Summary and Key Points: "The Great War of Archimedes" presents a fictionalized account of the political maneuvers behind the construction of the Japanese battleship Yamato, a symbol of Japan's ...

We were not able to track down the actual notes from that last military powwow in Tokyo concerning the Yamato, but hearsay tells us there was great dissension and the final act was one of pride ...

Yamato, the word, is made up of characters that mean “great” and “harmony” and was historically the province in present-day Nara Prefecture, which many cite as the birthplace of the nation.