Godai Tomoatsu
Godai Tomoatsu 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 Japans leading entrepreneur of the early Meiji period.
Godai was born in Satsuma domain , and was sent by the domain to study naval science and technology at the Kaigun Denshujo in Nagasaki. At the outbreak of the AngloSatsuma War of 1864, he was appointed captain of the Tenu Maru. Along with Matsuki Koan, he was taken prisoner by the Royal navy when his ship was captured. He was chosen as one ofstudents to be sent to Great Britain to study at the University College, London in defiance of the Tokugawa bakufus official national seclusion policy.
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