What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture–The Defense Ministry has proposed building a multifunctional defense complex at a former steel works site here where the massive battleship Yamato was built ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

Yamato was the lead ship of her class ... which the Japanese found themselves in over 80 years ago, at the start of WWII. Unable to mass produce warships or other necessary systems for winning ...

And let’s both pray for peace.” I am often asked whether this "Yamato boom" represents a return to the imperialistic philosophy of pre-World War II Japan. I don't think it does. The Japanese ...

A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato was held ... U.S. military during World War II and laid flowers at ...