The emperor’s question about vessels had previously been believed to have been asked on March 29, 1945, in what is currently known as “Document Senkan Yamato” (Documentary on the battleship ...

On April 6, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerful ever built, set sail from Japan on a one-way mission to Okinawa. With the U.S. forces landing on the island and Japan's military ...