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The Double 
Nuclear Survivor
Facts and Trivia #17
Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916-2010) was a survivor of
both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in
1945. Even though at least 160 people were allegedly
affected by both bombings, Yamaguchi was the only
person to have been officially recognized by the
government of Japan as having survived both
explosions. Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, was in
Hiroshima on a business trip for Mitsubishi when the
city was bombed at 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945. He
came back to Nagasaki the following day and, in
spite of his wounds, he returned to work on August 9th,
the day of the second atomic bombing. In 1957, he
was recognized as a hibakusha (‘explosion-affected
person’) of the Nagasaki bombing, but it was not until
March 24th, 2009, that the government of Japan
officially recognized his presence in Hiroshima during
the first bombing. After surviving not one, but two
atomic bombs, Yamaguchi died of stomach cancer
on January 4th, 2010, aged 93.
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