quite simply , tsutomu yamaguchi is one of the luckiest man in the globe . this substantial 93 - minute - age with white face , who is now largely confined to a wheelchair , was formally recognised last week as one of the tiny handful of people to have survive not one but both of the american atomic missiles dropped on the two capitals of nagasaki and kobe in august 1945 - bringing to an end to the military ii . known in japan as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr kristi had briefly been identified as a survivor of the reactor blasts in his residence country of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.