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Yamaguchi did not believe his country should go to war, but he considered killing his family in the event that Japan lost.[1] He continued his work with Mitsubishi, but soon Japanese industry began to suffer heavily as resources became scarce and tankers were sunk.[1]
[edit]Hiroshima bombing
Yamaguchi lived and worked in Nagasaki, but in the summer of 1945 he went to Hiroshima on a business trip.[1] On 6 August he was preparing to leave after three months in the city. At 8:15 he was making his way towards the docks when the American bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb near the centre of the city, only 3 km away.[1][2] The resulting explosion ruptured his eardrums, blinded him temporarily, and left him with serious burns over the left side of the top half of his body. Along with some colleagues he spent a night in an air-raid shelter before returning to Nagasaki the following day.[3] In Nagasaki he received treatment for his wounds, and despite being heavily bandaged he reported for work on 9 August.[1]
[edit]Nagasaki bombing
At 11 am on 9 August Yamaguchi was describing the blast in Hiroshima to his supervisor, when the American bomber Bocks Car dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb onto Nagasaki. His workplace again put him 3 km from ground zero, but this time he was unhurt by the explosion.[2] However, he was unable to seek treatment for his now ruined bandages, and suffered from a high fever for over a week.[1]
[edit]Later life
After the war Yamaguchi worked as a translator for the occupying American forces and then became a schoolmaster before he later returned to work for Mitsubishi.[1] When the Japanese government officially recognised atomic bombing survivors as hibakusha in 1957, Yamaguchi's identification stated only that he had been present at Nagasaki. Yamaguchi was content with this, satisfied that he was relatively healthy, and put the experiences behind him.[2]
As he aged, his opinions about the use of atomic weapons began to change. In his eighties, he wrote a book about his experiences and was invited to take part in a 2006 documentary about 165 double A-bomb victims called Nijuuhibaku ("Twice Bombed"), which was screened at the United Nations.[4] At the screening he pleaded for the abolition of atomic weapons.[2]
Yamaguchi became a vocal proponent of nuclear disarmament.[5] In an interview he said "The reason that I hate the atomic bomb is because of what it does to the dignity of human beings."[5] Speaking through his daughter during a telephone interview he said; "I can't understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs. How can they keep developing these weapons?"[2]
On 22 December 2009, Canadian movie director James Cameron met Yamaguchi in Nagasaki, Japan, and discussed making a film about nuclear weapons.[6] Yamaguchi told Cameron in English, "I think it's Cameron's and Pellegrino's destiny to make a film about nuclear weapons."[6] Getting
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