Ordered some Japanese books, and...

synce · (#1 (**permalink**))

The pages were ordered in your standard American way. No right-to-left business here. Is this common in Japan these days? The books ranged from 100-600 pages and were by different publishers so that's what makes me curious

Sashimister · (#2 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by synce

The pages were ordered in your standard American way. No right-to-left business here. Is this common in Japan these days? The books ranged from 100-600 pages and were by different publishers so that's what makes me curious

Horizontally written books > Same page order as in English. e.g. natural science books.

Vertically written books > Opposite page order. e.g. novels.

It has nothing to do with "nowadays".

synce · (#3 (**permalink**))

Ah that makes sense. Thanks for clearing things up