Sadako Sasaki’s legacy crossed generations and international borders.

She felt others might want to join her efforts in folding 1,000 paper cranes. By sheer coincidence, the paper crane effort was scheduled to begin just hours after Colorado Springs was stunned with ...

She started making them for a friend who'd fallen ill — in line with the belief that if you make 1,000 paper cranes, you get a wish. Her friend died before she got to 1,000, but she keeps making ...

SNOHOMISH — A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to buy her an origami kit, 6-year-old Kim began tearing ...

MUSKEGON, MI – A downtown Muskegon art gallery is asking for the community’s help to fold 1,000 paper cranes. City Center Arts plans to display the origami cranes in honor of COVID-19 ...

Paper cranes folded by New Yorkers and donated to people recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Toshiko Kobayashi, an art therapist, then led a workshop in the Fukushima area to ...

The Museum of Boulder serves as the singular location for the memorial cranes in Colorado, which have been requested by museums in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. “We seek spaces where people ...

GREENVILLE, Indiana — Hundreds of paper cranes hang in the windows of Greenville Elementary art teacher Theresa Jett’s classroom as a touching gesture of support. One of her fourth-grade ...