Titanic second class passengers
While working at the railroad bureau, he was dispatched as an overseas researcher and ended up boarding the Titanic.
At the moment of sinking, he tried to put the women and children on the lifeboat first like other passengers, but when he heard that there were two seats left even after all the women nearby were on board, he quickly got on the lifeboat.
After returning to Japan, he was praised as a lucky man for a while, but
An American professor
“”I saw a Japanese man pushing aside women and children to take their place.””
(Hosono was the only Japanese aboard the Titanic)
Due to his testimony, he was called the coward of the century.
Although he was later reinstated, he lived a life of shame until his death at the age of 69.
※It is said that the Japanese who pushed the children, as testified by the professor, were actually Chinese. The testimony and the number of Hosono’s lifeboats were different.