Requiem for Battleship Yamato (戦艦大和ノ最期, lit.
It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself.
The book was partially censored by Americans during the occupation of Japan.
The book became influential, and became a basis of 1953 film Battleship Yamato [ja] and 1990 TV series Battleship Yamato [ja].
An English version, translated by Richard H. Minear, was published in 1985 under the title Requiem for Battleship Yamato.