Can you read this? → A 〇〇 newspaper near Nishinomiya-Najio Station written right-to-left [Nishinomiya Photo]

Answer: “The 〇〇 Newspaper near Nishinomiya-Najio Station is written right-to-left”(“rua” was backwards <m(__)m>)

The logo on the Asahi Shimbun sales office building, located very close to Nishinomiya-Najio Station, is written from right → left.

Here it is↓

But “Najio NEWs Station” uses horizontal English-style lettering all over the place.

By the way, right-to-left horizontal writing is the prewar style.That said, it seems the current left-to-right horizontal writing wasn’t nonexistent back then either

Rather than horizontal writing, it seems it was vertical writing with one character per line.

There was an easy-to-understand tweet about it.

昔って横書きを左から右じゃなく右から左に読んでたんだよな～。いつごろ変わったんだろ？と思って調べてたら。昔のは横書きではなく、縦書きを一文字づつ配置しているという概念だったらしい。つまりこういうふうに読む。 pic.twitter.com/Wl8yepT1Ms

— 後藤羽矢子 (@hayakogoto) February 19, 2016