Meanwhile, the Japanese Stationary Store Awards 2025 just happened [0].

[0]: https://www.fusosha.co.jp/special/bunbougu/

The Japanese are famiously behind everyone else in dropping hand writing. In part because their script is really hard to type (or so I'm given to understand), in part just culture. We can debate if hand writing is good or bad, but an outlier example is not part of any useful debate.