Best books about japanese people according to redditors
We found 241 Reddit comments discussing the best books about japanese people. We ranked the 89 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 241 Reddit comments discussing the best books about japanese people. We ranked the 89 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
If anyone wants to read a true crime book about the way the Japanese judicial system works especially with cases involving murder and rape I highly suggest reading:
https://www.amazon.com/People-Who-Eat-Darkness-Tokyo/dp/0374230595
For anyone that enjoyed this video and isn't aware....
...There is a lovely book "written by a severly autistic kid"
His mentor helped him write it, it's very short... and took a long time... but it's completely incredible to read. It brings you straight into the mind of an autistic ....
The big take away, if you aren't going to read it is...
...These people are VERY aware of their situation and how difficult their life is making everyone elses.
It seems their inner-voice is quite normal, they just can't seem to express themselves properly.
The book is called: The Reason I Jump.
Link for free: https://www.readanybook.com/online/565387
To buy: https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Jump-Inner-Thirteen-Year-Old-Autism/dp/081298515X
I don't know anyone that is autistic.
This book was very interesting to me.
Eugene Sledge, in his book With The Old Breed, mentioned that while they were happy for the troops in Europe, it meant nothing to them.
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Oh wow! It's on YouTube
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A very tough read at times.
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Edit: Those are soldiers of the 77th Division. My Grandfather was a Doughboy with the 77th in France from 1917-1918. My Uncle was in the Navy at Okinawa on an LST that landed troops from the 77th. He was always proud that he served with his Father's unit.
>but do you really want 11 to 16-year-olds to act like real people their age?
My answer is NO. I don't want to read about average teens.
People should realize the Trio was anything but average. Average teens would have long collapsed under the pressure they were in. Ron, the most average of the three, also gets the most hate.
On the other hand, teenagers are perfectly capable of becoming vicious killers. Read this book and you will find out.
I don't really have any advice to give you but this may have:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Reason-Jump-Thirteen-Year-Old-Autism/dp/0812994868
They mentioned it on The Daily Show and it has recieved great reviews for dealing with autism.
Here's a video link to the interview. http://youtu.be/IKxiJ-kWve0
The meme response is to advise you to apply judicious quantities of alcohol until the feelings subside.
Your feelings sound perfectly rational to me.
Many Commandants as well as Gen Mattis have advocated for learning from those who have gone before us from their teachings recorded in books & stories.
You might find some comfort in the stories of those who have already walked this path.
https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Brother-Major-Winters-Brothers/dp/0451218396
https://www.amazon.com/One-Bullet-Away-Making-Officer/dp/0618773436/
https://www.amazon.com/Helmet-My-Pillow-Parris-Pacific/dp/1977052304/
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419063/
https://www.amazon.com/Im-Staying-My-Boys-Basilone/dp/0312611447/
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Before you engage your chain of command, I encourage you to seek out a more junior combat veteran in your unit and discuss your unease.
I'm not saying "Don't engage your CoC." I'm suggesting you try getting guidance from a pseudo-peer first.
Japan did not try to surrender before the nukes dropped. Some third party proxies had gone out for some peace feeling but conditions were confusing for instance.
The Rising Sun talks about this, how even after the first atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese Cabinet was divided on what conditions the surrender would happen under. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria (some cabinet ministers were hoping for a negotiation led by Stalin) and the second atomic bomb forced the Emperor to no longer stay above fray and he ordered the cabinet to surrender.
Some diehard Japanese war hawks actually attempted a palace coup afterwards but it was quashed. They were also attempting to find the Emperor's surrender broadcast but it was smuggled out by attendants if I remember correctly.
I'm not saying the US was innocent. Many civilians died in firebombings. I'm just saying your info is wrong on this bit.
I spent most of the summer reading WW2 memoirs, including Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed.
I feel like WW2 stuff is the base of so much of the modern meme around needing a new warrior class.
What rules about this meme, and the general mindset that we need for a better society is Strong Men creating Good Times through war, is it ignores the part where the Strong Men who managed to make it through with all their limbs still attached suffer decades of nightmares and panic attacks and broken marriages and emotions they cannot control.
This is such a glossed-over, shameful period in American history. As a child, this book did a great job of teaching me about the camps and helping me understand what it was like to be one of the interred Japanese-Americans: http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Manzanar-Jeanne-Houston/dp/0307976076
Hi!
>A bit disjointed, no direction, I just have to let some out.
This has happened to all of us. It will change.
> Our first indication of something needing addressed was the fact that he wasn't talking. When I express this to people close to us, they seemed to think oh he must be using baby talk or can say momma and dadda. Nope. None of that. Not even assigning nonsense words that we could decipher. I personally did not think this was a big deal, I didn't start talking until 3. However, tons of people around me told me to talk to our PCP and get him speech therapy. Ok, what could it hurt?
> Our PCP informed us that she was going to set up an evaluation. I assumed a basic inventory of his health and hearing, blood tests, etc. What I did not expect was a full battery of experts. The day lasted nearly 6 hours. 5 different experts, MDs and PhDs, and many other initialed experts among them. I was pretty impressed with their demeanor, much of the time was spent "playing" and observing. Questions and directions. I did not realize from what looked to be pretty simple process how much info was gained and being interpreted.
> The indicators. At first, it seemed ridiculous. I'm certain based on my son's demeanor they had arrived at their conclusion before much evidence was present. Examples, when playing with cars, the minute he rolled a wheel, they asked us if he does this often or with other objects. Nope. Just loves rolling cars about-like a normal kid! They informed me that he did not like stacking blocks-he preferred lining them up. Ok.... He stacks them all the time at home. Last doc we visited with seemed especially keen on his habits, noting he only chose the cars, ignoring everything else. Asked us if he flaps, nope. Upon wrapping up, he gathered the cars (very gently, not in a mean way) and of course our son gets mad. "That's flapping!" An immediate reaction, I was surprised this wasn't "normal" for a two-year-old? Doc said it with such authority I didn't question it.
