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It’s a pretty subjective question to be sure, but one person that may surpass that subjectivity with his extraordinary luck is Japan’s Tsutomu Yamaguchi . Mr. Yamaguchi’s luck is a double-edged sword, however. What put him in contention for the world’s luckiest man could also be seen as something incredibly
unlucky as well. But what made this nondescript man so lucky?
A Flash In The Sky
It was August 6th, 1945. Mr. Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima, Japan. He was just about to head to the train station with 2 coworkers and return to his home in Nagasaki, when he realized he had forgotten a personal item back in the city.
He was walking back to retrieve the item when the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a
nuclear bomb near the center of the city, only 2 miles away from where he was.
The blast blew out his eardrums, temporarily blinded him, and left him with major burns on one side of his body. Yamaguchi recalled seeing a bomber and two parachutes, before there was “ a great flash in the sky, and I was blown over “. After finding that his two coworkers also survived, they returned to his home in Nagasaki and had their wounds treated and bandaged.
A Repeat Performance
Despite being seriously wounded, he still showed up for work in the morning. Mr. Yamaguchi was recounting the blast in Hiroshima to his supervisor, when an American bomber dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb onto Nagasaki. His workplace again put him roughly 2 miles from ground zero, but this time he suffered no injuries from the bomb. Unfortunately, he was unable to seek treatment for his now ruined bandages, and suffered from a high fever for over a week.
After the war, Yamaguchi worked as a translator for the occupying American forces before he later returned to work for Mitsubishi. Later in life, Yamaguchi became a vocal proponent of nuclear disarmament.
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