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Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 325, The Tejan Scandal, part two.

If you were going to compile a list of who was who in the world of business in 1930s Japan, it would be hard to avoid talking about Go Senosuke.

Sainoske was born at the absolute tail end of the Edo period in 1865 to a family of Hatamoto,

mid-de-low-ranking samurai who pledged their loyalty directly to the shogun rather than to another major lord.

This was not particularly great for the family in many respects, after all it did mean that

when young Go Sainoske was only three, his father, Go Junzo, was going to lose his job when

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