Built during the twilight of the battleship era, the Yamato embodied the IJN’s ambition to dominate the Pacific through pure naval power. With its unprecedented size, armament, and astounding ...

The ship’s keel was laid down on Nov. 4, 1937. The Yamato launched on Aug. 8, 1940, and was commissioned on Dec. 16, 1941.Fully-laden displacement was a massive 72,000 tons, hull length was 862 ...

The Yamato was unique compared to other warships from the era, not only because it was the largest battleship on the sea. It was different in that it embodied the entire Imperial Japanese war ...

The largest battleship ever constructed, Yamato was completed shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, displacing 63,000 tons, and carrying nine 18” guns. ... (IJN) for most of the war.

The Yamato Battleship is a well-known representation of naval combat, and this warship model created in Minecraft by YouTuber MC Foxy fully captures its enormous historical significance.

It is, in Jan Morris’s own words, “a sort of illustrated reverie, a literary meditation” inspired by the battleship itself. Ms. Morris keeps a model of the Yamato at her writing desk.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

The “Yamato” was the biggest battleship ever created … and the Japanese series “Space Battleship Yamoto” introduced the world to anime. Let’s jet! All these ships look wrong.

Built during the twilight of the battleship era, the Yamato embodied the IJN’s ambition to dominate the Pacific through pure naval power. With its unprecedented size, armament, and astounding ...