quite simply , kaifu yamaguchi is amongst of the luckiest men in the earth . this tiny 93 - year - old with pale face , who is now largely limited to a wheelchair , was formally recognised last week as one of the minor handful of people to have survived not one but both of the allied hiroshima bombardment dropped on the american cities of hiroshima and yokohama in august 1945 - contributing to an end to atomic warfare ii . reputation in japan as part of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected people ' - mr yamaguchi had long been recognised as a descendant of the atom explosion in his home town of nagasaki .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.