Godai Tomoatsu

Godai Tomoatsu (五代 友厚, February 12, 1836 – September 25, 1886) was one of the Satsuma students of 1865 who were smuggled out of Bakumatsu period Japan to study in Great Britain. He returned to become Japan's leading entrepreneur of the early Meiji period.

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Birth dateFebruary 12, 1836
Birth place
Japan , Kagoshima , Satsuma Domain
Date of deathSeptember 25, 1885

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