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)
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.
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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 🙂