We recently merged with another company, and because of a huge customer of theirs (now ours) in Japan we now have for the first time Japanese coworkers I sometimes have to support. They all type English fluently, but my question is more cultural.
Since I am an old weeb, I know that in Japan they use the family name like we do given names, and they use suffixes to show various levels of respect which, if I remember right, is -san by default in professional settings.
My question is, when I communicate with them should I refer to them as LastName-san or would that come off as too try-hard?
by TheBigBeardedGeek