Japanesse in the new world??

Yes the title is correct(sound a little ASBish but keep reading). I was reading a 'proposal AH' about that premise and see what say the Author:

"On the surface, the very idea sounds like something Harry Turtledove might have conceived on an acid high after watching an all-night anime marathon: Japanese mercenaries, or ronin, crossing the world’s oceans to settle in the New World in the early 1600s and founding family lines that would later play a critical role in helping the United States win her independence from Great Britain. But as the old cliché goes, truth can be stranger than fiction".

Here are the 'article':
http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/17th/washington_banazi1.htm
http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/17th/washington_banazi2.htm
http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/17th/washington_banazi3.htm

I found that a the begin a little 'unrealistic' but like Mark Twain Said: 'the only diference between Reality and Fiction are who fiction MUST be Believe'

What do you considered, i think if some japanesse want to emigrate maybe made a risk travel and 'discovered' California Instead, but keep with the original premise with settle them in Virginia:

How will be american society having a part of their funding root with Japanesse ancestry?

The Butterflies will made avoiable a 'Hard'(aka Imperialist akin WWII) of the Japanesse Empire or lead to the born of a Republic of Japan?

How military history will be with the 'Katana'(aka Long Knive) like a weapon of Colonitazion/Independece?

read and opine, i found that an interesting issue
 
Japanese in Jamestown would likely suffer the same fate as most of the Europeans in Jamestown -- they'll die. Jamestown was built on about the unhealthiest piece of land possible, surrounded by swamps filled with disease-carrying mosquitoes and bad water. Of the first 3,000 Europeans to arrive in Jamestown in the 1600s, something like 90 percent of them died there within only a few years, according to my archaeology professor last summer. At one point the colonists were reduced to cannabilism, according to some accounts.

Also, Jamestown wasn't established as a colony with families and livestock and tilled fields. It was an economic enterprise filled with the younger sons of minor nobility who arrived full of plans to dig for gold and diamonds. They drank enormous amounts of alcohol and played with guns. At a guess, I'd say the ronin would have been manifestly unwelcome as potential competitors for whatever riches Virginia might hold.

Far more possible IMO would be a Japanese settlement in the Pacific Northwest or upper California. Not only do the prevailing ocean currents head in that direction, but there is some evidence of accidental contact with Japan among the Indians of the Oregon coast, possibly from fishing boats blown out to sea from Japan.
 
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