I followed the criticisms about Fuchida’s book. However, I recall that they concern mostly the Pearl Harbor attack, for the Midway Battle they were more about peanuts.
Fuchida was the flying commander of the Pearl Harbor attack. Reading an involved person’s book, it must always be seen as it is; it is human, to beatify the own errors…
At Midway he was involved during the planning, but not in the execution. He was just a battle spectator on “Akagi”, recovering from an appendectomy at sea.
My personal interest is about why the Japanese started this non-sustainable war.
Then, Pearl Harbor was just the first error of the Japanese in WW2, a costly wake-up of the American people, and the strategic end of the Japanese expansion politics from long before WW2.
It seems, Admiral Yamamoto had seen this, and, short of a reasonable exit, he just tried to gamble with the American people; first at Pearl Harbor and then at Midway.
Like most top-officers of the Navy, he knew something about the Americans; he spent some time at their embassy at Washington, as Naval Attaché.
Fuchida could not see, from Akagi, what happened on board Kaga. However, after the battle and not fit for active service, he was part of the secret “After Battle Investigation”, with access to secret documents.