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Example I have the english text "enjoy music" which from google translate
looks like this  
音楽を楽しむ where music is 音楽 , so can I do this  
  
を楽しむ -(enjoy)  
音楽 -(music)

flush left
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For laying out Japanese text in a piece of graphic design do you need to stick to some rules?
If your text will be laid out basically as shown in your post, you have the
grammar backwards -- English and Japanese put things in almost exactly the
opposite order, broadly speaking. So do this instead:

音楽を  
楽しむ

This works better both grammatically and graphically: Japanese text design has
a general bias towards things fitting neatly into boxes. :)

If you can do a vertical layout, do this:

```

    楽音  
    し楽  
    むを  
    
```

Note that you shouldn't rotate the characters, and that the first character is
at the top right. Vertical Japanese (and Chinese) is read top-to-bottom, then
right-to-left. Imagine if you just took an English book and turned it 90°
clockwise, but somehow each individual letter remained un-turned.

Meaning-wise, I'm not sure this says what you intend. The Japanese is just a
generic statement, _"`[someone: I, you, they, she]` enjoy(s) music"._ Is the
English intended as a command or request? If so, you'll have to change the
Japanese. One possibility:

音楽を  
楽しんで

or:

```

    楽音  
    し楽  
    んを  
    で
    
```
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