Sadako Sasakiwas two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her hometown of Hiroshima , Japan in 1945 . Sadako ’s place was about a mile from the epicentre , and her family survived . When she was an eleven - yr - one-time school jock , she began to live weakness , lumps on her neck , and spots on her leg . Sadako was diagnosed with cancer of the blood , with a liveliness expectancy of a year . She spent the next eight months in a infirmary .
During that fourth dimension , she find out about the Nipponese legend that says if you folda thousand newspaper Crane , your wish will come true . Sadako began folding cranes whenever she could get paper or other materials . Some version of Sadako ’s fib say shefailed in her attempt , and that her ally completed the thousand cranes , but most historic reservoir say she nail her military mission , and made1300 Grus . Sadako snuff it on October 25 , 1955 .
But Sadako lives on , after the saltation .
At least two fry ’s book were written about Sadako , Sadako Will Leben(Sadako Wants To Live ) by Austrain source Karl Bruckner in 1961 , andSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby American author Eleanor Coerr in 1977 ( also available onvideo ) . Rasul Gamzatov write his epic poemZhuravli(The Cranes ) in honour of Sadako . It was later on adapt into a pop Russian song . The malarky - fusion band Hiroshima have a song calledThousand Cranesinspired by the story.1000 Cranes Business Consultingnamed their society after the Sadako narration .
The Sadako Peace Gardenin Santa Barbara , California was dedicate in 1995 . The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation holds aSadako Peace Dayevent every twelvemonth in August .
Another Sadako - inspired organization , The World Peace Project for Childrenin Washington state was founded in 1997 to advance communicating between children of dissimilar culture . Their projects let in a children ’s peace treaty consort and a peace baseball club .
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