Sunday, July 5, 2009

Getting a registered Hanko

My Hanko cost about 4000yen it was the cheapest available. Make sure you let the owner of the Hanko shop know that the stamp is to be registered as there are rules on size etc for registered stamps.
Next there was so much miss information on the Internet that I had to have 2 stamps made. City hall rejected the first one. They said that your stamp had to contain either your last name, full name or first initials and last name. I went with last name as the less characters the cheaper the stamp. It cannot be written in Romaji, it must be katakana.
I would suggest checking with your local city hall first to make sure, as they may differ.

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