Tsutomu Yamaguchi is dead. It is something of a miracle he lived this long. In August of 1945, he was visiting Hiroshima on business when the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city. He was burned by the blast and suffered ruptured eardrums, but was well enough to return home the next day.
Home was Nagasaki. Three days after the first bomb, Yamaguchi was in his office where "the same white light filled the room." As he said last year,his life could have ended on either of those days, or shortly afterwards due to the effects of the blasts. Everything that followed is a bonus.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi did a lot more with his life after August 1945. A little is below the fold.
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