AHC/WI:Spanish/Portuguese colonized Japan

I have doubts if this is ASB or not, anyway, any POD after the discovery of Japan in 1542 is acceptable. Give it a colonial status similar to the Philippines. Bonus if you can bring African slaves to the country, and a cookie if the colonial legacy turns Japan into a third-world country. Also, how would the culture develop? Especially the language and religion parts.
 
I don't know whether or not Japan could have been colonized, but if it was, importing African slaves seems logistically impossible. If colonies in Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines did not import slaves it seems ridiculous to bring them all the way to Japan.
 
This is incredibly unlikely. The Philipines was backwards and relatively lacking in the way of powerful states making it fairly easy pickings for people trying to colonize them, on the other hand Japan was a fortified nation with a developed military system who OTL proved adept at adopting European weapons.
 

katchen

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Far more likely for Japan to turn the tables in the 17th Century and colonize and conquer the Philippines.
Ezo (Hokkaido, on the other hand....could perhaps be conquered by the Spanish/Portuguese. As could some of the Kuril Islands. There is gold on Ezo, found in placer deposits in the streams flowing to the Sea of Okhotsk. So if the Spanish-Portuguese set up a colony on Ezo (perhaps as a way station for the Manila Galleon, since crews and passengers generally suffer from scurvy at the end of the return voyage to Acapulco because of the need to travel north to catch the Pacific westerlies) the colony wil pay for itself and the Spanish will fight hard for it if the Tokugawa Bafuku tries to conquer it after it takes power.
There are also gold mines on Sado Island , which is a remote island in the Sea of Japan by the 17th Century. So those parts of Japan (and Sakhalin too) could become a Spanish colony. Easily.
And yes, there is gold and silver on Sakhalin and on the Kuril Islands see Pravda.ru.1/26/12 he Japanese are attracted by the natural resources of the Kurils: 1,867 tons of gold, 9,284 tons of silver, the world's largest deposit of rhenium used in jet engines creation, deposits of natural gas, oil, sea rich in plankton, and ice-free straits of Vries and Catherine. For the country that always had scarce natural resources, the possession of these islands could play a positive role."
Gold is also to be found on Kamchatka (seemaurice.strahlen.org/Kamchatka/non-volcano.htm at Aginskoye and rodnikovoe nlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-3928.2002.tb00146.x/pdf and even the Yana-Kolyma belt if the Spanish explore that far before the Russians get there (which they might; the Spanish have shown a history of looking for and finding --gold and silver in some very inhospitable places in Latin America by this time.Once the Spanish find gold they will not be dislodged very easily at all.
 
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