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President Barack Obama and Caroline Kennedy, then US ambassador to Japan, folding paper cranes during the President’s historic visit to Hiroshima in 2016.(© Jiji Press)
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Sadako in her first kimono at age 12. (Courtesy of Sasaki Masahiro and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)
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The Children’s Peace Monument and booths filled with senbazuru offerings. (© Daniel Rubio)
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The walls of Sasaki’s Fukuoka Prefecture barber shop are decorated with senbazuru sent to him from all over the world. Even his necktie sports a paper crane motif. (© Doi Emi)
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Cranes Sadako folded on her sickbed, including one in light green paper that she never got to finish. Sadako used wrapping paper and other scraps instead of expensive origami paper, using a needle to craft the smallest thumbnail-sized cranes. (© Doi Emi)
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Clifton Truman Daniel and Ari Beser (at left), grandson of Enola Gay radar specialist Jacob Beser, visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on August 4, 2012. Sasaki Masahiro is just visible at right. (© Aflo/AFP Photo/Kazuhiro Nogi)
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Sadako (center, front row) was the fastest runner in her school. (Courtesy of Sasaki Masahiro and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)
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The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki, by Sue DiCicco and Masahiro Sasaki will be published by Armed with the Arts in September 2018.
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