Your evaluation was performed in the best possible way. Our twins were evaluated along that procedure (ADOS-2 probably). Since your kid doesn't talk yet probably you will need a second evaluation in the future. Our ST made us wait before evaluating our kids (like or pediatrician, he also suspected at least one of them had ASD). His approach was to produce a communication channel before the evaluation to have a better assessment. After the long evaluation, kids were diagnosed with 18 and 22 on the ADOS scale. This put them above the Asperger range, but at a mostly functional range. Our neurologist (the head of the evaluation team) told us that this evaluation was their last. No further evaluation was needed.
> On the drive home, my emotions ranged. First, these guys don't know my boy. It seemed like they made a big deal about everything. How could they have gathered enough info to make such a huge diagnosis???
Because they are trained, they know where to look. The other positive point is your boy is very young so all the symptoms are there to catch and no bias because of age is present. So it is easier to pinpoint the level, and produce a set of 'countermeasures' through early intervention to make him feel better about the world and himself.
> Eventually, I realized, I do know my boy. I know him deeply. He reminds me of myself. Him playing with little pieces of carpet in a room full of toys, me sitting down in the outfield playing with grass instead of playing T-ball. Intent on his particular toys, as I was with my Legos. In his own world. Throwing the blankets off at night, perhaps this is a skin sensitivity? Banging random objects, is that stimming? This and more, many more little signs...they add up.
You know a part of him, but being autistic there is another part that is hidden behind a veil and you can't access to it and he cannot explain to you that yet. One book (recommended here) that I found quite enlighten is The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. You can read it in an hour.
Also, I also told the psychologist interviewing my wife and I that my kids remind me of myself as I shared some traits with them. She told me, they were the ones being evaluated and whatever similarity was not relevant to them. Thus, don't overcomplicate yourself, try to build from your shared traits upwards to guide him into a fulfilling life.
> And I well up. I love my boy. He isn't a set of signs or indicators. How do they have the temerity to think they can assign labels or know what he is? I know WHO he is. And I worry. About programs that aim to "normalize" him. About teachers who may not give him the benefit of the doubt or the opportunity to excel. I worry that a diagnosis may hold him back and instead of building him up they'll remove his essence. Family who sees him differently.
Acceptance will come, but this doesn't mean you won't demand them to excel. Yet, you need to know his boundaries and be very aware of his strength. I wrote a lot about my kids here. Every kid is different, so you have to look for yourself.
Our twins are 4 y/o now. They started ST at 2.5, then moved to an inclusive school (50%ASD-50%NT) with ST, OT and PECS oriented classroom. This environment has helped a lot to develop their spoken language, feel more comfortable around people, and communicate their needs. You NEED every therapy available NOW.
Our neurologist told us the following: "if you do nothing now, they can go to a regular school without problems. They will adapt, but you won't have the best version of themselves. If you support them in every possible way, go to [this type of school] then you will drive your kids to become the best they want to be.
But for you, doing this will be the hardest five years of your life. So, you need psychological support and live a healthier life. You need to be there, every hour for your kid now."
So we took the second option.
Our kids, can speak now (not with the fluidity of a 4 y/o) and communicate most of their needs. Their tantrums and quirks are mostly contained (they appear when they are really tired or anxious). They are very clever kids, that love numbers, words, and music.
They excel at numbers: count from 1 to 30 (understand the symbols and their relation to quantities) in Spanish (mother language) and English. They can do basic sums (without finger counting) and now they are learning subtraction. They also have a strong interest in words: know the full ABC (some letters from the English pronunciation), read some words, understand words in English (colors and shapes; also many animals), and now they are learning to construct words from syllable.
We are using iPads to strengthen these areas. I bought them Tiggly when they were very young (two years ago) and this fourth birthday (yesterday) they received Osmo's Genius Kit. They loved the Tangram because puzzle-solving is one thing they love to do a lot (and this is in another level).
> I don't know the future. I only know that we will exercise agency in every decision along the way. We will advocate for rights and opportunity. We will be better than our parents. He will not be called "doofus" or "f-ggot." I'll hug the sht out of him but never hit him. He's our boy dammit, I love him, and that's all that matters.
Nobody knows the future, even us 'normal' people.
What you feel about parenthood is what I felt, even before knowing they had ASD. The thing you mention may even happen to a regular kid with special interest, whether has ASD or not. In our special case, we need to learn about ASD to approach to learning in the best possible way for the mind of our sons.
Be patient, It will be better.
EDIT: grammar.
Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara. Literally the only Japanese DD Captain who survived the war while being part of the Dec 7/8 opening of hostilities through being the skipper of Yahagi and getting it bombed/torpedoed out from under him on the last ride alongside the Yamato.
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591143845/
https://www.audible.com/pd/Japanese-Destroyer-Captain-Audiobook/B00GA7GKMO?qid=1565975726&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=3Z96VN1EJ46732HP6W9T&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1
Many did, and they were called "The Old Breed"
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My two favorite WWII memoirs that I recommend to everyone interested in WWII history:
Always Faithful: A memoir of the marine dogs of WWII - The story of the US Marine Corps war dogs from training to battle on Guam as told by the commander of the Third Dog Platoon. This book is all about the loyalty, companionship, heroism, and immeasurable value of the war dogs on the battlefield, most of which were ordinary family pets who were "volunteered" by their owners to help with the war effort.
