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    Yamato (大和) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship...
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    The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up...
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  • named Yamato: Japanese battleship Yamato, was the lead ship of her class of battleships, launched in 1940 and sunk in 1945 Japanese corvette Yamato, was...
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    Japan's Yamato class, which carried a main battery of nine 18.1-inch (460 millimetre) guns were designed to be a principal strategic weapon, but Yamato fired...
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  • Design A-150, popularly known as the Super Yamato class, was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy. In keeping with longstanding...
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    Yamato (大和市, Yamato-shi) is a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2021[update], the city had an estimated population of 242...
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    Tsukuba (1905) and the launching of the largest battleship ever built, the Yamato (1940). During the Pacific War, Kure acted as the Imperial Japanese Navy's...
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  • Japanese Navy Sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait, 25 Oct 1944 Yamato 1940-08-08 Yamato class Fast battleship  Imperial Japanese Navy One of the two most...
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  • 12-millimeter (0.47 in) plate." Japanese battleship Yamato (1940) Japanese battleship Musashi (1940) Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō (1941) Japanese cruiser...
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    the Battle of the East China Sea. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships,...
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    (皇室, Kōshitsu), also referred to as the Imperial Family and the House of Yamato, is the imperial family of Japan, consisting of those members of the extended...
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    and present Japanese nation, was the so-called yamato kotoba (大和言葉 or infrequently 大和詞, i.e. "Yamato words"), which in scholarly contexts is sometimes...
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    launched a military expedition from Hyūga near the Seto Inland Sea, captured Yamato, and established this as his center of power. In modern Japan, Emperor Jimmu's...
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    on March 18, 1940, against the Lion Baseball Club, and on April 14, 1941, against the Osaka Tigers. Kenkichi Saeki, president of Yamato Ironworks, purchased...
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  • aircraft carrier Shōkaku (1939) Japanese battleship Yamato (1940) Japanese battleship Musashi (1940) Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō (1941) Japanese cruiser...
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    Navy and the flag officer of the task force centered around the battleship Yamato on her final mission towards the end of World War II. Born in Miike County...
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    Japanese munition ship Kashino (category 1940 ships)
    Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 until she was sunk by a United States Navy submarine in 1942. She was built to carry the Yamato-class battleship's main battery...
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    Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He commanded the battleship Yamato during its final mission, Operation Ten-Go. Aruga was a native of Nagano...
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  • Yamato was an Italian monthly propaganda magazine which existed between early 1941 and August 1943. The magazine aimed at making the Japanese culture much...
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    Japanese battleship Musashi (category Yamato-class battleships)
    one of four planned Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The Yamato-class ships were the...
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    46 cm/45 Type 94 naval gun (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1940)
    of a Yamato-class battleship. In spite of this, there were no battleship-to-battleship engagements involving either completed vessel of the Yamato-class...
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    DeSchiMAG AG Weser in Bremen as yard number 966. She was launched on 12 April 1940 and commissioned on 5 July under the command of Korvettenkapitän Victor Schütze...
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    consists of only one town, Samukawa. The entire cities of Chigasaki, Fujisawa, Yamato, Ayase, Ebina, Zama; and parts of the city of Sagamihara, were formerly...
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  • Yamato Colony, California was a Japanese agricultural community in Livingston, California, United States. The Japanese farmers were instrumental in founding...
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    Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano (category Yamato-class battleships)
    the largest such built up to that time. Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, Shinano's partially complete hull was ordered...
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  • Eiichi Yamamoto (category 1940 births)
    (1973) (director) (TV) Space Battleship Yamato (1974-1975) (supervising director, writer) (TV) Space Battleship Yamato (1977) (screenplay) Odin: Photon Sailer...
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  • the several native ethnic groups of Japan, the predominant group are the Yamato Japanese, who trace their origins back to the Yayoi period and have held...
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    Ministry of Health and Welfare, An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus, which promoted racial supremacist theories. Japanese spokesmen...
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    Higashiyamato (東大和市, Higashi-yamato-shi) is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2021[update], the city had...
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    where she was sunk by naval gunfire, primarily from the Japanese battleship Yamato. Meanwhile, the Japanese light carrier Chiyoda was crippled by US dive bomber...
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