TOKYO: Some Japanese office workers are facing a small, but insurmountable hurdle to staying home under the state of emergency declared in parts of the country over the virus: personal signature stamps.
A reliance on paper filing systems in parts of Japan's business world is forcing employees to go into work to put their unique seal on documents.
Advertisement Advertisement To do this they use tiny traditional stamps known as hanko or inkan - tools that date back centuries, but are still