In Japan, Teenage Girls Folding Paper Cranes Has Taken on a Whole New MeaningIn the children's book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a 12-year-old girl who had been living close to ground zero when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 is diagnosed with leukemia and given a short time to live. So she begins folding paper cranes; in Japan, it's said that if you fold 1,000 of them, you will be granted a wish. Sadako folds the cranes in the hope that she will
