"Osaka, 4 AM" "Loud volume." A subtitled video was posted on X (formerly Twitter) on December 16th of last year. The video shows Arabic audio being broadcast into the city from a mosque's speakers, and by January 30th of this year, it had been viewed approximately 710,000 times. X users were quick to criticize the video, with comments such as "It would drive me crazy if that was broadcast every morning" and "Noise pollution
The mosque's representative, Helizal Adaldei, denies the allegations, saying, "We don't use outside speakers at 4 a.m." He said the video was taken three years ago when they were testing the speakers and playing the adhan in the afternoon, and that part may have been cut out.
The Osaka City government received an email asking, "Are you going to tolerate the trouble this is causing to the local residents?". City government employee visited the mosque three times, but was unable to confirm that the adhan noise was leaking outside. A female staff member in her 40s who works at a nearby nursing home also shook her head, saying, "We have staff staying overnight, but we haven't heard anything about them hearing any noise."
https://www.47news.jp/13801542.html
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The government really need to detect and arrest these people spreading false information.
No doubt this rumor was created by foreign agents trying to rile up reactionaries within Japan, they do these tactics all over the world to divide people.
I’m hearing more noise from campaign cars. right-wing cars, and Christ savior cars. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to find people who will testify that they are.
How long until a crazy person takes “justice” into their own hands? [This stuff leads somewhere.](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/29/they-thought-they-were-going-to-die-the-asylum-seekers-who-survived-rioters-trying-to-burn-down-their-accommodation)
There were noise complaints about a new skate park in Fukuoka that hasn’t even started construction yet.