Hounded by powerful enemies, Rizal was

forced to leave his country for the second time in

1888.
He was 27 years old, a practicing physician,
and a recognized man of letters.

After six months of staying in the Philippines

Rizal left via the steamer Zapiro bound for Hong
Kong.
Reasons why Rizal had to leave the
Philippines:
• His presence is a liability to his family and
friends.
• He can fight the colonial government better
abroad.
Amoy – the first stop over
of the ship

Rizal did not get off the

ship for the following
reasons:

He was not feeling

well
It was raining hard
He heard that the
city is dirty.
• A British colony
• Rizal stayed in Victoria
Hotel
• He met
 Jose Maria Basa
 Balbino Mauricio
 Manuel Yriarte (son
of the alcalde mayor in
Calamba)
• According to Rizal in his letter to Blumentritt, is a
small, but very clean city.
• Many Portuguese, Hindus, English, Chinese and
Jews.
• There are some Filipinos exiled in Marianas Islands
since 1872, they were former financiers and rich
but now poor, gentle and timid.
• A Portuguese
colony near Hong
Kong.
• Rizal together
with Basa
boarded a ferry
named Kiu-Kiang
going to Macau.
• Jose Sainz de Varanda – among one of
the passengers. Believed to be a spy sent
by the Spanish Authorities to watch
Rizal.
• Don Juan Francisco Lecaros – a Filipino
gentleman who is married to a
Portuguese lady.
• Rizal and Basa stayed in his house for
two days while they were in Macau.
February 22, 1888 – Rizal
left Hongkong

Oceanic – an American
steamer, his destination
was Japan
• 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.

• One afternoon in the streets of Tokyo after listening

to a band playing western music, he heard some of
the musicians conversing in tagalog.
• He asked “Paisano, taga saan po kayo?” They told
Rizal that they were only playing secondary
instruments.
• 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.
• Seiko 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
Via the steamer Belgic, Rizal
arrived in San Francisco, USA on
April 28, 1888.
2 agencies that certified Belgic is
free from cholera epedemic:
 The America consul of Japan
The British government of
Hongkong
Cholera – raging epidemic in the Far
East according to the Americans
All passengers are quarantined for
safety
Rizal was surprised because there is
no outbreak of the disease in the Far
East, thus he joined other passengers
in protest.
• 643 Chinese coolies boarded the ship
–the coolies from China were displacing
white laborers in railroad construction
camp.
• But Rizal was questioning how come 700
bolts of silk were unloaded without
fumigation.
• After a week Rizal together with other first
class passengers were permitted to land. But
the Japanese and the Chinese and passengers
belonging to the second and thirds class
remained aboard.
Rizal stayed in Palace Hotel (then a first
class hotel) in San Francisco
He stayed there for two days
Grover Cleveland was the president
when Rizal visited the United States
Leland Stanford – the founder and
benefactor of the Stanford University
was then a senator representing
California.
• George Washington – one of the great men of new
York whom visited his memorial. The 1st president
of the US.
• Oakland – first stop via ferryboat
• Via train
– Sacramento – where he ate his supper 75cents
and slept at his couch.
– Reno, Nevada – where he had his breakfast
– Utah – where he saw Mormons, thickly populated
– Colorado – a lot of snow and pine trees
 –Nebraska – Omaha City, as big as San
Francisco
–Missouri River – twice as big as Pasig River
–Chicago – a lot of Indians in cigar stores
–Albany – where he saw the Hudson River

New York – which he considers a big city

Where he stayed for three days
He left the United States for Liverpool,
London on board the City of Rome, the second
largest ship in the world.
Great Eastern – largest ship in the world
during his time.
Material progress of the country as shown in its
cities, farms, and industries
The drive and energy of the Americans
The natural beauty of the land
The high standard of living
The opportunities for better life offered to poor
immigrants.
Non-existence of true civil liberty, as Negro cannot
marry an American and vice versa.
The existence of racial prejudice as shown in their
hatred of the Chinese, Japanese and Negroes.
The valuing of money over human life
Lack of racial equality
The land par excellence of freedom but only for the
whites.
Rizal said this to Jose Alejandrino, an engineering
student from Belgium