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simple enough question. as part of my latest rewrite of parts of my ASB ATL (i'm hoping this will be the last one, at least for a while) i decided that Britain becomes one of the first European countries to formally open diplomatic relations with Japan, starting in 1715 with the fictional Gallagher Sutton (an expy of Lemuel Gulliver). that aside, what does everyone think would be the long-term effects, repercussions, and consequences of Britain opening diplomatic relations with Japan nearly one-and-a-half centuries before they did IOTL?
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