(Minghui.org) Practitioners participated in the Peace and Love International Exchange Program in Hiroshima near the Gokoku Shrine on October 5, 2024. Many people learned about Falun Dafa and expressed their support. 

The international exchange program promotes sharing different cultures through music, dance, cuisine, and handcrafts. Falun Dafa was one of the eleven groups that performed and they also demonstrated the exercises on the central stage. They set up a booth to introduce the benefits of practicing Falun Dafa. 

Practitioners demonstrate the Falun Dafa exercises at the Peace and Love International Exchange Program in Hiroshima.

Practitioners’ waist-drum dance.

Mr. Masahiro Yamamoto (right,) a member of the city council and representative of the program’s executive committee, with a Falun Dafa practitioner

Ms. Shimizu, who worked at another booth, did the exercises while practitioners demonstrated them on stage. She told a practitioner, “I felt happy and comfortable when I did your exercises!”

Mr. Kawase from Osaka is happy to learn about the benefits of practicing Falun Dafa. 

Ms. Do Thi Hong from Vietnam plans to attend a Falun Dafa group exercise in Peace Memorial Park.

A multi-channel station interviewed practitioners, and their program will be uploaded to multiple platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, X, and other social media. 

An interview with practitioners was live-streamed. 

Mr. Munefumi Takemoto, a senior photographer of the multi-channel station, said that he signed a petition at the Peace Memorial Park, to end the persecution. He said he learned about Falun Dafa and would like to help promote it.

Mr. Munefumi Takemoto supports Falun Dafa.

Mr. Suwa praised practitioners’ efforts to expose the persecution.

Mr. Suwa said that he heard about the persecution of Falun Dafa, but his Chinese neighbor had a different opinion. Mr. Suwa did his own research and was shocked to learn how the Chinese Communist Party brainwashes people. He said, “It’s the nature of the Chinese Communist Party to destroy anything different...Keep up with your great job! Don’t go back to China until the Chinese Communist Party collapses!”