日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4

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Japanese Ask Questions Thread2
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1206158123/1-40

Japanese Ask Questions Thread3
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1267485093/1-40

So I already asked this on/jp/ but I was told to go here just to confim.  When sources say that Japanese is classified as a "right to left language" what exactly does that mean?  It can be written two ways correct?  Horizontal or Vertical?  I learned that when it is vertical you start at the top most right character read down and then go to the next most top character to the left and read down. Then you go left to the next page or section.  That makes sense.  Now, when it is written horizontally, you still turn the page left or go left to the next section but are the actual words still written left to right like in english?