Makes sense. Japan’s business culture is world famous for being weird as shit.
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parpol@programming.dev 4 months agoOh, digital contracts. They haven’t really taken off in Japan. We still use plain old stamping on physical paper here.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ExLisper@linux.community 4 months ago
Non-business culture as well.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
All cultures are weird as shit when you look at them from the outside.
(No, I am not excluding myself. There are plenty of people that could easily consider me weird as fuck but I rather enjoy that, so it kinda works out in the end.)
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I thought Hanko was slowly being retired for regular transactions and only being preserved for big events like marriage / new house purchase.
parpol@programming.dev 4 months ago
The jitsu-in is required for marriage and purchasing property.
The ginko-in is required for signing stuff as a business.
The mitome-in is required by all Japanese for signing anything.
The ginko-in and mitome-in are still required everywhere. I’ve never been sent an online doc that I could sign with an online service or blockchain, nor have I heard from anyone about it. It’s always a letter that I have to place my mitome-in on and send back.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Oh, Japan! Don’t you ever change.
mlen@awful.systems 4 months ago
Switzerland requires “wet” signatures too
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
That description makes weird pictures in my brain.
mlen@awful.systems 4 months ago
Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.