Certain transactions, including mortgages, require paying a tax in Japan. You buy a stamp from the government and affix it to the document; existence of stamp proves the tax was paid. The tax on a mortgage is not small, and the clerk was worried I was mixed up in a fraud.
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Because You Know Who are, of course, utterly incapable of producing a one page document with Big Bank written on top which says "Mr. McKenzie, as discussed previously, buy some stamps." But whatever. Anyhow: correct denomination was not in stock; trying again another day.
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It's a real shame that we don't have a certifiable chain of trust for certain regulated authorities. I'd really like a nice https-esque green lock when doing bank transfers.
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