It can go left to right in certain places, but traditionally it is up-to down then right-to-left.
Traditional Japanese writing and most writing in letters are written up and down but going left to right: l s i o k e I t t ' h s I s although, if you do write from left to right, you don't have to write it up and down. So you can write it like the normal English way if you want.
Traditionally up-down, right-left; but it is now often read left-right, up-down.
It goes both ways actually, and there are names for both. 横書き (yokogaki), is the term for horizontal writing (written left to right, top to bottom) and 縦書き (tategaki) is the term for vertical writing (written top to bottom, right to left).
They write left to right if they write horizontally. When writing vertically they would write from right to left.
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Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and Persian. In some occasions, Greek, Latin, Chinese, and Japanese are written right to left. Writing right to left is more common in the Middle East.
It is written top to bottom, right to left.
Japanese is typically read from left to right, top to bottom, like English. However, traditional Japanese texts or manga may be read from right to left.
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you can wite from right to left with your left hand while writing left to right with your hand what does that mean
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Writing from right to left is associated with languages that are written in scripts like Hebrew or Arabic, which are read from right to left. This writing process is known as "right-to-left script."