“Seals have been required on important documents as common practice in Japan, dating to the Meiji Era (1868-1912),” Kamikawa said. But retaining spaces to stamp with a hanko on forms may ...

A turquoise seal and its stamp from the pre-Qin period (before ... Kazunori Matsumura, a Japanese researcher specializing in ancient Chinese sealing clay, was excited and felt at home in China ...

A jade stamp and seal, with two characters xiang liao (a ... who was a researcher at the Tokyo National Museum, that few people in Japan were studying sealing clay and pottery texts," Matsumura ...

One man’s story about life in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation The top boss usually stamps their seal upright on the left of a document, with lower-ranking employees all tilting their ...

Japan’s state minister in charge of administrative ... 2 that the “hanko” stamp seal requirement will be removed from much of the country’s administrative procedures, following the results ...