Hotel Okura
3 December 2001 | ||
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| In many Japanese hotel you are welcomed with a piece of Origami.... This hotel in Tokyo was fantastic, even if very expensive.... Lunch in one of the restaurants was around 150 USD.... | ||
Sadako Sasaki's Story
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Sadako was 2 years old when the US dropped the A-bomb over Hiroshima in 1945. In spring 1955 at age 11, like many other children she became sick and diagnosed with Leukemia, which people from Hiroshima called 'the A-Bomb disease'. She heard a story that if you fold a thousand paper cranes a wish is granted. She folded more than a thousand, but her wish to recover was not granted and she died in October that year at age 12. Three years later the 'Children's Peace Memorial' was erected in her name. | ||
Children's Peace Memorial
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Every day hundreds of school children visit the Hiroshima Children's Peace memorial to bring thousands of paper cranes that they folded.... Here you see a group of schoolchildren at the memorial... | ||
Origami Cranes
18 May 2003 | ||
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| The Cranes brought by school children from Japan and sent to Hiroshima from all over the world are exhibited in the glass cages surrounding the memorial... Sadako's legacy has made the paper crane known as a symbol of the desire for peace around the world... | ||
Sadako holding a Crane
18 May 2003 | ||
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| A closer look at the statue of Sadako.... | ||
Paper Cranes
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Left at the Memorial for the Korean victims... | ||
More Paper Cranes
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Also at the Korean memorial.... At some hotel rooms in Japan you will get a paper crane Origami on your bed next to a chocolate. From this visit on I will cherish them even more. | ||
The A Bomb Dome
18 May 2003 | ||
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| Formerly the Hiroshima Prefectual Industrial Promotion Hall. Probably the most well-known building of Hiroshima. Before and After.... Everything surrounding it was totally destroyed.... And all the people inside were burned to ashes at the instant of the blast. The blast came straight from above, which is why the walls were not blown over.... | ||
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amyowatonna / Tuesday, 10th March 2009 | ||
i thought that was special | ||
mysteryguess / Thursday, 26th February 2009 | ||
i made paper canes i got to 100 | ||
chelchina / Friday, 22nd June 2007 | ||
i love the story sadoko | ||
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