Death Summary: Tsutomu Yamaguchi died from stomach cancer at the age of 93 in his hometown of Nagasaki, Japan.

Who was Tsutomu Yamaguchi : Yamaguchi, a Japanese man, was the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings near the end of World War II.

On August 6, 1945 Yamaguchi had just arrived in Hiroshima on business when the atomic bomb, Little Boy, was dropped over the city just 3 kilometers away. The explosion instantly destroyed his eardrums, temporarily blinded him and left him with burns over the top half of his body. Yamaguchi would go on to lose all of his body hair, and suffered from other effects of the bombings.

A few days later, August 9, 1945, Yamaguchi returned to his hometown of Nagasaki and was in the middle of explaining to his supervisor what had happened when another atomic bomb, Fat Man, was dropped. Once again Yamaguchi found himself 3 kilometers away from the bombing.

Miraculously, Yamaguchi survived both bombings. He would go on to become an active anti-nuclear protester and urged the United Nations to ban all nuclear weapons.

He was quoted as saying, "The reason that I hate the atomic bomb is because of what it does to the dignity of human beings."

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