A young Japanese girl who died of leukemia more than a generation ago has been an inspiration to children at Duluth's Boys and Girls Club. In fact, a book about her life, "Sadako and the Thousand ...

Origami cranes are an international symbol of hope and peace, and that symbol is on full display at Recovery Café Longmont. At the café, paper cranes dangle from the ceiling and hang next to pillars, ...

On Friday morning, a group gathered to assemble scaffolding inside the Denton County MHMR Center lobby, in order to hang an art project called 1,000 Cranes for Peace. "It's Japanese legend that if you ...

Timmy O’Brien, the Bellevue third grader who organized the folding of 1,000 origami cranes, delivered them to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan on Tuesday, April 1. Timmy, a student at ...

When Childsplay artistic director and founder David Saar decided to bring “A Thousand Cranes” to his theater company, his reasoning was simple. “It was a good story,” Saar says of the play. “I think ...

Cranes have long symbolized peace, good health, longevity, and healing in many Asian cultures. According to the Japanese tradition of senbazuru, anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted ...

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 ...

We first became acquainted with the story of the 1,000 paper cranes when we saw a “flock” of the origami birds at the home of a good friend. An ancient legend says that if a sick person folds 1,000 ...

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 ...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (KABC) -- The residents at Belmont Village in Rancho Palos Verdes are helping cancer patients. Local high school student Hana Meroth was searching for a project for her ...