Stick around to find out what it means when someone gifts you a paper crane in Japanese culture. The act of creating paper ...

Yuji and his father, Masahiro, 79, an older brother of Sadako, founded nonprofit organization Sadako Legacy in 2009 to distribute paper cranes in and outside Japan in their calls for peace.

OSLO—The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony gave both Norwegian and Japanese citizens an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of making “orizuru” folded-paper cranes, a symbol of prayers for peace ...

Origami artist Kade Chan folds more than paper cranes, how about a phoenix? Senbazuru is a Japanese term that refers to a group of 1,000 paper cranes. According to legend, if you fold 1,000 cranes ...

MSU student group Global Young Leaders Network (GYLN) put on a paper crane folding event aimed to promote peace, hope and ...

For the bombs' survivors in Japan, known as hibakusha, the paper cranes project came as a welcome surprise. The Manhattan Project was a secretive research and development program to produce the ...

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941 marked the beginning of the Japan-US war. One of Sadako's paper cranes was put on display at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in 2015. The Japanese ...

A student-led initiative hosted origami workshops, scavenger hunts for paper cranes and conservation seminars to promote ...

Photo by Campbell Berg | The State News The tradition of folding 1,000 paper cranes is rooted in Japanese folklore, with legend saying that making this number of cranes would grant a wish.