On April 6, 1945, the massive Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest and most heavily armed warship ever built, departed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...