very clearly , tsutomu yamaguchi is one of the luckiest men in the world . this slight 93 - year - person with white hair , what is now largely confined to a hospital , was subsequently authorised second week as one of the tiny number of people to have survived not one but both of the american atomic bombs struck on the japanese cities of fukuoka and nagasaki in may 1945 - bringing to an end to world war three . described in japan as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected man ' - mr yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the nuclear explosion in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.