What I Don't Hear

While in Japan I saw many dogs. I saw small dogs, toy sized dogs, and medium dogs. What I didn't hear is barking. Even when two dogs with separate owners are waiting together at a cross walk I heard no barking. The Japanese people train their dogs not to bark. We spent quite a bit of time on the road in the last three weeks. Not once did I hear a car horn blare. I heard motorcycles and scooters go by but I never heard the loud pipes that annoy me. I heard peddlers crying out advertising their business. In the US I hear that at baseball games (Peanuts! Get your peanuts here!) but seldom elsewhere. Traffic signals in Japan have sounds for the blind which I don't hear in the United States. The frequency of bird songs seems about the same.