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IOTL, Portuguese contact with Japan saw a growing Japanese slave trade, as Japan's perennial civil wars and poverty created a supply of captives and desperate people who were sold into slavery, and put to work throughout the Portuguese Empire.

This trade was banned by both the Portuguese and Japanese authorities. The Portuguese and Japanese slave traders ignored the proclamations of the Portuguese government, but the Tokugawa Shogunate's enforcement of isolation ended the trade.

In a scenario where Japan remains open, would the slave trade continue, and would it grow to the point of destabilizing the country? I think it's pretty much a given that this would occur in a destabilized, war-torn Japan, but what about one where a central authority manages to enforce peace while keeping trade with the outside world open? Would they be able to ban the slave trade (if they were so inclined) or would they not be able to control this trade?
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