{"id":136049,"date":"2020-10-02T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=136049&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-02T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"fukuoka-city-eliminates-need-for-personal-seals-for-3800-procedures","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-city-eliminates-need-for-personal-seals-for-3800-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka City Eliminates Need For Personal Seals For 3,800 Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City has discontinued the use of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hanko <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seals for 3,800 paper-based procedures. Except for 900 procedures that carry national or legal requirements for personal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hanko<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, all other paperwork can now be processed without taking the trouble of bringing personal stamps to local offices. Reflecting on the increased need for online procedures to minimize the risk of spreading the new coronavirus infections, the city had moved up the schedule for this matter. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXMZO64328630Y0A920C2LX0000\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20200929\/k00\/00m\/010\/040000c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/data\/open\/cnt\/3\/77422\/1\/hankoresukanryou.pdf?20200929115153\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=5257488\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> KBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136050\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hanko.jpg?resize=1390%2C810&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1390\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hanko.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hanko.jpg?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hanko.jpg?resize=1024%2C597&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hanko.jpg?resize=768%2C448&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Except for 900 procedures that carry national or legal requirements for personal hanko, all other paperwork can now be processed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":136050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-136049","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/136049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}