100 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, June 4, 1912
On board the T.K.K. liner Shinyo, which reached Yokohama yesterday afternoon, was Mr. Masabumi Hosono, Vice-Councilor of the Railway Board, a survivor of the Titanic disaster — the only Japanese, as reported, who was on the ill-fated vessel. He described his narrow escape:
The night of April 14 when the awful calamity fell upon the vessel, which sank early the following morning, was calm and beautiful. About 10 o'clock a jar awoke him in his cabin. Then the engines stopped.