By FUMIKO YOSHIGAKI/ Staff Writer
July 20, 2024 at 07:00 JST
“Hanko” seals gifted by the Kamakura city government to the vice mayor and mayor of Nice, France. Vice Mayor Christiane Amiel’s hanko, left, is engraved with a part of her name in katakana; Mayor Christian Estrosi’s hanko features his last name in phonetic kanji characters. (Fumiko Yoshigaki)
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. [Read More]
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