Teacher, director... What You Lose and What You Gain by How You Address People. How to Break Common Sense, as Seen in the Osaka Expo Pavilion's Use of "San"

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There was a news report that the foreign staff at the Expo Pavilion had adopted the Japanese honorific "san." Professor Iriyama will consider the difference in usage of "san," "kun," and "sensei" and think about the nature of human relationships, using examples from his own experience of being called "Akki-san" by students and the culture of calling each other by nicknames at Rohto Pharmaceutical.