About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.