Why do the japanese read from back to front?
Yeah, that’s an adaption from the Chinese Reading system. If you read Chinese scrolls or books, you’ll eventually realize that everything is from right to left, whereas other countries read from left to right. Truly, Japan adapted their culture, art, music, calligraphy, etc from China, so you’ll see a lot of similarity between the two countries. In fact, Korea and Vietnam are also like that. So really, the Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese adapted many things from the Chinese. I guess you can see these countries are very much connected culturally and historically.
