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Originally Posted by Zoro
how about books?? Or are books just 50/50 vertical and horizontal. (excluding traditional literatures)
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Books are almost always read back to front, and writing is almost always vertical.
Newspapers, though written vertically are read front to back though. It's just like the Japanese not to stick to a single system
Sometimes on cars, stands or shop signs you can find Japanese or Chinese written right to left horizontally:
ーシクタ = タクシー (ixaT = Taxi)
ばそんどう = うどんそば (aboS & nodU = Udon & Soba)
But it's not common.