HIROSHIMA--Metal replicas of paper cranes folded by atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki are now on sale ... She created origami cranes during her hospital treatment to pray for a recovery before ...

It's a well-known origami shape because of the paper crane's meaning ... tied to the story of Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was a ...

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 ...

Yuji Sasaki, 50, Sadako’s nephew who lives in Tokyo ... While hospitalized, she made 1,500 origami cranes with medicine wrapping paper and other materials to pray for her recovery.

I got the idea from Sadako Sasaki, a 2-year-old girl when Hiroshima ... One day, the Red Cross visited the hospital and gave the children origami cranes as they were thought to inspire sick ...