Jabarkan Desain dari Mitsubishi J8M

Pesawat ini terlihat mirip dengan Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet milik Jerman, Nama pesawat ini memang salinan lisensi yang dibangun dari pesawat Nazi tersebut. Tetapi Jerman tidak dapat mengirimkan versi fungsional ke Jepang. Sebaliknya, desainer Jepang harus mempelajari sendiri cetak biru yang terbatas.

Butler, Phil. War prizes: An Illustrated Survey of German, Italian and Japanese Aircraft brought to Allied countries During and After the Second World War. Leicestershire, UK: Midland, 1994. ISBN 0-904597-86-5.

Dyer, Edward M. III. Japanese Secret Projects: Experimental Aircraft of the IJA and IJN 1939-1945. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-85780-317-4.

Ethell, Jeffrey L. Komet: The Messerschmitt 163. London: Ian Allan, 1978. ISBN 0-7110-0827-2. (This book shows U-852 or U-68 being used to carry the Me 163.)

Francillon, Ph.D., René J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970 (2nd edition 1979). ISBN 0-370-30251-6.

Green, William. Rocket Fighter (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Weapons Book No. 20). New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1971. ISBN 0-345-02163-0.

Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War: Fighters, Volume Three. London: Macdonald, 1961 (Seventh impression 1973). ISBN 0-356-01447-9.

Yamashita, Takeo (ed). 秋水」と日本陸海軍ジェット、ロケット機. Tokyo: Model Art Co. Ltd., 1998.

Yamazaki, Akio. "Tail of the Tiger: Japan's 'Shushi' Interceptor". Air Enthusiast, No. 115, January/February 2005, pp. 36–41. Stamford, UK: Key Publishing.