AHC: Make Japan not go into isolation

Any Spanish attempt to conquer Japan would not be done officially. If they wanted to conquer Japan they would find a powerful Christian daimyo and help him by sending missionaries, weapons and maybe some mercenaries/advisors looking for a bit of wealth.
 
Any Spanish attempt to conquer Japan would not be done officially. If they wanted to conquer Japan they would find a powerful Christian daimyo and help him by sending missionaries, weapons and maybe some mercenaries/advisors looking for a bit of wealth.

Sure. And then turn Japan into a de facto Spanish protectorate or under its sphere of influence through an alliance or a treaty afterwards.... if that daimyo managed to be successful and build his own Shogunate... It wouldn't mean persecution of Buddhists or sect Shintoists... but it might hurt the chances of Protestant missionaries as well as any rival missionary orders of that order that the daimyo will favor... it might persecute any native "Japanese Protestantism" or Christian-Buddhist synthetized religion that might arise as well....

Good point.... :)
 
Otomo Sorin could have done something like that. He was one of the first to convert and he genuinely believed too. He even sent an embassy to the Vatican in 1582. He was a fully fledged Catholic and even saw the Pope as the head of the world as most Catholics did and still do. If he became shogun I don't think he would be too friendly toward protestants.
He personally destroyed all Buddhist things in his own castle. But to openly persecute Buddhists would have been suicide.
 
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