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Thomas Blake Glover (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was an Anglo-Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji-period Japan.
Learn about Thomas Blake Glover, a Scotsman who played a key role in Mitsubishi's early growth and diversification in Japan. He was a trader, a coal mine investor, a shipyard partner, a brewery founder and a friend of Mitsubishi founder Yataro Iwasaki.
Merchant Thomas Blake Glover has been described as the founding father of Japan's economic miracle. His contribution to the country's industrialisation includes the introduction of the first...
Oct 15, 2015 · Among the many people who helped propel Japan’s industrial revolution from the end of the Edo period through the beginning of the Meiji era was Nagasaki-based Scottish merchant Thomas Blake...
Mar 28, 2017 · THOMAS Blake Glover was among the first westerners to establish a business in Japan, and played a pivotal role in awakening what is today one of the world's leading economies....
Thomas Blake Glover was a Scotsman who worked for a Hong Kong- based British trading house called Jardine, Matheson & Co. In 1859, Glover became the trading house's commercial agent in Nagasaki, just one year after the city was opened to foreign trade.
Thomas Blake Glover lived from 6 June 1838 to 16 December 1911. Born in Fraserburgh he went on to become one of the first westerners to establish a business in Japan, today being widely remembered there as one of the founding fathers of modern Japan.
