Anthroponyms as address in Japanese

The article aims to study of anthroponyms as a reference in Japanese. Anthroponyms as forms of circulation and their functioning in the modern literary Japanese language were described and the socio-psychological factors influencing the choice of a certain form of appeal were considered as well as functional shifts in the system of forms of circulation of the Japanese language were investigated. The purpose of this study to describe and analyze the anthroponymic forms of addressing. On selecting material for the study, the method of random sampling was used. The article concludes that there is some difference in the use of anthroponyms as an address of the male and female speech versions of the language.