The central government has resigned itself to realizing that its effort to pry "hanko" out of the public's hands is unlikely to succeed anytime soon. So, it has decided to keep allowing the use of the ...

While a growing number of banks and government bodies now allow customers to handle their business digitally and do away with the traditional hanko seals (used in lieu of signatures in Japan), the ...

TOKYO -- Rules standing in the way of digitizing government in Japan, such as requirements to submit certain forms in person or with hanko stamps, could see their days numbered Wednesday when a key ...

There have been countless weird and wonderful products relating to Nintendo's IP, and Splatoon 3 is no different. Indeed, if you've been itching to get your hands on some Splatoon 3-themed hanko stamp ...

TOKYO — Japan's new prime minister is declaring war, but there's no danger of an international conflict: The target of his ire is the humble ink stamp known as hanko. It might seem paradoxical in a ...

Japan’s state minister in charge of administrative reform says government agencies will drop requirements for an official stamp from hundreds of document submission procedures in a sweeping effort to ...

Japan’s new prime minister is declaring war, but there’s no danger of an international conflict: the target of his ire is the humble ink stamp known as hanko. It might seem paradoxical in a country ...

Japan's new prime minister is declaring war, but there's no danger of an international conflict: the target of his ire is the humble ink stamp known as hanko. It might seem paradoxical in a country ...