In Japan, the names of foreign people are written in katakana. It is the tool to convert your name in Roman letters into katakana, and to make it a seal (hanko). Names of English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French and other languages are supported, and the notations which are usually used are displayed as candidates.
1Make Your Name Into Katakana
Please choose the notation of your name from the candidates.
Characters to put on the seal
2Make The Seal
3Stamp On PDF (optional)
Open a PDF and press "Stamp", then the seal you made above is stamped. You can move the seal by dragging, change the size by the four corner handles, and the direction by the upper handle.
Please drag the PDF file to here.
The PDF file is not sent to anywhere.
※The seal made here is intended for the use on daily documents. It is not an electronic signature under the Japanese Act on Electronic Signatures.
How To Use
- Please input your name in Roman letters (alphabet). The accent marks (é, ñ, ü etc.) can also be used.
- Press "Make Into Katakana", then the candidates of katakana are displayed for each word. When you know the language of your name, please choose it in "Language" for more accuracy.
- Choose the notation and the "Characters to put on the seal", and the seal is completed. You can also choose the kind of seal and the typeface.
- Save it as an image by "Save As PNG Image", or open a PDF and stamp it.
Example: Michael is generally written マイケル in English, and ミヒャエル in German.
※There are other ways to write foreign names in katakana than the ones shown here. If your name is written in katakana on an official document such as the residence card, please use that notation.
※For the display and the saving of PDF, the open source pdf.js (Apache License 2.0) and pdf-lib (MIT License) are used. Please see the licenses here and here.
