Board Thread:Translation Corner/@comment-18812574-20140111064008/@comment-1493741-20140208190126

Personally, I do it on a character-to-character basis, honourifics are a somewhat formal practice so, someone who's not really into that kind of thing wouldn't really use it and so on.

But I'd feel it mostly all boils down to how you take it and want to apply it. I view San (Its equivelancy aside) as being something you would simply omit when speaking in English because it doesn't often translate well given the differences between formalities and such between Japan and elsewhere. But you might view it differently and should apply it how you feel is best, I'm pretty sure most people would accept any approach in the situation pretty easily.

(I'd also say Yamamoto is more fitting of -dono given his station, but that's just me)