KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty ... lathe to return to Yamato’s birthplace. Because the city government was beset ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class, constructed under extreme secrecy at the Kure Naval Arsenal in Hiroshima Prefecture. Ordered in 1937 as part of Japan’s rapid naval rearmament following ...

A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato was held in the city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe believed to have been used to fashion the main guns of Japan's ... associated with Yamato that survives to this day, according to city officials.