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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?