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Respect for ones Office (Ex: daitōryō)

I had to change オバマ大プ統領 (President Obama) to トランプ大統領 (President Trump). I don't really care for President Trump either, but I still have respect for him and the office. This is not a political forum or a place to put political easter eggs. Save that for some other place. Wikipedia is a place for credible sourced facts and nothing more.

有り難うございます。 Inunotaisho26 (talk) 14:35, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Chan and Kun

I know that, technically, Chan can be used for children or babies of either sex. But my experience in Japan has been that Chan is regarded almost exclusively as a female marker. A baby or child, even a newborn, will usually be called Kun if male (e.g. "Taro-kun") or Chan if female ("Akiko-chan"). It's common for names to be shortened within the family using suffixes. For example "Motohiro" (a male name) might become "Mo-kun". "Akiko" (a female) might become "Aki-Chan". But calling a male baby or child Chan (or a female as Kun) would be generally odd and very unusual.

Since Kun is used even for male babies and very young boys, some older male pre-teens and teens are sensitive about it and regard it as condescending and childish if coming from an adult. They prefer San, which is more "adult" and respectful. Although this is also true for women, they seems less sensitive about it, and even college or adult women are sometimes addressed informally as Chan.

Since Chan is regarded as so feminine, it is also used in Gay speech, and Japanese (male) gay people may use Chan to refer to themselves or others. Gay men who do this often use other Japanese female speech conventions or words (atashi, ~kashira, ~wa at end of sentence, etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.110.193 (talk) 01:26, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Chan

I need clarification regarding "Chan". In the case of friends or close acquaintances, is the woman usually called by a man a little older than her, or is age indifferent? In several manga and anime I've seen, in some of these cases the two subjects in question (the woman two years older), then married, both use "San". In another case, with two work colleagues in love, the woman is two years older and calls the man with "Kun", while he calls her with "San"; always with the same age difference, a rock guitarist turns to his manager with "San", while she simply calls him by his name; or two close acquaintances (the woman six years older), both use "San". --79.16.232.81 11:46, 6 mag 2019 (UTC)