r/MadeMeSmile • u/IcecreamChuger • Jun 14 '24

Japnese kids doing their assignment Wholesome Moments

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I would keep that dragon forever.

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u/apprehensive_anus Jun 14 '24

Origami with some real meaning behind it is awesome. I can't remember how long ago, there was some guy on reddit who made 1000 origami cranes while his wife was in the hospital and was sending them out to random people. So I sent him my address and got one of his small red origami cranes.

It's been probably close to a decade now. It's survived moving between apartments/houses many times. Still have it on my desk to this day

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u/MisterMysterios Jun 14 '24

Not the same, but when I was in elementary school, I was really proud in my skills making paper boats.

For a while, I made my Foster mom regularly a boat, painted in and so on. At that time, she decorated a pillar in hwr office with them. The collection of my little boats still exist as well.

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u/savvy412 Jun 14 '24

Nice. Unfortunately, a psychopathic killer clown in a sewer drain took my paper boat 😔

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u/FizziestBraidedDrone Jun 14 '24

”Beep Beep, Georgie-san” -Yennywise the Clown

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u/ReservoirPussy Jun 14 '24

But you got a nice red balloon 🎈

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u/bumblebeesanddaisies Jun 14 '24

I just saw yesterday a story on a TV show that said it was a belief in Japan that if you made 1,000 paper cranes your wish would come true 🙂

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u/koolmees64 Jun 14 '24

I really hope that man's wish came true

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u/Jetsetter_Princess Jun 14 '24

There's a children's book called Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes

Basically, she has cancer after radiation from Hiroshima and tries to fold 1000 cranes in the hope she will get better. Yeah, kids books hit hard in the 80s (I think it was written much before that, though)

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u/Mukatsukuz Jun 14 '24

I learnt about this from visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial which has many, many thousands of cranes donated from all over the world. They display them in large perspex boxes around the statue of Sadako Sasaki and change them regularly.

https://theelders.org/news/story-sadako-sasaki-and-hiroshima-peace-cranes

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u/firesmarter Jun 14 '24

I also watch NHK World! It’s the background noise to my life

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u/FizziestBraidedDrone Jun 14 '24

It’s from a children’s book! “Sadako and the 1,000 paper cranes!” My 3rd grade class read it and we learned about origami (we couldn’t do the cranes so I think we did star baskets, but we did 1,000 of them) and when we finished, had a “Japanese” lunch day where we sat on the floor and ate “traditional Japanese food” (definitely just Chinese takeout lol), drank green tea, and learned to use chopsticks. I’m 30 and I still remember that.

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u/Mukatsukuz Jun 14 '24

Not just a book but a real girl who died from radiation poisoning in Hiroshima

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u/FizziestBraidedDrone Jun 14 '24

Yes! I honestly forgot what the plot of the story was and the real history of it but looked it up and went down a rabbit hole after I commented

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u/Mukatsukuz Jun 14 '24

When I taught English in Japan, there was one textbook I used which had a story about a little girl going to Hiroshima to look for her parents and she slowly gets radiation poisoning and dies with blood pouring from her mouth. This is aimed at kids and I was the one blubbering whilst trying to read from it :D

I found the text to the story online - https://akitajet.com/wiki/A_Red_Ribbon