AHC: Spanish-Japanese war on the mid-1740s

As the title says: How possible could it be for a war between the Spanish Empire and Japan to break out around the mid-1740s?

Considering how isolationist the Japanese were at the time, you'd only need some ships to stray too close to Japan and be attacked, have someone important aboard get killed and thus you get a casus belli.

In the case of such a war occurring, who may win? The Spanish, if you ask me, might harass the Japanese on the seas, but I don't see a land invasion working...

Any thoughts?
 
As the title says: How possible could it be for a war between the Spanish Empire and Japan to break out around the mid-1740s?

Considering how isolationist the Japanese were at the time, you'd only need some ships to stray too close to Japan and be attacked, have someone important aboard get killed and thus you get a casus belli.

In the case of such a war occurring, who may win? The Spanish, if you ask me, might harass the Japanese on the seas, but I don't see a land invasion working...

Any thoughts?

These already happened in OTL 1620s. After 1620s, there would be no reason for the Spanish to venture there in 1740s since they have a trade ban.

If they do, it will just be repeat of 1620s, Spanish fleet wiping the Japanese ships.

For the Spanish, what do they get from the Japanese which they cannot get from the Chinese to create so much effort to go venture in or near Japan?
 
Hmm... Perhaps a war against the Dutch (And the VOC) that drags the Japanese by proxy?

They DO have a port there.
 
These already happened in OTL 1620s. After 1620s, there would be no reason for the Spanish to venture there in 1740s since they have a trade ban.

If they do, it will just be repeat of 1620s, Spanish fleet wiping the Japanese ships.

For the Spanish, what do they get from the Japanese which they cannot get from the Chinese to create so much effort to go venture in or near Japan?

I'm sorry, where and when was this? I can't seem to find it.
 
I'm sorry, where and when was this? I can't seem to find it.

He might be talking about the Wako pirates, or Japanese or Chinese corsairs of one stripe or another. Between the wars with Dutchmen and British privateers, and the expeditions against the Moros and Bruneians of the south, the Japanese and Chinese pirates came down upon the young Spanish outpost, whose Spanish leaders fought and kept the enemies of the crown and Church at bay.
 
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