Traditional Japanese books (tategaki) are read from top to bottom in columns, and right-to-left, so these books are read from "back cover to front" compared to English books.
Modern Japanese books called yokogaki are printed in the English format.
The original Japanese writing system (kanji) came from Chinese, and consists of pictograms that represent sounds. There are several thousand of these. But most modern Japanese is written using the scripts called kana (hiragana or cursive, and katakana, or angular).
カストロ /ka su to ro/ (the sound of 'u' is mitigated when reading the whole word)
the Japanese word for fire are "hi"
Bijitsu is the word for art in Japanese
To write the word garnet in Japanese you write ganetto. To say this word in Latin you say carbunculus and in Spanish you say granate.
ウィリアム (wi ri a mu) is Japanese way of writing and reading the name.
The word 'fox' in Japanese is狐 (kitsune).
龍
クローバー
wow is not a word
チョコレート
BHASWATI
get dressed