The 2019 film "The Great War of Archimedes" offers a highly fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers concerned with building the Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato. The movie helps ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in ... U.S. archives of the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy was released in Japan on May 12.

After the battleship’s sinking, the emperor asked on April 30, 1945, whether “the Yamato and other vessels were properly utilized.” The Imperial Japanese Navy described the Yamato's ...

Japan's IJN Yamato, one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built, ranks second. -Topping the list is the USS New Jersey, the most decorated battleship in U.S. history ...

The Yamato must die a glorious death.” For me, one of the most fascinating aspects of the story was the controversial command issued by the Imperial Japanese Navy that sent nearly 3,000 men to ...