By Ran Shou

Peace Memorial Museum makes registry of A-bomb victims public On August 1, the Peace Memorial Museum East Building (Naka-ku Hiroshima) began making available to the public its "Register of A-bomb Victims" to help families trace persons who disappeared in the atomic bombing. (photo) The entire list will be made public by August 6.

The register was prepared using 83 Autopsy Reports on A-bomb Victims found in the Hiroshima East Police Station in 1968. The reports included many from public offices and hospitals in surrounding towns and villages. The list includes a total of 23,039 detailed death entries that provide the name and address of the deceased; date, hour, and location of death; articles of possession at the time of death, and more.

Taxi driver Toshihiko Tsuda (63) living in Naka-ku, who visited the museum today, confirmed that his 24-year-old mother, died in the former Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now, the A-bomb Dome), where she worked. This information was recorded in an autopsy report stored in the East Police Station Office. "I looked a long time," Tsuda said tearfully, "Now that I have finally found my mother's name on a list, I am relieved." Last year, of the 99 persons who visited the museum over the six-day period, 15 found names of relatives.

Visitors can apply in the museum office to confirm the presence of a name or have a name listed on the Register of the A-bomb Victims kept in the A-bomb Cenotaph. The museum also accepts photos of the dead, which are delivered to and preserved by the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.