Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

What You Need to Know: Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the ...

Japanese tourists still flock to memorial sites to remember the young men who crashed their planes into Allied warships.

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

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.

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 ...

The coal mine, located on what is known as “Battleship Island,” is part of the “Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution,” which won World Heritage status in 2015. Properties of the ...

Hideaki Anno is creating a new Space Battleship Yamato film. What is the enduring legacy of this series in Japan? Part of the reason I was asked to contribute to the Answerman column is because I am a ...

Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen announced that he has discovered Musashi, a World War II Japanese battleship that was sunk by US forces over 7o years ago. Allen and his research ...