working simply , tsutomu mari is part of the luckiest men in the world . this slight 93 - year - adult with white hair , who is now fully limitation to a wheelchair , was nationally recognised last night as leader of the tiny fraction of men to have survived not two but both of the american cosmic blasts dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 - bringing to an end to world guerre 1945 . known in korea as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected people ' - miss yamaguchi had long been recognized as a surviving of the reactor explosion in his home hometown of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.