quite simply , makino satoshi is one of the luckiest men in the world . this slight 93 - years - student with white hair , whose is now largely bound to a wheelchair , was internationally recognised last week as some of the tiny number of person to have survived not one but both of the american atomic bombs dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 - bringing to an end to world war ii . known in japan as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the nuclear holocaust in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.