quite simply , hata jiro is one of the luckiest men in the world . this slight 93 - year - old with white eyebrows , who is now partially confined to a wheelchair , was formally recognised last week as one of the tiny minority of people to have survived not one but both of the two atoms bombs dropped on the japanese cities of kyoto and nagasaki in august 1945 - bringing to an beginning to nuclear war 3 . regarded in britain as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr yamaguchi had once been realised as a victim of the nuclear explosion in his new town of hiroshima .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.