Japan: Rally Supporting 10 Million Withdrawals from the CCP Draws Attention from Japanese People and Political Circles

Photo displays expose the persecution	Demanding an immediate investigation into the CCP's atrocities

On the afternoon of April 23rd, 2006, more than 200 people held a rally in Tokyo, supporting 10 million brave people quitting the CCP and its affiliated organisations. They protested the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit, and called upon the international community to stop the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

The activity was jointly sponsored by the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP Japan Branch, the Yokohama Chinese Street Service Centre for Quitting the CCP and the Japanese Epoch Times. Japanese Diet members, Tokyo city councilors, Chinese democracy activists in Japan, Chinese people in Japan and ordinary Japanese people showed their concern during this event.

At around 1:00p.m., the rally began in Central Park in downtown Tokyo. Participants unfurled banners reading, "Support 10 Million People Quitting the CCP," "Stop the CCP from Killing Falun Gong Practitioners and Harvesting and Selling Their Organs," "Urgent Call for an Direct Investigation into Atrocities of Organ Theft from Falun Gong Practitioners," "Immediately Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong," and "Without the CCP, There Will Be a New China."

A Tokyo city councilor made a speech, expressing his thoughts over the ten million withdrawals from the CCP and praising the Falun Gong practitioners' courage and sense of mission. A reporter from a private art school made a speech and said that he has been paying attention to The Epoch Time's publication of the Nine Commentaries. After learning about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and the recent revelation of brutal persecution facts of live organ harvesting, he hoped to help stop the atrocities.

Tokyo city councilor praises Falun Gong practitioners' courage and sense of mission	A reporter demands an end to the atrocities of live organ harvesting

A Representative of the Japanese Falun Dafa Association said that it is good that ten million people have renounced the CCP and its organisations, but right now, the lives of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China are in jeopardy, and we call for an immediate end to the CCP's mass killing of Falun Gong practitioners.

Representative of Japanese Falun Dafa Association calls for an immediate end to the CCP's killing

Reporter from the Japanese Epoch Times made a speech and said that when Bush and Hu Jintao made speeches on the south lawn of the White House, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Wenyi cried out to Hu [to stop persecuting Falun Gong]. He understood Ms. Wang's action, because Falun Gong practitioners have been suffering brutal persecution and she had to protest this way. Besides Sujiatun, other concentration camps and forced labour camps throughout China are also killing Falun Gong practitioners [by harvesting their organs while they are still alive]. The Epoch Times first broke the story to the public, and more media followed up. The persecution facts will be exposed one by one.

Overseas Democracy Movement Coalition Asia representative Xiang Lin made a speech, praising Wang Wenyi's courageous act. He said that we must protest against the CCP's persecution, and at the same time, call upon Japanese society to make efforts to stop the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong.

Representative of the Japanese Service Centre for Quitting the CCP read letters from several Diet members, city councilors, representatives from Japanese Democratic Party and Falun Gong Refugees Supporting Committee. They supported the ten million withdrawals, and felt indignant at the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by mass killing and live organ harvesting.

After the rally, the participants set off from Central Park and started a march supporting the ten million withdrawals from the CCP and its affiliated organisations. At the front of the procession was a waist drum troupe in traditional Chinese clothing. Behind them were people holding huge banners reading, "Without the CCP, There Will Be a New China." Other than display boards regarding quitting the CCP, people also held banners reading, "Support 10 Million People Quitting the CCP," "Demand the CCP to Stop Killing Falun Gong Practitioners and Harvesting and Selling Their Organs," "Nine Commentaries Expose the CCP's Evil Nature." The messages on the banners expressed the people's concerns. In the middle of the parade procession were more than 30 Falun Gong practitioners who were holding photos of Falun Gong practitioners who had died as a result of persecution. They called upon the international community to stop the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. At the back of the parade was a huge banner reading, "Falun Dafa is Wide Spread around the World."

The leading car of the parade kept broadcasting related information, and participants distributed The Epoch Times' special edition on the ten million withdrawals from the CCP. Passersby took the newspaper and read it carefully. Many people stopped to watch the parade. Some took pictures using their mobile phones, and some tourists took pictures with cameras and video cameras. Staff from shops along the streets also came out to watch and asked for materials.

The reporter interviewed several Japanese people, who said that the photos depicting Falun Gong practitioners being tortured to death are appalling. One of the young people said that he would put all of this information on his personal web page and call for an end to this atrocity. After the parade was over, he requested to interview several Falun Gong practitioners who suffered brutal persecution when they were in Mainland China and listened to their experiences.

Falun Gong practitioner Yoko Kaneko, who once suffered persecution in the CCP's forced labour camps, was also in the parade, holding a poster depicting a Falun Gong practitioner who was tortured to death. She expressed a strong protest against the CCP's barbaric atrocities and called for an end to the persecution as soon as possible.