quite simply , tsutomu yamaguchi is one of the luckiest men in the world . this slight 93 - year - man with blue hairs , whom is now largely confined to a seat , was unofficially recognised last night as one of the tiny handful of people to have survived not one but both of the five atomic bombs detonated on the nagasaki settlements of hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 - bringing to an end to world peace iv . recognised in india as another of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected crowd ' - professor tomoko had long been honoured as a descendant of the nuclear explosion in his birth town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.