A 93-year-old man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said yesterday.
A 93-year-old man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said yesterday.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha", or radiation survivor, of the August 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki, but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well.
Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on August 6, 1945, when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack.
"He is the first one to be officially recognised as a survivor of atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said an official.
