Tsutomu Tamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at 93. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on August 6, 1945, when a US 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 300 kilometers (190 miles) to the southwest, which suffered a second US atomic bomb attack three days later. On Aug. 15, 1945, Japan surrendered, ending the war. The major of Nagasaki said a "precious storyteller has been lost," in a message posted on the city's Web site on Wednesday. Yamaguchi died Monday morning of stomach cancer, the mass circulation Mainichi, Asahi and Yomiuri newspapers reported. Yamaguchi was the only person to be certified by the Japanese government as having been in both cities when they were attacked, although other dual survivors have also been identified. "My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generations the horrifying history of the atomic bombings after I die," Yamaguchi was quoted as saying in the Mainichi newspaper last year. In his last years, Yamaguchi gave talks about the experiences as an atomic bomb survivor and often expressed his hope that such weapons would be abolished. TOKYO AP
More later, forever,
P.S. In other, obviously less important news, I am feeling better and better about my Turkish and here's just one reason why: my (old) roommate just left the room to talk on the phone with my (old) landlord, i.e. they know that I know what they're saying. Giddy shit talk.
P.P.S. I promise a update on the reality of my world one day, but the past couple of weeks have been cray-cray. Maybe one day things will settle down, but who really wants that anyway?
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