"Financial Report of the Battleship Yamato: The Battleship Yamato Viewed from Construction Costs, Maintenance Costs, and War Expenses" Makoto Aoyama Price: ¥1300 The battleship Yamato, boasting the world's greatest grandeur. The Yamato has been featured in countless reviews and creative works. There are those that chronicle its tragic end, those that introduce development stories and performance, and fictional war stories where the Yamato plays an active role, and so on. However, there is an aspect that has not been openly discussed until now. That is the cost—analyzing the Yamato from a financial perspective. The construction cost of the Yamato is said to have consumed a staggering 4 percent of the national budget. However, questions such as "How much did a single main gun shell cost?", "How much did the oil consumed during berthing cost?", "What were the crew's labor costs?", "What were the costs for maintaining secrecy during construction?", and "How was the construction cost inflated?" have hardly been addressed. Since the battleship Yamato was a weapon, the issue of cost and results cannot be considered separately. And by analyzing it from a cost perspective, a completely new image of the Yamato should emerge. #MakotoAoyama #Makoto_Aoyama #book #history/JapaneseHistory