The Ship That Japan Sent to Die - April 7, 1945

On April 7, 1945, Japan sent the world's greatest battleship on a mission its own commanders privately knew was suicidal, and the evidence suggests the entire catastrophe may have started because an admiral misread a casual question from the emperor. Today's episode explores the sinking of the Yamato through the men who objected in private, the sailors who went to sea in despair, and a young survivor who floated in the wreckage waiting for the spiritual reward he had been promised and never received.