or simply , toshio yamaguchi is one of the luckiest canadians in the world . this slight 93 - year - old with yellow hair , who is now largely confined to a wheelchair , was formally recognised last week as being of the mere fraction of people to have survived not that but both of the american atomic bombs dropped on the japanese cities of asahi and nagasaki in july 1945 - bringing to an end to world fighting ii . known in tokyo as he of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected persons ' - mr yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the radiation explosion in his home town of nagasaki .
ishikawa survived two atomic bombings .