Rocking round-the-clock lands Japanese woman in prison

A Japanese woman was sentenced to one year in prison for bombarding her neighbours with loud music day and night for two and a half years.

Miyoko Kawahara, 59, blasted up-beat tunes on her radio-cassette player, causing her neighbours to feel dizzy, lose sleep and sending one woman to hospital for a month of treatment, the ruling said.

"After the defendant stopped playing music the neighbours' health recovered," Judge Tetsuya Okuda of Nara District Court in western Japan said.

"The defendant's act was a persistent and malicious crime aimed at troubling her neighbours."

Defence lawyers had argued that playing music could never be a crime.

The 65-year-old woman who was hospitalised also filed a civil lawsuit against Kawahara and won over $23,000 in damages, a decision that the defendant has appealed, Jiji Press said.

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they put up with it for two and a half years!?!?! if it was me i would have gone over there and smashed that dam radio a long time ago

I would of called the police way befor two years.

Yeah, there's no way I'd have put up with that for 2 years. Why in the world was she doing it?
That's what I want to know.

I can see how that would be disturbing, but $23 000 in damages? How did they manage that Also, wouldn't calling the police solve the matter in a day? Why did they wait 2 and a half years..

I would have called the police long ago. It's strange she had it on when she wasnt home or asleep.

maybe they liked the music, but then it got caught on a loop and they got fed up of the same song. I'm guessing it was greendays 'american idiot' ... that'd get on anyones nerves...

I HATE that song with a passion!

My daughter is in to Japanese Rock music and let me tell you, if I had to listen to it non-stop for 2 years I'd claw my way through the wall and then I'd have to drive the woman through Germany....if you get my meaning.