In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato sailed on her last mission—Operation Ten-Go. Ordered to attack Allied forces at ...

Key point: The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

In the 1930s, Japan’s naval engineers set out to build the most powerful warship ever conceived. The result was the ...

Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film ...

The first thing to note about “Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony” is what the book is not: It’s neither a historical account of the ill-fated Japanese warship Yamato nor a history of the ...

Old Modern Handicrafts (OMH), the leading name in handcrafted ship models and nautical collectibles, proudly announces the availability of the Japanese Battleship Yamato Model (CM108). This exclusive, ...

One of the most eagerly anticipated Japanese films this year is "Space Battleship Yamato," a live-action adaptation of the popular 1974 anime of the same name. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, "Space ...

Space Battleship Yamato is the name of a (rather short-lived) Japanese science fiction anime series that was aired on TV in countries other than Nippon some 20 to 30 years ago (outside Japan the anime ...

Key Point: It was a humiliating end for a battleship capable of twenty-seven knots, but the lack of fuel and other military resources made for truly desperate times. In early 1945, the Imperial ...