The Velveteen Rabbit. Charlotte’s Web. The Hate U Give. For me, it was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, it tells the story of a 12-year-old girl ...

A string of thefts targeting area parks' plaques and statues in search of copper scrap metal has scarred local community ...

HIROSHIMA--Metal replicas of paper cranes folded by atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki are now on sale, offering an ever-lasting symbol of hope and peace. “They (the reproduced cranes ...

Sadako died of leukemia at the age of 12 in 1955. As she fought the disease at a hospital, she folded countless paper cranes to wish for her recovery using medicine wrapping paper and other materials.

"Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" tells the tale of Sasaki Sadako, who was two years old when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. She developed leukemia after being exposed to radiation ...

Over the past two years, Bristol children in playgroups have made 1,000 origami cranes. They have been hung in John Wesley's New Room, to honour Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who died at the age ...