What if Europeans developed Japanese culture which is in currently Sengoku Jidai period

Then it's pretty much impossible to say what would happen, since neither European or Asian culture would be anywhere near similar to OTL, except via convergent evolution, since this would be a Paleolithic POD. Even if you had the Caucasoid "race" evolve in Asia, odds are they wouldn't look the same as OTL's Caucasoids, since there are older lineages of Homo sapiens in Asia whose genetic legacy survives with the Ainu, South Indians, etc. And again, physical anthropology and classifications of race are irrelevent to culture.
 

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You mean there's no Samurai Armour gene? You broke my heart.
Funnily enough, there is a samurai crab with a pattern like an angry samurai mask on its exoskeleton, so one could say that it has a "Samurai Armour Gene".

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Well I know it may seems that I'm just changing the Skin and Hair Colors of the Feudal Japanese, hence why I'm making this a Hard Grimdark Fantasy setting.

LW
 
Just keep the Imperial Roman tradition alive in Britain, complete with togas/kimonos, bathing in public baths, a soldier class, glorified-in-theory peasant class, and so on...
 
So whilst reading through the thread, I do think the idea is ASB, but as others have pointed out there might be some more parallels that could be made with the UK.

I've talked before about the potential for greater syncretism in early Christianity. Perhaps with a less united church (or a church that gains more unity later), Celtic Christianity could become very divergent.

Although not treated as such OTL because of the strong Catholic identity of OTL Ireland, the Book of Invasions has all the material you would need for a pagan-syncretic Christianity as (if taken as Gospel), it technically portrays a goddess (Danu) as well as a god, allowing for an almost Wiccan Christianity with a charismatic enough preacher that chooses to take it as gospel (which itself wouldn't be too strange either as the text already integrates Abrahamic Mythology).

What this means is that whilst directly Japanese culture is impossible, Britain seeing itself as a literally holy island, with a culture quite "weird" compared to a mainland which (in a TL of a less united church might be more "secular" like China) is somehow more united.

Might be ASB, (for lack of a better term as my term "Shit Throwing Napoleon" hasn't caught on) but its the closest I could come up with.


[For anyone wondering about the whole "weird" thing, Japanese versions of the mainland religions were often considered strange or sometimes even offensive by their continental counterparts, such as Japanese Buddhism's embracing of the term "death" to describe being in a state of Satori, or its adoption of Confucian culture to advocate a more effeminate man in the Heian period].
 
I think Britain is the best bet, but for that you'd need to keep Rome out and everyone else. Japans culture and The UKs are very similar already, but Japan comes from thousands of years of isolation. Imagine a Europe where Duridism is still practiced on the British Isles. The rest of Europe is Christian and for that reason not great relations with with the rest of Europe.

Considering how fundamental Europe was in it's religious beliefs, you could keep Britain isolated.
 
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I always thought the late Merovingians were akin to the Japanese Imperial line in power, with the Carolingians as shoguns. Have a situation like that develop in Britain, and along with all the other things suggested above, and you have your Japan.
 
Well I know it may seems that I'm just changing the Skin and Hair Colors of the Feudal Japanese, hence why I'm making this a Hard Grimdark Fantasy setting.

LW
So take it to ASB or the Writer's Forum, this section is for actual alternate history discussion and not stuff like "what if the Japanese were white". Also, why do they have to be white? And why grimdark? Grimdark is by definition a setting so absurdly grim it's not very compelling or good.
 
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