{"id":60,"date":"2005-02-06T19:50:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T09:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/02\/06\/impossible-to-ignore\/"},"modified":"2005-02-06T19:50:05","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T09:50:05","slug":"impossible-to-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/02\/06\/impossible-to-ignore\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible to ignore."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Kiyomi and I were in Nagoya going to see one of her friends play in an orchestra. Walking to the hall along the one of the main roads we heard a sound behind us, turned around but could see nothing out of the ordinary (people, cars etc), turned back and kept walking.<br \/>\nTwo minutes later we heard it again, sounded like a lot of voices all shouting\/cheering. &#8220;There must be a parade on today&#8221; I thought, the sound kept getting closer and closer then we saw what was causing it:<br \/>\nThree black jeeps and four big black busses of the uyoku or ultra-nationalists driving through the city spewing out their right-wing messages. Each jeep had two speakers on top and each bus had four to six BIG speakers\/megaphones on top of it. The noise was <strong>deafening<\/strong>. Kiyomi was right next to me, she said something and I couldn&#8217;t hear a word she said, then again I couldn&#8217;t hear myself think (and the busses were still two blocks away).<br \/>\nOn passing us (they were on the other side of the road (4 lanes plus a centre strip) the noise was just ear shattering. You know when you listen to really loud music through ear phones and after you take your ear phones off it takes a few moments for your ears to re-adjust before you can hear again, well it was like that.<br \/>\nYou can read a bit about uyoku <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infohub.com\/Destinations\/Asia\/Japan\/70742.htm\">here<\/a>, or do a google search. A quote that stands out &#8220;<em>To most people, though, uyoku are an embarrassment best ignored<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; would like to but it&#8217;s a bit hard when it&#8217;s broadcast at over 300 decibels.<br \/>\n&#8212; David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Kiyomi and I were in Nagoya going to see one of her friends play in an orchestra. Walking to the hall along the one of the main roads we heard a sound behind us, turned around but could see nothing out of the ordinary (people, cars etc), turned back and kept walking. Two minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-nagoya-uyoku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}