The new issue of the “History of Aviation Technology” series, prepared based on materials from foreign press, continues to acquaint readers with combat aircraft of the Second World War period and is, as it were, an appendix to the second part of the monograph “Aircraft Engineering in the USSR”, published by TsAGI and entirely dedicated to history the creation of Soviet aircraft during the Great Patriotic War. As is known, until recently in the domestic press there were practically no sufficiently complete publications about the aircraft of our allies and opponents. And although the need to publish such a work has been ripe for a long time, we only recently got the opportunity to take it seriously. The collection offered to your attention consists of three parts, published sequentially and reflects the development of aviation science and technology in Japan from the mid-thirties until its surrender on September 1, 1945.