what do you see?

Japanese cities are usually relatively quiet and peaceful. Amazingly so, considering the density of housing - at night in the summer when windows are open, you harldy hear a sound from the nieghbours. But conversely, there seem to be very weak laws about when noisy demolition work can be done. They started clawing down an old house about a block from here at 7:00am today. 7:00am!! I suppose that's the time good citizens should be up and about, but come on!