"With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa - If you haven't read this one, it's an essential pick and a no-brainer. The HBO series "The Pacific" was based partly on this book. A view of joining the US Marine Corp in late 1943, training, and deployment to Peleliu and Okinawa as told from the perspective of a young grunt.
Have you watched The Pacific?. They had a marathon on yesterday for 12/7 and it was awesome. I've watched it before, but it gets better every time. It's based on 3 individuals and follows them throughout the war. It is only 10 episodes so you should be able to get through it rather quickly. I also recommend the book With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge (one of the marines featured in The Pacific).
I can give you a short list of personal favorites, books that I consider both informative and extremely interesting / entertaining to read. As you'll see I prefer memoirs and eyewitness accounts to sweeping historical overviews of the war.
With the Old Breed, E.B. Sledge. Personal memoir of the author's experience as a marine machine gunner in the Pacific war, specifically the campaigns on Peleliu and Okinawa. Sledge is a marvelous writer with prose I'd describe as "Hemingwayesque", a real compliment. Grueling, appalling, human, his account does a great job of sketching in the personalities of his fellow marines.
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II, Studs Terkel. This is the book that World War Z is aping, but the actual book is a far more gripping read. Terkel sat down for personal interviews with 121 survivors of the war, Germans, Japanese, British, Canadian as well as American.
Band Of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose. Now made famous by the TV series, the story of E Company's recruitment, training and ultimate combat experience during and after the Normandy invasion is as intense and eye-opening as it sounds.
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, Leo Marks. Marks was a cryptographer working in London for the SOE (special operations executive, the group responsible for running much of "The Resistance" throughout occupied Europe, North Africa and Asia). He's a very funny guy, a self-professed coward, but the book portrays his deeply heartfelt concern for the well-being of the agents he was sending behind enemy lines. His codes, and methods of transmitting them, could be the only thing saving them from capture by the Gestapo. All too often, they weren't enough. "If you brief an agent on the Tuesday and three days later his eyes are taken out with a fork, it hastens the aging process," he writes.
Stalingrad, Anthony Beevor. When you start to read about the Eastern Front, you realize that much of the conventional western perspective of WWII in Europe is based on the comparatively minor engagements in Italy and France. France lost 350,000 civilians to the war, The Soviet Union lost 15-20 million. Considered purely from the POV of total casualties and total armed forces committed, WWII was primarily an engagement between Germany and the Soviet Union throughout Eastern Europe, with a number of smaller actions in the western countries. Anyhow, the story of the brutal, grinding siege of Stalingrad, the point where the German tide definitively turned, is a must-read.
Homage To Catalonia, George Orwell. This is Orwell's personal account of his service fighting on the Republican side against fascists during the Spanish Civil War from 1936-37. Basically, this was the war before the war, as described by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Incidentally Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls is a fairly accurate, very powerful portrayal of a different view of the same war.
Im currently reading Japanese Destroyer Captain by former IJN destroyer captain Tameichi Hara. It is an excellent portrayal of the Japanese side of the Pacific War.
If this piques your interest, read:
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa-ebook/dp/B000VMFDW2
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Solid book.
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Semper Fi.
Great book, a horrible and facinating real world account of the Pacific theater --> http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
> I can tell you from experience that we apparently don't know English as well as they do
Haha, that point came up in The Blue-Eyed Salaryman - when the author tried to suggest to his Japanese superiors that they'd made a mistake in their English, they said he'd spent a long time in Japan and forgotten his English.
Lots of good ones on here. I'll add People Who Eat Darkness. It's kind of a true crime travel book. Interesting in that it describes a fascinating subculture in Japan that I was completely unaware of.
There is a book written very recently by my professor.
Shigeru Miyamoto
With the Old Breed is literally named after WWI veterans who accompanied green soldiers into battle in WWII. That is one of the best known WWII memoirs and is taught in colleges.
If you want to understand your nonverbal autistic child, there are some great books out there to help you do that. I personally have read and recommend:
Order these three books right now. They're all well written and so so insightful. You won't regret it.
Not sure how similar it is to the average experience, but Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir written by a young girl who spent a good portion of her childhood in the internment camps. (concentration camps?)
From what I remember (I read it maybe seven years ago) the conditions were poor - crowded and cold, but not life threatening. Still complete bullshit morally speaking, but I'm not sure they're comparable to concentration camps. Although I'd be interested to hear what the consensus on that is here.
Link to book - http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Manzanar-Jeanne-Houston/dp/0307976076
Sort of already been beaten to it, but Japanese Destroyer Captain by Captain Tameichi Hara is a great source that gives a perspective from someone in the middle of said developing doctrine.
Norman Friedman spends a little time discussion it in his book Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era, in the section 'Equalisers' under the IJN chapter (Ch.11), but 'little' can't be stressed enough - unless you want to start learning about anti-ship fire control, I wouldn't recommend buying the book just for that blurb. However, it does help explain how the torpedoes fit into Japanese gunnery tactics as a whole.
For sources on technical information, I'd recommend looking directly at the NavTechJapan reports, which are US Navy technical reports of Japanese naval technology conducted immediately after the war. They above is linked to an internet archive page.
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In particular, O-01 (Japanese Torpedoes and Torpedo Tubes Articles 1 through 3) will be of interest, but since O-01-2 is focused on aerial torpedoes, O-01-1 (Ship and Kaiten Torpedoes) and O-01-2 (Above-Water Tubes) are probably more relevant to you, assuming you're focusing on surface warfare.
