Japan’s guilty pleasure: A tribute to the largest battleship ever built

Alexander Wooley, a former British Royal Navy officer, is the author of “Battleship Yamato: The Ship, The Myth, The Legend.” Aug. 6 is typically a solemn day in Japan, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. A record 121 nations and regions were represented at the city’s anniversa...

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