The volume's plans create research leads for little-documented ships such as the modified Taiho class. Martino's earlier books on Japanese battleships and cruisers place the carrier study within a growing body of Italian technical work on the Imperial Japanese Navy. Alessio Patalano provides another named example of Italian expertise on Japan. Scholarship produced outside the navy or country being studied can recover design evidence and widen the available research base. This section gives readers authors and citations to pursue beyond a single carrier book.
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Italian scholarship on the Japanese Navy
The carrier volume sits alongside Italian studies of Japanese battleships, cruisers, construction, and naval history, giving readers specific authors and works for further research.