Above: One thousand origami cranes hang from the ceiling at an art exhibit at Beads of Courage, 3230 N. Dodge Blvd., in Tucson. Community volunteers gathered Thursday to create the hand-folded paper ...

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan has asked local residents to fold paper cranes. When Houlahan was in Japan recently, she visited peace memorials in Hiroshima featuring thousands of handmade origami cranes.

The legend of a thousand origami cranes was popularized through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was only two years old when a US B-29 plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima MOSCOW, ...

My children taught me how to fold origami cranes. They learned years ago from a Japanese babysitter named Jiro Hatano, who happened to be one of the smartest, kindest and most gentle people I’ve ever ...