2006-12-05 23:26:28 · 13 answers · asked by SilentShadow 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No,, Up to down....
2006-12-05 23:29:13 · answer #1 · answered by Peace 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's mostly like Yozora said, traditionally Japanese was written vertically, top to bottom, from the right column of a page to the left. This is how most books, textbooks, and newspapers are still written today.
When it's written horizontally, it's from left to right, such as in contemporary magazines, advertisements, flyers, pamphlets, etc.
BUT when they first started writing Japanese horizontally, it wasn't left to right, but right to left! This is why if you visit some older sights in Japan like temples, you will see that the older signs there are written right to left. Also you can see this with exhibits in some museums.
My Japanese tutor is around 65, and he said that in his youth, many things in public view were still written right to left. Nowadays, almost nothing new is written that way. It's all left to right.
2006-12-06 19:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Big D 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes and no!
Traditionally Japanese text has always been written from top to bottom, starting on the right hand side of the page at what you would call the 'back' of the book, or newspaper, etc.
Nowadays however, quite a lot of Japanese writing goes from left to right, including the text that you get on the TV. Most is still in the traditional format of course, but there's a lot of left to right print about. Of course, on the internet it's easier to have writing going from left to right, and that's what happens on Japanese pages too. It's especially handy for the page scrolling!
2006-12-06 08:41:43 · answer #3 · answered by _ 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The text in Japanese novels or other books, even manga, newspapers and magazines is written vertically from the top right, to the bottom left of the page.
Mathematics and science text books are generally written horizontally from left to right.
In popular media, you will see both.
On the sides of a vehicle, like a bus, ambulance or delivery truck, it is not uncommon to see the words go horizontally from the front of the vehicle to the back. So one side is right to left and the other is left to right.
And of course on the front of an ambulance, it is horizontal and backwards so it reads left to right when you see the words in your rear view mirror.
2006-12-07 13:50:39 · answer #4 · answered by drj0402 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, Japanese is written from top to bottom in columns that go from left to right.
2006-12-06 07:30:35 · answer #5 · answered by Beeswax 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think Japanese is written left to right.
2006-12-06 07:30:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Big D is correct. Right to left when written top to bottom (the traditional way; easier when writing with brush and ink as people used to do) and left to write when written horizontally (dominant in recent years; pen/pencil/computer/word precessor-friendly).
2006-12-06 19:59:46 · answer #7 · answered by flemmingbee2 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
however, being smack in the middle of japan itself, it is written up and down. and the books are read from the back of a book where that starts a story to the front of the book where it ends the story.
2006-12-06 07:34:43 · answer #8 · answered by three_angels_n_i 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Top to bottom!!
^_^
and sometimes left to right
2006-12-06 09:34:44 · answer #9 · answered by kokoro_no_ureshii 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Like this:
J>A>P>A>N>E>S>E >>>>>> left to right!
2006-12-06 07:34:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Top to bottom, left to right....
2006-12-06 07:32:27 · answer #11 · answered by Urban Hermit 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