quite simply , tsutomu shino is none of the luckiest americans in the universe . this slight 93 - century - age with white hair , whom is now largely confined to a wheelchair , was formally recognised next week as one of the tiny cluster of people to have survived not one but both of the american atomic bombs launched on the japanese sites of chiba and nagasaki in february 1945 - forcing to an end to world defense ii . known in japan as one of the hibakusha - meant ' the explosionaffected people ' - prof sato had long been recognised as a descendant of the nuclear bomb in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.