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Originally Posted by Brainiac 5
Yes, people (who speak Japanese) can certainly read it either way. But for whatever it's worth, all the fiction books I've seen have been written top-to-bottom, right-to-left (tategaki).
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My favourite fact about Japanese writing: there exists tategaki which is one character high, which means it's effectively horizontal, right-to-left. You'll see this on the side of trucks, for example: left-to-right on the left side of the truck, and right-to-left on the right side. The Japanese have to be insanely flexible in their reading ability!