(Letterhead)
September 14, 1996

Dr. Anthony Johnson
Product Research Laboratory
Nucor
1789 Telegraph Road
Crawfordsville, IN 58936
USA

Dear Dr. Johnson:
I hope your work has been going well since I met you last year at the ISIJ conference in Japan. I greatly appreciated the opportunity to discuss your research into hot rolled steel sheets. Thank you for taking time with me after your presentation.
In December, Mr Hiro Nishikawa, a colleague of mine for the past six years, will attend the AIME Steel Making Conference in Chicago. He has been studying the effect of temperature and carbon content on hot rolled steel sheets. As you are also doing research in the same field, he would greatly appreciate the opportunity to meet with you for discussion. If you are available during the week of December 10, he would like to visit your laboratory in Crawfordsville. Please let me know if there is a convenient date and time for this.
Thank you very much for your time. I hope to hear from you sometime in October so that Mr Nishikawa can plan accordingly.
I look forward to meeting you here in Japan in the future. Please send my regards to Mr. Tom Anderson whom I also met at the conference last year.

Sincerely yours,

(Signature)

Fujio Yamada