Line wrapping in Japanese

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I’ll just copy something I’ve written before on this subject:

Spaces when writing?

Also worth noting that Japanese children are taught to write essays using special grid paper (genkoyoushi) where they write in every box one hiragana or kanji character or punctuation mark. When you get to the last box on a line, you continue to the next line. So there’s no concept of breaking between words as there is in English. [image]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Genkoyoshi.svg/512px-Genkoyoshi.svg.png

And once again (so it embeds) here’s that image:

(and the key that goes with it)
Correct use of genkō yōshi (400 square sheet shown):

1. Title on the 1st column, first character in the 4th square.
2. Author’s name on the 2nd column, with 1 square between the family name and the given name, and 1 empty square below.
3. First sentence of the essay begins on the 3rd column, in the 2nd square. Each new paragraph begins on the 2nd square.
4. Subheadings have 1 empty column before and after, and begin on the 3rd square of a new column.
5. Punctuation marks normally occupy their own square, except when they will occur at the top of a column, in which case they share a square with the last character of the previous column.