Tuesday, 12th November 2024
Paper document culture in Japan
In Japan, you still need a lot of paper documents to complete procedures.
And those documents are stamped a lot.
A rubber stamp of the company's address.
A rubber stamp with the job title and name of the company representative.
And then there is a stamp, made of wood, of the company representative.
The wooden stamps are special and the Ministry of Justice certifies that the stamps are genuine, and the certification is also on paper.
But when you buy the paper to prove the stamp, you use a small plastic card.
It's kind of strange.
I stamped two different rubber stamps and an important wooden stamp on 57 documents at work today.
The rubber stamps are inked black on a black ink stamping pad.
The wooden stamps are inked with an orange, ink-like, oil-like substance on a round stamping pad.
The black stamp pad is old and I was exhausted because the stamped letters would become faded if I did not use a lot of force.
In Japan, there are paper documents and stamps.
That is the kind of country I live in.
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