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People People People
The BAKUMATSU aera
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William John Alt
(1840-1905) ウィリアム・オールト
British merchant
William John Alt was born April 4, 1840 in Greenwich, England. At the age of twelve he entered the Merchant Service. Seven years later he joined the Customs Service in China, but left for Nagasaki later the same year after the port was opened to foreign trade. He registered with the British Consulate in Nagasaki January 6, 1860 as a general commission agent.
Like his fellow young merchant-adventurer from Britain, Thomas Glover, William Alt made a considerable fortune in the first decade of the foreign settlement by trading tea, marine products, ships and weapons.
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source : THE ALT HOUSE:
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
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Richard Henry Brunton
(26 December 1841 – 24 April 1901)
was the so-called "Father of Japanese lighthouses". Brunton was born in Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland. He was employed by the Japanese Government as an o-yatoi gaikokujin to build lighthouses in Japan.
Under pressure from British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes to fulfil its obligations to make the waters and harbors of Japan safe for shipping, the Japanese government hired the Edinburgh-based firm of D. and T. Stevenson to chart coastal waters and to build lighthouses where appropriate. The project had already begun under French foreign advisor Léonce Verny, but was not proceeding fast enough for the British.
FRGS, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
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. Thomas Blake Glover トーマス グラバー
A famous Scottish weapon dealer in Nagasaki. His estate is now a museum, it is the first western-style building in Japan.
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The Scot who shaped Japan
History has not been generous in crediting the crucial roles played by maverick trader Thomas Blake Glover in casting off feudalism and ushering in the modern age. But as the centenary of this most singular Victorian nears, Michael Gardiner sets the record straight
This coming Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, marks the centenary of the death in his opulent home in the Shiba Park area of Tokyo's central Azabu district of the Scottish-born trader Thomas Blake Glover, who became the first foreigner ever decorated by the Japanese government when he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (second class) in 1908.
Despite that remarkable distinction, however, Glover's life and his contribution to the creation of modern Japan and, unknown (but not unsensed) by him, to its ultimate humiliation in 1945, has registered only unevenly and with some unease in today's still often palpably postwar Japan. And that despite it being a tale of such ambiguities, such outright roguery and cutthroat capitalism — and yet of such vision, too — that it beggars belief it has not already had the "Last Samurai" treatment.
..... For all that, and despite the fact that Glover House now gets 2 million visitors a year, including many on school trips, there have been no serious historical dramatizations of Glover's remarkable life and role in history, even though there is a background enthusiasm for his modernizing energy and willingness to negotiate in unfamiliar and dangerous surroundings.
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Iwasaki Yataro 岩崎弥太郎
Tosa Domain . He was close to Sakamoto Ryoma.
Tsukumo Shokai, "Mitsubishi Shokai" in March 1873
. Sakamoto Ryoma (Sakamoto Ryuma) 坂本龍馬
(January 3, 1836 – 10 December 1867)
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Ranald MacDonald
(3 February 1824 – August 24, 1894)
was the first man to teach the English language in Japan, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters to handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Native American in the Land of the Shogun
Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan
Frederik L. Schodt
Stone Bridge Press
Of no relation to the hamburger chain of a similar-sounding name, he was born in 1824 in the area of what is now Astoria, Oregon.
The son of a Chinook Indian princess and a prominent Scottish official in the Hudson's Bay company in the area, he grew up in the rich natural and cultural environment of the early nineteenth century Pacific Northwest.
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Kenneth Ross MacKenzie
local agent for Jardine, Matheson and Company.
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James Mitchell
Scottish shipbuilder, owner of "Aberdeen Yard" in Nagasaki.
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Laurence Oliphant
(1829 – 23 December 1888)
was a British author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic.
Oliphant was Lord Elgin's private secretary on his expedition to China and Japan. In 1861 he was appointed first secretary of the British legation in Japan under Minister Plenipotentiary (later Sir) Rutherford Alcock, and might have made a successful diplomatic career if it had not been interrupted, almost at the outset, by a night attack on the legation, in which he nearly lost his life. He permanently lost the full use of his hand. It seems probable that he never properly recovered from this affair.
He arrived at Edo at the end of June 1861.
On the evening of 5 July a night attack was made on the legation by xenophobic ronin.
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Ernest Satow
Sir Ernest Mason Satow
(30 June 1843 - 26 August 1929)
アーネスト・サトウ (Asnesuto Satoo)
British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist.
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Jack Seward
1924 – November 2010
leading expert on Japan
has written forty-four books on Japan
Author of : Strange but True Stories from Japan
Japanese In Action
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Daruma Pilgrims in Japan
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