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 ...

Like tens of thousands of other Japanese civilians, Sasaki developed leukemia from the lingering radiation in Hiroshima. She attempted to fold 1,000 cranes, a symbol of peace to bring her health ...

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 sequel to Sadako 3D barely features Sadako at all, You might expect it to be based on Suzuki’s fifth Ring novel Tide, but instead this film once again treads its own path, picking up the ...

WAILUKU, Maui— 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.