The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

On April 7, 1945, the Japanese Yamato, the pinnacle of naval technology and the biggest and best-equipped battleship ever constructed, embarked on a final doomed voyage. Yamato set out as part of ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation project will expand the facility so that it can display such items as the mammoth lathe used to construct the main guns of the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Yamato took ten torpedo and seven bomb hits, and was hurting badly. Despite counterflooding, the ship continued to list, and once it reached thirty-five degrees the ...

The 3-season animated hit Star Blazers, based on the popular anime Space Battleship Yamato, revolutionized the genre in ...