Maritime Yamato history museum reopens with revamped battleship model

The Yamato Museum, a maritime history museum in Hiroshima Prefecture, reopened on Thursday after its first major renovation since its 2005 founding with 300 additional items on display, as well as a more realistic one-tenth scale model of the famous battleship Yamato.The Kure Maritime Museum is based in the city of its namesake. Kure is a naval port where the headquarters of the former imperial navy was located, and where the Yamato was constructed.The refurbished model of the battleship has been repainted and the details refined, which include the resizing of the imperial chrysanthemum cre…READ FULL ARTICLE