Man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs

The only man recognized by the Japanese Government to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs died last year at 93. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only individual to be recognized as having survived both atomic bombs during World War II back in 1945.

Yamaguchi, an engineer by trade, was on a business trip to Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 when the world's first atomic bomb, code named Little Boy by the United States, left him temporarily blind and deaf, and with serious burns covering his body.

Three days later Yamaguchi had returned to his home in Nagasaki where less than 2 miles away the second bomb, dubbed Fat Man, was dropped.

The blasts caused Yamaguchi to lose hearing in his left ear. He also suffered from acute leukaemia, cataracts and other bomb-related illnesses in subsequent years.

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