A grandson has revealed how his grandmother managed to survive the Nagasaki nuclear attack, survive cancer twice and pocket millions after a forced marriage.
Fujiko Robinson, also known as Susie, died in February 2021 at the age of 88 after surviving the nuclear explosion and battling a litany of health problems in her final years.
In recent days, Robinson has gone viral on TikTok after his grandson Jacob Fitzpatrick shared his life story and what he had managed to overcome.
Jacob, from Delaware, revealed that he had managed to survive the bombing of 1945, had twice battled cancer, radiation poisoning, polio and Covid.
After being forced to marry a millionaire as a teenager, Jacob also said Robinson divorced him after meeting his grandfather, taking half of his wealth.
Fujiko Robinson, also known as Susie, died in February 2021 at the age of 88 after surviving the nuclear explosion and battling a litany of health problems in her final years.
In recent days, Robinson has gone viral on TikTok after his grandson Jacob Fitzpatrick shared his life story and what he had managed to overcome.
After the video explaining his grandmother’s fortune exploded on TikTok and reached more than 13 million views in two days, he shared another video.
In a follow-up, Jacob explained in detail how his grandmother had managed to survive the bombing that killed some 40,000 people in the initial detonation.
He explains that his grandmother, who settled in the United States, had skipped school the day of the attack and all of her classmates died in the bombing.
According to the video, she also had nine siblings, five of whom had gone to school that day and died.
He continues: “The fact that she was a little further away from the explosion was the first thing that helped her.
“The second thing was that just before it fell, she had gone inside to use the bathroom, so she was somewhat protected from the initial heat blast and debris.
‘One of his brothers who was standing outside died instantly. From there his memory becomes a little hazy, he said the trauma blocked the rest of what happened.
What she could remember involved her running for cover under a table, as the clothes she was wearing melted onto her skin.
In a sequel, Jacob explained in detail how his grandmother had managed to survive the bombing that killed some 40,000 people in the initial detonation.
It wasn’t until days later that she remembered being treated at the hospital after the explosion.
According to an obituary at the time of her death, Robinson was born in Nagasaki and was the daughter of Sakujiro Matsuo and Yose Deguchi.
He described her as a “very loving and attentive wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.”
His family said he enjoyed gardening, bingo, playing the piano and attending religious services.
Carl Robinson, her late husband, preceded her in death following his passing in 1996; They had been married for 38 years.
A mushroom cloud rises to 20,000 feet over Nagasaki, Japan, following a second nuclear attack by the United States on August 9, 1945.
An American B29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb weighing more than 4,000 kg on the Japanese city at 11:02 local time on August 9, 1945.
Nicknamed “the fat man”, it exploded at a height of 500 meters and completely destroyed the city on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
It was the second US attack on a Japanese city in three days.
More than three million leaflets had been dropped over the country from American planes warning that atomic weapons would be used “again and again” unless the war was ended.
The Japanese surrendered less than a week later, on August 15.
In the first months of the bombings, the effects killed between 90,000 and 166,000 people in Hiroshima and between 60,000 and 80,000 in Nagasaki.
