{"product_id":"scottish-samurai","title":"Scottish Samurai","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 part 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspired 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.","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58455355523407,"sku":"9780857866158","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/scottish-samurai","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}