an illness that survivors called "atomic bomb disease." Admitted to the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, she began folding origami cranes. According to Japanese legend, if someone folded 1,000 paper ...

Sadako was in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in war ... where she folded origami cranes. Japanese tradition holds that someone who folds 1,000 ...