any standardized way to write Japanese honorifics in English/Romaji??

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1. I’ve usually seen -san as the accepted romanization

2. It doesn’t make any sense to have capitalized S in san. Just adding “san” to a name would be sufficient.

   I don’t get the tid bits about documents…. Since I don’t know the context, I’ll just point out that ‘san’ is not an universal suffix you can use for everyone. And it’s rare to use it in documents other than friendly written communication to your equals or very familiar people.

3. i have only ever seen the last one used

   >Takeda-san

   i work at a japanese bank

4. I haven’t seen it romanised many times but the times I have it was always -san