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名刺 — the object you are not allowed to put away
A Japanese business card is treated as standing in for the person, and the handling rules follow from that. Both hands, your own card lower than theirs if they outrank you, the text facing them, and you read theirs properly before doing anything else. You do not put it in your pocket, write on it in front of them, or slide it under your notebook: it goes on the table in front of you, laid out in the seating order, and it stays there for the whole meeting so that you can use it to remember who is who. Japan gets through an estimated several billion 名刺 a year, which is why the card-case industry exists and why 森's first question was whether Alex had one.