Chinese businessmen quietly monopolize the "death" of the Japanese: they can't get rid of even death

Mar 28 2025

Recently, a Japanese netizen posted a nearly collapsed comment, "Why can't you get rid of China until you die!" It caused a lot of comments and likes.

  According to domestic media, Chinese businessmen have quietly monopolized the "death" of the Japanese. Domestic stone companies have dominated the Japanese tombstone market. As the core production area, Hui'an County, Fujian Province has become the main supplier of tombstones in Japan with its high-quality granite resources and millennium stone carving technology.

According to data from Hui'an County Government, the granite reserves in Hui'an County exceed 100 million cubic meters, and its stone has the characteristics of weather resistance and corrosion resistance. In addition, the county's stone carving skills are very exquisite and were listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. In recent years, the main import of Japanese stone manufacturers is no longer granite raw materials, but finished tombstones.

In addition to Fujian enterprises, enterprises in Shandong, Shanghai and other places also occupy an important share in the Japanese funeral service market. For example, Luo Yiwen holds 6 of the 9 crematoriums in Tokyo's 23 districts, and "burns" nearly 100,000 Japanese people every year.

Cultural research experts say that the homologousness of funeral culture in China and Japan provides Chinese companies with market advantages. The Japanese "Crown and Wedding Festival" etiquette system originates from the traditional culture recorded in China's "Book of Rites". This cultural commonality lowers the market entry threshold and allows domestic funeral merchants to gain a foothold in the Japanese market faster.

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