Recent activities in noise and vibration control engineering in Japan

Since the 1950s, noise has been one of the important social problems in Japan, and there have been remarkable developments in the field of noise control engineering. A large number of papers and technical reports have been published. However, most of them are written in Japanese, and therefore practical activities on noise and noise control engineering in Japan are not well understood in other countries. Here, the peculiarities existing in noise problems and the special features in noise control engineering in Japan are reviewed-through an analysis of activities from various viewpoints.