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A person receives a package or is filling out a contract. However, there's a delay, because they can't find their
This may seem strange to Westerners, but Japan, like several other countries including China, does not actually consider a signature to be sufficient to complete a legally binding document. A person requires a specifically designed stamp, also called a chop, registered with the municipal offices, in order to identify themselves. These stamps, referred to in various contexts as ''hanko'', ''inkan'', ''mitome-in'', or ''jitsu-in'', and are usually used with red ink to mark a document.
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* Adron's personal seal is an important plot point in the [[Dragaera]] novel ''The Phoenix Guards''.
* An example of the western version appears in [[Dan Brown]]'s novel ''[[Deception Point]]''. [[Strawman Political|Evil Conservative]] [[Alliteration|Senator Sedgewick Sexton]] places self adhesive wax seals on manilla envelopes {{spoiler|which contain "evidence" that the president was behind a vast conspiracy to...[[It Makes Sense in Context|make it look like aliens exist]]}} to <s> make himself even more insufferable</s> impress the journalists he plans to hand them out to.
* A package being delivered, and the subsequent search for the seal, takes the place of the opening sequence in the first episode of ''[[Seven of Seven]].'' It also allows us to see the deliveryman get totally freaked out, and prove that voice actors can count to seven and deliver [[Title Drop
* In ''[[Dune]]'', the signet ring of House Atreides is mentioned.
* In the movie "A Taxing Woman" tax evaders use all sorts tricks to hide the extra personal seals associated with their hidden bank accounts.
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