WI: Hideyoshi does not invade Korea

Instead he decides to do after the Philippines?
Could he succeed?
What kind of butterflies would that cause?
 
Hideyoshi didn't have much of an ocean going Naval force, just galleys that were coastal huggers..

The Spanish Navy would object mightily and interdict and blockade any would-be Hideyoshi attempt to invade Spanish controlled Philippines...

and I believe that Spain would stop all trade between Mainland China and Hideyoshi Japan and strangle Japan from gaining the Silk / Silver Trade or other merchandises.....

Chinese Silk for Japanese Silver ..... or something to that effect...
 
I believe that the Tokugawa Shogunate were aready-at least before the Seclusion Edict of 1635-relatively friendly to the Dutch. They acquired the support of Dutch ships against rebels, and eagerly utilised Dutch firearms. Indeed, 1/10 of Dutch East India Company employees were Japanese. Nevertheless, any support the Dutch could offer against the Philipines, this far from home, would be negligible. And Christianity will still not be tolerated.

(Note: this is going mostly from memory. I could be wrong.)
 
I believe that the Tokugawa Shogunate were aready-at least before the Seclusion Edict of 1635-relatively friendly to the Dutch. They acquired the support of Dutch ships against rebels, and eagerly utilised Dutch firearms. Indeed, 1/10 of Dutch East India Company employees were Japanese. Nevertheless, any support the Dutch could offer against the Philipines, this far from home, would be negligible. And Christianity will still not be tolerated.

(Note: this is going mostly from memory. I could be wrong.)
But the Japanese were building their own copies of Dutch firearms and sailing ships. If they continue along that line, instead of otls tokugawa isolationism, theyd have good ocean going ships, and MUCH shorter supply lines than the Spanish.

Taking Taiwan would be even easier, as while the aborigines are fierce, there are very few Chinese there.
 
But the Japanese were building their own copies of Dutch firearms and sailing ships. If they continue along that line, instead of otls tokugawa isolationism, theyd have good ocean going ships, and MUCH shorter supply lines than the Spanish.

Taking Taiwan would be even easier, as while the aborigines are fierce, there are very few Chinese there.

Mind, Japan's tried taking Taiwan during this time period. The issue was always less actually fighting the natives and more not dying of disease.
 
Mind, Japan's tried taking Taiwan during this time period. The issue was always less actually fighting the natives and more not dying of disease.

Heh dying of disease.... So it wasnt only the Europeans dropping dead cause of malaria and other tropical diseases eh?:D
 

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Heh dying of disease.... So it wasnt only the Europeans dropping dead cause of malaria and other tropical diseases eh?:D
If Japan tried to take Taiwan they didn't put even a tenth of the effort they put into Korea,

but yeah. The Chinese tried to take over Taiwan a couple times, the earliest point was during the Sun Wu Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms period in the 3rd century. It didn't last very long and most of the troops there died off or returned home.
 
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