Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 25 miles. -Despite their formidable design, all three ...

On April 7, 1945, the legendary Yamato – the largest ship in naval history – was attacked by waves of American carrier-borne ...

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 ...

Two upcoming Space Battleship Yamato models can now be pre-ordered, with one of them being old while the other one is made of ...

About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...

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 ...

Few works of anime have left as profound a mark on Japan’s pop-cultural landscape as Space Battleship Yamato. Directed by the legendary mangaka Leiji Matsumoto, the sci-fi epic was first aired ...

After the boom occurred among Hikawa's generation, Fukui first encountered Yamato when the first film was broadcast on TV around the time Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato was released.

The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year ...