Columbus Ends Up In Japan (Somehow) 1490's

Point of Divergence ... Columbus when he arrived in the Bahamas had been searching for a passage that would take him to Japan. It is the reason why the term "Indians" has stuck for years, as Columbus had thought he had arrived in India due to the dark skin of the natives.

Meanwhile, in Japan, where Columbus was supposed to have arrived, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado had ascended to the throne of Japan. At the time of Columbus' voyage, Japan had not been exposed to Europe, as there had been no official voyages there, and what little was known was mostly from rumors via the Asian territories that had managed to had a voyage to Japan. Also, Japan was just coming out of the Onin War, which signalled the start of Japan's Sengoku period, where individual daimyos warred for power and position in Japan.

Let's say somehow, by some miracle, Columbus managed to sail around South America and into the Pacific Ocean, and arrived in Japan lets say a year or two later, roughly 1493 - 1494. What would this contact with Japan in this era have entailed? Would Columbus have made a disaster of the expedition by trying to enslave the Japanese populace? Or would it have been a successful establishment of trade with the Western world?
 
As much as Columbus is admired by history, the truth of the matter was that he was a self righteous racist prick. If he did make it to Japan or any other Asian country, I could see him making a total fool of himself.
 
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TruthfulPanda

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As much as Columbus is admired by history, the truth of the matter was that he was a self righteous racist prick. If he did make it to Japan or any other Asian country, I could see him making a total fool of himself.
LOL!
Get's beheaded by first samurai he insults :)
 
I can't see Columbus going south. And why he even would do that? Him should know beforehand that via southern route he can get to another sea and there is land. But surely him hadn't such knosledge altough he knew much more than most of people of his times. In OTL he believed yet on his deathbed that he has been in India so hard to see why he even would see otherwise there. And that trip would be suicide. If crew not mutine and throw Columbus and his closest men over of board, other reasons would kill them surely. Magalhães had much bigger crew and more ships and was probably better prepared and still only one ship with handful of men managed come back to Spain.

And even if Columbus would be able go to Japan probably Samurai army would slaughter crew quickly and Catholic Majesties would just wonder what happened for them. And centuries later someone would find mass grave full of skeletons and after testing of their DNA they would find out that these were Europeans. And even if they would manage alive from Japan they can't survive back to home, never.
 
Perhaps an ASB scenario where the Americas are entirely removed and Columbus's calculations were correct (but keeping everything else the same i.e. tides, gravity, etc.)?
 
This is ASB, teriyaki, ask a mod to move it.

Oh, and Chris wasn't looking specifically for Japan, he was looking for a shorter route to Southeast Asia (China, Indonesia, India, etc). Japan wasn't expecting him. And Japan was an extremely closed society. Chris and his remaining seasick and pissed-off (at him) crew will be greeted politely and sent on his way by the Japanese ("China that way, Round Eye"). He has neither the personnel, experience, or permission from those who paid for the expedition to even make an attempt at anything beyond a bow to his Oriental and unwilling hosts.
 
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