On April 6, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerful ever built, set sail from Japan on a one-way mission to Okinawa. With the U.S. forces landing on the island and Japan's military ...

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.

On April 7, 1945, the legendary Yamato – the largest ship in naval history – was attacked by waves of American carrier-borne ...

Today, as we hold the graduation ceremony for the prestigious National Defense Academy (NDA) here at Obaradai, Yokosuka, I, as Prime Minister, extend my heartfelt congratulations to the graduating ...

The museum, which commemorates the battleship Yamato and its shipbuilding technology ... Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed. Japan Oct.-Dec. GDP Revised Down to 2.2 Pct Annual Rise 150,000 Tons ...

A series of Japanese animated science fiction films adapted from the classic 1974 TV series Space Battleship Yamato, chronicling adventures of the titular space battleship and her crew to defend ...

Although many things to do in Hiroshima revolve around the devasting boming during WWII history, this is a city on the rise.

TOKYO -- Leading Japanese ground delivery provider Yamato Holdings aims to triple annual overseas revenue within the next few years and sees India as its top priority for growth. "We'll expand the ...