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Japanese professionals still use wooden stamp seals
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Despite living in a high-tech society, signing a document with a pen just doesn't carry the proper gravitas. The Hanko is a carved personal seal dipped in red ink, required to validate essentially any official paperwork. Losing your specific, registered wooden stamp is effectively the equivalent of misplacing your entire identity and having to legally prove you exist.
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