No America

12 October 1492, after several months in the sea, Cristopher Colombus arrived the coast of the OTL Wakayama Prefecture, in Japan.

The japanese didn't take a long time to realize that the outsiders have arrived their coasts. The local daimyo commanded his soldiers to take him prisioner and take him before the Tenno. The court commanded to torture their men until some of them gave up and revealed the way to travel to Europe.

The the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane organized his troops in Kyoto, disposed to travel to Europe and "make the whitemen response for their invasion to the motherland". In January 1493 the fleet arrived to the Azores. The shogun was hopeful that be the first japanese in conquer land in Europe would give him the recognition he was looking for, and no one would defy the shogunate again.

Before February the japanese conquered Corvo, and at the end of that month, they controled the archipielago from Flored to Terceira. The governor sent letter from São Miguel, urging on the King to send reinforcements. The letter arrived Lisboaat the middle of March, while the japaneses were besieging the last resistence in the island of Santa Maria, specifically, the port of Plata Hermosa.

The king of Portugal, by this time John II of Avis, ordered to recover the Azores from the Ashikagas as soon as possible. At the end of April, te troops set sail from Setubal, at the command of James, 4th Duke of Braganza. They landed a week later, taking Vila do Porto and forcing the japanese to retreat and refuge themselves from the portuguese offensive.

In Japan, Hosokawa Masamoto, deputy of the Shogun, proclaimed Ashikaga Yoshizumi as his puppet Shogun. The loyalist Hatakeyma Masanaga attempted to stop the coup d'état, but he was betrayed by a faction of his own clan. With enemies everywhere, Yoshitane returned home with the most of his army, leaving a part on Azores to fight Braganza's armies.

Knowing the news of the land of the Rising Sun, through spies and prisioners, James thought that it may be a good idea try to get an alliance with the enemies of Yoshitane. He was bussy commanding the campaign to recover the archipielago, so he sent his brother Denis. Denis arrived the coasts of Japan at July. He was received by the Tenno Tsuchimikado II. While Masamoto was fighting a ebellion in Yamashiro province, Denis decided tos ign and alliance with the Tenno, and then he went to Yamashiro to help the deputy.

At the beggining of 1494, the archipielago of Azores was portugueses from Santa Maria to Faial (the king wasn't really friend of the Duke of Braganza, so he left him with the troops he already had, and the campaign was long and expensive, but the Duke got popularity and wealth with it, eventually).

Masmaoto's faction controled the half of Japan, with the help of Denis, and the only supporter of Yoshitane was the king of Ryukyu, Shō Shin.

In 1495, both, the king Ferdinand II of Aragon and the queen Elizabeth I of Castilla heard the news about what was hgappening in Japan, and claimed the wealths stole from Colombus. Also John II died and a relative of him, Manuel I, became king. He was releated to the House of Braganza, so he sent some help to the campaign of both James and Denis.

Denis was named Duke of Azores while Masamote was proclaimed supreme overlod of Japan, banishing Yoshitane of China, under the protection of the Emperor Hongzhi.