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About this I've been wondering. The first time I came to know the existence of japanese honorifics was with the movie "the Karate kid" (1984). It is a story of a young boy who meets an old japanese man. Later that man becomes his "sensei" and teaches him Karate.
Now, I don't know how this was done in the original, but I remember clearly that the old man always addressed the young boy as "Daniel-san", and we are talking about an hollywood movie that was released worldwide in theaters.
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