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.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... of Yamato’s main guns, the largest in their class at ...

Chuokoron-Shinsha Inc. published a single-volume book titled “A Senkan Musashi” (Oh battleship Musashi) on Jan. 30. Japan’s second Yamato-class battleship fell under siege and went down ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship ... its sister vessel, the Yamato, were two of the largest battleships ever built.