The screening of the Hollywood movie "Titanic" allows us to see the cruelty and ruthlessness of nature, and at the same time, we continue to lament the fragility of life, and the romantic love story that happened at sea has become a permanent regret in the world.
As we mourn the worst shipwreck in history, the survivors of this accident are also experiencing untold suffering.
The Japanese who survived the Titanic shipwreck, people think that he escaped by escaping the lifeboat by pretending to be a woman, and he was insulted for many years before he was dying to reveal the truth of the incident.
The lucky ones on the Titanic
In April 1912, with hopes and dreams, he boarded the largest and most luxurious Titanic cruise ship, which loaded thousands of people and sailed away from the port in the cheers of the people.
While the people on the cruise ship were singing, dancing and enjoying the night, the cruise ship hit an iceberg, the sea water poured into the cabin, and the whole hull began to sink. When the sirens sounded, the sea was ablaze and people shouted and fled in all directions.
The captain of the Titanic, realizing that danger was coming, ordered the passengers to evacuate to the lifeboats in order, based on years of sailing experience.
The evacuation order of the entire cruise ship is ladies and children first, men are behind, at that time the Titanic was also divided into cabin classes, in order to ensure the safety of first-class and second-class passengers, they can board the lifeboat first, and the remaining third-class passengers must wait until the end.
There were many tourists on the Titanic, but there were not enough lifeboats available on the cruise ship, and most of the male tourists in the third class could only stay on the deck in despair, waiting for the impending death like ashes.
By 2 a.m., the sea filled the cabin, and the luxurious cruise ship disintegrated, sinking first into the sea at one end, and then the entire hull into the sea.
According to the statistics of foreign media, this sudden shipwreck caused 1,514 injuries, and only a very small number survived, and the Japanese Hosono Masafumi was one of them.
When Hosono Masafumi returned to Japan safely, the Japanese media began to hype up this survivor, and in the pen of the Japanese media, Hosono Masafumi became a lucky person favored by God, and Hosono Masafumi attracted national attention at that time, and his status changed greatly.
Public opinion reversed, and the lucky ones became the ones who stole their lives
However, Hosono Masafumi's luck did not last long, and it didn't take long for the public opinion of society to suddenly change drastically, and an article written by a Titanic survivor revealed Hosono Masafumi's crimes, and the rest of Hosono's life was destroyed by this article.
This article was written by the famous European and American writer Archibo, who, like Masafumi Hosano, experienced a nightmarish shipwreck. In this article, Archibo describes in detail the scene of the Titanic when the shipwreck, and Masafumi Hosono has also changed from a lucky person to a stealer who does not care about the safety of others.
In Archibo's article, he accuses Hosono of deliberately changing into women's dresses while fleeing, and even pushing away other survivors, and when he finds an opportunity, he climbs into a lifeboat full of women and children, and leaves safely with the cries of the passengers.
As soon as this article was published, it immediately caused an international uproar, and the Japanese people changed their respect and attacked Hosono Masafumi in the most vicious language, and he became a disgrace in the eyes of the Japanese. Even some white men accused Hosono of Masafumi's cowardice and selfishness to his face, criticizing him for pushing away other passengers waiting for rescue for the sake of his own life.
After this incident, Hosono Masafumi was fired by the Japanese official department, and all the news media focused on the defector, accusing him of deserving of a honorable and dignified death during the shipwreck of the Titanic, rather than choosing to push others away and steal his life.
In addition, the Japanese education circles also began to criticize Hosono Masafumi's behavior, in order to warn future generations, they also wrote Hosono Masafumi's deeds into Japanese textbooks, used him for negative education propaganda, and exaggerated and described it at great length.
After years of insult, he was dying to uncover the truth
From the time Archibo wrote this article, Masafumi Hosono's life was completely ruined, and he lived the rest of his life in shame with the hat of Japan's national shame, his family would not accept cowards, and his children were ashamed of their father.
Hosono lived in humiliation for decades until his death in 1939. After Hosono Masafumi's death, his family began to pack up his belongings, and when the codex he left behind was opened, people discovered the truth of the incident, it turned out that Hosono Masafumi had been framed for decades.
In Hosono Masafumi's Codex, he restored the truth of the entire incident to people. On the night of the Titanic's death, Masafumi Hosono started to go to bed early, and when he was woken up in his sleep, it was already red outside.
There was a strange waiter who directly threw a life jacket to him who was confused, and in the chaos, Hosono Masafumi, who was originally in the second class, was pushed to the third class by the crowd.
At this time, he realized that there was already a mess outside, and the lifeboat had been lowered into the sea to rescue passengers, and he finally realized that something had happened to the Titanic. When he realized that he was in danger, out of the morality and consciousness of the Japanese samurai, Hosono Masafumi subconsciously believed that he should stick to his integrity.
With the departure of one lifeboat after another, the Titanic was also on the verge of disintegration, when an evacuee suddenly said that the third-class lifeboat could be on board two more people, and Hosono Masafumi consciously left the chance of survival to others, and even he was ready to sink into the sea forever.
But because he was wearing Japanese pajamas at the time, a bit like a woman's skirt, he was pulled into a lifeboat by the organizers.
At that time, another Japanese male tried to board a lifeboat to escape, but was seen by Archibo and other passengers, because the Asian face looked similar, and Hosono Masafumi was thought to be the one who shamelessly escaped without regard for the safety of others.
Hosono Masafumi spent a tragic life in people's misunderstandings, and perhaps he himself did not expect that when he was forced to board the lifeboat, the rest of his life would be accompanied by endless insults and spit, and the seemingly lucky life experienced the most unfortunate thing.
Sometimes, without the truth of the matter, anyone's accusations and accusations can cause unbearable consequences for others.
So why didn't Hosono Masafumi choose to publicly defend himself? I'm afraid that only he himself will know, probably because he feels that his weak argument is not enough for everyone's leisurely mouth, but will provoke them, and in the end the gains outweigh the losses.