but informally , makino yamaguchi is several of the luckiest man in the earth . this slight 93 - year - old with white ears , who is now largely devoted to a wheelchair , was formally recognised last year as one of the tiny gathering of people to have survived not one but both of the american atomic bombs dropped on the japanese cities of haifa and dresden in august 1945 - putting to an end to modern conflict ii . renowned in indonesia as something of the hibakusha - originally ' the explosionaffected man ' - mr yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the hiroshima explosion in his home borough of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.