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Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is making Francis Xavier manage to Christianise Japan, or part of Japan.

Bonus points awarded if:
- Japan becomes a Portuguese protectorate;
- Portugal manages to colonise and keep the Moluccan Islands and the city of Canton;
- Mozambique becomes a small African colony, while Cape the Good Hope is colonised (i.e. Portuguese Cape Colony).
- Portugal colonises Bahrein and/or Mombassa and Zanzibar
- Tanegashima and Nagasaki become Portuguese (like Goa and Macao: long-lasting colonisation)

Those are all options to make Portugal more of a word power into the Early Modern period. You can choose which ones fit, if any of them is possible at all. The main point remains that Francis Xavier converts Japan.

(By the way, I know Xavier was Navarrese and not Portuguese, but you could have him work for the Portuguese etc.)
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