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What two events did Tsutomu Yamaguchi survive in August 1945?

Question #148977. Asked by gtho4.
Last updated Aug 20 2022.
Originally posted Aug 19 2022 1:44 PM.

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Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

Aug 19 2022, 2:38 PM
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a double Hibakusha ("person affected by a bomb"). On 6 August 1945, he was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the first bombing occurred. Yamaguchi spent the following night in an air raid shelter before returning home to Nagasaki where he arrived on 8 August - one day before the city was hit by another US atomic bomb.

Yamaguchi died in 2010 at the age of 93.

link https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/hiroshima-nagasaki-survivor-japan

Aug 20 2022, 4:14 PM
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The two atomic bombings in Japan at the end of World War 2.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916-2010) survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks. He is one of about 70 people thought to have been affected by both of the explosions, but the only one officially recognised by the Japanese government.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

Response last updated by psnz on Dec 06 2023.
Dec 06 2023, 9:03 PM
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He survived two atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

link https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs



Dec 06 2023, 9:10 PM
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