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		<title>By: Nick Ramsay</title>
		<link>http://www.longcountdown.com/2006/10/18/noisy-japanese-apartments/comment-page-1/#comment-2733</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ramsay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ha ha, you just wait for your first election! Fun times ahead! :-D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ha ha, you just wait for your first election! Fun times ahead! <img src='http://www.longcountdown.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: smoother</title>
		<link>http://www.longcountdown.com/2006/10/18/noisy-japanese-apartments/comment-page-1/#comment-2729</link>
		<dc:creator>smoother</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL! Great post! I&#039;m in my first Japanese apartment here in Fukuoka and I&#039;m in the middle of it all. It&#039;s pretty cool and the noise outside (trucks, people) is what I expected. Restaurants and bars close between 2-5am in the area so there&#039;s noise until pretty late. People irashaimase the hell out of other people, dishes, bonzai action, etc etc. 

The bosozoku biker gangs - I didn&#039;t know the name for these fools. Tthey wake me up. I&#039;m not used to it so I wake up not knowing what the hell is going on. It happens about once a week. One great experience was hearing them rev the engines around 4am and then the cop sirens directly followed. 

The neighbors - I can hear them. I can hear them walking. I can hear them opening and closing the sliding doors. I can hear them snore. But I never hear them talk. I am assuming that we&#039;re the loud neighbors and that&#039;s no good. 

I guess I have the remaining 5 from your list to look forward to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL! Great post! I&#8217;m in my first Japanese apartment here in Fukuoka and I&#8217;m in the middle of it all. It&#8217;s pretty cool and the noise outside (trucks, people) is what I expected. Restaurants and bars close between 2-5am in the area so there&#8217;s noise until pretty late. People irashaimase the hell out of other people, dishes, bonzai action, etc etc. </p>
<p>The bosozoku biker gangs &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know the name for these fools. Tthey wake me up. I&#8217;m not used to it so I wake up not knowing what the hell is going on. It happens about once a week. One great experience was hearing them rev the engines around 4am and then the cop sirens directly followed. </p>
<p>The neighbors &#8211; I can hear them. I can hear them walking. I can hear them opening and closing the sliding doors. I can hear them snore. But I never hear them talk. I am assuming that we&#8217;re the loud neighbors and that&#8217;s no good. </p>
<p>I guess I have the remaining 5 from your list to look forward to.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick Ramsay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick Ramsay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, we both seemed to have avoided the bosozoku up here in Kakamigahara, so we are very, very lucky.

Good point about dogs. There are a few &quot;yippy&quot; dogs around here, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, we both seemed to have avoided the bosozoku up here in Kakamigahara, so we are very, very lucky.</p>
<p>Good point about dogs. There are a few &#8220;yippy&#8221; dogs around here, too.</p>
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		<title>By: ジェイソン (Jason)</title>
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		<dc:creator>ジェイソン (Jason)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t seen the bosozuko around here, but the planes are enough to drive me nuts sometimes.  I don&#039;t see why they need to practise breaking the sound barrier at 100 meters.

Perhaps it&#039;s the military&#039;s way of preparing us for those really big thunder claps?

I&#039;d add dogs to this list.  It seems everywhere I&#039;ve lived in the last 15 years has had those annoying yippy dogs that never know when to shut up.  They&#039;ll yip at grass, shadows, people, cars and their tail.  My God, when do they stop for air!?!?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t seen the bosozuko around here, but the planes are enough to drive me nuts sometimes.  I don&#8217;t see why they need to practise breaking the sound barrier at 100 meters.</p>
<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the military&#8217;s way of preparing us for those really big thunder claps?</p>
<p>I&#8217;d add dogs to this list.  It seems everywhere I&#8217;ve lived in the last 15 years has had those annoying yippy dogs that never know when to shut up.  They&#8217;ll yip at grass, shadows, people, cars and their tail.  My God, when do they stop for air!?!?</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Totally agree about the politicians. And what makes it even worse (if that&#039;s possible) is the high-pitched females that usually speak for the male sme*heads, instead of speaking for themselves.
Then you get the foot soldiers outside stations and other places of commute, offering me, yes! ME!! a manifesto!! It&#039;s enough to give them the middle finger considering i pay enough taxes. But then i remember where i am.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Totally agree about the politicians. And what makes it even worse (if that&#8217;s possible) is the high-pitched females that usually speak for the male sme*heads, instead of speaking for themselves.<br />
Then you get the foot soldiers outside stations and other places of commute, offering me, yes! ME!! a manifesto!! It&#8217;s enough to give them the middle finger considering i pay enough taxes. But then i remember where i am.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 14:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ha! This is so true!!  All except Bosozuku which I haven&#039;t really seen around my for the last few years.  Apparently the govt has done a good job cracking down on them
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/the-bosozoku-%e6%9a%b4%e8%b5%b0%e6%97%8f-biker-gangs-of-japan/
Now, I&#039;d just wish the govt can crack down on the politicians with megaphones. That drives me crazy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ha! This is so true!!  All except Bosozuku which I haven&#8217;t really seen around my for the last few years.  Apparently the govt has done a good job cracking down on them<br />
<a href="http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/the-bosozoku-%e6%9a%b4%e8%b5%b0%e6%97%8f-biker-gangs-of-japan/" rel="nofollow">http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/the-bosozoku-%e6%9a%b4%e8%b5%b0%e6%97%8f-biker-gangs-of-japan/</a><br />
Now, I&#8217;d just wish the govt can crack down on the politicians with megaphones. That drives me crazy</p>
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		<title>By: nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the feedback Annie!</description>
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		<title>By: annie</title>
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		<dc:creator>annie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey, im headed there sometime soon and thought this was informative, and a funny read.  thanx annie</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey, im headed there sometime soon and thought this was informative, and a funny read.  thanx annie</p>
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