Why Imperial Japanese Navy automation faced a skills limit

Should the Imperial Japanese Navy have adopted Royal Navy-style automation?

Only where the Navy could maintain it. Mechanization could reduce manual work, but the available technical workforce limited its reliable use across the fleet.

More mechanization would reduce manual work aboard Japanese warships only if enough trained personnel could maintain it. The limiting factor was the size of the technically educated workforce available across the fleet. Manual labor could be more dependable than machinery that the crew could not repair.