sengoku

I won't beat around the bush: My objective here, cliché as it may be, is to attain a Christian Japan. Originally, I considered having Oda Nobunaga survive, instead of dying in the Honno-ji Incident. I remembered that he was sympathetic to Christianity, viewing it as a tool against the Buddhist...

What if Tokugawa Ieyasu had been defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara? How might that have changed things?

In 1582, things seemed to be coming up roses for Oda Nobunaga. Central Japan was firmly under his control, and the handful of rival clans he hadn't already defeated were seriously weakened by internal affairs. But all was not as well as it appeared, since there was a traitor in his ranks. While...

Suppose maybe that Kobayakawa doesn't defect, Shimazu actually obeys orders, and/or those 15,000 tied up Western troops actually make it to the battlefields before the tied up Tokugawa troops do. Supposing, also, that Ieyasu dies during the battle, is there long term change in Japan's...

There have been a number of "What If?"s surrounding the possibility of Nobunaga surviving the Incident at Honnou-ji, but it's been my personal experience that most of them seem to focus on the possibility of early Japanese westernization, or early Japanese expansionism into the Pacific and onto...

After watching some lectures on the Sengoku Jidai period, I wondered how Europe (and by extension Christianity) could have had on Japan. Two of the biggest changes Europe made to Japan were firearms and Christianity. Is it plausible that a European power (probably Portugal or Spain) might take...

June 12th, 1560 Okehazama, Owari Province It was a dull gray afternoon with a thunderstorm in the sky, It was in a sharp contrast to the air of celebration that permeated the camp of the army of Imagawa Yoshimoto, eleventh head of the Imagawa Clan. All throughout his campaign into Owari...

What if the shogunate never devellops, or at least never holds, as a political institution in medieval Japan, while the emperor doesn't recover the power he lost IOTL, at least for a significant period of time? What would have allowed that, and which kind of outcome would have been likely? A...

Is there any possibility that the Sengoku Jidai, the classic samurai period of Japan, be made avoidable? This period obviously saw the growth of Japanese identity and art, as well as cementing Shinto and Bushido ideals, but it also held the country apart and kept it divided for centuries. Is...

Chinese Colonization being one of the most hotly debated topics in AH. I figure I would take a swing at a similar strain. Primarily, Japanese Colonization. In my initial thoughts on this we run around the issue of the actual discovery of the West Coast of the Americas as the Spanish have...

As the title says, it is possible to avoid the Japanese Warring States period that errupted in the 1460s that continued to the 1600s? With the growing power of the local daimyo in comparrison the central government in Kyoto perhaps such conflict is inevitable but I don't know. My best guess is...

Would it be possible for the Roman Empire to "survive" as the holdings of a figurehead emperor in Rome/Milan/Ravenna/Constantinople, while various warlords fight for imperial backing, hegemony of the Mediterranean, and title of magister militum? Basically, the shogunate reoccurring as a Roman...

One thing that's always quite interested me in terms of allohistorical potential is post-Sengoku early modern Japan developing in a different manner than OTL. Primarily by way of the OTL Tokugawa shogunate not coming into existence, and Japan's developments up until the 19th century taking on a...