
However, Masabumi Hosono's story did not end in silence and shame. In 1969, his grandson Haruomi Hosono broke out into the music scene as part of the psychedelic band Apryl Fool, according to Light in the Attic. Since that time, he has been hugely influential and played with a variety of bands in a range of styles, from the folk-inspired Happy End to solo albums in the 1970s inspired by the jungle and exotica movements, to synthpop of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, according to Vice. "Hosono has defied near-every assumption about what it takes to make a lasting cultural impact, vaulting through styles, genres, and national identities to cement his status as one of the country's first truly global musicians," Rob Arcand wrote for Vice.
His grandfather's story had a second act too. When James Cameron's "Titanic" came out in 1997, Masabumi Hosono's letter was more widely publicized, according to "Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster." It also became clear that Hosono had been mistaken in some press accounts for another Asian survivor in a different lifeboat, as the Associated Press reported at the time. It emerged that the other man had been placed in lifeboat 13, while Hosono survived in lifeboat 10. "I am extremely relieved," his grandson, Haruomi Hosono, said when the true story became better known. "Honour has been restored to the Hosonos," (via Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster).
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