-The Yamato's fate was sealed during Operation Ten-Go, a suicide mission in which the ship was sunk by American carrier-based aircraft on April 7, 1945, marking the end of the battleship era. The ...

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 ...

The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

From the U.S.S. Gerald Ford – all 100,000 tons of it – to Japan's monstrous Yamato, World War II's most formidable battleship, there's a lot of ground to cover. This will be a wild ride ...

The wife asks with amazement, “Does it prepare meals for so many people?” The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in December 1941, was outfitted with a state-of-the- ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the war not come, Japan would have bankrupt itself spending on these massive ships. Japan lacked the industrial capacity to compete with the United..

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 ...

Neon Genesis Evangelion's lead director, Hideaki Anno, is taking leadership for another collaboration with Space Battleship ...

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 ...

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Hideaki Anno is creating a new Space Battleship Yamato film. What is the enduring legacy of this series in Japan? Part of the reason I was asked to contribute to the Answerman column is because I ...