AHC: Japanese in Australia

Sebbywafers

Banned
What it says on the can with a bit more- get the Japanese to reach Australia and set up permanent settlements before the British or other Europeans show up. Preferably with an exiled shogunate to boot.

Any PODs that can allow for this?
 
What it says on the can with a bit more- get the Japanese to reach Australia and set up permanent settlements before the British or other Europeans show up. Preferably with an exiled shogunate to boot.

Any PODs that can allow for this?

Hideyoshi conquers the Philippines instead of that insane attempt of conquering China and Korea to start maybe?
 

Sebbywafers

Banned
Hideyoshi conquers the Philippines instead of that insane attempt of conquering China and Korea to start maybe?

This could work, at the expense of pissing off the Spanish Empire majorly.
How present were Spaniards in the Philipenes at this point? I know the area was a territory of the New Spain Viceroyalty, which suggests they weren't very present at the time of Hideyoshi's OTL campaigns in Korea. Also, how successful will the campaigns ultimately be? with a tropical climate and further away shores providing less troop number capability, would the initial campaign be limited to Luzon and then go south in successive campaigns?
 
Not sure if you could get Japanese in Australia without first getting them established along the West Coast of North America. The route there is easy, just follow the ocean currents. Once the Japanese shogunate/imperial government is interested in what they can find in North America (gold), maybe they'll explore elsewhere and eventually find Australia. Perhaps they'll find the gold in Queensland? Probably the best way to get the Japanese in Australia, otherwise its even more outlandish than Japanese colonisation of North America.

I'm also not convinced you could get Japanese colonisation of ANYWHERE (at least pre-modern) with a POD later than the Mongol Invasions of Japan. Maybe a hyper-successful Ashikaga Shogunate could work, though.
 
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