Also, Drachinifel has a great video on the differences between US and IJN damage control. Turns out that some IJN vessels, like Shokaku, had commanders that did understand good damage control, and their ships did have basic DC elements incorporated, but their biggest problem was their personnel and doctrine. Shokaku, for example, survived several battles with the kind of damage that killed its sisters simply because the then-new CO took one look at the IJN DC doctrine for his ship, said “screw that,” tossed the manual and went to an equivalent of US DC crew doctrine instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC6LN3U5ELk
I have taken a liking to Drachinifel’s work and learned a lot from it that I didn’t know. I will check out that video link you included-thank you!
As an aside, I really have come to enjoy his rather flat or droll sense of sarcasm and humor...I forget what he said, but it made me grin and chuckle to myself as I watched!
(It may have been when he was discussing comparative cruiser design issues between countries)