Super Battleship Yamato, How it Worked

It didn't work very damned well at all. Neither did Musashi.

wooden decks meant that both would ultimately be sunk by airplanes (which is what happened).

At Midway, the Navy got lucky. Even if we had lost that one, though, we were building carriers a lot faster than the Japanese. For the resources they wasted on those two examples of tits on a boar, they could have had six to eight carriers and the planes to go with them.

Meh . . . they were doomed anyway.

as we say today. There are submarines, and targets.

Japan had one chance and one only in WW-II, i.e. they had to take Hawaii and not just stage some sort of a hit/run raid on Pearl Harbor, and then land an invasion force on California which was capable of fighting its way to D.C., living off the land as they did so. That would probably have meant calling a time-out in the war with China until whatever was going on with the US was over with.