KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture–The Defense Ministry has proposed building a multifunctional defense complex at a former steel works site here where the massive battleship Yamato was built ...

What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance.

were killed in the desperate maritime operation toward the end of World War II. As 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the Yamato’s sinking, a previously unknown record was unearthed by The ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class ... which the Japanese found themselves in over 80 years ago, at the start of WWII. Unable to mass produce warships or other necessary systems for winning ...