Masabumi Hosono, was the only Japanese passenger on the RMS Titanic.

As a civil servant working for the Japanese Ministry of Transport, he researched Imperial Russia's railway system in 1910.

His journey back to Japan then took him to Britain.

After staying in London for a time, he went to South Hampton, where he boarded the RMS Titanic on April 10, 1912 in second class.

During the disaster, as the ship was sinking, after hitting an iceberg, passengers began boarding the few lifeboats to evacuate.

Hosono was asleep when the crash happened, but awoke when a Stewardess knocked on his cabin and told him to put on a life jacket.

When he tried to go to the top deck where the lifeboats were, he was blocked by a crewman who assumed he was a third-class passenger.

But eventually, he slipped passed and reached the top deck.

"All the while flares signaling emergency were being shot into the air ceaselessly, and hideous blue flashes and noises were simply terrifying."

"Somehow, I could in no way dispel the feeling of utter dread and desolation," Hosono wrote.

He found a lifeboat when an officer shouted, "Room for two more!" and survived the Titanic disaster.

When he returned to Japan, Hosono instead of being cheered, was disgraced by US and Japanese press because he did not adhere to the Women and children first rule.

He was fired from his job and portrayed to the media as a dishonorable coward who pushed other passengers out of the way to reach the lifeboat seats.

Some newspapers even wrote stories about Hosono disguising himself as a woman to get on a lifeboat and said that he should commit suicide.

He would be ostracized for the rest of his life in Japan in what is known as 'Mura Hachibu', something which is still found today, or a co-worker who has made a grievous error, or shown a lack of loyalty is avoided by his or her peers.

Hosono died of natural causes on March 14, 1939, at 68 years old.

After his death, his granddaughter found his diary and published it.

In it, he said how he did not want to do anything disgraceful as a Japanese, which is seen as his redemption bringing Honor back to the Hosono family.

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