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Yoroku: Let's not allow Japan to slip into a horizontal writing-only world

"It was more than 100 years after the arrival of the Dutch that the study of horizontal letters began." What Japanese scholar Sugita Genpaku (1733-18

  • Horizontal writing became dominant after Meiji Restoration in 1868
  • 30% of respondents in survey don't encounter vertical writing daily
  • Japan skillfully uses both vertical and horizontal writing contexts

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