They also didn’t believe in the whole concept of damage control. Damage control implied that you planned on taking a hit from the enemy. Such an implication was unworthy of a true warrior.
Incorrect. They did believe in damage control, to the point that every ship had heavily trained DC specialists aboard. It is just that their idea of it was different from the US Navy’s. The USN was far and away the navy with the best damage control of WW2 by a huge margin. The Royal Navy was a very distant second followed by the Germans then everyone else. The Japanese really weren’t the worst at damage control, they just hadn’t adopted it as a religion like the USN had - but then *nobody* did, not even the Royal Navy. The RN’s DC was good, but the USN’s DC was ridiculously better. US ships that had taken damage that even the RN would have written off and scuttled at a battle site routinely made it back to port despite being technically inferior to the RN’s designs in armor and armament, but having been designed from day one for damage control.
Look at how US damage control saved the carrier USS Franklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tJh-XkVyYA
Look into the story of USS Laffey (DD-724) - the *only* reason that thing stayed on top of the water long enough for help to get to what was left of the ship was because of US DC and to a lesser degree a design optimized for US DC.
Also see my post 77.