Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the ...

The Montana-class battleships were a series of five planned U.S. Navy battleships intended to succeed the Iowa-class ...

The shuttered steel works plant stands on the former site of shipyards that produced the Yamato, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, more than eight decades ago. The ministry is negotiating ...

“Such a large-scale mission was developed too hastily, indicating how grave the impact of the emperor’s comment on the navy was,” said Kazushige Todaka, director of the Yamato Museum in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Yamato must die a glorious death.” For me, one of the most fascinating aspects of the story was the controversial command issued by the Imperial Japanese Navy that sent nearly 3,000 men to ...

The US Navy’s recently announced Principles of Undersea ... In 1992 the Japanese Yamato-1 prototype, pictured at the top of the page, was able to hit a blistering 6.6 knots (that’s 12 kph ...

After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he ...