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Yamato (男たちの大和, Otoko-tachi no Yamato, literally "The Men's Yamato") is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Satō and is based on a book by Jun Henmi . With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato , concentrating on the ship's ...
Hirayama intends the battleship to embody Japan's collective spirit to make its loss so traumatizing that Japan will surrender before being invaded. Kai, a pacifist, reluctantly agrees to perfect the battleship design, which becomes the Yamato-class battleship. Kai attends Yamamoto's inspection of Yamato two months after the attack on Pearl ...
The Yamato no Fuhito (和史), also known as Yamato clan (和氏), was an immigrant clan active in Japan since the Kofun period (250–538), according to the history of Japan laid out in the Nihon Shoki. The name fuhito comes from their occupation as scribes. They were descended from Prince Junda (Junda Taishi) who died in 513 in
The Wajin (also known as Wa or Wō) or Yamato were the names early China used to refer to an ethnic group living in Japan around the time of the Three Kingdoms period.Ancient and medieval East Asian scribes regularly wrote Wa or Yamato with one and the same Chinese character 倭, which translated to "dwarf", until the 8th century, when the Japanese found fault with it, replacing it with 和 ...
Yoshinobu Nishizaki (西崎 義展, Nishizaki Yoshinobu, 18 December 1934 – 7 November 2010) was a Japanese film producer best known as one of the two co-creators of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato.
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon [2] (Japanese: ヤマトタケル, Hepburn: Yamato Takeru) is a 1994 Japanese kaiju film directed by Takao Okawara and produced by Shogo Tomiyama, with a screenplay by Wataru Mimura. Produced by Toho, the film is based on Japanese mythology, specifically the birth of Shinto. [1]
They shared the same character "Aya" but separated one another with the use of cardinal directions ("Kawachi/西" meaning West and "Yamato/東" meaning East) as Wani's Kawachinoaya clan resided in "Furuichikoori (河内国古市郡)", (present day Furuichigun (古市郡) in Osaka) located in the west of Japan, while Achi no omi and his ...
The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family is a 1999 non-fiction book by historian Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave. The full text is divided into 13 chapters in total. The full text is divided into 13 chapters in total.