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Sayaka Azuma sits at her desk in Tokyo, with her traditional hand seal, known as a hanko, visible on the desk in a blue velvet box.
A screengrab from the Inkans.com website shows advertisements for some of the personalized hand seals, or hanko, on offer.
He leads a parliamentary group dedicated to the preservation of hand seals.
"The root of the problem isn't hanko — it's our paper-centric office work culture," writer Soichiro Matsutani argued on Yahoo News.
A closely watched IT firm, GMO, has announced that it's stamping out use of hand seals for good.