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[March 29, 2006]

LEAD: Hiroshima A-bomb museum head Hataguchi to retire+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)HIROSHIMA, March 29_(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH OUTGOING MUSEUM DIRECTOR'S REMARKS, OTHER INFO)

Minoru Hataguchi, head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, will leave the post on Saturday after serving nine years, the Hiroshima prefectural government said Wednesday.

"I have worked to get Hiroshima's feelings through as an atomic bomb survivor and the museum's director," said Hataguchi, 60, who was exposed to radiation in his mother's womb when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.



"I was convinced that Hiroshima's hope was understood when I saw dignitaries from abroad red-eyed as they saw the exhibitions here," he said in a press conference at the museum, holding a clock left by his father who perished in the bombing that is one of the items exhibited.

After becoming the 10th director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in April 1997, Hataguchi arranged museum tours for celebrities and leading figures visiting Hiroshima from both abroad and other parts of Japan.



He told visitors of his Hiroshima experience and showed them articles left by his father.

When the United States and Britain conducted a joint subcritical nuclear experiment in Nevada on Feb. 23 this year, Hataguchi reset to zero the clock displaying the number of days since the last nuclear experiment on the Peace Watch Tower in the museum.

"It makes me feel as if the nightmare is coming back," Hataguchi said then.

Koichiro Maeda, 57, who heads the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, will succeed Hataguchi, the Hiroshima government said.

The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and an estimated 140,000 people were killed by the bomb or its aftereffects by the end of that year.

A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, and World War II ended six days later.

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