Actually I own the stamp. Most adult residents of Japan have one; it has your name on it and serves like a signature. [I was just reading a Kurt Vonnegut thing where he says you should never use a semi-colon. I use them all the time, dude. It's like, sometimes you want two sentences to be together, but you just don't want to use a conjunction. Whatever shall you do? Who shall save you? The SEMICOLON will! It's like a punctuative superhero, a dynamo of derring-do. Anyway.) You have to have one to open a Japanese bank account. An option might be to BURN the stamp, but it's not the stamp's fault. Another option would be to steal the sheet I stamp in on... I'm not sure if I could get away with that, though, unless I could manage to steal it right before I get on the boat. Asking to take it with me just doesn't have the same "stickin' it to the man" oopmh, does it? Hmmm.