This is a trip. George Will has a column in this week's Newsweek (Jan. 11 issue) about Yamaguchi referring to him as still alive.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/228952
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, was on a business trip in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later he was back home in Nagasaki. He also survived 2009. Common sense did not. In Black History Month, a.k.a. February, pupils at a Burlington, N.J., public elementary school sang, "Hello Mr. President/We honor you today/For all your great accomplishments/We all do say 'Hooray!' " So did a smitten Nobel committee.
He then holds forth on all sorts of revolting developments in '09 and his last paragragh is:
Perhaps Tsutomu Yamaguchi will survive 2010. Isn't it pretty to think so?