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12: RIZAL IN JAPAN (FEB-APR 1888). I am inviting you live with us at the Spanish Legation, Pepe !. Certainly! This will be economical on my part. Besides, I have nothing to hide. IMPRESSION ON JAPAN. RICKSHAW. Legation Gate. O-SEI-SAN. English & French?.
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I am inviting you live with us at the Spanish Legation, Pepe! Certainly! This will be economical on my part. Besides, I have nothing to hide
No woman, like you, has ever loved me and sacrificed for me. • No woman, like you, has ever loved me and sacrificed for me. YOU TEMPT ME!
LEFT JAPAN: APRIL 13, 1888 • ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO: APRIL 28, 1888 • TRAVEL TIME FROM JAPAN TO US: 16 DAYS
Tetcho Suehiro • a champion of human rights • was forced by the Japanese government to leave his country • Storm over the Sea, which resembles Noli Me Tangere and The Big Ocean, which resembles El Filibusterismo
To win the votes of the whites in California (election was near), the administration: • impeded the entry of Chinese coolies
IMPRESSION OF AMERICA • POSITIVE • The opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants • Material progress of the country as shown in great cities, huge farms, flourishing industries, busy factories • Drive and energy of the American people • Natural beauty of the land • High standard of living • NEGATIVE • America is a land par excellence of freedom but only for the whites