Some say they want to stamp their marriage notification forms with personal seals to make them keepsakes. The Justice Ministry plans to end the mandatory requirement for hanko in procedures ...

She wanted the workers to carve all 80 characters on one personal “hanko” seal that was only 1.2 centimeters across, smaller than a 1-yen coin. The seal manufacturing industry has been facing ...

For hundreds of years, Japanese people have used name stamps, known as hanko, to sign their name. People use hanko in everyday situations, such as receiving a parcel, and in formal contexts ...