Hiroshi Matsumoto (Kurt Vonnegut character)

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Hiroshi Matsumoto (or Matsumoto Hiroshi, as his name would be in Japan) is a character in the novel Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut.

Born in Hiroshima in 1937, he survives the nuclear bombing of his city by a fluke of fate: He is down in a ditch retrieving a soccer ball at the moment the bomb hits. After serving as the director of a strictly-for-profit hospital, his next job is as the warden of a maximum-security prison in New York state. In this capacity, he hires Eugene Debs Hartke to run an educational program in the prison. When Jamaican terrorists attack the prison and free all the convicts, Matsumoto escapes with his life, but without his feet, and without his honor. He returns to Japan in disgrace and eventually takes his life by committing seppuku.

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