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Japanese Company President Changes His Dislike for Music After Shen Yun

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Japanese Company President Changes His Dislike for Music After Shen Yun
Mr. Hitomi Kazuhiro, a company president, attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 25, 2023. Annie Gong/The Epoch Times
TOKYO, Japan—A Japanese entrepreneur said he disliked music, but watching Shen Yun Performing Arts, he felt cured of his daily troubles by Shen Yun’s music.

He found it beautiful and touching, and changed his notions about music.

“My daily life is work every day. Listening to Shen Yun, I temporarily forgot all the mundane worries,” said Mr. Hitomi Kazuhiro, a company president, after attending Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo on Jan. 25.
Mr. Hitomi said Shen Yun’s music resonated with his heart and relaxed him thoroughly, and changed what he thought music could do.

“When I heard the music, I simply felt that classical Chinese music is very tuneful and uplifting. Actually, I didn’t like music before,” he said. “I also learned today that erhu (a two-stringed instrument) is a special instrument from China.”

Mr. Hitomi said he couldn’t articulate the feelings the erhu music brought up, and was surprised that he enjoyed the music very much.

Attending Shen Yun, Mr. Hitomi changed another notion.

“I had a bad impression of China. But I understand that we should share our excellent culture with each other after attending Shen Yun,” he said. “The traditional culture that Shen Yun presents is very profound.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and has a mission to show the beauty and goodness of “China before communism.” For 5,000 years China’s civilization was built on values and virtues from the spiritual teachings of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The virtues that China’s civilization was built upon are loyalty, propriety, wisdom, justice, and benevolence—values that are universal and shared the world over.

Mr. Hitomi said Shen Yun is eye-catching and inspiring.

“The gorgeous costumes are very beautiful. The male dancers are masculine and valiant, and presented a powerful force. Their dances are majestic. The female dancers are so delicate and graceful,” he said. “I really appreciate Shen Yun for giving me so many nice things.”

“I was deeply enchanted,” he said. “I believe there are lots of people are like me who are fascinated by Shen Yun.”

‘Divine’ Dancing

Mr. Shino Isao, a company president, said all Shen Yun dancers are “super genius,” and Shen Yun is “divine’s dance.”

The name “Shen Yun” means the “beauty of divine beings dancing,” and Mr. Shino agreed completely.

“The performance is perfect. It’s beyond all my expectations,” he said after attending Shen Yun in Tokyo on Jan. 25.

Mr. Shino said all dancers were very talented, their skills and techniques the best in the world, and their rhythms and synchronizations very accurate.

“No dancer in the world can dance better than Shen Yun dancers,” he said. “I felt that they are very kind.”

Mr. Shino said that he wanted to attend Shen Yun again.

‘I Felt I Was in Heaven’

Mr. Terasawa Tadao, the former president of a real estate company, said that Shen Yun presented a paradise in front of audiences. He felt he was inside heaven for those two and a half hours.

“From the lifting of the curtains, it was like I had left this material world,” he said. “I felt I was in heaven, a land from my dreams.”

Mr. Terasawa said the performance was even better than he expected.

He said he was surprised by the live orchestra and described it as “very powerful,” which felt like therapy for the soul.

Each Shen Yun performance consists of nearly 20 vignettes, presented through highly-expressive art forms such as classical Chinese dance, original orchestral music performed live, soloists who sing in the bel canto tradition, animated digital backdrops, and more.

Reporting by Epoch Times Staff in Tokyo, Japan.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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