What You Need to Know: Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the ...

The lead ship of the class, the Yamato, was commissioned in 1941, just days after Japan’s deadly attack against America at Pearl Harbor. The Musashi was the next ship commissioned, in 1942 ...

“Historical records related to the Imperial Japanese Navy and ... the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he ...

Neon Genesis Evangelion's lead director, Hideaki Anno, is taking leadership for another collaboration with Space Battleship ...

2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a "Cosmo Reverse System" at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly, it encounters a mysterious group ...