KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation project will expand the facility so that it can display such items as the mammoth lathe used to construct the main guns of ...
Jo Sakai, a graduate of New York University, scouted sites in1903 for farmers to try new techniques. He came upon Boca Raton ...
KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.
It was situated where present-day Yamato Road meets Dixie Highway at a site originally known as Wyman, according to the museum's website. Yamato is an ancient word for Japan. Sakai wanted to raise ...