The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

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 ...

View Tamotsu Yato’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

View a slide show of the Yamato's last hours, from its initial sighting by U.S. forces to the cataclysmic explosion that sealed its fate.

Yamato Security is a security group created by Zach Mathis (@yamatosecurity) in 2012. At first, the main purpose was to provide security training to build a local security community in Western Japan ...