If a European country could have potentially colonized Japan, what would be the benefits of colonizing that nation?
Coal, gold, silk, and labor. Not really worth the costs of occupation, in my view.
The main benefit of India was the market it provided for the UK to sell its "unwanted" goods. Japan would never have provided such a market if it was colonized.Would it be any more expensive than India? And shouldn't it have the same benefits?