On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...

Key point: The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Yamato took ten torpedo and seven bomb hits, and was hurting badly. Despite counterflooding, the ship continued to list, and once it reached thirty-five degrees the ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. 9pm WORLD WAR II MEGA WEAPONS - History - This series unveils the engineering ...

Explore the captivating story of the Yamato battleships, Japan’s formidable naval superweapons during World War II. This ...

And while the producer’s target of 10 million viewers for the film is ambitious, an even harder task might be in convincing moviegoers in the rest of Asia that it is not a work of implicit nationalism ...

Every filmmaker has a program that embodies the fulfillment of a lifetime objective. For me, "Sinking the Supership" was that program. As the child of a Japanese father and an American mother, I had ...

When it was launched in 1941, the Yamato was a floating metaphor for Imperial Japan–powerful, brash, seemingly invincible. For four years it plied the China Seas as flagship of the Imperial Japanese ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The names of Japanese sailors who went down with the Yamato — once the largest battleship afloat during World War II — will be added to a memorial commemorating the Battle of ...