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One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children’s Peace Statue

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The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who died because of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Ten years after the atomic bomb was once dropped on Hiroshima, Sadako Sasaki died because of atomic bomb disease. Sadako’s determination to fold one thousand paper cranes and her courageous struggle along with her illness inspired her classmates. After her death, they began a national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue to take into account that Sadako and the various other children who were sufferers of the Hiroshima bombing. On top of the statue is a girl holding a big crane in her outstretched arms. Nowadays in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, this statue of Sadako is beautifully decorated with thousands of paper cranes given by people all over the world.

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