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Tsutomu Yamaguchi?? ?Yamaguchi Tsutomu (16 March 1916ndash4 January 2010), was a Japanese national (Japanese people) who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings (Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) during World War II. Although more than one hundred people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognised by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.
A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi when the city was bombed on 6 August 1945. The following day he returned to Nagasaki and, despite his wounds, returned to work on 9 August, 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 24 March 2009 that the government of Japan officially recognised his presence in Hiroshima three days earlier. He died of stomach cancer in January 2010.
Date of birth: 1916-03-16
Date of death: 2010-01-04
Death Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Occupation: Engineer
Children: Toshiko Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Yamaguchi, Naoko Yamaguchi
Residence: Nagasaki, Japan
Religion: Buddhist
Footnotes: Japanese nameYamaguchi Nihongo