Sadako’s story has been told and retold over the years. In the early 1990s, I read author Eleanor Coerr’s version, “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,” with my children.

They hope to have Sadako’s items, including some of her famous origami cranes, registered by 2025, in time for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Two months before Sadako Sasaki died, a friend told her about the Japanese legend of 1,000 cranes. In Japan, cranes are a symbol of long life. Folklore said they could live 1,000 years.

Despite folding 1,300 cranes, she died eight months later. Sadako’s classmates honored her by fundraising for a monument that still stands tall in Hiroshima’s own Peace Park, adorned with more ...

Japanese folklore says folding 1,000 paper cranes can make a wish come true and restore health after an illness. The legendary tale of paper cranes was mostly unknown to the world until Sadako ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan >> Relatives of Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year-old girl who came to represent victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, showed spouses of the Group of Seven leaders paper ...

TEHRAN-One of Sadako’s origami cranes is set to be donated to the Film Museum of Iran during a ceremony on Monday. In 2013, a handcrafted origami crane by Sadako Sasaki was presented to Ahmad ...

The statue, known as Sadako and the Thousand Cranes, depicts a young Japanese girl who initially survived the 1945 bombings of Japan, in which the United States military dropped atomic bombs on ...

Before her death, Sadako folded paper cranes, believing she would be healed if she reached 1,000. De Ghetaldi shared Sadako’s story with other members during an open mic night at the café a few ...

The statue of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes — which was cut off at the ankles — is a life-size bronze of Sasaki, a Japanese girl who survived the Hiroshima bombing before later dying ...

Sadako went on to fold the paper cranes and wished to get better - but sadly passed away,” he narrated. Inspired by her story, Books Kinokuniya UAE and Tuttle Publishing decided to do their ...