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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 cut ...
TOKYO — The family of a girl who folded paper cranes in hopes of surviving leukemia after the 1945 Hiroshima bombing hopes to add her story to UNESCO’s world memory program. Yuji Sasaki, whose aunt ...
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 ...
Feb. 5—Written by the local composer /lyricist team of Jenny Taira and Laurie Rubin, the production enthralled audiences with its history-based tale about a Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who tried to ...
Honolulu (KHON2) – KHON2’s Pamela Young has partnered with the Ohana Arts to tell the story of Sadako Sasaki. 14 year old, Sammy Houghtailing has traveled to Japan with Ohana Arts to bring the story ...
When I was in the fifth grade, I lived in Japan. My father, a naval aviator, was deployed to Okinawa. At my school on the base, we learned about a young Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who was 12 years ...
SEATTLE — Three weeks after the statue of a Hiroshima bombing survivor was stolen from a Seattle park, the search continues for the missing artwork. The statue of Sadako Sasaki stood in Seattle's ...
Evan Rachel Wood will 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 the worldwide ...
"Sadako and Paper Cranes: Through Our Eyes" at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon (Courtesy of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon) Sadako Sasaki’s legacy crossed generations and international ...
When the lovely bronze statue of young Sadako Sasaki — a figure who represents innocence and hope in a world gone awry — was stolen from Seattle’s Peace Park earlier this summer, it weighed heavily ...
The life-size statue of 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki, who died from leukemia after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, will be returned to the Seattle Peace Park on Friday, but only for a brief ...
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.