> In Japanese they write the numbers the same as in English ("4, 6, 8") Modern Japanese has two numeral systems - Arabic and Chinese. The Arabic numerals were

> In Japanese they write the numbers the same as in English ("4, 6, 8") Modern Japanese has two numeral systems - Arabic and Chinese. The Arabic numerals were introduced to Japanese relatively recently (only in the modern period). In pre-modern Japanese, only the Chinese numerals existed. In contemporary Japanese, Arabic numerals are more common, but Chinese numerals are still used in some contexts (especially texts written vertically) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals