These images were taken from a Nov 2018 story published by David Puente
https://www.davidpuente.it/blog/2017/11/03/bufala-sopravvissuto-di-hiroshima-oggi-ha-127-anni-gli-scienziati-sotto-shock-le-radiazioni-lo-hanno-reso-immortale/ (Use Google translate)
On 29 October 2017, the website “We Are Left Alone” publishes an article entitled “ Hiroshima Survivor Today He is 127 years old. Scientists Shocked: "Radiation made him immortal" "exceeding 8,000 shares: Searching online for " Hitomi Tanaka " and Hiroshima we do not find any confirmation of the above story, rather the name is associated with a Japanese porn diva. Furthermore, there is no " Japan Scientific Research University ".
The man in the photos was called Tetsuo Sakurai, a Japanese poet suffering from leprosy ( Hansen's disease ) often quoted on the Leprosy.jp website and died in 2011 at the age of 87: http://garando.jp/books/03/
"Unfortunately, many websites continue to associate him as a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The photos date back to 2002 when he was a guest on a television program of the NHK TV channel".
This reference shows Tetsuo Sakuri (at age 17) as having been admitted to a sanitorium with Leprosy in October 1941,Tetsuo Sakurai Yearbook:
Born July 10, 1924 in Myodozaki, Tsuruta-cho, Kitatsugaru-gun, Aomori Prefecture
April 1931 Entered Myodozaki Branch School of Mizumoto Village Mizumoto Normal Elementary School
March 1939 Graduated from Mizumoto Village Mizumoto Normal Elementary School High School
October 1941 National Sanatorium Kurio Rakusenen Enrolled1953 Blindness
1983 Kurio Poetry Joined
1985 Catholic
November 1988 Poetry "Tsugaru no
Komoriuta" January 1991 Poetry "Kinyo"
May 1994 Poetry "Unrequited Flower" Excerpt ”
August 1996 Sanbunshu“ Blind King Story ”(collected“ Kuon no Hana ”etc.)
April 2000 Poetry Collection“ Thai Butterfly ”
Visit Busan, Korea from May 27, 2001 for 5 nights and 6 days
January 2002 Poetry collection "Unoie"
February 14, 2002 NHK Sogo TV Ningen Document> Appeared in "Into the Light of Tsugaru Hometown"
"Originally published in the WHO Goodwill Ambassador’s Newsletter for the Elimination of Leprosy, Issue No. 12 (February 2005). The information was correct and current at the time of publication."
"After being diagnosed with leprosy, Tetsuo Sakurai was forced to leave home at the age of 15. He didn’t return for more than 60 years.
Tetsuo Sakurai was born Toshizo Nagamine in 1924 in Myodo-zaki, a small village in Tsugaru in the far north of Japan’s main island of Honshu.
In 1941 Toshizo entered Kuryu Rakusenen, one of 13 sanatoria established by the Japanese government between 1909 and 1945, and was given the new name, Tetsuo Sakurai."
https://leprosyhistory.org/testimonies/poetry-from-the-heart
