KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation project will expand the facility so that it can display such items as the mammoth lathe used to construct the main guns of the ...

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 ...

KURE, Japan, July 27 (UPI) -- A full-scale replica of the Japanese World War II warship Yamato has been created and is on display in a naval museum in Kure, Japan. The ship, which was considered ...

Just outside Hiroshima, Japan, in the town of Kure, there's an odd sight: a submarine almost as long as a football field, up on stilts. Amid the buildings with no water in sight, the sleek black and ...