The ink’s still drying, but the shrinking “hanko” seal industry may have found an unlikely savior amid Japan's push to go paperless: international tourists. In early May, Rachel Grey and ...

Elton Ilirjani, the Albanian supermodel, LGBT activist, and trailblazing genderbending fashion icon, made a striking a ...

Hanko is ubiquitous in Japanese society, used in at least 10,000 government processes, including driver's license applications and tax returns. Its use is mandated by law in some of these cases ...

When Japanese government officials decided to shift ... which remains mired in the "hanko" stamp seal culture. The “electronic contract” GEPS system was used in only 1 percent of the public ...

But a shift away from hanko would be bad news for the companies that make or sell them. Kobayashi Akio, chairman of the Japan Seal & Stamps Business Management Association, says he doesn’t ...

Around 140 volunteers in Hanko spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday along the town's long shoreline, cleaning away the white clumps of a yet-to-be confirmed substance that washed up from the sea last ...

The mass death of small fish that washed up on the shoreline of Hanko this week was likely caused by a fishing trawler, local fire chief Clas Tallberg told news agency STT on Friday. Authorities have ...