Despite his Japanese citizenship, Kuraba Tomisaburō was hounded as a potential spy by the Japanese military police during World War II.
Thomas Glover has been linked with Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, which was partly sourced from Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysanthème via Félix Régamey and Madame Butterfly; all set on the eastern slope of Nagasaki Harbour.