(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in Japan held peaceful protests in front of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo and Chinese Consulates in Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo to mark the 24th anniversary of the April 25 appeal in Beijing. They called for an end of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution.

Peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo

Group practice in front of the Chinese Consulate in Osaka

In order to help Falun Gong practitioners in China and to stop the persecution, Falun Gong practitioners outside of China held peaceful demonstrations in front of Chinese consulates every year. They condemned the CCP’s ongoing persecution and called on the governments of all countries and their citizens to help stop the persecution.

Protesting in front of the Chinese Consulate in Nagoya. Mr. Xu is second from the left.

Falun Gong practitioners from Aichi and Mie counties went to the Chinese Consulate in Nagoya early in the morning to peacefully protest the ongoing persecution.

Mr. Xu asked for a leave of absence from his employer to attend the event. He said: “The main purpose of our visit to the Chinese Consulate is to ask the CCP to immediately stop its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Now this persecution is still going on. Practitioners are detained, sentenced to prison, and even subjected to organ harvesting. This is intolerable. There are still so many Chinese people who don’t know that this is happening.”

He said: “Many Chinese people have been misled by the CCP’s lies. They cannot accept universal values, and the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. We hope that Chinese passers-by can learn about Falun Gong.”

Candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Consulate in Sapporo, Hokkaido

Peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Consulate in Fukuoka

Some Falun Gong practitioners in Sapporo, Hokkaido went to the Chinese Consulate after work.

Falun Gong practitioners in Japan hold peaceful protests in front of the Chinese consulates on April 25 every year. It has persisted for more than 10 years.