Japanese Torpedo Fire Control (O-32) will also be of great help, since their comprehensive approach to torpedo fire control is part of what made them different to many other navies at the time (where torpedo fire control on ships tended to play second fiddle to gun fire control).
Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite writers and I work for a manga translating website. So I read translated material a lot.
Also, confessions of a yakzua by Junichi Saga is one of the best stories I've ever read.
For anyone more curious about the lifestyle, this book was written by an Irish guy who worked at Mitsubishi for 13 years. I would equate his life to living under a totalitarian regime. It's an engrossing read, but I'd rather do time in jail than have that lifestyle.
Here's a book that might help: The Empty Mirror by Janwillen Van de Wetering. In the 1950's the author, then about 18, spent a year and a half in a Japanese Zen monastery; back then, Westerners doing Zen meditation were nearly unheard of; this book tells what he experienced there, and it's fascinating.
I guess the point of me recommending a book is that if Zen could be explained in a paragraph, it would be too trivial to bother with. Some things are like that... whatever you can say in thirty seconds doesn't express more than a tiny bit of the truth of it, and talking for a solid month wouldn't do the job either. Quick! Explain chocolate to somebody from another planet. You can't. They have to taste some themselves.
But, still. Given the impossible, thankless and foolish assignment of explaining Zen in a few words, my failed attempt might go like this:
You have blind spots. Learn to see them. Might come in handy sometime.
Read the book " The reason I Jump" and maybe look around at http://flappinessis.com/
Your husband needs to think differently. I say this with kindness.
Your child does this because he needs to, and because it makes him feel better. He needs it.
But seriously, this book is really good.
The only reason this is a dilemma to some people is because of the myth that the Japanese wouldn't have surrendered. They were on the brink of doing just that, trying to negotiate through Russia, when it all went down. Read Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 for more.
you want to read one of THE best books on the pacific campaign, check E.B. Sledge: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Sledge ran 60mm mortars & man, the combat detail is nuts.
Maybe one of the Old Breed
In addition to Leckie, who got injured by a blast during the landings(if I recall correctly), a good autobiography is also Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which has a significan portion of it about the fighting in Peleliu, which was his first battle as a marine.
Of course, the series The Pacific, has many episodes on Peleliu, as the series is partially adapted from Leckie's and Sledge's memoirs and both are central characters in it. Of course, it is a tv series, so not perhaps as precise as one would want. The tie-in book by Hugh Ambrose, The Pacific, is quite detailed and would at least be a stepping stone. Leckie's book might be more detailed with the information you're after.
I also grew up in California around the same time, and it was covered relatively heavily. We were also assigned to read the book Farewell to Manzanar.
If you haven't read it, this is worth a read to get some understanding of the horror which was Okinawa -- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa http://amzn.com/0891419195
Album, including abandoned artillery and tanks
This building was where the generals planned much of the Japanese operation in the Pacific. The Japanese kept what was thought to be a highly strategic airstrip on Peleliu. This led to one of the bloodiest battles of WWII, and one that has sadly escaped much public recognition. Even more tragically, it eventually became clear that the battle for the runway was mostly for nothing because the runway was not as important as the Americans had thought.
My wife and I traveled there for our honeymoon after reading the excellent and grisly account of the battle, With the Old Breed.
I think everyone should read With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge. Even if they're not "in to" war or anything like that. It is an excellent story from the perspective of an infantry Marine about the battle of Peleliu and Okinawa in WWII. They were possibly the bloodiest battles of the island hopping campaign. I don't think there has been any other book of similar nature has had the same effect on me.
For people who are "in to" non-fiction war books I suggest The Bridge at Dong Ha which is about John Ripley, a Marine in Vietnam who essentially saves the day singlehandedly. He's also the only Marine to be inducted into the Army Ranger Hall of Fame.
For fictional war related books one of my favorites is Fields of Fire. Excellent story telling and I found myself really connecting with the characters. It has a great way of giving non-soldiers an understanding of the many reasons why people choose to serve, how they serve, and the struggles within.
The "best" book i can advice is Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara. He was the captain of Amatsukaze, Shigure and later Yahagi at operation Ten-go. It describes the whole war from his view as leading officer and is very good to read, well written and very insightful. The book is sure a good place to start and you'll find many many names and places you will recognize.
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You need to read up on your history a little better. I recommend this book, but this is a really good book on Leyte itself.
If you had to pick one campaign that probably did the most damage to the Japanese it was the submarine campaign against their merchant shipping. But when you realize that the Japanese Empire had attacked both Alaska and Australia and everything in between, one campaign wasn't going to do it. There were numerous important fights and saying it all came down to Nimitz's central campaign (Nimitz was in Hawaii the whole time, how come Spruance and Halsey never get the credit?) is overly simplifying things to a ridiculous degree.
Dividing the Pacific into two theaters actually prevented the Japanese from regaining the initiative and some of the most significant battles were fought in the South Pacific theater. Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Hollandia? Remember that the oil and rubber and metals the Japanese needed were all in the South Pacific.
Also I think you have Roosevelt confused with Truman. MacArthur and Roosevelt, by all accounts, had a decent relationship, strained at times, but certainly guided by a mutual respect. Roosevelt, by all accounts, never considered dismissing MacArthur, who was a diva, but also an incredibly brilliant general who managed to conquer more territory with fewer losses than any military commander in history short of Genghis Kahn. Remember that only a few months after Leyte, Roosevelt placed MacArthur as theater commander over the entire Pacific. Roosevelt didn't lack balls and he certainly didn't lack the political power.
