The Portrait of a "Magical Olympic Host" -- One Japanese Committed All
of China's Organ Theft Crime?

Behind the Arrest of Japanese Organ Broker in China

By Ren Zihui and Shi Yu

Epoch Times Staff
Oct 21, 2007

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The Organ Transplant Support Center's website clearly states that the
huge amount of organ transplants in China is made possible by the
Chinese Communist Party. (Web photo)

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On October 16, Chinese authorities announced that a Japanese man named
Hiroyuki Nagase was arrested in China for illegal organ brokerage.
According to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao, Nagase is
an employee of IPC Information Service Co., a Japanese-funded enterprise
in Shenyang City in northeastern China.

At a press conference, Liu said that Nagase's company "has been found to
have released information on the Internet under the name of China
International Organ Transplant Support Center and has helped to arrange
organ transplants for Japanese patients since 2004."

Some consider the arrest as proof of the Chinese authorities'
determination to regulate the notorious organ trade black market in
China. However, the website of the International Organ Transplant
Support Center stated that the large amount of organ trade is made
possible and continuously supported by no other than the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) itself.

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The website of the International Organ Transplant Support Center has
been shut down. (Web photo)

The Center's website was again shut down. The same website has been shut
down and re-opened since the discovery of the large-scale organ
harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is an ancient
way of self-cultivation whose theory is based on the principles of
"Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance." For the past eight years
Falun Gong and its over 100 million followers have been brutally
persecuted in China.

Nagase is the first person China has arrested with charges related to
organ trading. The high publicity of the arrest has inspired speculation
that the authorities' real aim is the bigger fishes behind the massive
live organ harvesting.

Nagase's IPC Information Service Co. was registered in December 2003.
Since then the International Organ Transplant Support Center had served
as a major portal for bringing numerous foreigners to China for organ
transplants. The website did not provide information on the sources of
the organs.

According to a source from Japan, Nagase was arrested in mid September
at Shanghai Airport. But the arrest was not announced until a month
later during the CCP's 17th National Congress, one of the most sensitive
periods for Chinese authorities. Considering China's customary lack of
transparency and strict media censorship, as well as its careful
avoidance and denial of organ trading, the noise it has made concerning
Nagase's arrest is certainly unusual.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said that Nagase's company
"has not only been doing business beyond what it registered to do, but
also violated the regulation of the Ministry of Health prohibiting organ
trading in China." Regarding these remarks, Dr. Wenyi Wang, a
pathologist who has been studying and protesting the CCP's organ
harvesting since its discovery, pointed out that the CCP is trying to
pass the buck again. Dr. Wang argues that though the website is under
the name of Nagase's company it had been fully supported by the CCP, and
had been used as an official government website. "The reason why the CCP
used Nagase to run it," observed Dr. Wang, "is because they know organ
harvesting is a sinister crime. Nagase's role is to be the scapegoat to
be sacrificed when the crime is revealed, which is exactly what's
happening now."

Dr. Wang's accusation seems to be backed by the statements on the
center's website which expressed gratitude for the strong support from
Chinese government without which "the huge numbers of organ transplants
can not have been achieved." The website also mentioned relevant laws
issued on October 9, 1984 in China which stated that the government
supports the provision of human organs. As the website correctly
concluded, China is the only country in the world that issues laws like
this.

On its website, the Organ Transplant Support Center listed the typical
waiting period for each major organ. According to the list, livers and
kidneys can be provided within one to two weeks, with the longest
waiting time of around one month; for hearts and lungs, the waiting
period is about one month. Moreover, the website promised that if the
organ found is not the right match for the patient, the center will find
another one within a week.

Obtaining fresh organs in China is disturbingly easy and quick,
especially when you consider that in all other parts of the world people
have to wait many years for an organ transplant. Experts say that the
only possible explanation is that a huge number of living people are
used as convenient organ sources.

According to the Center's website, China had conducted 85,000 organ
transplants by 2006, and in 2005 alone 12,000 were conducted. This
number is many times higher than that of executed prisoners in China
according to official statistics.

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