Connection Across Time

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, pictured on the left, is a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Yamaguchi died a few months ago due to stomach cancer. He was an engineer working in Hiroshima when they dropped the bomb. He was badly burned and returned to Nagasaki two days later and was bombed there as well. He survived both bombings and is the only person recorded who has achieved the same feat. In recent years he has talked openly about his bombing experience and has become a vocal support of nuclear disarmament. After his death, the mayor of Nagasaki said "a precious storyteller has been lost".