explain

As for the books made in Japan, bookbinding is different from the foreign books.
In Japan, the book is read from the right page to the left page.
Therefore, when comics made in Japan are published in the foreign country, the picture is reversed.
All characters become left-handed, and the men is putting on woman's shirt.

Sentences of Japan are vertical writings though English is horizontal writing.
(However, horizontal writing is also possible)

In the comics of Japan, the reading method has some rules.
The box of the comics has the reading order.
The box of the comics is read like the above-image order.

This is an extreme example. The dialogues is not arranged usually in this manner.

Please look at a left image about the dialogue.
The dialogue is read in such order.
In the upper side, the priority level is high.
In the right side, the priority level is high in the second.

There is a case where the 10th and the 11th change places.
However, it is a mistake when strictly explaining.
(In addition, the 3rd and 4th positions are bad.)

These styles were established by Mr. Osamu Tezuka.

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When I read the comics of the foreign country, some misunderstanding concerning Japan were found.
Because this is very interesting, I explain them.

First of all, I write misunderstanding concerning Japanese clothes(Kimono).
I saw the woman who had put on Japanese clothes in the comics of foreign country.
In this Japanese clothes, a right collar was the above.
It is a mistake.

The collar of Japanese clothes is worn as shown in a left image.
A left collar is the above.
For Japanese clothes, in men and women, a left collar is the aboves.

Why does such misunderstanding occur?
Two causes are thought.
The first cause : They saw the reversed print.
The second cause : They did not notice the difference between "Method of wearing European clothes" and "Method of wearing Japanese clothes".

By the way, it is inauspicious to do a right collar up and to wear Japanese clothes. That's a very bad omen.
Because, it is clothes of the dead put in the coffin.
I encounter such costume players in the convention in the America. They might be Living Dead.(^ ^;)