On April 6, 1945, the massive Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest and most heavily armed warship ever built, departed from Yamaguchi Prefecture on a desperate, one-way mission to Okinawa. As ...

The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

However, a Japanese newspaper says a naval officer’s misunderstanding of the emperor’s question meant that the Yamato left Tokuyama port at very short notice without adequate naval or air support.