Fujisawa, Japan August 30, 1962 Professor Ludwig von Mises 777 Westend Avenue New York 25, N. Y., U. S. A. Dear Professor Mises: Please excuse me for my long silence. I miss you and your seminar very much. How I wish there were no such a long distance between New York and Tokyo! I am very much interested in your recent work, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science. I earnestly wish to translate it into Japanese so that many of my fellow countrymen may be benefited by distinct understanding of epistemology and method- ology in economics. If you, as author, give me permission to translate The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science into Japanese and publish it in Japan, I would be very much obliged. On what terms could you give me the permission? Enclosed please find a copy of the formal permission from the William Volker Fund as holder of copyright on The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science. Our study group of economics in Tokyo will be started in October by a commemorative lecture by Dr. Katsuichi Yamamoto, fist economist in Japan that recognized the importance of your theory on economic calculation. He is now visiting Professor Roepke and West Germany. Please remember me kindly to Mrs. Mises. Very sincerely yours, Toshio Murata Toshio Murata Enclosure cc: Mr. H. W. Luhnow