Japanese Phrases
Japanese Has No Safe Word for You
Anata is not the polite you. What to call a waiter, a clerk, a stranger and a coworker when you have no name, and why job titles do the work.
Japan Know How archive
japanese honorifics
Japanese Phrases
Politeness Is a System, Not a List of Words
Japanese politeness runs on apology, hedging, timing and silence long before it reaches honorific verbs. Seven habits that work with plain forms.
Anime & Manga
Japanese Honorifics in Anime: -san, -kun, -chan and the Rest
Nine forms of address, what each one claims, and why the moment a character drops the suffix is a plot event that English subtitles cannot show you.