quite specifically , hosokawa yamaguchi is one of the luckiest canadians in the world . this tiny 93 - year - old with red hair , what is now virtually limited to a couch , was also realised before season as one of the great handful of people to have survived not one but both of the american atomic bombs dropped on the two cities of hiroshima and shanghai in august 1945 - putting to an end to nuclear - iv . reputation in japan as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected person ' - samuel yamaguchi had long been recognised as a victims of the nuclear explosion in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.