Today, Japan celebrates the publication of a new edition of Human Action in Japanese, with many improvements and beautiful packaging. The image below is the facilitator (Hiroshi Yoshdia) with a Mises tie, and the publisher with a Mises cap!
Source link: http://archive.mises.org/9498/human-action-in-japan/
Human Action in Japan!
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Cool,
Tom Woods should get his book – Meltdown – translated, since it would help the Japanese understand what happened with there economy.
Rad.
Be sure to also check out the AEN interview with Hiroyuki Okon from 1997. Interesting insights from an island insider.
Economic Wisdom
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Ideological Change In Japan!
We are seeing worldwide ideological change every day and everywhere!
The socialists, for example the Keynesians, are trying their best to use propaganda and to use oppression to keep people confused about economics. But they are failing and the truth is leaking out at an alarming rate!
Human Action is far, far too powerful an intellectual beacon to be able to suppress it or to keep the inherent human nature to seek from successfully finding it.
Go Japanese Miseseans Go!
Very nice! If the Mises Institute has any works translated into Korean or are planning to, please let me know!
I am too young to have lived in Mises time, and can only gleen a small bit of the man from his writings and the personal anecdotes of his contemporaries and students (thanks to Mises.Org), but I can only imagine the great pride he would have felt to see the continued influence of his works so long after his death. I base this off of the great joy I get from seeing these pictures which symbolize the reality that knowledge and truth is universal and undying; I’m sure Mises would be ecstatic at the broad influence he has had on the world.
I hope it’s translated from the preferred edition (2nd ed?) and not the non-preferred edition? (3rd?)
The battle of ideas continues. Did the Mises Institute have a hand in this? This is another step in promoting freedom.
Great news! Another 100 000 000 people within grasp…
Translations and (well read) voice books are great ways to help spread the message. The Mises Institute should already be a significant client for select companies/consultancies in those niches!
How about a Chinese translation. This would reach a rising economic power in a time of its beginning steps to a market based economy. Since they still maintain central planning they have a long way to go; but they are taking some very good steps; transferring state-owned banks and other organizations to private ownership and allowing various farmers to own their land. I am currently living in China and I think it would be great to get some Austrians on CCTV’s Dialogue program. It might get the idea moving that there are other “types” of economic thought.
This is just so cool!! Where in japan is this wonderful event celebrated? Are there any Austrian School related seminars or events in Japan at all? I would definitely be glad to attend and support and donate.
Dear Gold,
There are a few people here and there who are trying to get the ball rolling in Japan (Tokyo). Please do contact us if you would like to help. Nothing much done yet – it’s all in process. JTR has done some work already on the subject. Next “Austrian Econ” meeting is scheduled for October 25 (Monday) between 18h00 and 21h00.
Regards,
Marc
I’d love to meet these people. I live in Tokyo – are they in Wakayama or in the Kanto area?
Dear stevemcgee99,
There are a few people here and there who are trying to get the ball rolling in Japan (Tokyo). Please do contact us if you would like to help. Nothing much done yet – it’s all in process. JTR has done some work already on the subject. Next “Austrian Econ” meeting is scheduled for October 25 (Monday) between 18h00 and 21h00.
Regards,
Marc
Jeff,
I would like to know if this is a permanent Miseskreis or not, where they met and if they had a contact address of some sort.
I’ve tried to start up a Mises study group in Kobe using the English version, but have found it is too difficult for anybody but expats. I have the Japanese version on order…but it may prove, in turn, beyond my Japanese abilities!
Mark,
Quite a pleasure to read you. Kobe? Where about? Nice city it is.
We currently are a small group in Tokyo organizing regular meetings (along with other related groups, JTR, etc). We need all the help we can get so please do contact us (www.mises.jp was launched a few months ago but we’re still in the process of building a community).
Do you visit Tokyo at times?
Talk soon,
Marc
This is great. Lord knows Japan, like every other country, could use a readable version.
Given Japan’s 15+ year experiment with “quantitative easing,” I hope someone makes a translation of either “Theory of Money and Credit,” or “Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles.” That would be awesome.
Jeff, it looks like you’ve got a typo in the spelling of Mr. Yoshida’s name.
Interesting news.
Mises’ masterpiece goes Nippon!
Excellent news, it’s almost cynical to say that Japan is ripe for the Real Thing, …considering their ongoing malaise.
Just joined to post on the forums… asked about Japanese representatives of the Austrian school, and literature in Japanese, and was pointed to this article. Great news! But I need to follow up, as I was unable to find the book in stores so far.
Perhaps it would be nice to meet fellow interested people in Japan? I’m in Tokyo too (spent the last 10 years in Kyoto). Here’s the post I made in the forums in case anyone wants to chime in, meet up, etc.:
http://mises.org/Community/forums/p/7148/112764.aspx#112764
Gernot,
Please do contact us – we would love to have you join and help our growing community.
Cheers,
Marc
If anyone stumbles across this, let me note that a few of us are now in the process of forming a Mises/Austrian/libertarian circle in Tokyo. If you have the slightest interest or know anyone else who may, please by all means get in touch with me at the above email.
TT
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