Is the Culture of Seals in Japan About to Be Abolished?
Will Covid-19 force Japan to throw away a century-long tradition?
4 min readApr 29, 2020
Japan has used seals for the past 2000 years. They are called “Inkan” (印鑑) or “Hanko” (判子) but for the sake of simplicity, we’ll stick with the common one: Hanko.