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Scottish Samurai
Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859 just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate providing the rebels with war-winning Scottish-designedwarships 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 inspired Puccinis 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 enthusiatically absorbed. Today
Glover is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Japanese economic miracle.
Glover is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Japanese economic miracle.
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