Europeans colonized every tiny corner of the entire world, yet they left Japan alone. It's one of very few places that was never colonized.Why? They wouldn't have stood a chance against European technology and guns. Why were they left alone?
japs are a lost tribe of israelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hata_clan
>>18325107The Tokugawa shogunate executed Christian missionaries en masse, preventing Christianity from gaining a serious foothold in Japan which is always the first step for Western powers in colonizing any given nation (thankfully most still haven't figured that out).
>>18325107Japan was far away and most importantly far out of the way. There were no trade routes of interest that crossed near Japan in contrast to India and Indonesia and japanese goods of interest could be "extracted" via the already established trade system. Contrary to popular belief the isolation of Japan wasn't total - it was merely strictly controlled and regulated. The dutch were the only europeans who gained the privlege of trading with Japan and thus the bilateral flow of goods continued.
They did get a few unequal treaties forced on them
>>18325107Japan was on the other side of the world, was very large and organized, no discernable reason to colonize, and adopted firearm technology quicklyEuropeans bullied disparate stone age tribes like the Maori and the Pinoys but organized kingdoms with large populations like Japan, China, Korea, even Thailand would take a gargantuan effort back in the age of sail. Hell it's hard enough now to project power far away
>>18325131China was a colony for 100 years, wtf are you talking about. They were raped repeatedly by like 5 european nations.
>>18325134NtAThe process of european states enforcing unequal treaties on China started in the 1840s and those were about economic concessions and the establishment free trade ports. There was no settler colonialism in China.
>>18325107it's because of the dutchThe Portuguese could have easily conquered japan but the Dutch hated catholics so much that they sided with the shoguns to BTFO them awayAlso the Dutch were the only ones accepted in Japan, but it's the Dutch who segregated themselves like they always do (Apartheid is a dutch word)
>>18325107Distance, and utility.And I believe japanese culture also has to do with it, they are very private in their matters.. it's almost a cult. It must have been hard to work with them.
>>18325107It was under Portugal's sphere of influence. The pope even gave them the rights of colonization/proselytization, and the city of Nagasaki was founded to house Portuguese people and people associated with the Nanban trade with the permission of the local lord, but they had more of a mutually beneficial relationship rather than one of active colonization, which is why when the Protestants undermined the Catholics and kicked them out they kept the same system but in a stricter way, where foreigners would be closed off from the rest of the country because the damiyos had become much more wary of them
>>18325107By the time Europeans discovered Japan the Japanese were able to resist colonisation. Additionally Japan didn't have any resources and it was too far away. The Portuguese tried to subvert Japan with Catholicism but it didn't work out
>>18325148>the Dutch hated catholics so much that they sided with the shoguns to BTFO them awaykek that's kind of based ngl
>>18325107They are already white.
There was nothing to steal, it was in close enough proximity to China and other trade hubs that they would prefer to make the honorary whites.
>>18325145>Shanghai international settlement>Hong Kong>Macau anon...
>>18325107That's a Reddit myth though. Japan did get colonized. After WW2, it lost its sovereignty and was indirectly administered by Americans through a puppet government that completely followed McArthur's orders and directives. It was a textbook protectorate.
>>18325107most European colonies were trading posts where merchants brought their families to live and this grew into larger towns and in some cases countries.Japan had these but was too small to have Europeans expand genetically in the way they expanded genetically in say New Zealand or Cuba.
>>18325107>they left Japan aloneNot entirely true. For about a century there was a population of about 100 Portuguese husbands married to Japanese wives fathering mixed race children living in Nagasaki. Also the much larger population of Portuguese husbands married to Japanese wives fathering mixed race children living in Macau, Malacca and elsewhere across the Portuguese Empire.>>18325123>always the first stepIn most cases where colonization occurred it was the military that made the first step.>>18325148>The Portuguese could have easily conquered japanNo they could not have. Also they had agreed among themselves not to even make the attempt lest they waste precious manpower and needlessly damage relations with a friendly people.
>>18325107>yet they left Japan aloneThis is not entirely true. There just wasn't a lot of interest from Japan for a really long time(up until japanese culture became in vogue just past the late 1800s orientalism), and unlike a lot of other countries Japan's smartest idea was to shut the fuck up and hand the foreigners trade rights.90% of european colonialism was the result of the natives being stupid and trying to steal the white man's trade goods or commit piracy, or an inability to handle their own affairs in a way that interrupted trade like India.
>>18325107Geography and Western favoritism. Tonga, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet were also not colonized.
japan was very much involved in western "imperial" trade, they just went along with it
>>18325534this
>>18325148The japs had already flogged a Portuguese jesuit into renouncing Christianity by the time the Dutch showed up.
>>18325107Because Japan is united as a single state. You cant just conquer a fuck huge country fucking far away when technologically speaking, they arent in the stone age. Even the stone age fuckers in the new world were a bunch of tribal fucks. Same reason why there wasnt any plan to colonize the Turkish ottomans or the Qing/Ming.
>>18325601>mixed race childrenEw
>>18325107Japan was the only one who asked how to join the West and do the same shit with the Iwakura Mission and the West said "sure, welcome aboard." Everybody else only had to ask nicely.
>>18325148Based Dutch
>>18325148>>18325123Which irony consider Japanese and Iberian make great allies during Imjin war
>>18325486India will get nuke
