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

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 behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its ... according to a newly disclosed document. The Yamato was sunk by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft on April 7, 1945, as it sailed toward ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... The Yamato was sunk during the closing days of the Pacific ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship, the Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by ... the Yamato, were two of ...

Kure, Hiroshima Pref., April 7 (Jiji Press)--A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato was held in Kure ...