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Melzer then presents an engaging study of knowledge transfer from the United States and Germany, concluding with a survey history of Japanese aviation after 1945 (epilogue). Vast scholarship, in English and even more so in Japanese, has often emphasized the successive stages of technology transfer within the aircraft industry, underscoring the French, British, and German influences on the shaping of Japanese aviation. This "new perspective", in the author's words (p. 1), provides fresh insights into the scholarship of Japan's aviation history and technology transfer at large. [Extracted from the article]