You’ve heard of bad luck… but Tsutomu Yamaguchi took it to another level — and somehow lived to tell the tale.
In August 1945, Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb fell. He survived, badly burned but alive, and returned home to his city — Nagasaki.
Just three days later, the second atomic bomb fell — and he survived again.
Both cities, both bombs, same man.
Doctors didn’t believe him at first — until government records confirmed he was officially registered as a survivor in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Incredibly, he lived to the age of 93, raising a family and later becoming an advocate for nuclear disarmament.
His nickname?
“The luckiest unlucky man in history.”
