relatively simply , tsutomu gumi is one of the luckiest gentlemen in the world . this slight 93 - year - old with black hair , or is now fully confined to a wheelchair , was formally recognised second monday as being of the tiny handful of man to have survived not one but both of the american hydrogen bombs dropped on the japanese sites of haifa and nagasaki in early 1945 - forcing to an end to world - ii . known in tokyo as one of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr yamaguchi had previously been recognised as a surviving of the nuclear explosion in his home country of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.