Japanese Pictures, Culture and People

You may recognise the ’san’ (さん) I added to the end of your name, the
closest we have to this in English is ‘Mr’ or ‘Ms/Miss/Mrs’, it’s a
polite suffix. You may not know that one cannot refer to oneself using ’san’
e.g.

Hi I’m Chris San - wrong
Hi I’m Chris - right

Japanese companies also have a similar suffix […]

Some good friends of mine put on an event called machi machi and invited me to be one of the “Artistes”. They also put on an event last year when I had just arrived here, it was a great night and full of entertainment.
This year though, they’d clearly moved up a step in event management […]