And the Philippines was certainly necessary to the defeat of Japan because it was US territory. The US needed fighter bases and the decision came down to the Philippines or Formosa. As strong resistance was expected on Formosa, Roosevelt, Nimitz and MacArthur all agreed at their Hawaiian conference to make the Philippines the next strategic goal. Of course the battle was necessary because the Japanese showed up with two huge fleets including Ozawa's and Kurita's forces. Our goal was to put those ships on the bottom of the ocean and you kind of need a battle to do that.
Have you read The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida and, if so, do you feel that it acurately portrays childhood as an autistic person?
What do you find most challenging in interacting with "normal" or very low spectrum people? What can we do to help make these interactions easier for people like you?
The Reason I Jump is a pretty good light-reading primer on the how's and why's of a boy with autism. Plenty of eye-opening information, particularly about how he describes his behaviors and his cognitive process.
Ido in Autismland is another favorite of mine. More in-depth and slightly longer winded, it's a book rich in information, but definitely the one I'd read second.
The market is saturated with plenty of books on autism written by psycological or disabilities professionals, but if you really want to understand, I find there's no substitute for a book written by an autistic author.
I read a lot of war history. This month I knocked out 3 solid books.
Band of Brothers I really enjoyed this book even though the war is a bit romanticized.
With The Old Breed a very in-depth document of the war in the Pacific from E.B. Sledge, a Marine mortarman.
Dagger 22 this one accounts the second half of a MARSOC deployment to Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. It is the sequel to Level Zero Heroes.
Haruki Murakami- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
If she was just diagnosed, I'm thinking it's probably more likely that she's high-functioning since you probably would've noticed earlier on if she was low-functioning. And the fact that she doesn't resist affection is a really wonderful sign! My brother wasn't very affectionate when he was her age but he did have some of those same behaviours - not responding to commands, self-focused etc. The word Autism itself comes from 'auto', so naturally a huge component of Autism is a focus on oneself rather than others which makes for more difficulties in social situations. Like I said, our situations are very different because my brother is 3 years older than me but going back to my 5 year old mindset, how I managed to communicate with my brother was through his common interest which is music. He'd play piano and I'd sit with him, we'd talk about our favourite artists etc. Since your sister is still pretty young, it might be difficult to establish a common interest right now but my advice would be interest yourself in whatever she finds interesting, getting her to talk about what she's doing, what she likes. And I hope that as she gets older, she's put in 'typical' child environments so that she doesn't miss out. I'm really happy to say that my brother had a lot of support when he was younger and now he's 23 and extremely well-adjusted and living in his own apartment and has a job that he loves. I wish I could offer you some reference books or something but all of the ones that I read were for younger siblings of Autistic children. If you're interested though here are a few that helped me:
Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome <-- it's about Aspergers but a lot of the characteristics are similar and more importantly, it provides a lot of information for siblings
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime <-- fictional but takes place completely inside the mind of an Autistic person! And it's an amazing read!
The Reason I Jump
Angry White Pyjamas is the title of an awesome Aikido book that's more about intense martial arts training than it is about Aikido.
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple should be interesting if Japanese Zen is your cup of tea. I haven't read it myself.
i recommend "Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld"
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Yakuza-Life-Japans-Underworld/dp/4770019483
"Angry White Pyjamas" is worth taking a look at if you're considering the Yoshinkan course. Just keep in mind that it's written to be entertaining, and it's somewhat one-sided.
As someone else noted, I believe that the police are actually trained separately.
I just finished Why I jump. The author is a non-verbal autistic boy and he does a good job explaining some of the behaviors associated with autism and what his inner state is like. It's also really short, only took me around two hours, and written in a very clear Q&A format.
His book is - http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1410533275&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=with+old+breed
Its a great book. The book was used for HBO's "The Pacific". All of these guys that went and fought are heroes.
You might be interested in reading more about Shigero Miyamoto's inspiration and process for game design. Nintendo has a way with teaching without instruction.
With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge. The author was there and the book is said to be one of the best accounts by an enlisted soldier (non-officer) of the war.
“In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns (from the amazon page)
"The Pacific" HBO series is based on a couple different books; one of them is With The Old Breed At Pelilau and Okinawa
Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie.
^ I'm currently reading the memoirs of Capt. Tameichi Hara and he goes into some detail regarding his superior officers and internal politics of the IJN, including quite a bit of criticism towards Yamamoto. Very much recommended reading.
Got it just because I was interested in reading about the battles, but his descriptions of daily life in 1930s Japan as well as the external and internal political turmoils of the pre-war years are at least as interesting.
a really good book that portrays infantry combat is "with the old breed" http://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
Not just a matter of beauty. Physical well-being results in improved mental functions as well!
You don’t have to buy into sports or competitive gym culture to feed your brain some good hormones; there are plenty of enjoyable physical things for intellectual types to do, from hiking and backpacking to dance to traditional martial arts. Or just plain running like Murakami.
Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running was a fantastic read.
From the back cover copy:
>Murakami's latest is a nonfiction work mostly concerned with his thoughts on the long-distance running he has engaged in for much of his adult life. Through a mix of adapted diary entries, old essays, reminiscences and life advice, Murakami crafts a charming little volume notable for its good-natured and intimate tone. While the subject matter is radically different from the fabulous and surreal fiction that Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) most often produces, longtime readers will recognize the source of the isolated, journeying protagonists of the author's novels in the formative running experiences recounted. Murakami's insistence on focusing almost exclusively on running can grow somewhat tedious over the course of the book, but discrete, absorbing episodes, such as a will-breaking 62-mile ultramarathon and a solo re-creation of the historic first marathon in Greece serve as dynamic and well-rendered highlights.
I concur with the other suggestions here (Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere and the Total Aikido series), and agree that aikido, like any physical art, is learned by doing. But, considering your previous experience, like to take this in another direction.
