Unfortunately, the Japanese aviation industry is a topic that does not command the same sort of attention that the Luftwaffe does in Anglophone scholarship. Edwin Dyer has a two-volume set on experimental Japanese aircraft and covers both the paper projects that would likely have never seen an airfield and the various prototypes of aircraft models produced by Japanese industry. Jiro Horikoshi's The Eagles of Mitsubishi gives an insider look at the Japanese aviation industry with a special emphasis upon the early years. More often than not, English-language studies of the Japanese aviation industry are enfolded into the larger study of the Japanese wartime economy and its larger, systemic faults. Akira Hara's chapter on Japan in Mark Harrison's anthology The Economics of World War II is a concise and informative description of the failures of the Japanese economy. Although he stretches his continuity thesis too far, Takashi Nishiyama's Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964 has a fair degree of information on aviation engineering and the endemic army-navy rivalry that severely hobbled the already strained Japanese war effort. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) devoted an entire volume to the Japanese aviation industry with trenchant observations on the failures of the Japanese in the late war. The USSBS also produced various corporation reports that examined the overall trajectory of specific firms over the course of the war or on specialized topics like the underground production of Japanese aircraft.

That said, the Japanese wartime aviation industry is a relatively underwritten topic in WWII studies and there certainly is room for a few monographs on subject akin to Daniel Uziel's Arming the Luftwaffe.