Japanese was originally written vertically, like Chinese, and only started being written horizontally after contact with the west.
shita no namae de yon de-hoshii 下の名前で呼んでほしい want to call by first name. (literally.) When writing one's full name, the name that comes last, at the bottom. (literally.) When writing one's full name, the name on that comes first, at the top. If a character is called Ayasaki Hayate, then his name is Hayate, and Ayasaki is his family.ĭue to the last name coming first, and what is written first being written above what is written last, there are two terms for "family name" and "given name" that refer to their positions in writing instead: In Japan, the family name (last name) comes before the given name (first name). In both cases, when writing the scroll, the shorter side determines the length of a single line: if a scroll is wide, it isn't written horizontally, but vertically, so lines can't be longer than the scroll's height, and if it's a tall scroll, it isn't written vertically, but horizontally, so lines can't be longer than its width. An ancient Chinese or Japanese scroll opens horizontally. A scroll in an European medieval fantasy setting is unrolls vertically, the reader opens it pulling one side down or up. The difference between the Japanese writing direction and the English one is also seen in how scrolls are depicted in stories. On the bottom-left there is a link for the next chapter, with an arrow pointing to the left. 
It goes more to the left as you progress. Note that these are at the start of the chapter, but the handle is toward the right side of the bar. The purple handle displays the current page, 4 and 5, respectively.The progress bar shows on the left that the chapter has 28 pages.
Context: two screenshots of an online manga reader with an user-interface that is counter-intuitive for native English speakers.
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