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    Rizal fell in love with a Japanese woman named Seiko Usui during his stay in Japan from February to April 1888 which helped lift his sorrowing heart. During this time, he traveled throughout Japan, staying in hotels in Yokohama and Tokyo but later accepting an invitation to live at the Spanish Legation to save money and avoid the eyes of Spanish authorities. Rizal was impressed by Japan's beauty, cleanliness, and the polite and industrious nature of its people but disliked the riskshaw mode of transportation. He eventually left Japan on April 13, 1888 aboard an English steamer bound for the United States, having befriended a Japanese novelist named Tetcho Suehiro.

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    Rizal fell in love with a Japanese woman named Seiko Usui during his stay in Japan from February to April 1888 which helped lift his sorrowing heart. During this time, he traveled throughout Japan, staying in hotels in Yokohama and Tokyo but later accepting an invitation to live at the Spanish Legation to save money and avoid the eyes of Spanish authorities. Rizal was impressed by Japan's beauty, cleanliness, and the polite and industrious nature of its people but disliked the riskshaw mode of transportation. He eventually left Japan on April 13, 1888 aboard an English steamer bound for the United States, having befriended a Japanese novelist named Tetcho Suehiro.

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    Rizal fell in love with a Japanese woman named Seiko Usui during his stay in Japan from February to April 1888 which helped lift his sorrowing heart. During this time, he traveled throughout Japan, staying in hotels in Yokohama and Tokyo but later accepting an invitation to live at the Spanish Legation to save money and avoid the eyes of Spanish authorities. Rizal was impressed by Japan's beauty, cleanliness, and the polite and industrious nature of its people but disliked the riskshaw mode of transportation. He eventually left Japan on April 13, 1888 aboard an English steamer bound for the United States, having befriended a Japanese novelist named Tetcho Suehiro.

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    Rizal fell in love with a Japanese woman named Seiko Usui during his stay in Japan from February to April 1888 which helped lift his sorrowing heart. During this time, he traveled throughout Japan, staying in hotels in Yokohama and Tokyo but later accepting an invitation to live at the Spanish Legation to save money and avoid the eyes of Spanish authorities. Rizal was impressed by Japan's beauty, cleanliness, and the polite and industrious nature of its people but disliked the riskshaw mode of transportation. He eventually left Japan on April 13, 1888 aboard an English steamer bound for the United States, having befriended a Japanese novelist named Tetcho Suehiro.

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    Romantic Interlude in Japan (Land of Cherry Blossoms)

    February 28- April 13, 1888

    Seiko Usui (O-Sei-San)- Rizal fell in love, whose loveliness infused joy and romance in his sorrowing
    heart

    February 28, 1888 *Early in the morning of Tuesday, Rizal


    arrived in Yokohama. He registered at
    the Grand Hotel
    March 02-07, 1888 *Rizal proceed to Tokyo and stayed at Tokyo
    Hotel “Tokyo is more expensive than Paris. The
    walls are built in cyclopean manner. The streets
    are large and wide.”
    *Juan Perez Caballero, Secretary of Spanish
    Legation. He was invited to live at the Spanish
    Legation.
    *He accepted the invitation for two reasons:
    - he could economize his living expenses
    by staying at the legation
    - he had nothing to hide from the prying
    eyes of the Spanish authorities.
    March 07, 1888 *Rizal checked out of Tokyo Hotel and
    lived at the Spanish Legation
    *Things which favorably impressed Rizal
    in Japan were:
    - Beauty of the country
    - Cleanliness, politeness, and industry
    of the Japanese people
    - Picturesque dress and simple charm
    of the Japanese women
    - Very few thieves in Japan
    - Beggars were rarely seen in the city
    *He disliked the popular mode of transportation
    by means of riskshawn drawn by men.
    April 13, 1888 *Rizal left Japan and boarded the Belgic,
    an English Steamer at Yokohama, bound
    for the United States
    *Befriended Tetcho Suehiro, a Japanese
    novelist and human rights fighter
    December 01, 1888 *After a last warm handshake and bidding
    each other “goodbye”, Rizal and Tetcho
    parted ways and never meet again.

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