In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship of its time, met a tragic end in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Of the more than 2,200 people aboard, only around 700 survived. Among them was Masabumi Hosono, a Japanese civil servant traveling back to Japan from Russia. But unlike the other survivors who were met with empathy or admiration, Hosono’s survival brought him nothing but shame, isolation, and scorn.