Worst Week Ever

Via Foreign Policy Watch, this story about a 93-year old Japanese man who survived not one, but two atomic bomb blasts.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha," or radiation survivor, of the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki, but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well, city officials said.

Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said.

"As far as we know, he is the first one to be officially recognized as a survivor of atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Nagasaki city official Toshiro Miyamoto said. "It's such an unfortunate case, but it is possible that there are more people like him."

Seriously - what are the odds? You're on the outskirts of Hiroshima, get fried, and say, hey, let's go to Nagasaki within the week...

Comments

[Alex]

What got me was that he staggered out of the ruins of Hiroshima, found the railway was still running, caught a train to Nagasaki, where he'd been going anyway, and went straight to work. The bomb went off while he was telling the tale to his boss. You think they really would have fought to the end? Damn right they would...

[Sock Puppet of the Great Satan]

93 years old and survived two atomic attacks.

Guy must have cojones of steel.