Sadako Sasaki hung up another paper crane, hundreds of which already brightened her sterile hospital room. She had a mission, but little time to finish it. According to an ancient Japanese legend ...

Ohana Arts is preparing for an emotional and historic international tour of their original musical Peace On Your Wings, with ...

Sadako Sasaki lived in Hiroshima, Japan, about a mile from ground zero. She was 2 years old on August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb exploded above the city, 65 years ago today. Its use was ordered ...

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 ...

Sasaki brought with him a tiny crane, about the size of a penny, made from candy paper by Sadako. She lay bedridden at the time and used a needle to fold the crane while lying on her back, he ...

Quakers from University Friends Meeting ask that Seattleites keep an eye out for a life-size statue of Sadako Sasaki that went missing from her home in Peace Park last night. Someone apparently ...

Two months before Sadako Sasaki died, a friend told her about the Japanese legend of 1,000 cranes. In Japan, cranes are a symbol of long life. Folklore said they could live 1,000 years.

Who was Sadako Sasaki?The musical, “Peace on Your Wings,” by Laurie Rubin and Jennifer Taira was inspired by the real-life story of Sadako Sasaki, who was blown out of a window of her family ...

The production, which tells the powerful true story of Sadako Sasaki—a young girl whose origami cranes became a worldwide symbol of peace—will travel to Japan later this month to commemorate ...

SEATTLE — A piece of history that once stood in Seattle's Peace Park is now gone forever after thieves cut down the bronze statue of a 12-year-old girl known as Sadako Sasaki. The theft occurred ...

The statue depicted Sadako Sasaki, who was 12 when she died from cancer likely caused by the Hiroshima bombing. Community members believe a thief saw value in her bronze cast.