Well if it's about the direction sentences are written in, then in traditional writing, be it for essays for schools or Japanese books/novels, the writing is written from top to bottom, starting from the right and ending on the left. So books, periodicals, comics are all read from the right page to the left. It's annoying handwriting essays from top to bottom using grid like papers because each letters and punctuations take up a box and it feels awfully awkward unless you're used to it.
Trivial fact related to this is that many Japanese comics like the famous Doraemon has been published (some are bootleg stuff) by printing the pictures oppositely so that the texts can be written from left to right in their own language.
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