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 ...

Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the "Flame Direct Attack Cannon" that can transcend space.

The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in December 1941, was outfitted with a state-of-the-art galley that had six “kama” pots, each capable of cooking 600 “go ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum ... guns of the World War II battleship. The facility opened in 2005 as the Kure Maritime Museum, but limited space meant that many items linked ...

The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year ...