Thousands of paper cranes outside the Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan.
The Children’s Peace Monument commemorates the child victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Before her death, one child victim of the bombing – Sadako Sasaki, who suffered from radiation poisoning – had a vision to create 1,000 paper cranes.
According to Japanese tradition, if you create 1,000 paper cranes, you’ll be granted one wish.
Sadako’s wish was a world without nuclear weapons. Today, paper cranes from all over the world are offered in her memory, and as a renewed demand for a world without the threat of nuclear war.
