The story of Sadako Sasaki, the young Hiroshima girl who folded paper cranes in hopes of surviving leukemia, has been embellished and dramatized through the years, said her older brother, who spoke on ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Megan Young/Daily. Buy this photo. She loved the way the paper felt against her fingertips. She ...

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan has asked local residents to fold paper cranes. When Houlahan was in Japan recently, she visited peace memorials in Hiroshima featuring thousands of handmade origami cranes.

Every child has that book. The one that breaks your heart wide open. Bridge To Terabithia. The Velveteen Rabbit. Charlotte’s Web. The Hate U Give. For me, it was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

Evan Rachel Wood has been tapped to star alongside Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima in “One Thousand Paper Cranes,” the story of Hiroshima survivor Sadako Sasaki and author Eleanor Coerr, who wrote ...

MUSKEGON, MI – A chandelier of 1,000 paper cranes hangs from the ceiling of City Center Arts in downtown Muskegon. The installation was created to honor COVID-19 frontline workers, essential workers ...

President Obama made a symbolic gesture at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Friday, leaving two origami cranes behind at a memorial to a 12-year-old victim of the Hiroshima bomb who became famous for ...

Wells returns to the plucky heroine she introduced in Yoko with this wistful story about the green-eyed kitten and her far-away grandparents. Yoko writes weekly to Japan to her beloved grandmother, ...

GLENDALE, AZ — Greg Lubert had only been a teacher for a few months at Foothills Elementary but when he was diagnosed with cancer, he instantly became family. The long-time educator had come out of ...

Origami cranes that President Barack Obama folded and donated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum during his history-making visit are being loaned to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. Two of the ...

SNOHOMISH — A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to buy her an origami kit, 6-year-old Kim began tearing up the ...