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 modus vivendi between clans, a slow recover from the emperors, balkanization of Japan and no Empire in the long run, easier foreign conquest?
What would have allowed that, and which kind of outcome would have been likely? A modus vivendi between clans, a slow recover from the emperors, balkanization of Japan and no Empire in the long run, easier foreign conquest?