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 ...

After the battleship’s sinking, the emperor asked on April 30, 1945, whether “the Yamato and other vessels were properly utilized.” The Imperial Japanese Navy described the Yamato's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...