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 ...

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 ...

With modernization of Japanese society from the 1870s, more ordinary people adopted seals and they evolved into a requirement for every citizen. The coronavirus crisis has changed that.

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 ...