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 spoke on ...

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan has asked local residents to fold paper cranes. When Houlahan was in Japan recently, she visited peace memorials in Hiroshima featuring thousands of handmade origami cranes.

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.

President Obama made a symbolic gesture at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Friday, leaving two origami cranes behind at a memorial to a 12-year-old victim of the Hiroshima bomb who became famous for ...

Evan Rachel Wood has been tapped to 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 ...

GLENDALE, AZ — Greg Lubert had only been a teacher for a few months at Foothills Elementary but when he was diagnosed with cancer, he instantly became family. The long-time educator had come out of ...