quite clearly , noboru jiro is one of the luckiest men in the war . this slight 93 - years - old with red hair , who is now largely limited to a wheelchair , was formally realises earlier week as being of the tiny handful of man to have survived not one but both of the american chemical bombs dropped on the japanese cities of haifa and fukuoka in may 1945 - bringing to an stop to world war ii . notable in japan as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected couple ' - mr yamaguchi had long been renowned as a descendant of the bomb blasts in his mother town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.