Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki's attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato, set several hundred years after the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach ...

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 ...

Nishizaki produced other nautical-themed anime like Space Carrier Blue Noah, Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight and Yamato 2520. The other co-creator of Space Battleship Yamato sued Nishizaki over ...

At almost 72,000 tons, the Japanese Yamato was the largest battleship in history. Commissioned in 1941, a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Yamato was an impressive feat of human ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash across the Pacific islands, it commissioned the battleship Yamato as its flagship. Over 80 years later, the Yamato remains the ...

What You Need to Know: Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War II.In April 1945, with just enough fuel for a ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. When I saw this comparison between the Final Fantasy and the battleship Yamato (the largest battleship ever made), I was wondering how the ...

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.