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Signature = Stamp w/ Red Ink
'Inkan' = stamp. Used for signing/approving official documents. It's your signature using kanji from your last name.
Funny story, I'm finalizing paperwork for my new apartment and forgot to bring my 100yen Inkan. The agent said go next door and there's a shop(like Long's, but way-way-way smaller) that sells them. I go there and found out they don't sell em anymore. I go back to the agent and she tells me there's an Inkan senmonten(specialty shop) next to the shop I just went to ... OK ... <thought>why didn't you send me there in the 1st place</thought>. The senmonten's got two stands of Inkans outside the shop. 100 yen Inkans and 250 yen Inkans. But these stamps don't have built-in red ink like my 100yen inkan. I ask the lady for the built-in ink inkans and find out that stamps w/ built-in ink can't be used for official documents. I think to myself what's the diff. Since they both only cost 100 yen, I'd rather have the stamp w/ built-in ink. Maybe I'm value conscious or something, but seems silly to me. Also, the fact that you can just go to the Inkan shop and pickup an OFFICIAL stamp for 100 yen without anykind of registration process. Maybe cause it's only 100 yen. Maybe I should've gotten the 250 yen one. Maybe I should stop bit$%ing.
The moral of the story is: Don't leave home without your Inkan(the non built-in ink version) when you gotta sign papers.
And watchout for forgery?
1:38:05 PM
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