Category: funeral industry

Surge in Recruitments at Funeral Homes Across China Reveals a Far Greater COVID Death Toll

January 23, 2023
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News Analysis Funeral homes in China have been actively recruiting new employees and temporary staff amid the major COVID-19 outbreak, with a surge of job postings appearing all over domestic employment websites. Experts and Chinese crematorium workers say China’s COVID death toll is vastly underreported. As China battles the infection surge that followed its lifting…

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Concerns Raised Over Chinese Near-Monopoly of Tokyo’s Funeral Industry: Executive

November 8, 2022
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Japan has become the go-to market for Chinese businesses wanting to expand through acquisitions there. In addition to acquiring the oldest home appliance store Laox and turning it into a popular duty-free store for tourists, Chinese investors have snatched up hotels that struggled during the pandemic and recently come to a near monopoly of Tokyo’s…

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