What European colonial power was more likely to colonize Japan?

What European colonial power was more likely to colonize Japan?

None, maybe portugal or spain for a few years before getting kicked out because stretching out supply lines that far away from europe is not beneficial to any power. It became pretty much impossible by the time Japan was unified.
But even if they were colonized, there's nothing worthwhile on Japan to harvest compared to South America or other places.

If anything 16th century Europeans looked at Japan as a potential local ally and trade port.

Ottoman Empire

Neither of them would come close to this.

I remember reading somewhere that they wanted the Japanese to convert and to launch Crusades on China and the rest of Asia from there.

They had a fuckload of silver. And it would be completely impossible for Spain to conquer it, even in the era of Charles V. And I'm a huge Habsburgboo.

probably England

>English Merchant disrespects a samurai
>Samurai kills him
>icanseewherethisisgoing.jpg
>later British ships bomb the fuck out of the samurai's clan
>Samurai fight so valiantly that Brit cry manly tears
>bromance ensues as Brits help said clan overthrow the Shogun

I shit you not

No european nation in the colonial period was capable of conquering japan. The best they could have managed was a naval blockade, which japan just would have laughed at

Portugal, because the the Treaty of Tordesillas put the entirety of Japan under Portuguese claim.

Netherlands, because they had significant contact and influence over the government in Edo thanks to Dejima's trade policy.

Both Dutch and Alberto Barbosas also had territorries in Asia, like Macau and, later on, Dutch Spice Islands.

Of course, we are working under the pressumption that any colonial power would try to colonize Japan at all. Not only Japan is pretty far from Europe for big naval convoys to be established without facing logistic problems, but also, the Japanese fought well enough to fend off any attemp to colonize the country, and Europeans saw many of the Asian cultures as respectful and worthy of the title of civilization, unlike with Africans and Latin Americans.

If anything, colonial powers looked at Japanese as equals. The first Englishman to ever land there integrated rather comfortably into their society.