A Chinese content creator is in Japan doing 遺品整理 (sorting the belongings of the deceased), filming it, and putting the private contents of dead people’s lives online for views.

He has also been scattering human ashes.
This is not “work.” This is not “content.”

This is desecration of the dead for clout.

The dead cannot consent. Their families cannot consent. Turning someone’s final belongings and remains into online entertainment is vile. Japanese society has strict cultural and legal expectations around how the deceased are treated.

This person is violating them for engagement.

Japanese people: please amplify this. These videos should not stay inside Chinese platforms. The more Japanese eyes that see this behaviour, the better.

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The deeper reason many Chinese nationalists under the current government carry this particular intensity of hostility toward Japan is not primarily about 1937–45 itself.

The Chinese Communist Party spent most of the war against Japan fighting the Nationalists (KMT), not the Japanese.

While Nationalist armies and ordinary Chinese civilians absorbed the overwhelming majority of the conventional fighting and casualties, the CCP focused on expanding its base areas and preparing for the civil war that followed.

Japan surrendered to the Allies — including the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek — not to Mao.

After 1949 the Party rewrote the history so that it became the main force of resistance. That rewritten story requires constant reinforcement. The result is a political culture that still nurses the grievance that Japan never “surrendered to the Communists,” and that treats any Japanese success or dignity as an unfinished insult.

What looks like pure historical anger is often guilt and insecurity wearing a nationalist mask. They did not carry the main burden of resisting the invasion, so they must overcompensate — sometimes to the point of fantasising about a “round two” to finally prove they fought Japan.

The individual behaviour of this content creator and the broader political psychology are not unrelated.

Both treat Japanese people and Japanese dead as props.