Key Points and Summary - Japan’s Design A-150 “Super Yamato” was meant to be the ultimate battleship: up to 70,000–90,000 tons, six 510 mm guns, huge armor belts, and 30-knot speed to crush any U.S.

Space Battleship Yamato anime series, created from Yoshinobu Nishizaki’s original work. Players command a fleet of ...

In January 1936 Japan announced its intention to withdraw from the London Naval Treaty, accusing both the United States and the United Kingdom of negotiating in bad faith. The Japanese sought formal ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the war not come, Japan would have bankrupt itself spending on these massive ships. Japan lacked the industrial capacity to compete with the United States; indeed ...

USS Archerfish was patrolling near Japan in November 1944 when it detected a fast Japanese formation leaving the Tokyo Bay ...

Yamato 3199 is based on the feature film Be Forever Yamato (Yamato yo Towa ni in Japan) in 1980, and also includes some elements from the third original TV series Space Battleship Yamato III in ...

The IJN Yamato held the distinction of being history's biggest and most powerfully armed battleship, stretching 263 metres in length, carrying nine 18.1-inch guns, and requiring a crew of more than ...