For an enjoyable exploration of the history and protocol of the dojo, try "In the Dojo" by Dave Lowry: In the Dojo: A Guide to the Rituals and Etiquette of the Japanese Martial Arts https://www.amazon.com/dp/0834805723/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_4LAjxb1G1DTNG
For an entertaining, and actually true, bildungsmroman of a trio of Oxford students who find themselves in Tokyko and decide, out of boredom, to join the year-long intensive Tokyo police riot squad training program. This was Gozo Shioda's dojo, probably in the 1980's, and is an accurate glimpse of what training was like in the early days of the Yoshinkan style: Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688175376/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_yNAjxb9VXJ7PN
You may also be interested in Aikido Shugyo, by Gozo Shioda, which describes his early days with O-Sensei, and his post-war experiences, along with some philosophical refections: http://www.shindokanbooks.com/shugyo.shtml
If you are looking for something meaty and practical, check out the excellent books by Marc Tedeschi, "The Art of Holding" and "The Art of Throwing" which are essentially jiu-jjtsu but form an extremy comprehensive catalog of practically every fundament technique in taijitsu regardless of the art or style: The Art of Holding: Principles &amp; Techniques https://www.amazon.com/dp/1891640763/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_28Ajxb9YBNQDY and The Art of Throwing: Principles &amp; Techniques https://www.amazon.com/dp/0834804905/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_T.AjxbZQZ76CK
Finally, I hesitate to suggest this one since it probably won't mean anything until you have much deeper immersion in practical aikido techniques (and it might be hard to find, being almost out of print), but it's a good compendium of aiki-jitsu style, the formative roots that predate aikido, and depending on your background and mindset might add some dimension: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-hidden-roots-of-aikido-9784770023278?cc=us&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;
Have fun!
Confessions of a Yakuza
From an American perspective, Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester
From a German perspective, Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner
The case of Lucy Blackman.
Girl working in Tokyo as a hostess (basically, a waitress paid to keep flirty company to costumers). She goes missing after a douhan (paid date) with a custumer, and no one heard from her again. Eventually, she is found in a cave on a beach. Head shaved, cut into eight pieces and encased in concrete, she was burried under a bathtub, just a few hundred meters of her killers appartment.
There is a book about it. Is incredibly chilling to read, but very well written.
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (2012)
Salon article
http://www.amazon.com/People-Who-Eat-Darkness-Tokyo/dp/0374230595
Just watched a doc on this case as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fj0ArZ_3r0&amp;list=WL&amp;index=2
Perspectives from the parents, police, lawyers, made it a good watch.
The People Who Eat Darkness- It is a look at not only a disturbing crime but the culture that gave rise to it and a legal system as confusing as a labyrinth. Came highly recommended.
https://www.amazon.com/People-Who-Eat-Darkness-Tokyo/dp/0374230595
if you put all the technique type of books aside (which you would find plenty of recommendations on here already by searching old posts)
There's only a couple others i've read that I recommend.
Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo
The Way of Judo: A Portrait of Jigoro Kano and His Students
http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0195067142
This is one. I don't know who the second person who wrote first hand-account is. I'm sorry.
I can heartily recommend Sledge though. I read a two of his books and he is an exceptional memoirist. Robert Leckie is also excellent, and he fought in the Pacific theater but I don't know if he was Peleliu, but he was at Okinawa.
This one's my favorite.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find that, however it did lead me to The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire. Does anyone know if this is a good book on the topic?
the reason i jump is a fantastic read for a look into the mind of an individual with autism.
Ok. Here you go!
Clash of Titans: World War II At Sea Walter J. Boyne (the author) was an Air Force colonel and gives an interesting perspective on WW2 at sea. He also wrote Clash of Wings about the war in the air.
Great Warship From the Age of Steam by David Ross. Fun coffee table book that has just about every large big gun warship from 1860 to 1945 listed.
Struggle for the Middle Sea and The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945 are books by Vincent P. O'Hara who does an excellent job of covering just about every single engagement by the Germans, Italians and Allies during WW2. You come away with the impression that the Italians gave just as good as they got most of the time. And wonder why you haven't heard of 90% of the battles in his books.
'And I Was There' by Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton. You won't read a better book about the intelligence (and failure of intelligence) behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. Adm Layton was Admiral Kimmel's Combat Intelligence Officer and had intimate knowledge of just about everything relating to code breaking in WW2.
Japanese Destroyer Captain by Captain Tameichi Hara. This guy was everywhere in the Pacific. Pearl. Fighting it out point blank at Guadalcanal. Midway. He commanded the light cruiser escorting Yamato when she was sunk on her kamikaze mission. And, somehow, he lived.
*More to come tomorrrow, if I get a chance.
Reminds me of With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge. He did his mortar training before deploying at Camp Elliott. Lots of ordnance fired in the Mission Trails area.
War memoirs are extremely interesting to read, you should read the two books that the TV show "The Pacific" is based on! I totally loved reading the memoir of Dick Winters and Eugene Sledge, going to work through Robert Leckies book soon!
A helmet for my pillow
With the old Breed
They were both executive produced by Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
And The Pacific is also based off a book by the name of With The Old Breed written by Sledgehammer himself. For the record it is more historically accurate than Ambrose's Band of Brothers book.
I don't have a complete answer, but there was one very notable example of an american stuck in Japan at the outbreak of war: Iva Toguri, better known as "Tokyo Rose."
Poor woman was visiting family in Japan when war broke out. After refusing to renounce her American citizenship, she was essentially forced to perform as a proganda broadcaster. Throughout the war, she refused to read any script that she considered anti-american, and after the war, the DoJ declared her radio work "innocuous." Nevertheless, she was tried for treason and served several years in prison after the war.
