels? Apparently I do but the important thing to consider is that I don't. Its unfortunate a law must be written that undermines individual liberty but that is the price for peaceful relations with your neighbors.
On top of the many strange and annoying noises one must tolerate in Tokyo, this is one situation that no-one living in a civilized society should endure.