Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid

Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid (7 July 1925 – 18 July 2013) was a Malaysian academic and the only Malaysian survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. A prominent professor of the Japanese language, he was nicknamed "Razak-sensei" by friends and university students.

Abdul Razak was born on 7 July 1925, in Penang, British Malaya. In 1943, Abdul Razak, along with two other Malaysian students were chosen to study in Japan for a degree in education. Abdul Razak spent one year at the International Student Institute in Tokyo beginning in 1943. He then transferred to Hiroshimo, where he planned to study for four years.

In 1945, Abdul Razak was a 19-year-old student attending Hiroshima Bunn University, which is now part of the present-day Hiroshima University, as part of the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity program." He had been in Hiroshima for just seven months at the time of the atomic bombing. Abdul Razak was at a university lecture in a classroom on 6 August 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima just 1.5 km from his location. Abdul Razak lost consciousness as the building collapsed on top of him and awoke to massive destruction. He and another classmate, Yura Halim of Brunei, managed to survive the aftermath of the bombing. A third Southeast Asian student, Hasan Rahaya, who became an Indonesian politician, also survived. Razak, Halim, and Rahaya were the only Southeast Asian students to survive the Hiroshima bombing.

Abdul Razak was the sole Malaysian survivor of the bombing. (The Japanese government has recognised approximately 1,760 foreigners as survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the majority of whom are Korean.) Two other Malaysian students who had been studying with Abdul Razak, Nik Yusof and Syed Omar, died in aftermath of the bombing. Abdul Razak was forced to abandon the city and suspend his studies in the aftermath. They and other survivors waited in the open for ten days before they were found and brought to Tokyo for medical treatment.

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