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Toyotomi Hideyoshi tried to get several important people to adopt him in order to adopt certain government titles IOTL. He succeeded with the Fujiwara, which ended with him taking the Kampaku and later Taiko title. Before he got adopted by the Fujiwaras however, he also tried to get the last...

I'v Shinzo Abe escaped assassination or Tetsuya Yamagami failed kills Shinzo Abe?

What if Christian missionaries from Iberia managed to convert Japan to Christianity in the 1500s? Additionally what if this Japan managed to conquer Korea in the Imjin War (or an alternate version of it) or a later war when the Ming was collapsing

Unsurprisingly, due to the major similarities (totalitarian government, violent racism, total war economies, foreign expansionism) Japanese Imperialism and European Fascism are often lumped in together. I was interested, though, in the differences between these two systems and was wondering if...

(I made this thread talking about this years ago, but it went nowhere and died. This is more of a remake.) For context, the Imjin War was an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to invade Ming China via Joseon Korea. After landing on Korean soil, the Japanese had initial success, even capturing the...

Assuming that Hideyoshi was somehow able to conquer Korea and then decided to set his eyes on the Kingdom of Ayutthaya for whatever reason (pick your reasoning: desire to control one of the largest and wealthiest cities in Asia at the time, he wanted to see an elephant, he felt bored, etc.)...

So this is an idea that has been with me for an undetermined period of time. Since Chinese traders were responsible for creating large Chinese creole communities all over South East Asia, Japan had a period where Japanese traders flourish all over South East Asia and East Asia, and Korea once...

I may be wrong, since I'm not too knowledgeable about Japan, but without getting too much into modern politics, it seems to be a lot more politically stable and less polarized than other major western countries. I'm wondering why this is, and if it would be possible, with a post-war POD to get...

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about this period. While dozens if not hundreds of clans all over Japan fought for dominance during the Sengoku Jidai, the Ashikaga clan, whose kinsmen held the post of shogun (and were, thus, nominal rulers of Japan) for most of the period, were powerless...

According to some historians in Asia, during the Imjin War (When Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded the Kingdom of Joseon), supposedly the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Modern-Day Thailand), made a proposal to the Ming Chinese. They offered to dispatch a naval force to sail and attack Japan...

The "Argentine paradox" is a term used for the economic history of Argentina - at the beginning of the last century the country was one of the richest in the world in terms of GNP per capita, surpassing countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands, while today it is a middle-developed...

POD is that Taika Reform succeeds in centralizing Japan. It takes power away from clan. Their land nationalized and redistributed. Imperial government becomes the sole authority in Japan. The Emperor creates a professional national standing army Tang dynasty in China and Silla dynasty in Korea...

As the title said, would anime/manga be very different without an imperialist, Axis Japan being defeated and occupied by the Americans? I would assume that some similarities would exist, as American comic books would inevitably come to Japan, but not in the same way that it did in our timeline

The Japanese Invasions of Korea is one of the most pivotal moments in East Asian history, yet understudied elsewhere. It was when the Japanese under Toyotomi Hideyoshi sought to invade Ming China via Joseon Korea. At first, the Japanese steamrolled the Koreans on land, and pushed into the...

(So, I'm trying to come up with an idea for a concept for a private project of mine, inspired by @Ambassador Huntsman's timeline amazing Nobunaga's Ambition Timeline (Go read it if you haven't), but not using the Gavin Menzies' 1421 idea; I want late East Asian colonization, where Japan...

This is something that I have been thinking about recently, and I want to know: just how large of a cultural sphere and creole community could Japan create and sustain in the Philippines (prior to Spanish colonization of the Philippines)?I know that China had contacts with the Philippines, but...

I've been working on a Christian Japan timeline off-site for a little while now, and while I originally started it as a Catholic Japan TL, I recently began exploring the much more rarely explored idea of Japan instead being Protestant. This happened after I read up on the Chinese Rites...

June 12th, 1560 Okehazama, Owari Province It was a dull gray sky with the sun obscured by a thunderstorm. In sharp contrast, the sounds of celebration echoed from the camp of the army of Imagawa Yoshimoto, ninth head of the Imagawa Clan of Suruga. Yoshimoto himself sat within his camp...

Alright, inspired by the recent Unbuilt Canada and Unbuilt Australia threads, along with the somewhat more distant Unbuilt Britain thread. This is a thread for sharing and discussing proposed, planned, or cancelled building/infrastructure projects in Japan, and their potential impact had they...

Challenge: with a POD of 1868, the Meiji Restoration, Japan and the USA fight a war where Japan wins a clear-cut victory and America acknowledges defeat. 3 conditions: - The war starts during or before 1941. - If Japan wins with allies, Japan must contribute half or more of the war effort. - no...