'''Sadako Sasaki''' was a little 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, a story that inspired a large monument in her city and several movies. | '''Sadako Sasaki''' was a little 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, a story that inspired a large monument in her city and several movies. |