Glover arranged for Waters to be employed by Satsuma Domain to construct steam - powered sugar mills on the island of Amami - Oshima .
Glover then moved to Kagoshima to design western - style buildings in 1867 .
Glover arranged for Waters to be employed by Satsuma Domain to construct steam - powered sugar mills on the island of Amami - Oshima , and he then moved to Kagoshima to design western - style buildings in 1867 .