Seal in Japan falls in love with stuffed animal look-alike. It’s hard not to squeal when looking at these seals. By ABC News. March 3, 2017, 3:29 PM. 0:31.

In Japan and most of Asia, documents require a seal. The Japanese word for these stamps is a typically "hanko" (判子) or inkan (印鑑), and they've been used for over a thousand years. People's ...

Ecologists attempted to capture the seal in March, but he escaped through a gap in the nets they were using. Since appearing on the Tama river in August 2002, the bearded seal's movements have been ...

In a small, non-descript underground store in the Shibuya shopping and entertainment district, Mr Hideki Arami is hard at work carving a hanko, or seal, by hand. The youthful-looking 50-year-old ...

The practice of using stamps to seal official documents came to Japan from China nearly 2,000 years ago, but did not become a part of everyday bureaucracy until the late 19th century. Image ...