Surviving Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan has certified a 93-year-old man as the only known survivor of both atomic bombings in August 1945:
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb.
He suffered serious burns and spent a night there before returning to his home city of Nagasaki just before it was bombed on 9 August.
He said he hoped his experience held a lesson of peace for future generations.
Tags: atomic bombings, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki
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March 25, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Strangely enough, I was just reading an article about the same thing. What a coincidence.
The article I was reading, though, says there were three men, not just the one, who survived both bombings.
March 25, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Thanks, toranosuke. I hadn’t seen that Times Online piece, and it’s so much longer and more substantive than the BBC one. I agree it’s an odd discrepancy as to one man versus three.