When Sadako Sasaki was two years old, an atomic bomb fell on her city, Hiroshima in Japan. After ten years, when she was twelve years old, doctors at the hospital discovered she had leukemia, a cancer caused by the atomic bomb. While
Sadako in the hospital, her friend Chizuko tells the story of a thousand paper cranes. The story is that if you are sick and do a thousand paper cranes, the gods will cure the disease you have. So Sadako set out a goal: make a thousand paper cranes. However, when she died had completed only 644 cranes.
Three years after Sadako died and the children throughout their city, Hiroshima, dedicated a statue: was it with a crane on his hand. Sadako and the thousand cranes are now a symbol of peace for everyone.
MIND, JAPAN!
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