Quiet please!

I forgot about the noise here. Not just traffic noise and general city stuff, but the actual effort the Japanese go to to make more noise. Yesterday while cooking lunch I was inundated with a catalogue of improvements the prospective mayor would make to Kamogata should I elect him. His electoral van stopped in front of my house, pressed play and released a pre-recorded message via 3 massive megaphones to all in the area and possibly some not in the area at all. This is not an uncommon way to spread messages in Japan. In the bigger cities lobby groups will stop near the front of mall entries and just shout stilted messages through megaphones at all and sundry in hopes that someone will listen to them and sign their petition. To me it is noise pollution and they ought to be dragged away by the cops, but it seems part and parcel of living here.