Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the ...

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato ... in World War II, a war-history group said. The footage from U.S. archives of the pride of the Imperial Japanese ...

A Historical Icon Immortalized The original Japanese Battleship Yamato ... the-art technology of her time. Yamato represented Japan’s naval dominance during WWII but met a heroic end in 1945 ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation ... lathe used to construct the main guns of the World War II battleship. The facility opened in 2005 as the Kure Maritime ...

The greatest Japanese battleship of all time returns in Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection. The movie is based on the Space Battleship Yamato anime series and movies. The television series ...

Set in World War II, the film depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them ...