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 ...

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 ...

Japanese folklore says folding 1,000 paper cranes can make a wish come true and restore health after an illness. The legendary tale of paper cranes was mostly unknown to the world until Sadako ...