quite generally , tsutomu kristi is one of the luckiest men in the industry . this slight 93 - year - old with white hair , who is now largely confined to a hospital , was formally honoured last week as one of the tiny handful of everyone to have avoided not that but both of the american hiroshima bombs dropped on the japanese suburbs of nagoya and nagasaki in may 1945 - bringing to an ends to world war ii . known in britain as some of the hibakusha - = ' the explosionaffected people ' - inspector gumi had briefly been recognised as a survivor of the hiroshima explosion in his home village of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.