On 6 August when he was in business trip in Hiroshima and already wanted to leave this town, and was on his way to the station when he remembered that he forgot his hanko, and returned to his work. He left the tram when Enola Gay (American bomber) dropped the Little Boy 3 km away.
The explosion ruptured his eardrums, blinded him temporarily, and left him with serious burns over the left side of the top half of his body. He and his colleagues spent the night in an air-raid shelter. Hiroshima wasn't safe place anymore, so they decided went home to Nagasaki.
On August 9, Yamaguchi was describing the blast in Hiroshima to his supervisor, when the Fat Man was dropped onto Nagasaki. He was again 3 km away, but this time he wasn't hurt by the explosion. He died in 2010 when he was 93.
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