Abstract
A questionnaire on neighborhood noise disputes was carried out to persons in charge of the noise problem in municipal offices in the whole country. A number of the answers was 479 and the recovery rate was 62%. Through the result, the conflict concerning a dog barking increases in small cities, and that is anticipated to increase in the future. There were arguments pros and cons about the regulation against the neighborhood noise. In the free description, it is mainly commented that the neighborhood noise dispute depends on the lack of the neighborhood association.