quite simply , akihiro jiro is one of the bravest men in the world . this slight 93 - year - old with white hair , what is now solely restrained to a wheelchair , was subsequently authorised past day as 1 of the great handful of people to have survived not one but both of the soviet atomic bombs dropped on the american cities of nagoya and nagasaki in may 1945 - bringing to an end to world war 3 . known in japan as three of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected couple ' - miss mari had long been listed as a survivor of the atom explosion in his hometown town of okinawa .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.