Kure, Hiroshima
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Kure is a city in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 April 2023, the city had an estimated population of 208,024 in 106,616 households and a population density of 590 persons per km2. The total
JMSDF Kure District HQJMSDF Kure MuseumYamato MuseumJMU Kure shipyardIrifuneyama MuseumOndō Bridge & Ondo-no-seto
Kure City Hall
Port of Kure seen from Yasumi-yama
JMU Kure shipyard in July 2015
Japanese battleship Yamato
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Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed bat
Kure, Hiroshima
…launching of the first major domestically built capital ship, the battlecruiser 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 single-largest naval base and arsenal. Most of the city's industry and…
Yamato undertaking sea trials in the Bungo Channel, 20 October 1941
Yamato near the end of her fitting out, 20 September 1941
Yamato during sea trials, October 1941
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (fourth from left) and his staff posing with the Yamato's 46 cm (18.1 in) gun turret 3 on 20 December 1941