Scottish Samurai: Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 by Alexander McKay

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THOMAS GLOVER arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West.
Within a few years he had played a crucial role in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate

by Alexander McKay
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Scottish Samurai: Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 Description

THOMAS GLOVER arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West.
Within a few years he had played a crucial role in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with war-winning, Scottish-designed warships, and modern arms.
Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback and he went on to become a pivotal figure in the rapidly expanding Mitsubishi empire, founding shipyards and breweries.
As energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspited Puccini's Madam Butterfly. This 'Scottish Samurai was to become an adviser to the Japanese government; he also arranged for many Japanese to visit Britain and see the wonders of the industrial revolution, a lesson they enthusiastically absorbed. Today Glover is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Japanese economic miracle.

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