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[Laraul]

Japaneses read books from back to front.

Yes, because they read vertical text from right to left. They adopted horizontal writing from the West which is why it reads left to right.

In many video games they normally have their camera controls in reverse.

I've never noticed...

They use O as the action button and X to cancel and westerners are use to the reverse.

O for Confirm and X for Cancel was the standard layout for both sides of the Pacific till FFVIII. Then for some reason it swapped. I don't understand why it changed or whose idea it was (maybe EA's). On an XInput controller (360 controller) A is "green" and B is "Red" and yet there is no standard. Some games use XO/AB for confirm and Square,Triangle/XY for cancel.

They have their date structured YYYY/MM/DD

U.S. is MM/DD/YYYY
Canada/UK/Everyone else but U.S. uses DD/MM/YYYY or similar.

NONE OF THIS IS RELEVANT!