How do Japanese people sign their names?

Question

I ask, because we sign our names in our language's cursive. But Japanese doesn't have a cursive. So how do they sign their names? Just with characters? That must take long to sign their credit card receipts...

Answer 1

Japanese signs in different ways in different situations.In the most legal or proper way is using the "inkan", an ink stamp that bears their name.This inkan is unique for every person. (almost unique, hard to get the same with other people with same name). And this inkan is registered to the District Office or City Hall.
This inkan or also known as "hanko" is written in a calligraphic style.
People may recognize this inkan as a "seal".
People in Japan, China and Korea uses this "seal"

Other times Japanese people just write their names, just with characters...
And sometimes they just sign with their initials. For example, Junko Yamada is J.Y.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Japanese does actually have multiple cursive forms. Also, native speakers will often scrawl things near-illegibly, but not in any standardized cursive form.

As a non-native speaker, I find it to be a pain in the ***.

The other guys addressed the hanko.

Answer 3

when they sign an important document,they use a "stamp ink".. which is called "inkan"this stamp ink is specially made,curved with thier own surname in kanji(coz even tho they spell the same,they differ it with the use of another kanji) but when it comes to simple transactions,..they simply sign thier name,may it be in katakana,hiragana, or kanji(coz they have 3 ways of writing,phew!)like how we sign ours

Answer 4

a ton of symbols