An overly enthusiastic Japanese musician has been arrested after allegedly giving his elderly neighbors insomnia for more than seven years with his loud guitar playing, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Kyoto resident Kazunori Yokoi, 61, has allegedly been rocking out on his dozens of guitars and playing his radio at loud volume day and night since 2019, a local police officer said, declining to be named.<\/p>\n
This caused three neighbors in their 60s to their 80s to suffer from sleep deprivation and depression, while a fourth developed a constant ringing in the ears known as tinnitus.<\/p>\n
A string of official warnings failed to change his behavior, but the four neighbors finally gave police sufficient grounds to arrest him on assault charges, the official said.<\/p>\n
Police seized over 40 guitars \u2014 many electric \u2014 from Yokoi\u2019s residence, along with CD and radio cassette players and amplifiers.<\/p>\n
Investigators measured noise levels of over 80 decibels in the neighborhood, which the city says is roughly as loud as being inside a moving train.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awful because all kinds of sounds were jumbled together all day,\u201d Kyodo News quoted one long-suffering neighbor in his 60s as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overly enthusiastic Japanese musician has been arrested after allegedly giving his elderly neighbors insomnia for more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,55984,24754,409],"class_list":["post-563230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japanese-police","tag-kyoto","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}