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In this paper, I will introduce brief history and industrial structure of japanese aircraft industry, and analyze the reasons of recent restructuring of it. After WWⅡ, japanese aircraft industry was revived by efforts of government and industry's enterprises. Japanese government has had a strong will to rebuild the aircraft industry because they believed this industry will take a important role to develop not only the economy of Japan but also the power of 'technology'. This belief made japanese government had a strong influence on the aircraft industry in Japan, and even now. After Japan achieved economic development, even though japanese aircraft industry became to be known as having a high level technologies, it has faced serious problems since 1990's, because of the end of cold war, economic shrinking, fast development of new entrants such as China, and political relationship of her most important ally, U.S.A. But after 2000, realizing that situation will be worse if nothing changed, japan's aircraft industry and government started the restructuring of aircraft industry. Restructuring has been carried out not only in the industry, but also in the whole national decision making system including government organization such as METI and R&D organization, JAXA. Almost at the same time, a few new plans, including MRJ Project, were built to revitalize the aircraft industry. Watching the process of these tries might be necessary to understand, analyze, and anticipate japan and world's future aircraft industry, which this paper is aiming at.