The Japanese Yamato-class battleships were the most significant vessels ever to steam the high seas. They were gargantuan ...

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

Old Modern Handicrafts (OMH), the leading name in handcrafted ship models and nautical collectibles, proudly announces the availability of the Japanese Battleship Yamato Model (CM108). This ...

“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 ...

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.

Set in World War II, the film depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them ...