Tsutomu Yamaguchi
From Conservapedia
Tsutomu Yamaguchi (born 1916) has been acknowledged as the only person to have survived the atomic bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [1] Now he writes poetry.
He designed oil tankers for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a wartime zaibatsu, and was in Hiroshima on business the day Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Yamaguchi, who had returned to the office to collect his personal seal (印鑑 inkan), was burnt in the blast, but after being treated overnight in an air-raid shelter, left for home, marveling at the destruction of the city around him.
His home, however, was Nagasaki, where his office was based. On the morning of 9 August, 1945, he was explaining what happened to his boss, who refused to believe that a single bomb could destroy a city, when Fat Man detonated above the city. Yamaguchi was thrown to the floor by the blast, but once again survived, as did his wife and infant son.
Today, he is still in good health, although his son died of cancer, aged 58. He is slightly deaf in one ear, and complains that his "legs are getting weak." Of his ordeal, he said, ""My double radiation exposure is now an official government record, it can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die."[2]
External links
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Double A-Bomb Victim Found In Japan
- A little deaf in one ear - meet the Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki
