{"product_id":"scottish-samurai-thomas-blake-glover","title":"Scottish Samurai Thomas Blake Glover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas 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 \u003ci\u003eMadam Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318576587134,"sku":"NW9780857866158","price":12.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780857866158.jpg?v=1778247994","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/scottish-samurai-thomas-blake-glover","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}