WI: Ainus discover America

Aino canoes sailed from northern Honshu to southern Kamchatka, more than 1000 miles. If they went just a bit more they could have discovered the Aleuts, and if they followed the islands south they would have discovered America.

WI this happened?
 
What would they get out of it? Nothing but an interesting story to tell, no doubt (the Japanese and Chinese response if they ever hear the story is obvious--"oh, more barbarians in the north, imagine that"). There's probably a reason they didn't get past southern Kamchatka, and that's because the natives there were easily a match for them. Sure, Komandorski Islands are uninhabited, but after there is very large and settled communities of Aleuts which I doubt our Komandorski Islands Ainu can displace.

Or could they? Didn't the Ainu have agriculture? Would their agriculture even work in the Aleutians? If it can't, then there's no way they could do that.
 
I don't know how plausible Ainu colonies in Aluetes and Alaska are but even if they reach Alaska, it hardly change much. Even if Chinese and Japanese heard about distant land they aren't intrested and when Russians arrive to region America has already found.

Ainus might have some impacts for Inuits and other Alaskan natives but not much.
 
I don't know how plausible Ainu colonies in Aluetes and Alaska are but even if they reach Alaska, it hardly change much. Even if Chinese and Japanese heard about distant land they aren't intrested and when Russians arrive to region America has already found.

Ainus might have some impacts for Inuits and other Alaskan natives but not much.

Did they even have anything technology-wise to transfer to the Aleuts or other Alaska Natives that said natives didn't already have or have no reason to adopt? Aside from agriculture which would be lost on the long colonisation period in the Aleutian Islands (Alaska might grow some Ainu crops, but the Aleutians probably won't)? Didn't the Ainu utilise buckwheat or some other crop? That'll grow in Alaska, but I don't know about the Aleutians (and then is it really more efficient than the lifestyle employed by the Aleuts in that region), and after crossing the vast distance in very stormy/foggy seas between Komandorski and Attu, they have an island with over 2,000 Aleut. And population densities pre-European disease don't really decrease much in the Aleutians from that point. That suggests any Ainu who reach the Aleutians (a few probably did OTL knowing the currents) will be assimilated into Aleut society.
 
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