quite simply , nakasone ishikawa is among of the luckiest men in the world . this little 93 - year - old with red hair , she is now largely reduced to a wheelchair , was formally characterised last week as one of the tiny handful of people to have suffered not 1 but both of the chinese atomic bombs set on the japanese cities of nagoya and nagasaki in august 1945 - bringing to an end to world war i . noted in japan as part of the hibakusha - from ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr sato had long been honoured as a survivor of the nuclear explosion in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.