April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...

"Their battleship will lead directly to war." Well Go USA has released a new official trailer for the Japanese drama titled The Great War of Archimedes, which originally opened in Japan back in 2019.

“The Great War of Archimedes” is a new Japanese war movie about the World War II battleship Yamato from Toho Studios, home of Godzilla. It’s coming to the U.S. on June 15 with an all-new English ...

Prior to the days of Tomahawk missiles and aircraft carriers, battleships were the way a nation would flex its muscles at sea. In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash ...

Space Battleship Yamato was retooled for Western audiences in the wake of Star Wars, and was among the first anime kids of that era ever saw. Star Blazers is available on DVD if you hunt around, and ...

Key Point: Gone with the great battleship were 2,498 of its 2,700-person crew. In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, most powerful ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Yamato had taken ten torpedo and seven bomb hits, and was hurting badly. Despite counterflooding, the ship continued to list, and once it reached thirty five degrees ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The names of Japanese sailors who went down with the Yamato — once the largest battleship afloat during World War II — will be added to a memorial commemorating the Battle of ...