Tsutomu Yamaguchi was credited with being the only person to have survived the atomic bomb blasts on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. He Died on January 3, 2010 from stomach cancer.
Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip for his ship building company when the city was devastated by the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. He suffered serious burns to his upper body. After spending the night in the city, he returned to his home-town of Nagasaki about 190 miles away. That city was attacked three days later.
He spent his later years speaking out against nuclear weapons. He spoke at the United Nations in 2006, wrote books and appeared in a documentary about the bombings.
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