The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

And its demise was emblematic of not only the end of the battleship but the end of the Japanese empire. For me, telling the story of the Yamato was a private catharsis of sorts. As we made our way ...

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 ...

Yamato's cover story hints at her new pirate crew. Yamato will be huge support for Luffy in One Piece's Final Saga.

Of the just over 3,000 men aboard the Yamato on the morning of April 7, 1945, fewer than 300 were alive at day's end. In the interviews below, meet two Yamato veterans still haunted by memories of ...

Few works of anime have left as profound a mark on Japan’s pop-cultural landscape as Space Battleship Yamato. Directed by the legendary mangaka Leiji Matsumoto, ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the war not come, Japan would have bankrupt itself spending on these massive ships. Japan lacked the industrial capacity to compete with the United..