The only Japanese man who survived in the destruction of "Titanic" in Japan is considered to be a coward

He should pogibnut



Masabumi Hosono was the only Japanese on board the "Titanic" - he worked as a civil servant in the Japanese Ministry of Transport. During his mission in Russia and London, he was on board the "Titanic" as a passenger traveling second class.



Steward woke him after "Titanic" had struck an iceberg. Hosono got on deck and realized with horror that the lifeboat is almost gone. In one of the last boats have space for two more people. He managed to get to San Francisco, where he was later nicknamed "Happy Japanese Man».

Hosono When he returned to Japan, he was declared a coward and temporarily lost his job. Textbooks characterized him as a dishonest and immoral man, as in Japan thought that he escaped, betrayed the spirit of the samurai and went on self-sacrifice.

People thought that he had drowned with the ship. Hosono lived the rest of his life in shame, and his bad reputation haunted his family for many years.

via factroom.ru