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Transaction charges and a lack of customer demand mean few shops in his area accept cashless payments, he says.
For other people from my generation it’s a hurdle.”Japanese businesses are also drowning in paperwork, exemplified by the fact that fax is still widely used in Japan.
For more than 65 years he has been making hanko – small ink stamps used to authenticate documents the same way signatures are used in the West.
Every Japanese person has at least one hanko and it is mandatory to make a company hanko when opening a new business.
But increasing digitisation and efforts to reduce paperwork mean they aren’t required for nearly as many business processes as before, Sato says.