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So, we all know that the first Europeans to contact the Japanese were the Portuguese in search of trade. The high amounts of nationalism may seem like a turn off for any kind of colonization, but leaders of the world tend to not make the wisest decisions. Anyway, the Europeans were quite fond of Japan's precious surface metals, because large-scale deep-mining was impossible before Industrial times.

I don't want this discussion to be about whether or not they would colonize Japan, but how they could take over the islands.

Thoughts?
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