My Experience in Beijing -- by a Japanese Who Is Not a Falun Gong Practitioner

I was a Japanese orphan who had been left in China during the war. Now I have returned to Japan. However, I will never forget the kindness of Chinese people for my whole life. The Chinese people have brought up me, a child of their enemy. They helped me to go to school and work and have not looked down upon me. Therefore, I always remember the beloved Chinese people. This Chinese New Year, I went back to China to visit them. However, I felt very bad for what I experienced in Beijing.

On March 3, when I was walking on the Chang-an Street of Beijing carrying a big bag, a police officer suddenly held my neck from the back and wanted to search my bag by force. I asked him why. He said, "Are you a Falun Gong practitioner?" I said, "No, I am not." But he did not loose his hand and insisted to search my bag. I then told him that the two people walking ahead me were my son and my husband. He did not believe me.

I could no longer bear his uncivilized deed and screamed, "How could you arrest a Japanese if you want to arrest Falun Gong practitioners?" My son heard my voice and came to me immediately. He asked me what was the matter. That police officer then demanded my son to curse Falun Gong and also asked, "Do you think Falun Gong is a cult?" My son worried that we might miss the flight and had to say, "It might be since you declared so." Then he let us three go.

I am not a Falun Gong practitioner and do not know about Falun Gong either. I only know that Falun Gong practitioners try to become good people and practice truthfulness-benevolence-forbearance. Through this experience, however, I have realized that Falun Gong practitioners are really good people. The police officer wanted to arrest me just because he found that an old lady carrying a big bag like me looked kind. He would arrest all people who looked kind. This proves that Falun Dafa is really good. In my mind, Chinese people are all very kind. During the war, they could raise me, a child of the enemy. What is wrong now? They start to arrest their own people, moreover, those good people. The police even asked kind people to say dirty words under the Sun. I really cannot understand that.

Qing Shui Mei Zi (Chinese Pinyin)
A Japanese Who does not practice Falun Gong
March 4, 2000