Source: Rising Sun: the Decline and fall of the Japanese empire.
Gonna leave this here
I recently finished reading it. It's a good book, and the course seems rather interesting. Just realize that it's going to screw with you mentally as well as physically.
I'm reading this one right now....it had an interesting beginning, and a slow and boring middle, but I hope the last few chapters get fun again. It's about an Englishmans experiences in Japan while enrolled in a tough Aikido class for policemen. It's worth a read, I'd say....just for fun.
https://www.amazon.com/Angry-White-Pyjamas-Scrawny-Lessons/dp/0688175376
William Manchester's memoir Goodbye, Darkness
If memory serves me correctly there is at least one mention of a lost training manual here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Way-Judo-Portrait-Students/dp/1590309162
I would be interested in your sources to the contrary. Perhaps you are referring to Kano's own memoirs?
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
i liked it more than Dick Winters book Beyond Band of Brothers.
It was so hard to choose just one! But The Reason I Jump is really interesting to me as Autism has had a huge impact on my life.
Thanks for the contest!
I've nothing for ADHD, would autism interest you? The Reason I Jump is fantastic, really touching.
A few fiction suggestions -
George R.R. Martin - Game of Thrones
Philip K. Dick - Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep
Frank Herbert - Dune
Max Brooks - World War Z
As for non-fiction-
Confessions of a Yakuza
Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
My second choice would be "With The Old Breed", possibly the most accurate recounting of the war in the Pacific.
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
Two books on this: I'm currently going through the opening chapters of This book but it's one of those histories that assume you know something about the overall culture at the time, and IMO isn't very well written Toland, the author, tries very hard to be nonjudgemental, and this I think weakens his narrative, particularly on the events that catapulted Japan into committing to Manchuria. He describes very well some of the attempted coups and assassinations, along with a bit of the ideology, but he doesn't really get at the 'why' of these, beyond what the muntineers themselves said. Paul Johnson had several chapters on the rise of militarism in Japan in his book Modern Times which was much more accessible because he isn't afraid to state his overall opinion of the forces that were contributing to the ultimate path Japan took.
I like that much better than the American cover with a shirtless Murakami.
Edit: Or this similar American cover that I have.
There is a book written about Zen monastery living similar to yours by Kaoru Nonomura (amazon) that I've been meaning to read. If you've read it: how closely related are your experience with the writer's?
Starship Troopers is good stuff.
I've been on a WW2 history kick. Three different books I've been reading a few chapters of each night:
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge.
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds by Christina Olds.
Available from ￥551 on Amazon
Watch HBO's Band of brothers and HBO's The pacific then read these war memoirs,
http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
http://www.amazon.com/Helmet-My-Pillow-Parris-Pacific/dp/0553593315
http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Before-During-Brothers/dp/0425227871
http://www.amazon.com/Band-Brothers-Regiment-Airborne-Normandy/dp/074322454X
I don't think so. My copy says With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
Regardless, one the best WWII books out there and it definitely deserves all the praise it gets.
Agreed, just read this instead..
I've never been to Japan, but according to this book, https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mirror-Experiences-Japanese-Monastery/dp/0312207743/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1543269309&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+empty+mirror , lay practioners attended sesshin at daitoku-ji.
All true, Peleliu must have been insanity. If I remember correctly it was like 10 square miles. If you haven't heard of it I would strongly recommend picking up "With the Old Breed", it is the first hand account of a Marine mortar man at Peleliu and Okinawa and it is incredibly good. I read it in like three days.
(http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195)
Sry for poor format my Reddit skills are newish
Eat Sleep Sit is wonderful. https://www.amazon.ca/Eat-Sleep-Sit-Japans-Rigorous/dp/4770030754
In my opinion, the best book you can read about the Pacific War from the Japanese perspective is John Toland's Rising Sun. It is marvelous.
This doesn't specifically address your question but it does shine some light on what was going on in that part of the world at the time. It's a great read if you're interested at all about the war in the pacific.
Manchester is widely considered to be one of the US's premiere historians.
William Manchester: Goodbye Darkness
http://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Darkness-Memoir-Pacific-War/dp/0316501115/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1422564197&amp;sr=8-11&amp;keywords=war+in+the+pacific
Got two good books for you:
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419063/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1480559595&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=sledge+with+the+old+breed
https://www.amazon.com/Tennozan-Battle-Okinawa-Atomic-1994-05-10/dp/B01K2E9R4S/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1480559725&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=tennozan+the+battle+of+okinawa+and+the+atomic+bomb
Inside Delta Force
If You Survive
Helmet for My Pillow
In the Company of Heroes
If you like Clancy, I highly recommend the entire John Ryan series, starting with Without Remorse and moving in chronoligical (which differs from publication) order.
The 101st was no secret.
They were badass as fuck and the Krauts knew it.
Your comment still kicks ass, though!
If you haven't read Donald R. Burgett's series of first-person accounts, YOU MUST!
Curahee! A Screaming Eagle at Normandy is the first one.
It's the With The Old Breed by E.B. Sledge of the ETO.
The term for live-in student in Japanese is "uchideshi". There are some places that offer an uchideshi program, both in and out of Japan, but before you consider any of these programs, I recommend reading Angry White Pyjamas (Amazon, Wikipedia).
You should be careful in selecting any program; there is plenty of room for cultural mix ups, either as a foreigner in Japan or in your home country with somebody who isn't Japanese.
