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 ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A microscopic model of Japan’s famed World War II battleship Yamato has gone on display at the Yamato Museum Satellite here. The 1-millionth-scale model is just 0.263 ...

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 ...

Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post-World ...

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