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 ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture–The Defense ... on the former site of shipyards that produced the Yamato, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, more than eight decades ago. The ministry is ...

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 ...