Japanese man first ever to survive both A-bombs

A 93-year-old man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said yesterday.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha", or radiation survivor, of the August 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki, but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well.