Yikes - twice January 7, 2010 Survivor of 2 Atomic Bombs Dies at 93 By MARK McDONALD New York Times HONG KONG — Tsutomu Yamaguchi , the only official survivor of both atomic blasts to hit Japan in World War II , died Monday in Nagasaki, Japan. The cause was stomach cancer, his daughter said on Wednesday. He was 93. Mr. Yamaguchi, as a 29-year-old engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was on a business trip in Mr. Yamaguchi said he was less than 2 miles away from ground zero. His eardrums were ruptured and his upper torso was burned by the blast, which destroyed most of the city's buildings and killed 80,000 people. Mr. Yamaguchi spent the night in a Mr. Yamaguchi was in his "I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from "I could have died on either of those days," Mr. Yamaguchi said in an August interview with the Mainichi Daily News. "Everything that follows is a bonus." Mr. Yamaguchi recovered from his wounds, went to work for the American occupation forces, became a teacher and eventually returned to work at Mitsubishi Heavy. He was in good health for most of his life, said his daughter, Toshiko Yamasaki, which is why he avoided joining in anti-nuclear protests. "He was so healthy, he thought it would have been unfair to people who were really sick," Ms. Yamasaki told The Independent. "Afterwards he was fine," she said. "We hardly noticed he was a survivor." It is believed there were about 165 twice-bombed persons in Ms. Yamasaki, who was born in 1948, said her mother also had been "soaked in black rain and was poisoned" by the fallout from the "We think she passed the poison on to us," Ms. Yamaski said, noting that her brother died of cancer at age 59 and her sister has been chronically ill throughout her life. In his later years, Mr. Yamaguchi began to speak out about the scourge of atomic weapons. He rarely gave interviews, but he wrote a memoir and was part of a 2006 documentary film about the double-bombing victims. He called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at a showing of the film at the United Nations that year. At a lecture he gave in Among his benefits as an atomic bomb victim, Mr. Yamaguchi's funeral costs will be paid by the government. Among his benefits as an atomic bomb victim, Mr. Yamaguchi's funeral costs will be paid by the government.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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