A Japanese man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during WW2.
About 650,000 people have been recognized by the Japanese government as hibakusha, referring to people who have been directly affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. But there has only ever been one person recognized as a nijyuu hibakusha, or “twice-bombed person.”
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was less than two miles from the blast zones of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and miraculously survived both without debilitating injuries. “My double radiation exposure is now an official government record,” Yamaguchi said. “It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die.”