Seal／Inkan Registration

更新日：2023年9月28日

Seal registration enables you to use your personal seal (Inkan or Hanko) to verify official documents. In Japan a personal seal is used like a signature.
The application for seal registration should be made out to our Resident Registration Division.

How to apply

Apply in person

If you bring all of the necessary items with you in person, then you can complete your registration and receive your seal registration card on the same day.

Apply in person
Requirements
  • Seal that you wish to register (that aligns with either your first name or surname or both as it appears on your resident registration)
  • ID with your photo issued by Japanese authorities (Residence card, special permanent resident certificate, driver’s license, passport, Individual Number (My Number) card, etc.)

Apply by proxy

When it is impossible to apply in person under unavoidable circumstances, application by proxy is accepted.
After the application, we will send a letter of inquiry to your registered address in order to confirm your identity, and to confirm that you really intended to register your seal.
At the second visit to our office with the necessary items, your seal registration will complete.

  • Note: Your seal registration certificate can be issued on the day of your second visit. But please be advised that it may take several days for your registration to be completed because we must confirm your identity by mail.
Apply by proxy
Requirements  
At the first visit
  • Letter giving authority of the proxy to represent (written by the person who wishes to register his/her seal)
  • Seal that he/she wishes to register (that aligns with either your first name or surname or both as it appears on your resident registration)
At the second visit
  • Letter of inquiry (written by the person who wishes to register his/her seal)
  • Seal that he/she wishes to register (that aligns with either your first name or surname or both as it appears on your resident registration)
  • ID material of his/her proxy (Driver’s license, health insurance card, etc.)

Seal registration card (inkan toroku-sho)

A seal registration card will be issued to those who have registered their seals. If you need a seal registration certificate, please bring your seal registration card or Tokushima citizen card (the previous “seal registration card”). Without one of these cards, a seal registration certificate cannot be issued. If you lose your card, you have to re-register your seal.

For Inquiries

Resident Registration Division (Jumin-ka) TEL: 088-621-5134

総務課

〒770-8571　徳島県徳島市幸町2丁目5番地（本館6階）
電話：088-621-5021
ファクス：088-654-2116