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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 02:42:42 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

Reading manga and it makes me wonder… does japan still actually uses physical bank *books*?

Like this kind of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passbook
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  Passbook
  
  A passbook or bankbook is a paper book used to record bank or building society transactions on a deposit account. Traditionally, a passbook was used for accounts with a low transaction volume, such as savings accounts. A bank teller or postmaster would write the date, amount of the transaction, and the updated balance and enter his or her initials by hand. In the late 20th century, small dot matrix or inkjet printers were introduced that were capable of updating the passbook at the account holder's convenience, either at an ATM or a passbook printer, either in a self-serve mode, by post, or in a branch. History Passbooks appeared in the 18th century, allowing customers to hold transaction information in their own hands for the first time. Until then, transactions were recorded in ledgers at the bank only, so customers had no history of their own deposits and withdrawals. The passbook, which was around the size of a passport, ensured that customers had control over their own information, and was called a "passbook" because it was used as a way to identify the account holder without needing further identification...
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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 02:46:56 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @2ch Holy shit
  
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  huch (2ch@touhou.vodka)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 02:46:57 JST huch
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  @lanodan yes.
  
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  muxelplexer (muxelplexer@larkspur.one)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 02:50:16 JST muxelplexer
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  @lanodan these are still common in Austria for children saving accounts
  
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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 02:51:44 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @muxelplexer Huh, meanwhile I don't think it's even an option anymore in France like seems to have been stopped in 2008.
  
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  muxelplexer (muxelplexer@larkspur.one)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 03:38:27 JST muxelplexer
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  @lanodan the last flat i had i gave my rent deposit as a passbook actually and that was 2020 :D
  
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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 03:41:41 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @muxelplexer Huh sure you're not confusing it with Cheques? (which are still a thing, although I've yet to use one)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque
  
  Bankbooks are more like accounting than transactions.
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    Cheque
    
    A cheque (or check in American English) is a document that orders a bank, building society, or credit union, to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, known as the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing, checking, or share draft account) where the money is held. The drawer writes various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay the amount of money stated to the payee. Although forms of cheques have been in use since ancient times and at least since the 9th century, they became a highly popular non-cash method for making payments during the 20th century and usage of cheques peaked. By the second half of the 20th century, as cheque processing became automated, billions of cheques were issued annually; these volumes peaked in or around the early 1990s. Since then cheque usage has fallen, being replaced by electronic payment systems, such as debit cards and credit cards. In an...
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  muxelplexer (muxelplexer@larkspur.one)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 04:00:18 JST muxelplexer
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  @lanodan yup! it was incredibly useless for the rent deposit since it was literally a book for two entries (transfer in and transfer out)
  
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