'''Sadako Sasaki''' was a Japanese girl who acquired [[leukemia]] at the age of twelve from exposure to the atomic bomb dropped by the [[United States]] on [[Hiroshima]] when she was two years old. She attempted to fold a thousand paper cranes before her death in accordance with Japanese tradition (千羽鶴 ''senbazuru''), a story that inspired a large monument in her city and several movies.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160604213855/http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/shimin/heiwa/monument.html</ref> | '''Sadako Sasaki''' was a Japanese girl who acquired [[leukemia]] at the age of twelve from exposure to the atomic bomb dropped by the [[United States]] on [[Hiroshima]] when she was two years old. She attempted to fold a thousand paper cranes before her death in accordance with Japanese tradition (千羽鶴 ''senbazuru''), a story that inspired a large monument in her city and several movies.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160604213855/http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/shimin/heiwa/monument.html</ref> |