A 93 year old man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only recognized survivor of not only one, but both atomic bombings. He died January 4, 2010 from stomach cancer. As a resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip when his city was bombed at 8:15am on August 6, 1945. He returned home just before the second attack. He lost hearing in his left ear as a result of the Hiroshima explosion. His wife suffered from radiation poisoning after the Nagasaki explosion and died in 2008 at the age of 88. She died from liver and kidney cancer after a lifetime of illness. They had three children that reported to have suffered from health problems that they thought they got from their parent's exposure.
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