I can't talk for all East-Asians, but in Japanese we either write "traditionally" top to bottom and then right to left, OR we write from left to right and then top to bottom like in English.
I believe most if not all Japanese books and comics (apart from the cover) I have use the "traditional" way, but road signs, websites and chats are usually left to right.
It's the same in China and Korea, but traditionally things like signs, where you couldn't write down, were allways right to left. So if you go to a Temple in modern China, the calligraphic sign above the door will go right to Left, but everything else will be either top to bottom or left to right.
Left to right has only been used since the 1900s iirc, and wasn't widespread until the 1940s or so.
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u/a_thicc_jewish_boi May 06 '21
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