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A foreign office worker holds a printed email and a wooden hanko stamp at a desk with three monitors and a fax machine in the corner.

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THE PAPERLESS OFFICE THAT PRINTS, STAMPS, SCANS AND EMAILS IT BACK

Inside the Japanese paperless office that prints a digital document, stamps it with a hanko, scans it back into a PDF and emails it to the person who sent it. Performed modernity wrapped around an Edo-period workflow.

26 June 2026000