Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 25 miles. -Despite their formidable design, all three ...

The battleship Yamato was among the largest and most powerful battleships of all time.Yamato has reached nearly mythical status, a perfect example of Japan’s fascination with doomed, futile heroics.

At almost 72,000 tons, the Japanese Yamato was the largest battleship in history. ... The 18.1-inch (460mm) cannons were huge, and Japan had to lie that they were smaller during the design period.

“The Great War of Archimedes” is a new Japanese war movie about the World War II battleship Yamato from Toho Studios, home of Godzilla. It’s coming to the U.S. on June 15 with an all-new ...

Full Scale Restoration of the Japanese battleship “Yamato” in VR. Battleship Yamato was constructed during the World War Ⅱ in 1941, and it was the biggest battleship ever built.

It is, in Jan Morris’s own words, “a sort of illustrated reverie, a literary meditation” inspired by the battleship itself. Ms. Morris keeps a model of the Yamato at her writing desk.