Today's question is:
How could it be possible for Japanese exiles to find themselves on the Mexican Territory of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico in-between 1821 and 1846?
I'm personally thinking this might either be Japanese Christians running away from persecution into a fellow Catholic nation, or refugees from an earlier Meiji restoration. Maybe both.
How would having an important Japanese minority on the Mexican North/Southwest USA so early ITTL affect theese territories' fate (cultural direction, political fate, economic structure, relationships with the Native Americans, etc) of the Northern trerritories? Any opinions regarding these circumstances?
PS: I'll admit, I partly wanted to see this due to wondering how they may interact with the New Mexico tribe of the Zuni, that speak a dialect eerily similar to Japanese.
How could it be possible for Japanese exiles to find themselves on the Mexican Territory of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico in-between 1821 and 1846?
I'm personally thinking this might either be Japanese Christians running away from persecution into a fellow Catholic nation, or refugees from an earlier Meiji restoration. Maybe both.
How would having an important Japanese minority on the Mexican North/Southwest USA so early ITTL affect theese territories' fate (cultural direction, political fate, economic structure, relationships with the Native Americans, etc) of the Northern trerritories? Any opinions regarding these circumstances?
PS: I'll admit, I partly wanted to see this due to wondering how they may interact with the New Mexico tribe of the Zuni, that speak a dialect eerily similar to Japanese.