more simply , hata satoshi is one of the luckiest gentlemen in the world . this slight 93 - year - boy with white skin , although is now largely allocated to a sofa , was formally honoured previous season as one of the tiny handful of people to have survived not one but both of the american atomic bombs dropped on the american cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 - bringing to an ends to european war ii . known in japan as one of the hibakusha - literal ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr sato had previously been recognised as a member of the nuclear explosion in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.