PALO ALTO, U.S. -- After nearly 200 years, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Japan's biggest lender, is slowly saying goodbye to the hanko, the carved personal stamps that Japanese customers have used in lieu of signing bank documents since the 1800s.
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