April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

In this riveting historical video, witness the dramatic final moments of the mighty battleship Yamato during World War II. Discover the intense and overwhelming assault as bombers swarm the legendary ...

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 of the ...

Japanese battleship Yamato under construction at the Kure Naval Base, Japan, September 20, 1941. The aircraft carrier Hōshō is at the extreme right. The supply ship Mamiya is in the center distance.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation project will expand the facility so that it can display such items as the mammoth lathe used to construct the main guns of the ...

Space Battleship Yamato was retooled for Western audiences in the wake of Star Wars, and was among the first anime kids of that era ever saw. Star Blazers is available on DVD if you hunt around, and ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Yamato was, with its sister ship Musashi, the largest ship in history – and more agile and heavily armed than the Bismarck. The German warship wouldn’t stand a ...

And while the producer’s target of 10 million viewers for the film is ambitious, an even harder task might be in convincing moviegoers in the rest of Asia that it is not a work of implicit nationalism ...