The first thing to note about “Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony” is what the book is not: It’s neither a historical account of the ill-fated Japanese warship Yamato nor a history ...

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 ...

Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post ...

and involved the largest battleship in the world, the mighty Yamato. The ship’s keel was laid down on Nov. 4, 1937. The Yamato launched on Aug. 8, 1940, and was commissioned on Dec. 16 ...

In 1934 the Japanese begin designing The Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history. In 1934 the Japanese begin designing The Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history. Constructed in ...

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.

Yoshinobu Nishizaki, controversial producer and co-creator of the original "Space Battleship Yamato" anime, died in a boating accident Sunday off the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo. By Gavin J ...

In Space Battleship Yamato, visual-effects expert Takashi Yamazaki ("Always – Sunset on Third Street" and its sequel) harnesses a reported $23.9 million budget to design a sleek futurist look ...

Like its real counterpart, this Battleship Yamato is the biggest Lego ship ever constructed. At 22 feet long, it took 6 years and 4 months to complete by one of our Lego contest winners.

j.g. Ed Sieber saw the target: Japan's super-battleship Yamato, the largest, most powerful warship ever built. Alongside Sieber's aircraft April 7, 1945, were Helldivers flown by Lt. Cmdr.