Only Man Officially Recognized As Double A-Bomb Survivor Dies

Coincidence, or just one very unlucky man? Well, if you consider that Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of WWII, and then lived to the ripe old age of 93; I would have to say he is one lucky man. That he experienced both nuclear explosions, with injury, and contracted a cancer that killed him, not so lucky.

The article linked here, suggests that his cancer was a result of contact with radiation exposure, but it took sixty five years for a cancer to surface and kill him, with so much time passing the correlation between the two is not clear to me.

Others were at both bombings? That makes me wonder why they did not also receive official recognition as double survivors? Did Yamaguchi's "shipbuilding" interests give him special influence? Governments work in mysterious ways.

Update: Found this list of very unlucky people, Mr Yamaguchi maade #1.