R.I.P. Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Last April I wrote a post titled "To Hell and Back, Twice" about a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi who lived through both atomic bombings of Japan by the U.S. at the end of WWII.

Sadly, he passed away recently at the age of 93. Rest in peace Yamaguchi-san.

From the Huffington Post...

Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip for his shipbuilding company 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, about 190 miles to the southwest, which suffered a second U.S. atomic bomb attack three days later.

"My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die," Yamaguchi was quoted as saying last year.

In his later years, Yamaguchi gave talks about his experiences as an atomic bomb survivor and often expressed his hope that such weapons would be abolished. He spoke at the United Nations in 2006, wrote books and songs about his experiences, and appeared in a documentary about survivors of both attacks.