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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summary: The tragic fate of the battleship Yamato in 1945 embodies Japan’s ultimate sacrifice during World War II, aiming to defend Okinawa but ultimately failing to impact the Allied invasion.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. When I saw this comparison between the Final Fantasy and the battleship Yamato (the largest battleship ever made), I was wondering how the ...