On April 6, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerful ever built, set sail from Japan on a one-way mission to Okinawa. With the U.S. forces landing on the island and Japan's ...

The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in December 1941, was outfitted with a state-of-the-art galley that had six “kama” pots, each capable of cooking 600 “go ...

About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...

After the boom occurred among Hikawa's generation, Fukui first encountered Yamato when the first film was broadcast on TV around the time Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato was released.