KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture–The Defense Ministry has proposed building a multifunctional defense complex at a former steel works site here where the massive battleship Yamato was built, municipal ...

What You Need to Know: After years of analysis, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's team discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi in 2015, 3,280 feet deep in the Philippine Sibuyan Sea.

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 ...