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Yamato Province was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "Yamato" in . It was also called . Yamato consists of two characters, 大 "great", and 和 " Wa". At first, th ...

* '' Yamato Maru'', originally the that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to

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; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed ''Yamato Maru'', sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines * ''

Yamato 1 ''Yamato-1'' is a ship built in the early 1990s by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. at Wadasaki-cho Hyogo-ku, Kobe. It uses magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDDs) driven by liquid helium-cooled superconductors and can travel at 15 km/h (8 kn ...

'', the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive in the early 1990s

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Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, and produced by Academy Productions. The series aired in Yomiuri TV from October 6, 1974 to March 30, 1975, totaling u ...

'' * Superbattleship Yamato

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