Nobuyuki Hirano, president and chief executive of the financial group Mitsubishi UFJ, has visited the family home of 19th century Scottish industrialist Thomas Blake Glover in Aberdeen, The Scotsman reported on 19 October. Known as the Scottish Samurai, Glover played a leading role in Japan’s development during the Meiji Restoration and helped establish the Mitsubishi shipbuilding firm.
The Glover family home had fallen into disrepair by 2012, and Hirano visited Aberdeen to hear about plans to restore the property, which had been bought by Mitsubishi 20 years earlier and gifted to the Grampian-Japan Trust.