Sadako was 2 years old when she was exposed to radiation from the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She created origami cranes during her hospital treatment to pray for a recovery before ...

Sadako was a young girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 ... she was inspired to start folding origami paper ...

HIROSHIMA--Local authorities and campaigners here are seeking to add origami cranes that symbolize world peace and the anti-nuclear weapons movement to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. The ...

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima today is a thriving ... Nearby is the Children’s Peace Monument, topped by a young girl holding a large origami crane. Surrounding the monument are plexi-glass ...

Children have made origami cranes to mark the 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Over the past two years, Bristol children in playgroups have made 1,000 origami cranes. They have been ...

On Thursday, the children hung origami Japanese peace cranes at the arboretum ... Bells tolled in Hiroshima earlier on Thursday as part of the anniversary, although memorial events were scaled ...