> I can't watch this because I'm in Japan and its geoblocked but hanko can be convenient. - you can leave a hanko with an authorized person to sign on your beha

> I can't watch this because I'm in Japan and its geoblocked but hanko can be convenient. - you can leave a hanko with an authorized person to sign on your behalf (eg when you're a CEO traveling abroad). - you can unregister your hanko if it's stolen - as you said you can have multiple hanko for various purposes. For large purposes like buying a house, it will be verified against the hanko the you registered in your city > As a foreigner, you have the right to sign instead of use a hanko, but in use for banking or whatever, it is run through the same hanko verification OCR algorithms, meaning your transactions using signatures are sometimes flagged due to 2 slightly different signatures As someone who was required to sign something at the post office and literally sent home to practice their signature until it resembles one on an almost 10 years old ID, I thing I'd prefer a stamp. I would not get anything done.