6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She created origami cranes during her hospital treatment to pray for a recovery before she died of leukemia at age 12. After her death, origami cranes became ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The city of Hiroshima is best known among overseas visitors as the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. The city’s association with nuclear weapons has been underscored by the recent Nobel Peace ...