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 ...

Old Modern Handicrafts has carefully recreated this historical icon to honor its legacy. Measuring 36 inches in length, the CM108 Japanese Battleship Yamato Large Model is a masterpiece of maritime ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Yamato took ten torpedo and seven bomb hits, and was hurting badly. Despite counterflooding, the ship continued to list, and once it reached thirty-five degrees ...

Another interesting fact about Space Battleship Yamato is that the titular battleship is the very same Imperial Japanese Navy mega-cruiser, that the U.S. Navy sank towards the end of WW2 on April ...

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 ...

“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 ...