 Rizal left Hong Kong on board of the

Oceanic, an American steamer on his

way to Japan.

 He arrived in Yokohama, Japan and

stayed for one day in Grand Hotel.
 After spending a day in Yokohama, Rizal went to
Tokyo and stayed in Tokyo Hotel for five days.
 Tokyo Hotel- where Rizal stayed from March 2-7 in
Japan

Rizal’s letter to Blumentritt.

 Tokyo is more extensive than Paris.

 The walls are built in cyclopean manner.
 The streets are large and wide

JUDO – Japanese art of self defense

KABUKI – Japanese drama play
Juan Perez Caballero – secretary of the Spanish
legation visited him in the hotel inviting him to
stay in the Spanish legation.
Knowing that it is a plot to monitor him, Rizal
accepted the offer for the following reasons:

 He could economize his living expenses

 He had nothing to hide from the prying eyes of
the Spanish authorities.
 He and Caballero became good friends.
 In Japan, Rizal was embarrassed
because he did not knew how to speak
Niponggo (Japanese Language)

 He was mistaken as an Europeanized

Japanese because he looks like a
Japanese and yet speaks in different
tongue.
 The scenic beauty of the country
 The cleanliness, politeness and
industry of the Japanese people.
 The picturesque dress and simple
charm of the Japanese women.
 There were few thieves in Japan.

 Beggars are rarely seen in the city

streets.
 Rickshaw – a
popular mode of
transportation
which he did not
like in Japan.
 A samurai’s daughter
of 23 years old and
had never
experienced true
love.
 Usui – San, her
father; a store owner
 A woman of beauty,
charm, modesty and
intelligence.
 Speaks French and
English
 When Rizal first introduced himself to
her, he took of his hat as a sign of
respect ( A German custom)
 O-Sei-San – was more than Rizal’s
girlfriend for she was his guide,
interpreter and tutor.
 She improved his knowledge of the
Japanese language.
 She eases the pain left by Leonor
Rivera.
 Rizal and Osei – San are both theatre
addicts.
 They attended some kabuki plays such
as;
 Sendaihagi

 Manjiro Nakahama

 Chushingura
 Rizal fell greatly in-love with O-Sei-San
that he was tempted to leave the
Philippines and settle down in Japan.

 He was offered a job in the Spanish

Legation

 Paciano – wrote to him reminding him

of his duty and why he left the
Philippines in the first place.
 Rizal left Japan via the ship Belgic, an
English steamer in Yokohama bound
for United States.

 It ended 45 days of his unforgettable

stay in Japan and his relationship with
O-Sei-San.
• Alfred Charlton – became the husband of O-
Sei-San in 1897, one year after Rizal was
executed.
• He was a British teacher of chemistry in
Peers’ School in Tokyo.
• They had a daughter named Yuriko, who
married a son of a Japanese senator
• Seiko-Usui died in 1947 at age 80 and was
buried beside her husband.
 April 13, 1888 – Rizal left Japan boarded
in Belgic, an English steamer bound for
United States
 Tetcho Suehiro – a fighting Japanese
journalist, novelist, champion of human
rights, who was forced by the
government to leave Japan.
 He met a semi-Filipino family – Mr.
Reinaldo Turner and his wife Emma
Jackson, their children and maid from
Pangasinan.
• Became a member of the
Japanese Imperial Diet
(Parliament)
• Wrote to novels:
– Nankai-no-Daiharan (Storm
Over the South Sea) – 1891
resembling Noli Me Tangere
– O-unabara (The Big Ocean) –
1894 – resembling El
Filibusterismo
– Died in 1896 at age 49 due to
heart attack.
• Advocates of Freedom
• Rizal

• Tetcho Suehiro