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 ...

Despite its impressive size and firepower ... the political maneuvers concerned with building the Imperial Japanese Navy’s battleship Yamato. The movie helps highlight how the Yamato and ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...