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 ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe believed to have been used to fashion the main guns of Japan's mighty World War II battleship Yamato was in danger of becoming a rusting relic until a ...

Descendants of the original Yamato Colony helped the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens rededicate the Yamato-kan, its original building in Delray Beach. Situated on an island, the Yamato-kan is ...

KURE, Hiroshima -- In the Japanese manga series "In This Corner of the World," which portrays ordinary people's lives during World War II, is a scene showing the Battleship Yamato at a port here, ...

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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 ...