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SPSIS-111.S-Oeneral SfBil-1 

lrlr. Curtis G. Benjudn, Vioe Preaidant 

l ioGraw-Hill Book ~, Inc. 

110 ~~eat Forty..aeocmd Street 

J{ew York,, New York 

Dea.r l~r. Bonj&min s 

J&n'UaJ.'1' 1,. 1948 

Rooeipt or your letter of Doc9l:lber 18, in oonnectior• with 

ProfeHor Yamae;1wa. 1s a.- book MCD&1l: CONVBRSA'l'IONAL JAPABESE, 

and receipt ot the CD?lplimentar,r copy or the text i• also 

aoknonledged. I wish I were in a po11tion to r.ake wortllllh11• oommen~a on tho pubHaa.tion,, but ! find this d11'1'1oult, beo&tl88 

the p:remsure or buaiDeH at th• preaont tinlie preolud.es all 

po11ibility· 01· taking the ti..'lle to give it th• attention whiah 

1t perh&pm deaene1. 

I very !mloh appreciate the courtesy ahown i.'"l sending MB a 

copy of the book,. whioh wUl have a plaoe in nv library. 

Very truq yours, 

Willier.m 1''. l'ried:nan 

Dii-eotor ot COJ&mUDioationa 

Reaearah 

pproved for Release by NSA on 03-27-2014 pursuant to E.O. 

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JAMES H MCGRAW JR 

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MARTIN M. FOSS 

Pll'U. LJENT 

JAMES S THOMPSON 

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CURTIS W MCGRAW 

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Dear Colonel Freidman: 

CURT1S G BENJAMIN 

FRANKL EGNf'R 

JOSEPH A HYLAND Pi.,"'IUU("T :Ill •• l•All' Mt NT 

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·i·{e are pleased to send you a complinentary copy of ECDE..11.r~ 

CCKVEHS.A'I'IOIJ&l.L .JAPA~'TESE, by .. Tosep.h K. Yarr:agiwa, DepartLlent o:f 

Oriental Languages, University of Mict.ican. 

This is the most comprehensive textbook on spoken Japanese 

yet written by an A.~erican and published in America. Its purpose is 

to give the student an adequate conversational ability in the modern 

informal Japanese languafe, as used today by re.embers of the middle 

class a.nd higher than middle class in Tokyo - it is their language 

which is accepted as the standard in Japan. Ne Japanese characters 

are employed, and the for~s of speech used are those of everyday 

conversation rather than the stilted ones used in W:L"iting. 

The first section of the book deals ·with promlnciation and 

is the ~ost extensive fou~d in any textbook published so far in 

English. The second section atter::pts an over-all view o:f .Japanese 

gramn:.ar. In the third section the various modes o:f expressi.ne case, 

tense, voice, m6.o.d, and so forth are taken up one by one. 'l'he book 

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the inclusion of En[lish equivalents for all .Japanese examples given. 

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CGB:HF 

very truly yours, 

~ ;ffe &_-A'~--·~-/ CYrtis G. Benj~~~ Vice President 

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