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In October 1974, Leiji Matsumoto created a television series, Space Battleship Yamato, about rebuilding the battleship as a starship and its interstellar quest to save Earth. The series was a huge success, spawning eight feature films and four more TV series, the most recent of which was released in 2017.
Yamato, and especially the story of her sinking, has appeared often in Japanese popular culture, such as the anime Space Battleship Yamato and the 2005 film Yamato. [83] The appearances in popular culture usually portray the ship's last mission as a brave, selfless, but futile, symbolic effort by the participating Japanese sailors to defend ...
This photo is part of the records in the Yamato Museum (PG061427). Search with the kanji characters of Yamato (大和) for the name (second field), and 昭和 for the period (last field). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 73092 , courtesy of Kazutoshi Hando.
English: Operation "Ten-Go", 7 April 1945: Smoke rises to the clouds shortly after the Japanese battleship Yamato capsized, exploded and sank after receiving many bomb and torpedo hits from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa. Two escorting destroyers are visible to the left of the smoke.
The museum opened on April 23, 2005. It is nicknamed the Yamato Museum due to the display in the lobby of a 1/10 scale model of the battleship Yamato, [1] the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet in World War II. It was sunk south of the Japanese island of Kyushu in 1945. The museum is located where the battleship was completed. [1]
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The torpedo hits—almost all on the port side—caused Yamato to list enough that capsizing was an imminent danger. [41] At 13:33, in a desperate attempt to keep the ship from capsizing, Yamato ' s damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms. This narrowly mitigated the imminent danger of capsizing but also ...
Two ships in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy were named Yamato: Japanese battleship Yamato , was the lead ship of her class of battleships , launched in 1940 and sunk in 1945 Japanese corvette Yamato , was a Katsuragi -class corvette , launched in 1885, decommissioned in 1935 and sank in 1945.