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**himecthekWiff** · 09-24-2007, 05:07 AM

Out of interest, what do you guys in Japan have on your hanko? Your name in katakana, an abbreviation or kanji?

My council office advised me to have mine EXATCTLY as shown in my passport (i.e. Roman letters) as, according to them, some districts and institutions frown upon a jitsu-in that can't be matched to a name on a legal document. Costs a fair bit to make - 11 letters, and you can't get one at the 100 yen shop!! My daughter's is in katakana - again, not cheap at 7 symbols -, as that's how her name appears on all the Japanese legal documentation (except her passport, and that required a special application so that our surnames would be identical)

Mingshi, do you think you could give us the characters in modern script? Just curious as to what the first and last ones are.

09-24-2007, 05:07 AM	#19
himecthekWiff Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 374 Senior Member	Out of interest, what do you guys in Japan have on your hanko? Your name in katakana, an abbreviation or kanji? My council office advised me to have mine EXATCTLY as shown in my passport (i.e. Roman letters) as, according to them, some districts and institutions frown upon a jitsu-in that can't be matched to a name on a legal document. Costs a fair bit to make - 11 letters, and you can't get one at the 100 yen shop!! My daughter's is in katakana - again, not cheap at 7 symbols -, as that's how her name appears on all the Japanese legal documentation (except her passport, and that required a special application so that our surnames would be identical) Mingshi, do you think you could give us the characters in modern script? Just curious as to what the first and last ones are.
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