If you like that I'd reccomend The Blue-eyes Salaryman A memoir of an Irish guy who came to Japan to do a graduate engineering programme on a Japanese government scholarship and became the first gaijin bucho at Mitsubishi.
Farewell to Manzanar?
http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Manzanar-Jeanne-Houston/dp/0307976076/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1449566681&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=farewell+to+manzanar
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Actually not so common. The one guy who wrote a book called "Kano Jiu Jitsu" basically just made a name up and threw it on a book about jiu jitsu. Kano never called it that himself, and none of his students called it that. In fact, in reference to "Kano Jiu Jitsu" by Irving Hancock, Kano went so far as to say something to the tune of "this book contains no Judo" (I'm paraphrasing from memory).
All in here. Good book if history is your thing.
I'm working on a book about the movement of Judo to other nations and this idea of Kano Jiu Jitsu comes up a lot, but in all my research I've yet to find one reputable source for Judo being called that. When Kano himself goes out of his way to correct you, as he did with Hancock, it says a lot.
I read this book this summer when I was stuck in Alabama! It's a quick read, but it's an interesting look at the history of Shigeru Miyamoto with Nintendo, and interactions between some key players at Nintendo. It's a quick, easy, and somewhere interesting read. Not at all incredible, though.
Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda (Influential Vid... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628923881/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awd_
Ps I bought my copy in a Barnes and Noble
If I tell you your depression isn't justified, what will you do? Slit you wrists? Or does it have to be justified for that? Your depression just is. You have it. It sucks. It is its own joy eating beast.
It sucks to be you. Or does it? Intellectually you know it doesn't. You have a lot going for you, so why aren't you happy? You are highly accomplished but are just figuring out that accomplishments bring rushes, thrills, but not happiness. Happiness comes from within and is a personal choice (I know - it doesn't feel like one).
You could be me twenty years ago. Your depression might be the oncoming solstice (I'm feeling it too and I'm in the southern US), but a good dose of philosophy never hurt anyone.
I have a book recommendation for you written by another young dutchman looking for the meaning of it all. Read it and see if your world view changes. At the very least, you'll find it a welcome distraction.
Good reading books:
https://www.amazon.com/Martial-Musings-Portrayal-Arts-Century-ebook/dp/B00F3GV7B2/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1480049500&amp;sr=1-2&amp;refinements=p_27%3ARobert+W.+Smith
https://www.amazon.com/Angry-White-Pyjamas-Scrawny-Lessons/dp/0688175376/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1480049639&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=angry+white+pajamas
If you want to learn to fight, go into a bar a few times and pick one. The best way to learn.
I'll check it out. A recommendation for you in return: Goodbye Darkness. A great memoir from a marine who served in the pacific theatre.
I've seen some classic books mentioned here, but folks seem to think they're hard to get. These are still in print and available on Kindle:
>"People like me are good, people different from me are bad" is inherently harmful.
You do indicate a high degree of education in a specific political philsophy, where you would read my statements as a statement of moral bias. Nowhere did I give you any indication whatsoever that this was the case; you made it up in your mind, which most simply indicates you are indoctrinated, not educated.
The fact that you see this as a hierarchy of value systems, which you do as indicated by that statement, is a weakness in your world outlook not ameliorated by whatever education you have highly attained.
>Believing that you have created some sort of cultural "gift" and thus benefited the world is harmful.
The social metrics of the average Japanese and South Korean indicate you are wrong.
>but rather because they give rise to sentiments of segregation and superiority.
That's an assumption on your part. No need to get presumptuous, I'm not presuming I am superior to a Japanese. I am pointing out that Western culture is superior to Eastern, which is a fact, not an opinion, and it is not a moral fact in the way that money is neither good nor bad.
>These points of view are not harmful because they are "wrong" (though I do not concede that they are "right")
Your argument is moral. Narrowly moral, assumptive, and insulting in its presumption.
The West fought WWII and did not colonize the East. It would have been simple. We thence fought a war in Korea.
The inhabitants of the lands under the Western sphere are objectively and incontrovertibly better off, by solid social metrics, than those who aren't.
I am a Veteran, and I like history, and military history. Men dying at Chosin to hold off an overwhelming Chinese advance (which resulted in the complete destruction of 3 Chinese divisions, they actually ceased to exist), so that the US could get a mere 1/3 of the Korean refugees off the beach, by dumping supplies over the sides of ships and cramming it full of 20,000 refugees, for a grand total of 90,000 refugees in one battle alone, is a benefit.
It is not emotional, it's not patriotic. It is an objective, undeniable fact. Those 90,000 refugees from Chosin alone went on to produce hundreds of thousands of South Koreans who today enjoy rapidly-increasing life metrics, in contrast to what I don't have to mention for those who, unfortunately, were not evacuated.
If your education has buried these easily-verifiable facts, and there are thousands of them, under contemporaneous intersectional theories for well-paid Professors and overt, and known, Chinese infiltration of Academia, then you have been ill-served by your education.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chosin/
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195
Western Civilization is better, in objective, verifiable terms, and it is more important to remember that than to goalkeep whatever superiority you hypothesize may be forming in everyone's mind.
The fatal flaw of High School Fleet is that the action was pretty boring. A destroyer had no right fighting a battleship one-on-one, but the anime resorted to such kinds of fights all the time. Because a single battleship round could destroy a destroyer, the main ship wasn't allowed to get hit. The fights basically turned into the destroyer doing fancy maneuvering and all the shells shot at it missing.
Historically, the destroyer combat in WWII was some of the most crazy naval combat in the war. The main reason was due to the fact it mostly happened at night. The lack of visibility resulted in chance encounters and desperate fighting. Japanese Destroyer Captain is a great book to understand how that kind of fighting took place.