Key Points and Summary on Yamat0-Class Battleships – The Imperial Japanese Navy’s WWII-era Yamato-class warships were the ...

But there is also at least one recorded instance of a suicide mission carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN): Operation Ten-Go, which took place on April 7, 1945, and involved the largest ...

Yamato had been the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy and it was from the bridge of the battleship in 1942 that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet during the Battle of Midway.

The forward auxiliary battery on the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato is seen in this photo provided by the Yamato Museum. TOKYO -- When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato ...

Even more than 80 years after it first sailed, the Yamato remains the largest and heaviest battleship ever constructed.

In 1934 the Japanese begin designing The Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history.

The battleship Yamato is seen exploding, and sinking, in this file photo from April 7, 1945. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Seventy-six years ago, on April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy vessel Yamato ...

Another 365 names — 296 from the Imperial Japanese Navy ship sunk 78 years ago off Kyushu — will be added to the Cornerstone of Peace at Okinawa Peace Memorial Park ahead of a June 23 ceremony ...