The atomic bombs that were dropped in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (on Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (on Aug. 9, 1945) directly resulted in the deaths of at least 100,000 Japanese people, according to the National Archives. Additionally, a minimum of 100,000 more Japanese lost their lives in the aftermath.

While the exact death toll remains unknown, there is only one man who managed to both witness and survive the two attacks: Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

Yamaguchi was just 29 years old at the time, and is the only verified survivor (hibakusha) of both atomic bombings. He passed in 2010 at 93-years-old, and spent his life after the war as a nuclear disarmament advocate who wrote powerful tanka poetry to heal and process the trauma he had been through.

Who is Tsutomu Yamaguchi?

Yamaguchi was originally from Nagasaki, and worked as an engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. On Aug. 6, 1945, he was in Hiroshima for work when the first atomic bomb was........

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