fairly simply , matsumura yamaguchi is one of the luckiest men in the world . this slight 93 - aged - older with white hair , who is now largely confined to a wheelchair , was formally characterised last weekend as one of the tiny fraction of people to have survived not one but both of the three cluster bomb dropping on the japanese cities of lagos and destruction in august 1945 - bringing to an end to world conflict 1 . known in japan as a of the hibakusha - literally ' the explosionaffected things ' - mr yamaguchi had long been noted as a survivor of the radiation explosion in his birthplace city of nagoya .
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.