USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

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

Hideaki Anno is creating a new Space Battleship Yamato film. What is the enduring legacy of this series in Japan? Part of the reason I was asked to contribute to the Answerman column is because I am a ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest battleship ever constructed. her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ...

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.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Even if the U.S. Navy’s carrier fleet had not intervened, there is no chance that Yamato would have found her way to Okinawa. She would ...

Japanese tourists still flock to memorial sites to remember the young men who crashed their planes into Allied warships.

Summary and Key Points: “The Great War of Archimedes” presents a fictionalized account of the political maneuvers behind the construction of the Japanese battleship Yamato, a symbol of Japan ...

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NR 1 hr 51 minDrama, Action, Science Fiction, AnimationPart of Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Collection 2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a ...

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 ...

Three years since Earth battleship Yamato defeated Comet Empire Gatlantis, the galaxy is a different place. With their home planet nearing its inevitable destruction in the coming decades ...