Glover, Hashima and Nagasaki's Meiji industrial revolution

Once Nagasaki opened to foreign trade in 1859, the Scottish merchant Thomas Glover helped bring Western industry to Japan, investing in coal mining and a steam slip dock, while the shogunate's ironworks grew into the Mitsubishi shipyard. Undersea coal from Hashima, 'Battleship Island', fed the furnaces; in the Second World War Korean and Chinese forced labourers worked its seams. Japan became the first non-Western country to industrialise.