Japan: Visitors to Hiroshima Poster Exhibition Find an Answer to a Fundamental Question

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Aug. 15, 2023 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Japan

(Minghui.org) Two consecutive "Stop the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting Poster Exhibitions" were successfully held in Higashi-hiroshima City Museum of Art and Nishi Ward Culture Center in West Hiroshima from July 25 to August 6, 2023.

The exhibitions were hosted by the SMG Network (Stop Medical Genocide--Society for the Study of Organ Transplantation in China) and exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) live organ harvesting from Falun Dafa practitioners.

Many visitors commented that they had asked themselves the question, “If one's life or the life of a loved one was in danger, would you buy an organ for transplant?” After seeing the poster exhibition visitors said their answer was “absolutely not.”

Stop the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting Poster Exhibition held in Hiroshima from July 25 to August 6, 2023.

Insights Gained After Viewing the Poster Exhibition

A woman in her 60’s told a story about a doctor suggesting her husband get an organ transplant.

A woman in her 60’s told a story that her husband’s doctor had suggested her husband undergo an organ transplant six years ago. If the operation was performed within a week, it would cost 20 million yen by going abroad. If he could wait six months, it would only cost 6 million yen and could be done in Japan. By then, her husband didn’t want to use another person’s organ to prolong his life and didn’t do the surgery. “At that time, I didn’t think about the organ donor at all. Although I have regrets for my husband, seeing these works today, I am very glad that he didn’t have a transplant operation at that time,” she said.

Ms. Den Kazumi

Ms. Den Kazumi said in shock that she had heard of live organ harvesting, but she didn’t know why or how it happened. She had now connected the dots and said, “I know that many Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested, but are there some who were arrested for organ harvesting?”

She said the poster The Harvest – Blood & Greed showed that to some people money weighs more than a heart and a liver.

“A person who is struggling to live might need an organ, but if he knows how it was obtained, would he feel right about getting the transplant?” she asked.

College student Yamaoka (right)

Before seeing the poster exhibition, college student Yamaoka wasn’t sure he could say no if one of his family members or someone else close to him could benefit from an organ transplant. “I didn’t have the confidence to say no,” he said. “However, now that I have learned about the victims behind the life-saving organ transplantation [that the CCP harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners], I have the confidence to say absolutely not!”

Call for Action

Mr. Miyazaki Shinya

Mr. Miyazaki Shinya was most impressed by the work “Preordered,” in which the internal organs of a child had been ordered, and marked with prices and dates.

Mr. Miyazaki Shinya watched a documentary about live organ harvesting in China after seeing the poster exhibition. He commented that other countries had enacted laws against forced harvesting, but Japanese TV stations and news agencies had hardly reported it.

“The wife of a high-ranking government official had a heart transplant in China some time ago, and people talked about it in private for a while. It is not normal in itself that the media didn’t report anything. I hope more events like this will be held, and we should vigorously publicize them so that more people can know about them,” he said.

Mr. Teruie Kimura, councilor of Higashi-hiroshima City, wrote a comment: “I feel that each piece, especially the work ‘Blind and Unseen,’ clearly portrays our current situation. Many of us already know [about the CCP’s live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners], and condemned it at the time, but after a while, this concern gradually faded away. Now that we know about it, we must consider how to act.”

Councilor Yamada Manabu, member of the Higashi-hiroshima City Assembly, promotes the poster exhibition on Facebook.