In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese ... the Yamato remains the largest and heaviest battleship ever constructed, displacing a total of 72,000 tons. It was 863 feet long. If sheer size wasn't enough ...

The forward auxiliary battery on the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato is seen in this photo provided by the Yamato Museum. TOKYO -- When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato ...

The island was just 160 miles from the the mainland city of Kagoshima, coincidentally the birthplace of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yamato and its task force, designated the Surface Special Attack ...

The battleship Yamato is seen exploding, and sinking, in this file photo from April 7, 1945. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Seventy-six years ago, on April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy vessel Yamato ...

The island was just 160 miles from the the mainland city of Kagoshima, coincidentally the birthplace of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yamato and its task force, designated the Surface Special Attack ...

Nominally a biography of the Japanese imperial family since the Meiji restoration of 1868, this sensational book really focuses on World War II, especially Emperor Hirohito's complicity in Japanese ...

Another interesting fact about Space Battleship Yamato is that the titular battleship is the very same Imperial Japanese Navy mega-cruiser, that the U.S. Navy sank towards the end of WW2 on April ...

But no American battleship holds the same degree of cultural relevance as the Japanese Yamato. The largest battleship ever constructed, Yamato was completed shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack ...

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 ...

A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato was held in the city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday.

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.