She died of leukemia 10 years later. In hospital, Sadako folded countless cranes with medicine wrapping paper and other materials, believing that her wish for recovery would come true by making ...

Sadako folded more than a thousand paper birds from her hospital bed, wishing to be well again. Many visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park continue to offer colorful origami cranes at a ...

Sasaki with Clifton Truman Daniel in 2009 Clifton says his son, then aged 10, brought a book titled "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" home from school. The story of human suffering moved he ...